The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1942-07-30
LOCAL rs SEEKS PAY b ST FOR
KELLY ENGINEERING co. WORKERS
TO Begin
In August

Negotiations expected 10
lead toward the upward ad-
justment of wages for work.
ers in the Kelly-Springfield
Engineering Company are to
start sometime in August,
Raymond c. Burkhart, pres
ident Of Local &c. United
Rubber Workers of America,
announced today.
Burkhart said Local IS which has
collective bargaining agreement
with tine Kelly Springfield Tire Co.
an adjunct OF The Springfield
Engineering Co. will meet August
8 to select negotiating committee.
The upward adjustment in wages.
Burkhart said. will be in conform
!ty with the prevailing wage scales
established b. the Davis-Bacon Act
covering production under govern
mcnt contract OF government work,
the union explained.
Burl;ha-t said contracturai rights
with the Engineering company we're
established definitely By Or. WI
liam G. Rice. War Labor Board ar
bitrator. vino handed down a de-
clsion on juriSdictional dispute
between Local &c and the Building
Trades Council. Aft, OF Cumber-
land.
UPHoLDS LOCAL &c
DR.. Rice. in hts decision. said the
contractural relations between Local
&c and the Kelly-Springfield Tire
Co. had been established by a
National Labor Relations Board
election and ruling. The Kelly
Springfield Engineering Co.. BY the
explanations offered through It's Of
dcers. the University OF Wisconsin
Law School professor continued
was merely bookkeeping" concern
for transactions covering govern
ment work. and the facilities of the
i've company are stiil being utilized.
The arbitrator. in deciding on
The jurisdict!onal dispute between
tic two Cumberland unions. upheld
Local 26's position and ruled that
installation OF machinery be carried
on b. members OF the Rubber
WORKERS Union in all tire company
buildings which have been remod-
eled or are being remodeled. while
the installation OF machinery in new
buildings now being constructed be
performed By AL members.
The dispute. which has been
pending for more than three
months. arose on the claim by the
ALL Building Trades Council OF
the right OF ALL machinists 10 in
stall all machinery in new and re-
modelled Kelly buildings which were
being constructed or reconstructed
BY contractors operating under
closed shop agreements with the
Building Trades Council.
RELATIONS ESTABLISHED
The arbitrator, however. decided
that established relations between
Local &c and the Kelly-Springfieid
Tire Co. and Engineering Co. were
more beneficial 70 harmonious rela-
;ion in the plant than the introduc-
ton OF new bargaining set-up re-
sul,ing in vastly different bargain
ing relations.
At the same time. DR.. Rice ex-
planned. consideration was given
TO the manpower status in Cumber-
land where hundreds OF former rub
Der plant workers were unemployed
while AFL machinists. II they were
10 work on installation, would have
10 be recruited from all sections
OF the nation TO Cumberland. Or.
Rice said that Kelly management
had testified that maintenance and
installation of machinery work per-
formed by hundreds OF rubber plant
workers had been satisfactory, and
added that the forthcoming install
lation work could be done Just as
satisfactorily BY the rubber workers
who have gained this previous ex-
perierce.
The dispute. which gained ma
tion-widc attention. was under
consideration By the War Labor
Board at first. then went before the
U. S. Cancellation Service, then %
labor panel OF two ALL and two
CLIO representatives OF the W1r
Board. and finally before an arhi-
traitor selected by the War Labor
Board
Tho decision Is binding upon both
parties as a result OF an agreement
reached By clio President Philip
Murray and ALL President William
Green 20 settle all jurisdictionai
disputes arising between the major
labor groups.