The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-10
(nY Umllal PPonal

8oke coal operators were eoneuNAeu Co meet today with United Mine Workers Chlegtain John L. Lewis to consider government conn promise proposal Co end the nations higgest work stoppage and send l7A,- O00 miners back to tho pits.
 Secretary Of Labor Lewis 3. Schwellenhaeh promised to submit c proposal after union and manage ment representative were unable to reach an agreement ln Q three-ard- a.half hour negotiating session last night.
 schwellsnbach appeared hopeful of evolving Q compromise acoept- able to both the operators and Lewis, He told reporters that the only real difference separating tho parties was matter of language,
 "I don't think they are very far apart" he said,
 in other labor disputes, striking dock workers frightened their etranglehold on New York shipping operations, Q i,000-man picket line halted movie.mRking at Warner Brothers studio In Hollywood, and AFL bus drivers met with Pacific Greyhound offloials in an attempt to end strike in seven western states,
 Settlement of . strike of 27,000 New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey dyerS was announced last night. This reduced the nations strike Idle to approximately A67,000.
 Workers in ie6 eastern dye plants walked out two weeks ago in support of demands for higher wages, Under terms of the settlement, male work CTS will receive Q i0.eent hourly in- crease and female workers will be paid an additional i've cents an hour. Forenien were granted an iIl- crease of ei0 Q week.
 Tn the bustllng New York Harhor, the country's largest, more than 800 ships lay idle at tho piers and the lower harbor was filled with vessels awaiting dock space as 3S,000 AFt longshoremen remained of their jobs in rebellion against top union leadership.
 Soldiers were called yesterday to unload the giant liner Queen Ellsa- beth aS i7 troopshlps of the War Shipping Administration were or. dered to sail wlthouut cargo. The ships were to have carried e6,000 tons of supplies, including 5000 tons of perishahle meat, to American troops In Germany,
 Across the nation, the California State Guard stood by in anticipa- ton of Q possible renewal of Vio- lencO between rival AFL film craft unionlsts outside the giant Warner Brothers studio.
 Fist lights fiared sporadically yes- terday, and six persons were hurt one seriouSly-aS non-strlking meins bers of the International Alliance Of Theatrical Stage Employes tAFL) were barred from the studies gates.
 While pickets and non.strikers, dlSput!ng juTisdlctlon over 70 set decorators, faced each other across the street, Warner Brothers movie production remained at q standstill for the fifth consecutive day.
 As negotiations for settling the soft coal strike continued In Wash. angton, there was iacreasing evl- dence that legislatlon might be passed to put an end to post-war labor disputes sweeping the coun. try.
 Sen. Joseph II. Ball (R., Minn.) co-author of the -Burton- Hatch bill to establish Federal Labor Re- lations Board, told . Philadelphia audience that 1t had become 'in- creaSlngly apparent" that present labor statutes and agencies were in- adequate.
 Tn the Senate, Senator Charles o. Andrews O., Fia.) said nAtiy that somebody had better get busy set- ting these strikes"
 "A soldier comes home and finds his wife or mother and sisters cold because they don't have coal" he said. And they can't even tele. phone home"
 schwellenbach offered his truce plan after the coal operators had rejected . proposal by Lewis, which the labor secretary supported, pro. viding m immediate end of the strike and early joint negotiation of disputed Issues. The proposal stipulated that no penalties would Do levied against the strikers.
 Lewis, likewise, turned down c counterpropoSal which demanded that the operators stand against negotiating with foremens unions must be recognized.
 The dispute centered around the unions demand for recognition as bargaining agent for supervisory employees.
 The Solid Fuels Administration, meanwhile, reported that i74,00o men were idle in 74o mines in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsyl- vania. STA estimated daily produc- ton losses at oee,Iii tons and olaced thA total loss siFice the strike