The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-07
Rooseyelt's Patience
is Reported Taxed
GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE OVER CLOSED
AVIATION PLANT UNLESS STRIKE ENDS

OVNIGS9 SJNIN6 ENID
press conference yesterday that
he was considering steps 10 re-
duce stoppaees delaying emer-
gency preparedness production,
but. didnot intimate what action
he had In mind.
Meanwhile the labor policy
advisory committee Of the OPM.
made up Of 10 AL. CIO and
Railway Labor Leaders, econ
demns6 and denounced" yester.
day the "big three" current
strikes: the CLIO and AL ma
.chiniSts' tie-up of IL San Fran
cisco Bay. shipbuildins yards.
the ClO international Wood
workers 'of America strike In Is
Pacific northwest lumber opera
tons. and the North American
walkout.
ANTI-SIRIKE BILL UP
And in Congress n drastic
anti-strike amendment forced
delay In House consid eration OF
the $4,000, 900 military appro-
.priations bill.
Administration leaders strove
today to round up sufficient
House support to defeat the anti
strike rider, introduced by
Rep. Starnes (D.-Ala.). It would
prohibit payment of the bills
funds to any defense worker
who voluntary struck for
more than 10 days.
A vote was forestalled yester-
day when the leadership forced
a quick adjournment until Mon
day. Rep. Casey ID. -Mass.) call
ed the amendment "hasty, i'll
tempered and emotional" and
other administration supporters
voiced concern lest the measure
moralize defense production
by arousing q violent labor re-
action.
The OPM's labor advisory COM
mittee charged In a resolution
that the North American Air
craft strike was "instigated" by
local JAW officers in complete
and irresponsible disregard" of
proper union practices.
THOUSANDS IDLE
The resolution appealed to
labor generally to join in con-
domination of the west coast
stoppages. It urged public
spirited members and officials
of the striking unions to take
steps toward resumption of
work.
Together the west coast dis
putes involve about two-thirds
of the $4,000 defense workers
idle in strategic plants through
the nation.
The aircraft workers demand
q union shop, q ascent boost in
the 50-cent hourly base wage
and 10 cent increases for more
highly skilled workers; the lum-
Der strikers ask q TN cent raise
to q base of IS cents an hour,
as we'll as the union shop, paid
vacations and union hiring hall,
and the machinists on strike in
San Francisco demand . Scent
hourly increase to Sis and
double pay for overtime.
SHOWDOWN AT FORD'S
At Detroit Ford Motor COM
pany officials said showdown
strikes" which delayed delivery
of motors would force the
closure today Of assembly lines
at the big Rouge River plant and
IA out, Of Is branch assembly
plants. A UAW-CIO officer said
he was mot aware" Of q slow
down in any Ford plant.
Ray RouSch, Rouge superin-
tendent, said he could not de-
termine the cause Of the slow
down, but that today's shut
down would mean . loss OF
4,11O cars to the company.
Nine branch plants. were un-
able to operate last Monday, he
reported, adding that reopenins
of the assembly lines after this
weekend would depend on
whether supplies arrived in
time.
William b. Taylor, union
spokesman, declared . showdown
strike was absolutely against
our policy, and said the COM
pany had been instructed ito
call me il any such difficulty
arose."
There were guarded hints, al
q meeting of southern Appala-
chan so{t coal operators In
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
yesterday, that the Defense
Mediation Boards proposal for
q uniform 81 wage throughout
the seven.state bituminous in.
dustry would Be accepted.