Evening star., 1941-08-16
Navy Delays Action
On Kearny Shipyard;;
C.I. D. Fights Seizure
Union Says Company
Is Staging Strike; Men
Ready to Resume Jobs
~ the Associated Press.

plant OF the FeQeral SnlpDullolng &
Drydock Co.-strike bound for 10
days with s493 900 900 in vessel con-
struction held up.
AS L. H. Korndorff, president of
the United States Steel Co.'S ship
building subsidiary, concluded a
series of conferences with Navy of11-
cials yesterday, James B. Carey
c. I. o. secretary, asserted that the
firm was engaged in "a strike against
the Government"
Mr.. Carey asked that before the
Government acted on Mr.. Korn-
dorffs request that the Navy take
over the yards there be conference
with management and union repre-
sentatives, 80 that there can be
no misunderstanding in the future
on the fundamental issues and poll
cies involved
Workers Ready TO Return.
Mr.. Korndorff offered to turn the
ward over to the Government rather
than accept Defense Mediation
Board recommendation that the
firm sign a contract with the c. l..
O.s industrial union of marine and
shipbuilding workers requiring that
members keep in good standing or
lose their jobs. He said this was a
closed shop proposal.
Mr.. Carey wrote to Secretary
Knox that the company attempted
to confuse the issues. He said the
1000 shipyard workers wanted to
get back on the job.
'They refuse to concur" he said,
'in any submission to this holdup
by big business whereby labor may
be cheated out OF its rights under
the lay and the decision Of the Me-
diation Board"
A two-day labor dispute at the
Detroit plant of the Briggs Manu-
featuring Co. was settled at a con-
ference of management represent
atives and agents of the c. I. o.
United Automobile Workers. Some
$50 employees in the press depar'.
ment had walked out because Of the
dismissal of a shop steward. The
union officials said three stewards
had been rehired. The stoppage
made thousands of auto plant work.
ers idle, because they were de-
pendent on Briggssfor parts.
Other Strike Situations.
Other labor developments:
Operations in the thinning de-
partment of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Co.'S tin plate
mill at Fairfield, Ala we're halted
by a strike. G. I. o. Steel Workers
representatives said the firm had
failed to give us q workable in
centive wage plan" The depart
ment employs $50 men.
Emil Rieve, general president OF
the G.. I. O.s Textile Workers
Union of America, announced wage
increases for $4,000 employees of the
American Woolen Co., amounting to
about $4,000,000 annually. He said
the increases, effective Monday, in
nine New England mills, would
range as high as 171a per cent for
workers in the lower brackets and
that a fiat increase of 7 cents an
hour from a Accent minimum had
been agreed upon es basis for the
rise.
After an all-day session with q
Cancellation Service panel in the
Capital, representatives of Mack
Trucks, Inc. Allentown, Pa, and
the c. I. O.'s auto workers agreed
on q general wage increase, the
terms of which were not disclosed
pending ratification by the local
union. 1t was reported the men
had asked for 15-cent hourly in
crease over present rates, which
were not made known. A strike in
volving $500 workers was called
Monday.
Two Pensacola Disputes.
The Labor Department certified to
the Defense Mediation Board a
threatened strike at the Solyay
Process Co., Baton Rouge, La. C.
I. o. oil workers there said the COM
pany had refused to recognize the
union as collective bargaining agent.
C. A. Goldsmith, Federal concilia-
tor, began conferences looking to
settlement of the labor dispute at
two construction projects at the
Pensacola, Fla, Naval Air Station
A group Of A. F. L. carpenters,
electricians and laborers quit work
Wednesday pending action on re-
quests for wage increases. From 75O
to 1000 of the 1900 workmen en-
ployed on the projects were variously
reported to have quit. The car
penters ask an increase from 81 to
S125 an hour; the electricians from
$125 to 81 so, and the laborers from
10 cents to so cents.
The conference between Defense
Media ton Board officials and rep
resentatives Of Consolidated Edisor
Co. of New York and the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrica
Workers CA F. L. was recessed fol
two weeks to permit an investiga-
ton of the facts by the board. Tht
meetings began Thursday.
Telephone Peace Sought.
The strike, called on a city-wide
basis in an effort to force Consoli-
dated Edison to replace 800 mem
bers Of an unaffiliated union with
brotherhood members. was ended
after the dispute had been certified
20 the Mediation Board
At New York a United States con-
461iator sought to avert threat
sned strike of telephone installation
Asen which union leaders asserted
might eventually tie up every Bel
telephone system in the Nation.
After meeting yesterday with
executives of Western Electric, Inc.
and leaders of the Association oi
Communication Equipment Work
ers, James w. Fitzpatrick, commits
sioner of the United States Con-
ciliation Service, said he believed
progress toward agreement on
contract had been made.
Ernest Weaver, association presi-
dent, said failure of labor and man.
agement to agree on four principal
points would cause a work stoppagt
Of 5000 telephone installation mer
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