Evening star., 1941-12-23
Strikes Spread Halls
Central Greyhound
Bus Line Travel
Holiday Traffic Blocked
In Midwestern Area;
1000 Men Affected

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 23.-An A. F. L.
unions strike against Central Grey
hound Lines spread across the entire
bus system today and blocked Gen.
trails holiday traffic,
A company spokesman said he
expected all of the lines operations
to halt today and estimated the
number of employees affected at
between 1900 and 1900.
Central Greyhound's operations
extend through the Midwest to New
York and Boston, with Chicago,
Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo the
principal centers. The strike did
not apply to other Greyhound bus
| lines.
Employment of seven cleaning
women here at 40 cents an hour
resulted in a local strike call De-
| cember by the Amalgamated As
| sociation of Street, Electric Railway
and Motor Coach Employees, which
claimed its contract specified min
imum of 60 cents for maintenance
employees. The Walkout spread TO
New York and Boston and meet
ing with Federal conclllators IN
/ Washington last week was ad-
/ iourned to next Wednesday. Both
sides said additional issues had
arisen, but did not detail them.
Union Grievance Explained.
Samuel Berrong, international
representative of the union, an
nounced extension of the strike last
night, claiming President r. w
Budd had refused to meet with a
union committee here. A company
Spokesman said Mr.. Budd reiterated
the lines previously announced
stand that it would negotiate only
through Federal conciliators ir
! Washington.
The company reported its genera,
counsel, Ivan Bowen, and It's di-
rector of labor relations, DAME
Roadley, would return to the Wash
ington conferences Wednesday a.
scheduled.
The union has been notified. said
Mr.. Berrong, that its contract fol
drivers. terminal helpers and main
tenance employees had been termin-
ated. and said "the men simply re.
fused to work any longer without
benefit of union agreements. We
have done everything humanity pos
sible to end this strike. even to the
point of waving our demand for q
written pension agreement, but we
have been baked by the company
at every turn"
In Detroit II schedules to Chicago
and Cleveland were disrupted when
20 drivers and 70 maintenance mer
went out, but about 325 persons
working in Detroit for other Grey.
hound lines were not affected.
Many Schedules Tied Up.
The regional manager at Buffalo
said 140 union members walked out
halting all of Centrals operation!
there. The division superintendent
at Rochester, N Y. closed the ofic,
to sale of tickets after so were affect
ed by the walkout. He said com
muters to the suburbs of Eas
Rochester and Fairport would hav,
to find other means of transporta
ton than the lines % daily trips.
Scranton. Pa. reported all Centra
schedules tied up except those Il
Pittsburgh, Washington and Phila
delphia.
A sympathy strike of $50 main
tenance workers employed by Centra
Illinois Greyhound Bus Lines. Inc
tied up 10 buses operating out o
Chicago to Detroit. St. Louis, Peoria
Ill. and Grand Rapids, Muskegol
and Ludington. Mich. P. C. johnson
regional manager of the company
said none of the lines running ives
or northwest of Chicago would b.
affected.