Evening star., 1941-04-07
GREEKS. YUGOSLAVS STANDING OFF NAz|S:
RAF.BOMBS GERMAN TROOPS IN SOFIA
MIR. Orders
Elections at Ford
And Bethlehem
Motor Plant BuIIotinq
Will Be Divided
Into Three Parts
py the Associated Press.


Fy the Associated Press.
The Labor Board today ordered
collective bargaining elections among
employees at the Ford Motor Co. and
the 10000 employees at the Lacka-
wanna IN " plant of the Beth
lehem Steel Co.
The election of Ford employees
was ordered held within As days to
give employees in Dearborn and De-
troit, Mich, an opportunity to select
collective bargaining agents.
The Bethlehem balloting will give
the employees an opportunity to de-
termine whether they want to be
represented by the C. I. O.'s Steel
Workers Organizing Committee.
Election in Three Parts.
The election at Ford will be split
into three ballots. giving the pro-
duction, maintenance and clerical
workers at the giant River Rouge
plant a chance to vote for the c.
I. Os United Auto Workers Union,
the A. F. L. Federal Labor Union No.
2255l or neither.
A similar ballot will be handed
employees at Ford's Lincoln plant in
Detroit.
A separate election will be con-
Quoted at the River Rouge plant to
determine representatives. for the
wood and metal pattern makers. The
choice there is the c. I. o. Auto
Union, the A. F. L. Pattern Makers
League. or neither
Ford Brotherhood Off Ballots.
The board denied place on all
the ballots to the Ford Brotherhood
of America. Inc, an unaffiliated Or
ganization.
The C. l. O.-U. A w. which called
the present strike at the huge River
Rouge plant, filed the original petit
ton for the election last December.
The Brotherhood appeared at
preliminary hearing on the proposed
Ford elections and presented 2l,000
membership cards signed in June,
1887, authorizing the Brotherhood
to represent them for period of
one year.
In barring the Brotherhood from
the ballot the board said that no
new authorization cards had been
signed since Dece &ber, 1887, that
no dues or assessments had been
collected since 1887 and that no
more than five or 10 members have
met at any time since 1888.
The board also said that the
brotherhood had held no election
of officers or trustees since 1887
and that the brotherhood did not
show the board any current au-
thorizations by employees at the
River Rouge plant.
CT. o. Claims Ma ajority.
The C. I. o. union at Bethlehem
claims to represent a majority OF
the production and maintenance
workers at the plant
A 39-hour strike by the union at
the plant on February 26 was set
tied on terms which included a
promise by the Office of Produc-
ton Management to explore with
the board the possibility of hold
ing an election among the employees.
The board directed its regional
director at Buffalo to conduct the
balloting as soon as arrangements
could be made.
At a recent hearing the board re-
ouested the company to submit its
pay roll records in order to facili-
tate the holding of the election.
In today's election announcement
the board said the company had
refused to indicate whether It would
produce the pay rolls.
Allis- Chalmers Agreement Ratified.
Meanwhile termination of the
AlliS-ChalmerS strike was assured
when members of the C. I. o. plant
local ratified an agreement settling
the 76-day shutdown.
Federal conciliators turned full
attention, with the Allis-Chalmers
settlement, to the problem of end
ing labor strife at Ford's.
In Pittsburgh the conference be-
tween United States Steel Corp. and
the c. l. o. Steel Workers Organic
ing Committee ended early in the
afternoon, without announcement of
the time for resumption of negotia-
tions. There will be no meeting to-
morrow, however, because Philip
Murray, C. l. O.. head, will be in
Washington to confer with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Prepare Plant for Work.
In Milwaukee a short time after
the union membership ratified the
Allis-Chalmers agreement by ac-
clamation, the first workmen en-
tered the plant TO make it ready for
the reopening.
The Wisconsin Employment Rela-
tons Board, which had called for a
new strike vote Thursday at the
plant, announced the vote would not
be held because the strike settle
ment had been reached.
The Labor Board had ordered the
new election after hearing testi-
mony that 40 per cent of the bal
lots cast in a strike vote January
2l were fraudulent. Handwriting
experts testified that the ballot boxes
had been stuffed.