Evening star., 1941-08-07
.Par|ey0rdered
Here as Strikes
Hit ; Shipyards
More Than u, 900
HiIImun Acts After
Workers Walk Out
Ev the Associated Press,

81 the Associated Press
Sidney Hillman, acting director Of
the Office of Production Manage
ment, hastily called a peace con-
ference here this afternoon as more
than $4,000 workers of three big
shipyards at Kearny, N. j.; Brook
lyn and Staten Island walked out.
Both C. I. O. and A. F. L. workers
quit at the Federal Shipbuilding
IL Drydock Co. at Kearny, and al
Bethlehem Steel Co. yards at Brook
lyn and Staten Island.
Mr.. Hillman summoned officials
of the Kearny shipysrd and of the
C. l. o. shipbuilding workers TO
conference of Defense, Navy and
Maritime Commission officials to
discuss the strike.
Mediation Board Discusses Strike.
He said the meeting was called
hastily in view Of the vital i'm
portance of shipbuilding in the de-
fense effort"
The Kearnv strike also was con-
sidered by the full membership Of
the Defense Mediation Board AT
meeting this morning but members
declined to discuss the case. The
Navy said it was watching that
strike very closely because it 'vitally
affects large Navy contracts"
Other work stoppages affectc'
production in plants Of the defen-"
busy Timken Roller Bearing Co. 3.
Canton, Ohio. and in five Alumni
Co. of America plants near Clevc-
land.
Demands for wage inCreas"
brought a walkout of about 100
the Timken plant, while presence q
A. r. L. organizers in the aluminium
plants was blamed for intermittent
stoppages there
At the Army's big Plum Broo';
ordance plant near Sandusky, Ohio,
work stoppage by 675 A. F. l..
carpenters continued, threatening
complete shutdown of construction.
The yard at Kearny alone was
working on s493 100000 worth of
naval and merchant ship construc-
ton. A c. I. O.-caued strike there
became effective at midnight. The
union claims $4,000 of the yards
$4,000 workers as members.
c. l. o. members affected at the
Bethlehem yards were said by the
union to total 5000. The number
of A. F. L. teamsters picketing the
Bethlehem yards was not known
Immediately.
Trouble started at the Bethlehem
Brooklyn yards when members of
the C. I. o. Industrial Union of
Marine and Shfpbuilding Workers
declared holiday in a wage dispute
to take strike vote. Chris Mathei-
sen. union business agent, said
"stalling of negotiations" by Bethle-
hem was responsible.
A. F. l.. Men Strike.
At the same time, A. 2. L. team
sters fell into picket lines at the
three yards.
William Devery. A, r. L. local
president. said his men went struck
because the company refused to
recognize the local as the sole bar
gaining agent for truck drivers en-
ployed in the two Bethlehem plants
at Brooklyn. one at Staten Island
and one in Hoboken, N. j."
There were no disturbances p
any of the three yards. Police p2-
trolled near the picketS. At IL
Staten Island yard. where 10 d.
stroyers were under constructio'
only six members of the A. F. !.
local were in the picket line.
G. H. Bates, general manager C.
the New York yards of Bethleher
Steel. said the strike arose out of
dispute between Internation7
Brotherhood of Transfers ''' an
the Industrial Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers of Americ
with respect TO the representation
of the truck drivers at those yard.
The C. I. O. union. he said, "ha
been certified by the National Labo
Relations Board as the exclusive
representative of production ard
maintenance employees at those
yards, including truck drivers"
Shipyard Blamed.
James B. Carey, secretary of the
c. I. O., said the national organizs
tion would give AL support and CO.
! operation" to the shipbuildins
workers strike at Kearny.
He added that he did not know
anything about the circumstances
involved in the same unions walk
out at the Bethlehem yards and
would confer with union officials
before making an comment on that
dispute.
John Green, international presi-
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