Evening star., 1942-09-03
Five Steel Companies
Accept WLB Ruling
Granting Pay Raise
Philadelphia Strikers
Holt Wulkout in
Compromise Agreement

Compromise Agreement
Hy the Associated Press.
Five subsidiaries of the United
States Steel Corp yesterday formal
ly accepted the War Labor Boards
directive granting a 512-cents-an-
hour wage increase, maintenance of
union membership, checkof of dues
and minimum daily wage guar
sntee to the CIO United Steelwork-
ers. They were the Carnegie Illi-
nois Steel Corp, Columbia Steel,
American Steel and Wire, Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. and
National Tube Co.
j. L. Perry, Carnegie Illinois
president, said acceptance did not
signify agreement as to the fairness
or propriety" of the directive, but
that "the country is at war and that
your board created by the President
of the United States has ordered
this company to do certain things
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Crucible Plant Closed.
Meanwhile, operations at the Cru
cible Steel Co. of Americas San
derson plant at Syracuse. N Y,
were virtually at a standstill, union
spokesmen said, as result of walk
out by crane operators and boiler
room workers.
Howard T. Curtis, United Steel
workers of America (CIO) district
officer, said union representatives
and plant officials would confer to-
Gay in an effort to settle the wage
dispute which precipitated yester-
days walkout.
About rs men left their jobs, eli
making IA months of dispute over
wage adjustments. Crane operators,
receiving 761z and 83 cents an hour,
seek a pay boost of 10 cents an hour.
Boiler room workers, whose base
pay Is 76 cents an hour, seek a g.
cents-an-hour increase.
David Milestone, president of
Local 1909, said that although a
picket line established last night
had been withdrawn, absence of
"the key workers" has forced sus-
pension of operations.
Wage demands of 300 to 400
freight handlers at Philadelphia
were referred to Federal agency
for final arbitration today after the
workers voted to end two-day
strike which tied up railroad cars
at that city's important water
front.
Agree on Compromise.
The International Longshoremen's
Association local union (AFL) voted
to accept a 10-cents- an-hour wage
increase pending action by the
United States Cancellation Service,
q union spokesman said.
The strikers, who load freight
cars, had demanded 20-cent raise
over the rs cents an hour pay.
Nicholas zonarich, international
head of the CIO Aluminium Work
ers, came here today for a confer
ence with Government officials
which he said. had been called to
discuss the labor supply In the atm
ir1um industry.
Before leaving Pittsburgh Mr..
zonarich said members of his union
were increasing pressure on him. to
continue his fight fora general
wage increase. He declined to COM
ment on reports that the union
might decide to accept the WLB de-
cision rejecting their demand and
reopen negotiations with the Alu-
minum Co. of America for wage in
creases in separate plants, as the
boards directive suggested.
Representatives of railroads an
nounced in New York through their
Eastern Carriers Conference that
they had refused wage increases "as
well as other proposals" requested
by the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Fren1en and Enginemen. A COM
pany spokesman said conferences
with union officials, which had been
IN progress since June, terminated
yesterday without agreement. The
conference said it was willing to ioin
the brotherhood ION a regional
basis" in requesting the services of
the National Mediation Board under
the Railway Labor Act.
Strikes Called OUTLAW"
Several hundred Huntington, w.
Va, workers, whose union affiliation
remained clouded, stayed away from
their jobs at the Standard Ultra
marine Co. after union spokesman
had described the strike as "unlaw-
full"
Striking workers in four paper
box plants supplying the Lake City
ordnance works agreed to return
to their Kansas City jobs pending
arbitration of controversy over their
demands for a l0-cent-an-hour wage
increase.
At Haverhill, Mass, Frank j. Nc
Grath, general president of the
United Shoe Workers of America
tCIO), declared that the Walkout OF
about $500 shoe workers in Is plants
there was definitely an outlaw
strike" and said an effort would be
made to hold union-management
conference today.
The War Labor Board refused
yesterday to allow general wage
increase at Lever Bros. Co. plant,
in Cambridge, Mass, and Edge
water, N. j., although a strict ap-
plication of the boards stabilizatior
yardstick would permit increases 0.
So cents an hour at Cambridge anc
s cents at Edgewater. The board
vote was unanimous, as was tht
recommendation of the panel.
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