Evening star., 1941-05-10
Strikes

/ up after owners refused to meet
union demands for an increase from
81 to 81 a day in war risk bonuses
for trips to the Far East and Aus
tralia. Vessels of the Luchenbach
and American Pioneer lines were
affected. The C. l. O'S National
Maritime Union and line officials
were to confer today.
The National Mediation Board re-
fused, for the first time, to take
jurisdiction in a labor dispute certi-
fed to it by Secretary Perkins. on
the ground it involved an inter-
union dispute instead of one be-
tween employer and employe.
The International Association of
MaChiniStS and the Brotherhood of
Carpenters, both A. F. L. affiliates,
have local union members working
on defense jobs at the plant of the
BuSCh-Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine
Co. st. Louis. The two unions have
Ong been in diSa greement over which
should erect or dismantle machinery.
Ralph T. Seward. Mediation Board
secretary, told Miss Perkins the
executive order creating the board
contemplated action only when
worker and employer were at ODDS.
No G. NJ. Agreement.
The board held a night session
with representatives of General Mo-
tors and the United Automobile
Workers &C. I. o. at the Capital,
but the meeting closed with no
agreement announced.
The union has requested a 10-cent
hourly wage rise but has held IN
abevance, pending the boards ct
forts, strike which would affect 60
company plants employing about
10000. Company officials said
wages average slightly over 81
hourly.
A dispute, without work stoppage
was settled in Washington with the
help Of the board, in the case OF
the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing
Co.'S Pittsburgh plant. While terms
of the agreement we're not an
nounced. it was known c. I. o. union
men among 1852 employees asked
higher pay and contract renewal
The board earlier had asked Allis-
Chalmers and the Farm Equipment
Workers Organizing Committee C.
I. o. to "endeavor to arrange le-
sumption of production at the
company's La Porte Ind plant.
The board said that it would set
hearing at the earliest date that its
very crowded calendar" would
permit.
1t asked both parties to continue
negotiations with the understanding
that any agreement reached would
be retroactive to the date production
was resumed. Officials said the
strike started May 7 and involved
l,500 workers. The plant is making
anti-aircraft gun mounts.
WOOdwOrkers Strike.
The board also worked on a strike
involving 900 employees of the United
Engineering & Foundry Co. of Van
dergrift, Pa. c. l. o. strikers were
said to have demanded higher wages
and a union shop. The firm is
working on Army artillery parts
contracts.
The C. I. o. also announced its
intention to strike at the plants of
the Murray Corp, makers of auto
mobile and plane parts at Belding,
Mich. The union disclosed no de-
tails of grievances.
Operators and representatives of
a faction of the C. I. O.'s Interna-
tlonal WoodWorkers of America
failed to agree in wage dispute
and more than 5000 men in 25
Western Washington State logging
camps struck yesterday. The union
is seeking 712-cent hourly wage
increase up to IS cents an hour, a
closed shop, vacation pay and i'm
proved working conditions.
Carpenters Stay Out.
Seeking higher wages, $50 striking
carpenters employed by private con-
tractors on Government-sponsored
defense housing and two naval
projects at Newport, R. l.. voted
last night against returning to work.
The men, getting sl1212 an hour,
have asked for S125 an hour. The
vote to continue the strike, taken
at mass meeting, was unanimous,
said William j. Sullivan. a represen-
tative of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners "a. F. L.. .
At Boston union officials stood
pat on plans for a strike Monday
by 925 craftsmen and laborers en-
ployed by private contractors on
S30,000,000 worth of new piers, dry
docks and shop buildings at the
navy yard and its new annex.
E. A. johnson, Secretary-treasurer
of the Building and Construction
Trades Council "a. F. L., said the
proposed strike was in protest
against Government employment of
Il, 100 w. P. A. workers and 100 civil
service employees on the projects.
A Navy spokesman said last night
that the indicated work stoppage
was "a very serious matter and ap-
parently We do nothing about it."
New Board to Be Named.
President Roosevelt said he was
creating a board under the Rail-
way Mediation Act to look into a
strike threat by A. F. L. ore dock
workers in the upper Great Lakes
region. The men ask an increase