The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-15
Strikes


this morning. After nntbn and
company officials reached an
agreement last night in the John
r. Murphy hotel. "A.
THREAT TO DODGE
The strike of the comparative
ly small Macomb' county plant
had become . serious threat to
the production in Dodge plants.
The company, which employees
about 500 persons, supplies most
of Dodge's cylinder blocks.
The Detroit Dodge plant sh t.
down several days ago for a "a
hour period when the, New
Haven factory could not deliver
the needed supplies. However,
the factory, was reopened after
union officials agreed to permit
the New Haven factory to move
a truck load Of blocks produced
before the strike had been
called.
l. A. Cooper, personnel man.
ager of the foundry, said that
the company and yorkers had
agreed to five major points
shortly after 6 o'clock last night
following q week Of negotiations.
NEW WAGE RATES
The terms included a 81 ~
cents per hour starting wages, a
minimum rate Of IS cents an
hour after 80 days, q six cent
blanket wage boost, q two cent
an hour premium for second and
third shift employees and a 30
hour bonus in lieu of vacation
pay.
All the employees returned to
their jobs this morning, exactly
eight days after the strike was
called.
A work stoppage spread rap
idly through General Motors
Flint plants this morning, clos
ing Chevrolet, Buick aid Fisher
Body plants.
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) officials in Detroit and
Flint admitted confusion over
the situation, but 1t was gener-
ally believed that unionists were
unaware of the pOstponement
agreement reached at Washing
ton earlier in the morning.
The Flint Chevrolet plant en-
ploys 1900 men; Buick, 14,599;
Fisher No. 1, $500, and Fisher
No. 2, LOO.
1t was not Immediately deter
mined what proportion of these
quit work.
CLOSE BARS 81 SO
AS the walkout reached its
height shortly after nine o'clock
Sheriff Thomas w. Wolcott, of
Genesee county, wired the state
liquor control office at Lansing
for permission to close down all
beer gardens and liquor stores.
The sheriff said he was do
ing this Has2 a precautionary
measure" -
First units TO 60 down at Flint
were those of the Chevrolet or
ganization. Two small plants
scheduled to start work at z
I'm. failed to do so, and in other
Chevrolet units day work began
at 6 am. but stopped an hour
later.
At $50 am, Buick workers
ceased activity after the men
had been on duty since 7 am.
Johnston said in Detroit that
"all efforts are being made to
get these men back to work"
and declared that although the
four GMC plants were idle this
morning lit does not necessarily
mean the strike will continue"
NOTICE TOO LATE
A UAW-CIO official at Flint
said that notice of the strike
postponement at Washington
had apparently come too late to
notify workers.
The Flint police department
reported they had received no
reports of violence, although
there was IAN awful lot of yell
ing"
Pickets patrolled the ten gates
of the Flint Chevrolet plant. and
two big lines of workers march,
ed before the Buick unit.
Union spokesman at the Hud-
son plant in Detroit said work
on a $l0,000,000 defense order
for airplane parts at the COM
pany's axle division was being
continued"
The strike call climaxed IL
hours of negotiations which be-
gan yesterday afternoon when
company officials gave the union
a report on the Hudson board
Of directors reply TO UAW-CIO
demands.
CITES REFUSAL
Claude <. Bland, Hudson To-
cal president, declared 1.-The
company refused any decent
wage offer" and negotiations
were ended because conditions
had become so "damnably rot
ten"