Evening star., 1941-06-20
Settlement Reached
In Aluminium Dispute;
Plane Plant Struck
Mediation Bourd Obtoins
Bohn Agreement; More
Sugar Workers Walk Out
BY the Associated Press.

The plant makes bearings for
bombers.
Details of the agreement were not
divulged pending a union meeting
in Detroit Sunday to ratify it. The
board said union and company rep
reSentativeS agreed to the settlement
terms and the union men agreed to
recommend its acceptance by the
membership.
The union asked wage increase
Of 10 cents an hour. Board officials
said the present starting rate was 73
cents an hour and the average rate
about 945 cents. About 1900 men
were involved.
A strike of sugar refinery workers
at Philadelphia, which started at the
w. J. McCahan Sugar Refining &
Molasses Co. and Pennsylvania
Sugar Co. Monday night, spread to
the Franklin Sugar Refining Co.
today. About 1900 workers were
affected. Officials of the A. F. l..
union involved said the men want
17-cent- nt-an-hour increase for labor
ers who now get 63 cents.
Strike at Warplane Plant
A strike by $50 A. F. L. electricians
! at Columbus, Ohio. threatened to
| involve | 500 construction workers at
a huge Curtiss- Wright warplane
plant. A spokesman for the strikers
said a Federal representative might
examine the strikers complaint that
the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. used
non-union men to install lines at the
$130O0,000 plant now being COM
pleted. A union official said $500
! building trades craftsmen would be
called on strike if necessary.
The strike. which started yester-
day, did not affect | 400 employees
engaged in turning out plane parts,
The Pittsburgh Chamber of Com
merce issued statement declaring
! that business there had already
suffered loss which must be
reckoned in millions of dollars due
to 20-day strike of 1,700 freight
truck drivers. The A. F. l.. strikers,
employed by 179 firms operating
in IT States, demand a 10-cent-an-
hour wage increase for drivers get
ting IS cents.
Southern Coal Talks Called.
A new conference was called be-
tween Southern Appalachian soft
coal producers and the c. I. O..
United Mine Workers in drive to
obtain complete labor peace in the
coal industry following signing yes
terday of a two-year agreement be-
tween the U. M. w. and Northern
! producers. The document repre-
sented a formal end to a long
drawn-out wage dispute.
In Columbus, Ohio, strike of $50
A. F.. L. electricians threatened to
involve 1900 construction workers
at Curtiss- Wright's huge warplane
plant. Strikers complain that the
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. used nom
union workers to install phone lines
at the s13,O00,00O plant, nearing
completion.
A. F. L. officials said 800 building
craftsmen will be pulled of the
job if necessary"
Work StOppage at Chrysler.
In Detroit Chrysler Corp. officials
said approximately 5000 men were
idle in the body frame department
of the Kercheval and Jefferson
plants. The company reported one
man was sent home yesterday for
INSTRUMENTATION and this morning
other workers sat down at their ma
chimes, causing the two plants to
close.
Workers of the Franklin Sugar
Refining Co. went on strike in Phil
adelphia, joining those of two other
large refineries in the city who
walked out Monday night. Union
officials said the men seek a IT.
cent-an-hour increase for laborers
who now earn SO cents an hour.
Negotiations were said to have bro
ken down"
Approximately 1900 workers are
affected by the three strikes, in
cluding 500 at the Franklin COM
pany, 800 at the w. j. McCahan
Sugar Refining & Molasses Co. and
700 at the Pennsylvania Sugar Co.
Steel Strike Ends.
While labor difficulties persisted
in San Francisco shipyards, the
Puget Sound lumber camps and on
some Great Lakes ships, four-day
strike of municipal employees at Nc
Keesport, Pa, ended, as did a steel
strike at Apollo in the same State.
The Northern soft coal labor con-
tract was pattern for the one the
union hopes to negotiate with the
Southern operators. One of its prin-
cipal provisions was clause raising
the basic pay of miners from s6 to
81 day.
The Southern operators and the
union have been at odds on other
questions, including vacations with
pay.
No Shipyard Peace Action.
No action toward ending the strike
of A. F. L. and c. I. o. machiniSts at
II San Francisco shipyards devel-
oped as result of an A. F. L. mass
meeting. However, Harvey w.
Brown, international president OF
the A. F. L. union, still declared
himself hopeful of an early settle
ment which would permit construc-
ton to proceed at full speed on
$500, 900, 900 in defense ship orders.
Mr.. Brown summoned the San
Francisco locals Executive Council
to meeting tonight. He declined
to say what action he would ask, but
said he had been in touch with
Washington
Lumber Dispute.
The dispute which has been hold
ing back lumber production in the
Puget Sound area stemmed from 4