Evening star., 1945-06-25
$1,000 Stay on Strike
Despite WLB Pleas 10
Open War-vifaI Plants


Open r-vifaI Plants
More than 1000 workers.
some in industries vital to the
war effort, remained idle today
as series of industrial disputes
continued despite the efforts of
the War Labor Board to end
them.
Akron, Detroit and Chicago were
the centers of the most serious
labor troubles. In the Ohio city,
$4,000 employees of the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. remained away
from their jobs after c. v. Wheeler,
president Of Local of the United
Rubber Workers (CIO) rejected ur-
gent appeals by the Army, Navy
and WLB to end the strike.
At an extraordinary Sunday hear
ing before the WLB here, Mr..
Wheeler said he could not recon-
mend to the workers that they re-
turn to their jobs under present
conditions. The union contends
the strike was provoked by the
company's failure to adhere to WLB
directives for adjustment of griev-
ances. The Goodyear company
makes heavy-duty tires, airplane
tires, refueling hoses and other
items Of military nature.
In Detroit, the Associated Press
reported, jurisdictional dispute
between maintenance men of the
CLIO United Automobile Workers and
AFL unions over the use of tech
nicians in reconversion work at au-
tomobile plants threatened a strike
which might tie up 300 factories.
One thousand delegates of the
CIO union, representing $4,000 work.
erS, scheduled a meeting tonight
Some delegates reported that they
were ready to vote for strike to
enforce their demands.
6,1O0 at Briggs Return.
Already $4,000 workers, $4,000 of
them at the Packard Motor Car
Co., are idle as a result of the juriS-
dictional dispute. One thousand are
absent from the Budd Wheel Co.
and additional thousands from three
Chrysler plants.
The industrial unrest in Detroit
has spread to Chrysler and Ford
plants in Windsor, Ontario. Work
ers of Windsor Ford Local 200, UAW-
CIO, have voted to apply to the
international executive board for
permission to take a secret strike
vote. Employees of the Chrysler
plant scheduled two meetings for
today. The Canadian disputes grow
out of deadlock on contract nego-
tiationS.
The 6,100 workers at the Conner
avenue aircraft plant of the Briggs
Manufacturing Co. returned to work
today after walkout Friday pro-
testing meatleSs sandwiches sup
piled by the company.
st. Louis Workers Back.
In Chicago, the Associated Press
reported, some 10000 soldiers are
operating strike-bound trucking
lines. Ellis T. Longenecker, Federal
manager of the 1,70O lines there,
was quoted as saying that many
drivers were returning to work
after seeing troops at the wheels of
their trucks. The dispute there
centerS around a WLB rate decision
which gave less money than the
truckers asked.
One bright spot in the labor situ-
alton was the decision of employees
of the Carter Carburetor Co. of st.
Louis to return to work, thus end
ing the last major strike in that
city.
The Srike of 5000 workers in the
glass industry in 10 cities still con-
tinued. In Pittsburgh alone 5000
employees of eight plants are not
working.
Tool Makers Favor Strike.
The Associated Press gave the fol-
lowing summary of latest develop
ments in strikes in other cities:
New Orleans-A new attempt to
end the strike of 400 drivers and |
mechanics of the Tri-State Transit
Co. of Louisiana. now in dts third
week, was to be made by union
leaders today. But 100 of the
strikers, members of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street, Electric /
and Railway Employees (AFL) voted
Saturday at Jackson, Miss, not to
return to work. The walkout, over
a wage contract, began June and
halted service in eight States, affect
ing some $4,000 passengers.
Jamestown, N. Y; Employees of
the Crescent Tool Co. voted 318
to 81 to strike. but scheduled a
meeting July 13 to consider fur
ther action. The vote followed
recent walkout centering around
protest by the International Asso-
citation of Machinists (AFL) over
process change instituted in one de-
partment.
To End Bus Stoppage.
Buffalo, N. Y; Employees of the
Hamburg Railway Coach Lines
voted to end stoppage which had
halted bus transportation between
Buffalo, Lackawanna and Hamburg.
Marion, Ohio: At the Universal
Cooler Corp, TOO remained out in
protest against what the union said
was the company refusal to grant q
union-suggested bonus system, and
the discharge of two workers.
Other unchanged strike situa-
tions: Walkouts of 1000 at the Ack-
lin Stamping Co. and the Mather
Spring Co., Toledo, Ohio; 500 at the
Houdaille-Hershey Co., Decatur, Ill.
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