Evening star., 1944-06-04
Plant Closed Briefly
As Workers Fight
With Supervisors

The number of idle in scattered
) labor disputes dwindled yesterday
j to 10000, one-flfth Of the midweek
! total.
Fist fights between union men,
bers and supervisors resulted in a
! shutdown of the Continental Motors
plant in Detroit yesterday, bat in
/ the afternoon company and union
announced the dispute settled and
requested all employees to return to
work on their regular shifts.
This version of the affair was
given to a Government investigator:
! An employe said to have been
drinking engaged in a fist fight with
O foreman in the screw machine de-
partment shortly after l am, and
another foreman and another worker
joined in.
Later three stewards of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) Local
$50, made a complaint to the plant
supervisory Office and more fight
ing resulted. After plant protection
officers restored order, the stewards
were suspended. Some 1900 night
shift employees then stopped work,
and day shift employees also refused
to start work The plants was closed
In mid-morning.
Cincinnati Strike Suspended.
-Four hundred bakery drivers and
Supervisors, whose six-day-old strike
had halted bread deliveries to re-
tailers in Cincinnati, voted to sus-
pend their walkout "for a reason
able time" to permit action by the
War Labor Board on an appeal by
13 bakeries against a. wage increase
order.
At Lackawanna, N. Y, 140 elec-
trical workers went back to their
jobs at the Bethlehem Steel Co.
plant in the wake of a two-day
stoppage which union leaders
termed unauthorized.
A Federal labor conciliator sought
to settle strike of 60 truck drivers
which kept 800 production en-
ployes off duty at the Illinois
ordnance plant in Carbondale, Ill.
The Central States Drivers Coun-
Gil announced in Chicago a strike
vote would be conducted next Sat
urday and Sunday among AFL
,over-the-road truck drivers in IL
Midwestern States. Dexter l.. Lewis,
director of the organization, said
the result of the poll would affect
more than 10000 drivers in Michi-
gan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne
braska and Kansas, and several
thousand others in adjoining areas.
He asserted the operators had re-
fused to put in effect pay increase
of 7 cents an hour granted by the
WLB. The arrangements made no
comment.
Tampa Streetcar Operators Back.
Streetcar operators who had been
on strike in Tampa, Fla, resumed
their duties, leaving their bargain
ing agency case in the hands of
the National Labor Relations Board,
Members of an Office employees
union, who had been out several
days, voted to return to work at
the McCloskey g. Co. shipyards in
Tampa after receiving word that
grievances would be adjusted.
Portland, Greg, was without taxis
for the second day yesterday.
The 400 members of the AFL
taxicab drivers union, who halted
work Friday, voted today not to
return until the city repeals an
ordinance requiring them to file
photographs with police and en-
abling police to revoke drivers per-
mits upon recommendation of the
city inspector.
The War Labor Board In Wash
ington said yesterday 1000 strik-
ing employees of the rock, sand and
gravel producers of Los Angeles
must cease their strike at once and
the case would not be referred to
Economic Sterilization Director
Fred M. Vinson until the men re-
turn to work