The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-12
STRIKES HURTING
 DEFENSE PLANS
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NOUIlVl1luSO 1SVAB4 G@eG ~ camps and sawmills of western Washington. Union sources said 22,O00 men were Idle: other sources said only l2,000 stopped work. The strikers sought higher pay and a closed shop. Much of the lumber produced In the district goes into army camp and other defense build- ing.
 The defense mediation board scheduled hearings in the strike of 5000 UAW.Cro workers at three Detroit plants in the Ex-Cell-O Ma chine Tool corporation, which has $l0,000, 900 in defense orders.
 Strike Call Issued
 Detroit, May i2-(UP)-The Unit ed Automobile Workers (CIO) issued strike call today against 6l plants of the General Motors Corporation which employ l60,000 men. It Is ef- fective Thursday.
 The union and company 90 before the national defense mediation in washington again tomorrow for a Anal effort to agree on the unions demand for 6 union shop and. Q gen. eral wage increase of 10 cents ai, hour.
 Union leaders voted unanimously yesterday to strike the plants at 2 q. m. Thursday unless agreement Is reached before then. General Mo- tors holds $750,000, 900 in defense orders. The union specifically ex- ciuded defense workers from the strike call, but the corporation said this was impossible.
 Walter P. Reutheg, head of the unions General Motors department, said the defense mediation board had asked for two more days of conferences-Thursday and Wednes- day.
 Both sides were virtually agreed on questions of improved grievance machinery and expanded authority for the union company umpire. Press ident c. E. Wilson said the corpora ton had refused to grant Q closed shop, and had offered wage raises totaling about $i5.000,000 annually for 250, 900 hourly paid employees only after considering the question of "how much should General Motors pay to avoid a strike"
 Reuther reiterated that members working on General Motors contracts for aircraft engines, trucks, aircraft sub.assemblles, Diesel engines, ma chine guns, and shells would not strike. Wilso said the production was so closely related that defense pro- duction could not continue while automobile production was shut down.
 800 Police On Guard
 San Francisco, May l2-(Up)-- More than 500 policemen guarded il San Francisco, Oakland and AL meda shipyards today as 1,700 strik- ing AFL and CIO saachinists began establishing picket lines. The yards are working on defense contracts totaling $500, ,O00, 900 Including 27 destroyers, four cruisers and nu- merous cargo vessels.
 The once of Production manage ment, the Navy department and William Green, president of the American Federation og Labor, made last minute efforts to settle the dispute, over wages. Police precautions were the most elaborate since the 1884 San Fran cisco general strike.
 Machinist union ofiicials said picket lines would De fully manned at 6:30 a. m, (l0:30 q. nl., EDT). E, F. Dillon, business agent of the AFL Machinists' union. protested the po- lice guard.
 we absolutely will not molest any one wishing to pass through the the picket lines," he said.
 The machinists predicted the l5.- GOO workers who are not striking would refuse to cross the picket lines and force the yards to close. Eleven other AFL unions, lneni- bers of the Metal Trades council, said they would ignore the pickets. because the strike violated the mo strike, no lockout" clause in Q coast. wise stahiilxation agreement among shipbuilders and unions. AFL ma~ chinists in San Francisco and Seat- tie did not approve the agreement and the CIO had no part In it. The strikers demand el.l5 an hour for journeymen, against the el.i3 scale established in the stab- l ilization agreement. They also seek continuation of dcubletinne for afl work over the i've day, 40-houE week. The stabilizatlon agreement provided time and . half for over time. The present scale is el sr M@vy Yard Strike Boston, May l2~~iup1-~Aaout s2z