Evening star., 1941-07-17
Wage Increases Won
By Employees Of Two
New York Bus Firms
United Aircraft Boosts
Pay of rs 900 Workers;
Ship Plant Pioketed
NJ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
Employees of two New York City
bus companies received wage in
creases of two to eight cents an
hour today as a result of arbitra-
ton of their dispute with the COM
panies which eliminated last
March in a city-wide bus strike.
The award was announced last
night by William M. Davis. Ma
tional Defense Mediation Board
chairman, who was named by Mayor
LaGuardia to arbitrate the dispute.
A few hours earlier, the United
Aircraft Corp. announced at Hart
ford. Conn, signing of an agree
ment with an A. F. L. machiniStS
union and wage increases aggregat-
ing almost S4,2O0,0OO a year for
$4,000 employees.
The bus workers wage increases
applied to all claSsifications of en-
ployes of the New York Omnibus
Corp. and its subsidiaries and the
Fifth Avenue Coach Co. Under the
previous scales, bus operators and
conductors were paid 81 and IA
cents an hour, respectively. and
maintenance employees from 70 to
94 cents an hour In addition. the
workers were awarded overtime pay
concessions.
United Aircraft Signs Pact.
United Aircraft signed an agree
ment with an A. F., L. machinists'
union representing some 1000 en-
ployeS of the company'S Hamilton
standard propellers division at East
Hartford, providing wage increases
Of 10 cents an hour.
Apart FROM that agreement, the
company announced similar in
creases for $50 employees in the pro-
peller divisions Pawcatuck Comm
plant, 'and other wage boosts for
workers in two divisions not repre-
resented by unions-the Pratt &
Whitney plant at East Hartford,
employing $4,000, and the Vought-
Sikorsky aircraft division at STRAIT
ford, employing 1900. Pratt &
Whitney employees not participating
in group bonus plan got 10-cent
increases, and those covered by the
bonus got scent boosts. Raises of
7l2 cents an hour went to Vought-
Sikorsky employees.
Detroit Shipworkers Strike.
Ignoring a 30-day cooling off"
period imposed a week ago by the
State Labor Mediation Board, men,
bers Of the Steel Workers Orga-
nizlng Committee &C. I. o. went on
strike at the Great Lakes Engi-
neering Works in suburban River
Rouge.
The plant. engaged in building
lake ships for iron ore transport.
was closed, and an orderly picket
line Of 100 workers gathered.
Repair work on nine merchant
vessels was halted yesterday when
some 1000 A. F. L. workers walked
off their Jobs at the Todd Galveston
Dry Docks, Inc. Galveston, Tex.
The seized Italian ship Colorado
was among the vessels.
The men struck after the union
and the company had been unable
to reach an understanding based
on a master shipyards agreement
worked out recently at New Or
leans. The agreement covers such
issues as closed shop and a sys-
tenn for apprentices.
Powder Dispute DeadIOcked.
Washington mediators announced
their inability to bring about a
settlement of a dispute between the
Western Cartridge Co. Alton. Ill,
and an A. F. L. union representing
$50 workers in the firms smokeless
powder division.
A flst-fghting episode which sent
one man to hospital marked a
Patterson-Leitch steel fabricating
plant in Cleveland Several others
were knocked down during battling
between members of rival C. I. o.
and A. F. L. unions. The plant en-
ploys l80 and is working on orders
for the Government loading
plant at Ravenna. Ohio.
Four men suffered minor injuries
In clash at the gates of the Texti-
leather Corp. plant, where an A. F.
L. Federal union struck yesterday
IN an interunion dispute. The strike
suspended production.
Police intervened and persuaded
rival A. F. l.. and c. I. o. unioniSts
to agree to truce pending a meet
ing with Police Chief Ray Allen.
The controversy involves bargain
Ing rights, claimed by both the Fed
eral union and the c. I. 0. Textile
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