Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Agreement
Ends Bui|dinQ
Trades Tieup

Lumber trucks VIII be back Oh
the streets and construction will
get under way in all general build
ing in the city Monday morning
as the result of an agreement
reached at 2:30 a. m. today be
tween Transfers Local 247 and
the Detroit District Retail Lun|
Der Dealers Association.
The agreement, ending 10 day.
of negotiations, releases not onlJ
members of the Transfers Union
but also the 1900 members o.
the Detroit Building Trades Coun
Gil. which went out on strike II
sympathy with the truckers. Th(
building trades settled their diff
ferences late yesterday.
MUST BE RATIFIED
Both settlements must be an
proved by the rank and file of tn
unions, but ratification of tn
pacts was considered merely
matter of formality by sourcel
close to the conference.
Announcement of the lumbej
drivers settlement was made in
Joint statement from Thomas
Donahue, chairman of the, staf(
labor mediation board: John d
Conner, federal labor conciliaton
and Joseph keenan, of the OPN
labor division.
The statement said:
"A tentative agreement has
been reached between the
lumber dealers and the Team
sters' Union Local 247. which fs
subject to ratification by the
members of both organizations.
Meetings will be held today
Saturday to vote on tho
agreement, and IL it Is ratified
work will begin Monday morn
ing"
TERMS KEPT SECRET
Terms of the settlement viii mo-
be made known until after boil
groups of employees have vote(
late today.
William Roe. teamster Official
announced, however, that the setI
Element did not affect the transit
mix drivers, the glass house driver|
and the excavation drivers. TheSX
workers. while members OF Loca
247, were not directly concerned
in the negotiations and conference
were to begin today to iron ou
their problems. The group included
between $50 and 300 drivers.
The Today conference in tn
Hotel Statler was marked b}
many near-settlements and studded
breaches. Most of the time thu
two groups met in separate ROOM
while Donahue and various Off
-eials from the OPM and th2
federal department of labor at
tempted to bring them together.
Governor Van Wagner came q
Detroit from Lansing to be neal
the conferences. which he termed
very important and very serious.
THREE GIVEN PRAISE
For Van Wagoner's work and
that of Donahue and Mayor JEFF
fries, who was given credit fo&
finally bringing the two groups to-
gether. both the lumber dealerj
and the union had only praise.
Throughout the proceedings. dur
ing which both sides threatened I'd
abandon negotiations, Donahu(
kept them together until the set
Element was reached.
The settlement releases to in1
dustry many materials needed in
defense work, although som
plants. tied up for lack of cement
may remain idle longer.
An agreement reached by thu
Building Trades Council and the
Greater Detroit Builders Assoc
citation yesterday afternoon. MARI
rowed down the strike situation I'd
the issues involving the teamsterd
and lumber dealers, where ii orig4
inally started. The Building Traded
Council had promised to remain
out until the teamsters' difficult
ties were settled.
A meeting of the members q
the teamsters' local was TO b
called today for vote on rati1