Evening star., 1941-10-01
8 Pittsburgh Hotels
Hit by 5trike;;20
Idle al Auto Plants
Metal Workers Warned
Against Closed Shop
Demands and WoIkouts
BY the Associated Press.

1SilOuuS uuU VOikOutS
BY the Associated Press.
The Dodge division Of the Chrys-
Ter Corp. at Detroitssemploying 15.-
900 workers, resumed production this
morning following an agreement be-
tween company and U. A. w. G. I.
o. union officials over a labor dis
pute which closed the main plant
yesterday.
However, 10000 other auto workers
in the Mack avenue plant of the
Briggs Body Co. and Chryslers
Plymouth division remained idle be-
cause of a labor dispute in the
Briggs frame department. Briggs
supplies Plymouth with automobile
bodies.
Melvin Bishop, U. A. VIC. I. o.
regional director, last night urged
the Briggs employees to go back to
their jobs, and said the company
had observed its contract guaran-
tees.
Employees in the frame depart
ment quit work when four men
were transferred into their depart
ment from the door assembly de-
partment.
A relatively few workers are en-
ployed in the frame department.
but it affects production through
out the plant.
Pittsburgh Hotel Strike.
The eight largest hotels in Pitts
burgh were hit last midnight by
strike of 1000 bellboys, cooks,
walters, elevator operators and other
service workers, who demanded Is
to 20 per cent wage increases. There
are 1900 separate wage classical
tions. ranging from $40 to $3.50 a
month. The hotels made no effort
to operate and turned away persons
seeking rooms.
A delegation Of striking Pennsyl-
vania hard coal miners conferred
here yesterday with John L. Lewis,
president of the c. I. o. United
Mine Workers, but apparently made
no headway toward settling their
dispute. More than 10000 anthra-
cite miners have been idle in recent
weeks protesting increased union
dues and assessments.
Ordnance Works Strike.
More than 600 workers at the Plum
Brook Ordnance Works at Sandusky,
Ohio, went on strike today. Capt.
H. H. Lewis Of the Construction
Quartermaster's Office reported.
Capt. Lewis said 275 ofiice workers,
$50 A. F. L. truck drivers and los
A. F. L. iron workers were idle. The
demands of the truck drivers and
iron workers were not made known
Immediately, although the drivers
were reported seeking an increase of
Is cents an hour in their 75-cent
wage.
The A. F. L. once Workers Union
Grievance Committee called the
walkout to enforce demands for re-
instatement of discharged workers
and overtime pay for work in excess
of 40 hours a week.
At Seattle, where the A. F. L.
Metal Trades Department was In
session and the national convention
Of the American Federation of Labor
Is to open Monday, two Government
officials issued pointed statements.
Labor ought not to ask the Gov
eminent to force employers to give
them a closed shop" said Daniel W.
Tracy, Second Assistant Secretary
of Labor.
Stoppages Aid Hitler.
"Labors Job is to do its own or
eanizing, he added In an interview.
In a statement read to the A. F. L.
metal workers by naval officer,
Ralph Bard, Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy. inquired how it was that
we have strikes and threats OF
strikes" in view Of pledges by the
union that there would be no work
stoppages on defense production.
every work stoppage plays right
into Hitler's hands" he declared.
Their demands for autonomy
again denied, welders and burners
renewed their threat to halt work
at Seattle and Tacoma Monday and
picket the American Federation OF
Labor conventions opening session.
The strike would affect about 1,50o
men, many employed on national
defense projects. The demands were
rejected by the metal trades con-
vention.
The metal trades executive coun-
Gil reported against the welders and
burners demands for a separate
brotherhood on the ground that "it
would lead to disorganization IN
every international union of metal
workers under whose jurisdiction
welding is done"
To Strike October 6.
THAT settles it." said Dave Basor
executives secretary of the Welders
and Burners Council of Seattle. 1--WE
will go on strike October g." He
indicated welders throughout the
Pacific Coast also would demonstrate
in behalf of the 25-year-old de-
mands.
The Defense Mediation Board last
night summoned representatives Of
Air Associates, Inc, BendlX, N. j.,
and the c. I. o. United Automobile
Workers to resume their negotia-
tions before a board panel here to-
morrow.
The board conducted hearings on
the cause in August and appointed
an investigation to study it. Board
officials said the resumption Of
hearings was ordered because
strike has been called in the plant,
which makes parts for airplanes.
AS a sequel to weeks fishing
trip" by workmen employed on de-
fenSe projects at Key West, Fla,
the Federal Bureau of Yards and
Docks has authorized an increase
from 81 to $1121a per hour in the
wage scale for carpenters and paint
ers. More than 600 men, some Of