Evening star., 1942-12-22
Arms Factory,
Ship Plate Plant
Shut by Strikes
2,400 Pennsylvania
Miners Walk Out;
Spread Threatened
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By the Associated Press.
Strikes in Ohio and Michigan
today tied up two plants produc-
ing ship plate and guns, imped-
ing the war effort, while 2,4O0
miners struck in the Pennsyl-
vania anthracite fields and an
equal number threatened to
walk out at a season when fuel
demands are at a peak.
About 1000 C1O unionists stopped
work at the Republic Steel Corp. S
huge continuous strip mill at Cleve-
land. and c. M. White, president of
the firm, telegraphed Federal off,
cials that the production stoppage
would impede ship production.
Company officials said the work
stoppage was "a wholly unwarranted
strike.'' contending the workers re-
fused to agree TO continue existing
work schedules or to accept new
schedules in compliance with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's orders on premium
pay President Edward P. Stack of
the local union answered that the
firm locked out unionists' after a
change in work schedules and said
the company's new schedule vio-
lated Federal orders with regard to
premium pay for work on the sixth
and seventh days of a work week.
Conciliator Sees Settlement.
A Federal labor conciliatOr ex-
pressed hope today for quick settle
ment OF the work stoppage.
The conciliator, Andrew ]. Meyer,
said shop committeeman represent
ing pm. shift workers agreed to
order their men back to their jobs
providing the company will re-
turn their time cards to the racks
and restore the former working
schedule pending negotiations to
settle a work shift dispute"
Mr.. Meyer said he would present
the union proposal to Republic in
an effort to obtain prompt resump-
ton Of work. on war-vital steel.
Gun Factory Shut Down.
A strike which started in the gun
department OF the Goodyear Tire
g. Rubber Co. plant at Jackson,
Mich, yesterday spread to the en-
tire plant today. Stopping production.
The strike resulted from a con-
tf0versy over. company efforts to
ciiftaiI Sunday SHIFT by Is per
cent, with the company contending
new employees in training were not
entitled to double pay and the CIO
union insisting on a full holiday
shift.
A company spokesman, declining
to be quoted, said this morning that
the Sunday work issue had been
settled but added he expected the
stoppage to continue until the War
Labor Board acts on an undivulged
wage rate adjustment which the
company and union agreed upon
last summer. The agreement was
sent. the WLB October 13, the
spokesman said He added that
WLB representatives were expected
to join in company-union confer
ences today
Mine Strike May Spread.
Twelve hundred anthracite min
ers of the Even colliery of the
Pennsylvania Coal Co. at Port Grit
fifth struck December for higher
wages and another 1000 at the
Pyne-Taylor colliery of the Moffat
Coal Co. at Scranton walked out
yesterday on similar grounds. The
2,400 miners at the Hazleton shaft
colliery and Cranberry Improve
ment Co. threatened to strike jan
uary IS unless they got a 81 a day
wage increase.
Robert Y. Moffat, president of the
Moffat Coal Co., said demands on
his firm exceeded the general scale
contending the average miner was
paid $7.46 day.
AS a result of the two walkouts and
the other threats, the Tri-District
General Mine Committee polled all
anthracite miners in the three dis
tricts OF the United Mine Workers
in regard to possible general work
stoppage in sympathy with the
strikers.
On the other side of the picture, a
four-day strike of compositors at the
Repository. only daily newspaper at
Canton. Ohio. was ended by an
agreement for a Labor Department
conciliation panel to hold a hearing
on the pay dispute.