Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Green Says Strikes
Reflect Unrest Over
Postwar Pay Level
BY the Associated Press.

President william Green of the
American Federation of Labor said
last night that current strikes are
symptonatic of growing unrest
among American workers"
He added, in talk written for
Blue Network broadcast:
First, take-home wages have
been sharply cut by reduced over
time.
Second, many workers have lost
their relatively well-paid jobs in
war industries because of cutbacks,
and the only new jobs available to
them offer much lower wages.
Third, the failure of the Govern
ment to act promptly in providing
adequate unemployment compensa-
ton insurance has filled war work.
ers with fear that they will be left
stranded when the war ends"
Wants Minimum Raised.
Mr., Green proposed free collec-
tive bargaining" to raise wage rates
where price increases will not re-
suit. He also asked an increase in
minimum wages from SIS to u cents
an hour, and unemployment insur-
ance paying off as much as SIS
a week to workers with families.
Meanwhile. war production and
some civilian services suffered yes
terday as work stoppages in more
than a score of cities kept approx
mately $4,000 idle, but $500 Fire
stone Tire and Rubber Co. workers
at Akron, Ohio, voted 3 to to
return to work Monday.
The two-week dispute of Go
United Rubber Workers ended when
the membership voted to abide by a
WLB directive ordering their re-
turn. The WLB threatened loss or
revocation of vacation, shift pre-
MUM and maintenance of member
ship benefits previously granted If its
order was not obeyed.
Steel Workers to Return.
Three hundred and fifty United
Steel Workers of America (CIO) at
Acme Steel & Malleable Iron Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y, voted to end three
day work stoppage by returning to
their jobs Monday and to await set
Element of their dispute over vaca-
ton pay.
In Toledo, Ohio, the discharge of
one employe caused work stop
page Of 1900 Sixty-flve hundred
CIO-UAW workers at the Spicer
Manufacturing Co. struck and idled
TOO additional workers at WHY'S
Overland Motors for lack of parts
from the Spicer plant,
Three thousand FL-Progressive
mine workers at Springfield. ILL.,, re-
manned out because of the meat
shortage, and the union president,
John Marchiando. predicted II 900
others would join the walkout by
Monday. The OPA said it might
adopt an experimental plan giving
each miner so extra red points and
a pound of sugar month.
Some 1916 CIO-United Mine
Workers part of the 9,49l miners
idle throughout the Nation, remain
ed out at the four Jones g. Laughlin
Steel Co. mines in Pennsylvania, In
dispute over shift rotation.
$500 Out in Detroit.
-Four mines of the Consolidation
Coal Co., jenkins, KY, employing
2,700, were closed by a walkout for
which the company said it could
give no reason.
In a dispute over fines for previ-
Gus work stoppages, ATS United Mine
Workers at the Cambria Mining
Co.'S Webb Mine, Bellaire, Ohio,
stayed out.
At Detroit, 1900 CLIO JAW work
ers at the Graham-Paige Corp
were out over upgrading of two
employees for requirements; TOO AFL
workers at II lumber yards struck
over a closed-shop issue, and 500
CLIO JAW workers at the American
Metal Products Co. walked out in
protest over disciplinary action
AGAINST five apnnIOveS