Evening star., 1944-05-26
Daily Output Loss
In Lumber Tie-up Put
Al 81 Million Feet
BY The Associated Press.

Al ~ MllIl0n feef
By The Associated Press
A general lumber tie-up in the
Northwest. with War Production
Board officials estimating a daily
production loss of 9,5o0,000 board
feet, today headed a list of at least
eight walkouts throughout the Ma
ton.
Estimates of the total number of
idle varied from 10000 to as many
as $1,000, due to widely different
opinions on the number idle in the
Pacific Northwest. Most walkouts
were due to wage demands.
Detroit was virtually without
bread or bakery goods in a drivers
tie-up, one of four Michigan walk
outs which kept about 1000 idle. A
walkout in East st. Louis Ill0 and
st. Louis (Mo0 oil refineries of the
Socony Vacuum Oil Co. left 608 men
idle. With the company producing
100-octane aviation gasoline, w. F.
Burt, company manufacturing di-
rector, telegraphed President Roose-
welt for help. Terming the walkout
"unthinkable on the eve of our in
vasion Of Europe" union officials did
not comment.
400 Workers Returning.
Meanwhile. about 4,700 workers in
at least six other plants either were
returning to work or had voted to
return pending settlements.
Another phase of the labor pic
ture, the warehouse division of the
CIO International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen S Union at San
Francisco pledged abandonment of
the strike as an economic weapon
for the duration of the war and "in-
definitely thereafter"
Hundreds of loggers joined mill
and boom workers in the Pacific
Northwest tie-up, protesting ma
tional WLB denial of wage in
creases. Estimates of the number
idle. quoting lumbermen and labor
officials, varied from $500 to 10000.
Spokane (Wash) pine lumber man
ufacturers invited the Government
to take over production in IL idle
plants in a telegram to President
Roosevelt The district council of
the CIO International Woodwork
ers of America planned to meet to-
morrow 10 study further action.
In Detroit the strike of 1900 en-
ployes at two plants Of Parke Davis
g. Co. went into its fourth day.
About $500 workers were idle in
a dispute over smoking regulations
in three General Motors Chevrolet
transmission division plants at Sagi-
nav, Mich, and 1900 remained idle
in foundry plant at Muskegon.
5000 Bendix Employees Out.
Other walkouts included: South
Bend, Ind, 5000 employees of strut
and turret divisions and carbure-
tor division of the Bendix products
plant, and 1856 members of CIO
United Auto Workers in the General
Aviation Equipment Co. plant, Ash
ley, Pa.
Walkouts apparently over in
cluded:
At Muncie, Ind, 1900 voted to re-
turn to their jobs tomorrow at Ball
Bros. Manufacturing Co. plant.
At Sparrows Point, Md, 1853 shear
crewmen returned to work at the
Bethlehem steel mill.
At Lexington, KY, 1872 railway
system bus drivers voted to obey
WLB back-to-work order.
About 1900 returned to work at
the Granise City 0ll.) steel Co.
A union electric company power
walkout, involving at least 100 work.
ers and affecting war plants around
st. Louis. ended last night. |
Ambridge Strike Ends.
A strike of 300 CIO welders, filters
and tackers at the American Bridge !
Co. shipyard at Ambridge, Pa,
ended with the workers agreement
to submit wage demands to arbitra-
ton.
On another labor front the re-
gional War Labor Board telegraphed
several officials of the CIO United
Automobile Workers directing en-
ployes to return to their jobs at
once" in several plants" of the John
Deere Co., farm implement manu-
facturers, in the East Moline Gll)
area.
If striking employees have not re-
turned to work by tomorrow, the
telegram said, the union officials are
requested to appear before the re-
gional WLB in Chicago to show
cause why this strike, contrary to
labor's pledge and the national pol
icV shall not be Terminated at once -