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ways that no other union would have
Amalgamated's privilege of checking
off union dues.
Six Held in 1850 Bond.
Six men arrested after disorders
at the Sparrows Point Md plant
of the Bethlehem Steel plant Mon
day night were under $4,000 bond
each today, awaiting hearing Sep
tember 3.
The men were among nine ar
rested in the course of a brief work
stoppage said by C. l. o. repre-
sentatives to have been ordered as
a protest against "mistreatment" Of
c. I. o. members. The clash oc-
Cured when workers attempted to
push through a line of pickets.
Three were charged with incit-
ing to riot, two with rioting and one
with interfering with an officer. The
other three. charged with treSpasS-
ing, posted collateral of s6.45 each.
Production of gauges and other
metal products for the War and
Navy Departments was curtailed by
strike at the United States Gauge
Co. plant at Sellersville, Pa.
An Official of the A. F. of L.
International Molders and Foundry
Workers Union said a week k-old
walkout of "a foundry workers
spread today TO other departments
and that only a few of the COM
pany's 1,500 employees remained at
work. A closed shop and increased
pay is being sought, he said. The
present wage scale provides 80 10
so cents an hour.
Kearny Action Held Up.
The Government continued to
withhold action on the offer of the
Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock
Co. to turn over its strike bound
Kearny IN. j. yard TO the Navy so
that work might be resumed on
s493 100000 worth of defense con-
| tracts.
| In similar letters to John Green.
president of the c. l. o. Shipbuilders
Union, and L. H. Korndorff, COM
pany head, President Roosevelt urged
| that their points of difference be
| subordinated to national defense and
| that work be resumed Immediately
by the plants 1900 employees. The
letters were sent yesterday
1T is my hope that neither en-
ployes nor employers will, in the
present emergency, sever the gooo
relationship that had existed be-
tween them in the past to the
detriment of the national welfare,
| the President wrote.
The union insists that the COM
pany accept recommendation oi
the Defense Mediation Board for q
maintenance of union membership
clause in the working contract. Such
a clause would provide that all pres
ent or future union members woulc
be required to remain in good unior
standing as condition of employ
ment. The company contends thai
the requirement would mean a cloSec
shop.
Some sources expected Mr. Korn-
dorff and Mr.. Green to confer dur
ing the day.
New York Store Struck.
Gimbels S, a New York department
store, was the focus of labor dis
pute which brought disorders ir
demonstrations yesterday. The store
remained open despite picket lint
formed by the c. I. o. United De-
partment Store Employees of New
York.
The union demanded 40-hour, s.
day week, closed shop, arbitration
machinery and a 5-cent-an-hour in
crease for statesmen, clerks and othel
employees who now receive, the unior
said, SIG to S22 a week.
A c. l. o. strike at New Haven
Conn, held up production of some
timing devices for bombers The
union claimed that the New Haver
Clock Co. had refused to bargain
or to consent to an election of q
bargaining agent. About 1900 en-
ployes were idle.
Another labor dispute continued
at the Leland Clifford factory al
Worcester. Mass, where airplane
crankshafts are machined c. I. o
steelworkers struck there August II
protesting the discharge of eight
men who the union claimed were
dropped for union activity. The
union tentatively agreed last night
to accept a peace formula. but the
company withheld immediate &C.
ton.
Strike at Army Job Ends.
A one-day strike of A. F. l.. con-
struction men at Camp Lockett
Calf, an Army cavalry post, ended
yesterday when the 800 union mer
agreed to go back to work while g
board of review here considered the
dispute The union asked contrac-
tors for a wage increase of I2h
cents an hour, or for defrayment Of
the S150 a day charged for room
and board at facilities furnished by
the contractors.
Meanwhile the Mediation Boarc
asked the United States Gypsum
Co. to send the officers of each ot
its II plants here to negotiate with
the C. I. o. United Mine Worker
toward settlement of a strike. which
has been in progress since June 26
The company has rejected union
demand for master contract GOV.