Evening star., 1941-08-19
Roosevelt Reported
Urging Kearny Yard
To Accept Mediation
Government Prepares
To Operate Yord if
Appeal Is Rejected

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Reports spread today that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was appealing to
the Federal Shipbuilding 81 Dry
dock Co. to accept recommendations
of the National Mediation Board
and bring an end to the strike which
for IL days has held up s493 900 900
worth of work at the firms huge
Kearny IN. j. yard.
In the event the appeal was re-
jected, declared the authoritative
sources from which the reports
came, the Government was prepared
the yard which holds contracts for
a number of Navy vessels.
The C. I. o. union whose strike
call made $4,000 workers idle in
sists that the company accept the
Mediation Boards recommendation
for union maintenance clause in
the working contract. Such a clause
would provide that all union men,
bers, or workers who join the union
in the future. would have to remain
in good standing as a condition of
employment.
Rail Carmen Strike.
L. H. Korndorff, president of the
company, offered to turn the yard
over to the Navy rather than &C
cept such a clause which he termed
"a closed shop"
A strike of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen at the Michigan
City undD plant of the Pullman
Standard Car Manufacturing Co.
took about 1900 workers off their
jobs yesterday. Union spokesmen
said the carmen were demanding
that the company adopt a union
rule under which new employees
would join the brotherhood within
certain time.
Eight hundred A. F. L. building
trades workers struck yesterday at
Camp Lockett, an Army cavalry
post so miles east of San Diego,
Calf. The union men asked for
either a wage increase of 1919 cents
an hour or defrayment of the $3.50
a day room and board fee charged
for facilities provided by the con-
tractor.
Meanwhile, Federal conciliators
prepared to open hearing in
Washington Friday in an effort to
iron out a contract dispute which
resulted in a threat of a Nation
wide strike by an independent
union of telephone installation men.
Jobs Resumed at Navy Base.
The union and Western Electric,
Inc, were deadlocked over the
workers demands for master work.
ing agreement providing automatic
progression of wages in place OF the
present merit system, maintenance
of union membership clause,
seniority benefits and holiday pay.
The company countered with an
offer to raise wages 6 cents an hour
over the present scale.
Naval Air Station officials at Pen
sacola, Fla. reported last night that
between $50 and 1000 workmen had
returned to their jobs on two Navy
defense projects here pending the
outcome of further negotiations be-
tween union representatives and the
Bureau of Docks and Yards at
Washington on demands for wage
increases.
Charles D. McDuffey, treasurer of
the Lincoln Mills at Huntsville,
Ala, where the c. I. o. Textile
Workers Union has threatened to
call out 1000 workers engaged on
Army and Navy cotton textile or
ders, asked the National Mediation
Board for more time to consider
board recommendations for settling
the disput. The request was granted
by William H. Davis, the board
chairman.
Mediation Progresses.
The board reported progress after
an all-day hearing yesterday in an
effort to end the strike of the C. 1.
o. Gas, By-products, Coke and
Chemical Workers Union at II
plants of the United States Gypsum
Co. Three thousand men were af-
fected by the walkout, staged June
26 to enforce union demand for
q Nation wide contract. The shut
down has affected 40 per cent of
the Nations output of gypsum,
plaster and wallboard, including
material ordered for ordnance
plants.