The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-02

of oil worker Local 2S4 said the strike would be complete by We'd nesday.
 Other Sinclair workers quit yeS- terday at Coffeyville, Kans. and Wellsville, N. r., while more than 1000 Oklahoma oil workers left their jobs at Sinclair departments at Seminole and Maud, and at the Sinclair Sand Springs Refinery and Phinpps Refineries at Kiefer and Enid. These were the first work stopages top hit the rich Oklahoma petroleum area.
 Meanwhile, California plants of the Shell oil Go. faced strike ulti- matum, expiring at I9 Q. m. tomor- row.
 Two small independent Detroit re- fineries resumed operations today after reaching an agreement with striking oil workers. The Aurora and Keystone plants granted i'm. medaite wage increases of 17h cents an hour for Q 4.hour week and mediate wage increases of 17h cents an hour increase Nov. l. When the work week will be cut to 4o hours. l Ford Co. A minor back-to-work movement was underway at the strike-bound Kelsey Hayes Wheel Go. Detroit which might clear the way for re- sumption of supplies to the Ford Motor O., where 5O,O0O have been 1o(A aFf About m o$ a VAApvpN al sIifk of 2,600 reported yesterday in the first break in the 39-day-old Kel- sey-Hayes walkout. E A strike of 100 lower Colorad6 river authority employees, seeking recognition of their AFL-affiliated union, yesterday cut off electric power to 23 central Texas towns, 50 smaller communities and some 2S,. 900 rural users.
 The strikers threw power switches in the "littls IVA" Hudro-E Electric plants at Austin, Mansfield, Inks and Buchanan. LCRA officials said they were trying to man the power dams with non-striking and new employees.
 LCRA board members refused an offer of mediation from Austin Mayor Tom Miller on the grounds that the public agency was without authority to delegate responsibility.
 Bus Lines A west coast transportation tieup, involving bus service in seven vest ern states, neared as representative of Pacific Greyhound employees met to consider strike action. Ofdcials of the AFL Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees Union have been authorized to call strike to back up demands 10. wage adjust. mentS.
 Bus service from Portland to Idaho and eastern Oregon points already vas paralyzet. by Q walk. out of Overland Greyhound bus drivers and drivers of Pacific trail- ways.
 Three SKY, Inc, plants at phil- adelphia were closed early today because of 6 strike of 2,900 CIO steelwor..ers. The management to the ball bearing firm said the shut down was necessary after l,200 workers :t subsidiary plants joined a sitdown strike of workers at the Main plant.
 Telephone Workers
 Tn New York, Joseph Bierne, president of the National Fedora tion of telephone workers. said the unions executive board was with holding action on threatened na- tionwide strike of 100000 telephone employees. Bierne added, however, that the possibility of spontaneous work stoppages was very much in the picture"
 New Jersey bread supplies were seriously curtailed by a continued strike of S5 deliverymen, and picket lines were thrown up around the two largest west coast lumber mills, where CIO employees have refused to support an AFL strike.
 Secretary Schwellenbach surpris- ed the deadiockcd oil conference shortly after midnight today with his four-point back-to-work pro- gram demanding:
 Program 1. That the strikers return to work immediately.
 2. That each company return to a 4O-hour week working schedule as soon as manpower permits. 3. That a IS per cent increase be made in the basic pay rate when the 40-hour week becomes effective. 4. That both parties agree to final and binding arbitration of the wage dispute.
 The union originally asked 30 per cent pay boost but Saturday agreed to accept 27.5 per cent. The companies, however, have unanim- ously refused to increase their orig inal offer of a IS pc: cent increase.
 The labor secretary said that If the offer were accepted. he would name a special arbitrator tomorrow He sai1 he had made the proposal only hecahse there had been no progress during the week of meet eamN