Evening star., 1941-10-23
Suspensions Lifted
Al Great Lakes Steel,
But Strike Continues
Pickets Stond at Gutes
Despite Announcement
Dispute Is Ended
BULLETIN.

day at the Tacoma plant Of the
Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding CO.,
which has S125,000, 900 in ship
orders. The walkout was the
latest in a series in the Pacific
Northwest growing out of welder
demands for a separate interna-
tional union within the American
Federation of Labor. Leaders
predicted sympathy strikes would
occur in Baton Rouge, La; Flor
ence, Ala; Pekin, ILL.,; Umatilla,
Greg, and the San Francisco
Bay area.
Earlier Story on Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press.
Striking workers failed to return
to their jobs in the Great Lakes
Steel Corp. Ecorse plant at Detroit
late this afternoon despite an
nouncements by their leaders and
union officials that the strike was
ended.
Michigan State police, ordered to
guard entrances as the plant re-
opened, were withheld from the
vicinity, Capt. Donald S. Leonard
said, until we find out what the
situation is"
A picket line 20 to 80 men deep
stretched across the street leading
to the plant gates and there was no
concerted move by workers to pass
it. Organizers for the Steel Work
ers Organizing Committee &C. 1. o.
unsuccessfully urged the workers to
enter the plant.
Suspensions Lifted.
rector of the Organizing Committee,
said shortly after o'clock this
afternoon that he was lifting the
suspension of l6 leaders of the
strikers, and was informed that ap-
proximately $500 men would re-
turn to work later today, ending
their strike.
Reinstatement of these leaders
was one OF the terms on which the
strikers offered Wednesday morning
to return to work, but at that time
Mr. Kincaid refused to agree to
such action. He said today his ac-
ton does not mean that the S. w
o. c. cannot bring suspension or
expulsion later against these l6
men or against any one else who
participated in this wildcat action.
A company spokesman said the
plant gates have been open all dur
ing the strike, and the plant Is
ready to operate whenever the men
return to their jobs
Coal Operators Accept Plan.
Alabama Commercial Coal Oper-
ators announced acceptance of a
National Defense Mediation Board
proposal to settle a strike involving
about 10000 coal miners, but prob
lens in the captive mines were
complicated by call for general
strike Saturday midnight.
The Scale Committee of the c. I.
o. United Mine Workers of Amer
lea is considering the proposal,
which called for a wage increase
In BendiX. N. j., a 3,000-man
C. 1. o. picket line closed down the
Air Associates, Inc, plant. but sew
eral hours later 400 non-strikers In
a vast mortoriZed flanking move
ment streamed across Bendix Air
field into the embattled plant.
Shortly afterward Robert Fowler
plant public relations director. said
500 were back at work in the plant
But I don't know when we are
going to get out" he added.
Motorized Dash to Work.
The United Automobile Workers
of America picket line dwindled to
less than 100 after the peak Of 5000
had been reached at 9 am. and
Bergen County Sheriff William R.
Browne had announced no workers
would be permitted in the plant
during the present strike situation.
The non-strikers gathered their
forces at the County Courthouse in
Hackensack. several miles from Ben
dix, and then piled into nearly 100
automobiles for a bumpy dash
around the picket line and across
the airfield and rough terrain to
the plant.
I'VE are going back to work" Rob-
ert D. Collins, personnel director Of
Air Associates, said
The morning demonstration in
which one striker said a picket
broke his nose was the only trouble
reported in front of the plant, which
holds s5000,000 in important defense
orders for aviation parts.