Evening star., 1941-10-16
Detroit Steel Plant
Is Closed by Fourth
Strike in 4 Months
Mississippi Shipyurd
Settlement Reached;
Mine Stoppoee Feared
sy the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
A new strike halted operations to-
day at a big Detroit steel plant,
while at Pascagoula, Miss, A. F. L.
union leaders recommended resump-
tion Of work at strikebound ship
yard.
The dispute at the Great Lakes
Steel Corp, in River Rouge was the
fourth In four months, and officials
OF the firm termed it wildcat"
strike. The plant employs 5000
men and has many defense orders.
-Four hundred men present at a
union meeting last night booed
down Orville Kincaid, their regional
director, when he attempted to an
nounce the results of wage adjust
ment negotiations he had carried on
with the management. One critic
said the adjustments called for an
increase of only cent an hour for
common labor, and picket line was
formed at the plant gates short
while later. The c. I. o. union has
had q contract with the company
since July 16.
Shipyard Work to Resume.
The announcement of the back-to-
work move at the Pascagoula yard
of the ingalls, Shipbuilding Corp.
came from Federal Conciliator Bryce
P. Holcombe, who said that repre-
sentativeS of various metal trades
unions had agreed to recommend to
their membership resumption of op-
erationS after three days idleness.
The strike, affecting $500 men,
was certified to the Defense Media
ton Board by the Labor Depart
ment, which explained that the A
r. l.. BoilermakerS Union had struck
because some of the pipe welders in
the plant were trying to form an
independent union.
The yard has s15O,OOO,OO0 in de-
Tense orders.
Strike Closes Defense Plant.
In Cleveland a C. l. o. strike to
enforce demands for union main
tenance" contract clause closed the
Lakeside Steel improvement Co., en-
gagged in heat treating of defense
items. The plant employs only ITO
persons, but is one of the largest
of its kind in Northeastern United
States.
The United Automobile Workers
Union called the walkout after a
breakdown in negotiations for con-
tract renewal. A company spokes-
man said:
The union claims a 100 per cent
membership, but now they want us
to fire any man who don't pay his
dues. That's really a job for the
union business agent and not for
management"
Federal Conciliator Dan F. Hurley,
entering the dispute, said the strike
would affect defense production on
wide front if it continued several
days.
The plant hardens and tempers
gun mounts, airplane parts, cranes
and shipbuilding parts, tank axles
and dies for dozens of other defense
firms.
A walkout of C. I. o. United Rub
ber Workers tied up production in
the rim division of Goodyear Tire
g. Rubber Co.'S plant No. 3, at
Akron, Ohio, which company spokes-
men said is engaged so per cent on
defense work.
Unionists on the midnight to 6
am. shift, paid on piecework basis
and given a day-work scale when
machines are idle for adjustment,
contended they lost an hour and g.
half yesterday through no fault of
their own. They were refused the
day-work scale for that period, the
unionists said. About 300 men make
tire rims in the division.
Captive Mine Vote Reported.
The possibility of renewed work
stoppage loomed for steel-company-
operated captive" soft coal mines
as a result of a deadlock in nego-
tiations of workers and manage
ment before the Mediation Board.
The c. I. o. United Mine Workers
are demanding closed shop agree
ment for $4,000 employees of the
captive mines in Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Ili-
nois, Indiana and Ohio.
The Mediation Board last month
arranged a 3O-day truce following
a weeks walkout by the union
miners. Some Pennsylvania union
locals were reported to have voted to
walk out Saturday, "a hours before
the truce is due to expire.
Union acceptance of a compro-
mise wage boost ended strike of
service workers which had closed
eight OF the largest hotels in Pitts
burgh for IS days. The hotel opera
tors agreed to increase pay rolls by
S215,000 a year-a IA per cent hike,
as compared with the 20 per cent
originally demanded by the strikers.
Musicians Strike Hits Radio.
Bands composed of members of
the A. F. L. American Federation of
Musicians were ordered off all sus-
tanning programs of the Columbia
BroadcaSting System and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. net works
yesterday by James C. Petrillo, A.
F. M. president.
c. B. S, at the time its concert
orchestra was scheduled to be heard,
announced over the network that
the strike order had prevented pres
entation of the program and dis
claimed any responsibility for the
situation.
N. B. C. said approximately eight
orchestra units in its Hollywood and
Chicago Offices struck at midnight.
The company's New York headquar-
eers had not been notified of the
strike order.
Union spokesmen said the strike
prder resulted from dispute with
Two radio stations in Pittsburgh,
WAS, c. B. S. outlet. and KQV, N.
b. c. outlet, over union demands
that they employ 11-man sustaining
brchestras.