The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-03
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The totals showed 1857 votes for
the Association, 1882 ballots for
the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers Union, CLIO; rs
void votes, and II challenged bal
lots.
An embargo was clamped last
night on most shipments of btu.
minous coal from four eastern
mining districts, and Secretary Of
Labor Schwellenbach extended for
"a hours the deadline for answering
his proposed settlement of the
spreading refinery strikes.
The growing soft coal strike,
which has cut production in half,
prompted the Solid Fuels Admin.
istration to prohibit producers in
the four districts from shipping to
retail dealers and various other
consumers ''to safeguard public
health and welfare.'
In postponing his decision, the
Labor Secretary gave the CLIO Oil
Workers and II companie- until 4
pm. (EST) today to reply to his
back-to-work proposal.
Other important labor develop
ments of the day were:
1. New disputes plus the coal
and spreading oil strikes raised
to 415,OOO the number of workers
off the job due to labor troubles.
2. Nearly a fourth of the nations
soft coal miners and 214 mines
were not working as a result of
supervisory employees walkout.
3. The CLIO Oil Workers strike,
embracing 10000 persons, spread to
it's 18th and 18th state-California
and New Jersey-as the govern.
ment-labor management concilia.
ton conference continued in Wash.
ington.
4. The lower Colorado River Au.
thority restored electric service to
nearly all its Texas customers, fir.
ed AFL strikers who had shutdown
four hydroelectric plants Monday,
and offered their jobs to war vet
Grams, a number of whom were
hired.
S. New York, crippled last week
by a Building Service Employees
strike which ended Monday, was
hit yesterday by work stoppages
of teamsters and longshoremen and
a showdown by bus drivers.
Schwellenbach announced that he
deferred the deadline in the oil
dispute at the request Of nine of II
companies represented at the con-
ference to consider the CLIO Gil
workers demand for 80 per cent
higher wage rates.
Two companies and the union,
he said, had expressed readiness to
reply to the proposal yesterday.
Schwellenbach's decision was an
nounced shortly after c. S. Tets.
worth, spokesman for the Socony-
Vacuum Oil Company, walked out
| of the conference, two and one-haf
hours after the first settlement
deadline.
The coal shipment embargo did
not directly affect deliveries by
retailers to domestic consumers,
but dealers will be unable to obtain
new shipments from mines in the
four districts.
Excepted from the ban on de-
| liveries were hospitals. water, gas
and electric utility plants, railroads
and city transit systems, vessels,
| mine power plants, the great lakes
docks, river and tide water docks.
Producers affected were those
with mines in Western Pennsylva-
MIA. West Virginia, Eastern Ken
lucky and Northeastern Tennessee.
Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
two great fuel producing states,
were hardest hit by the mine dis
pute with 1923 and 10000 out, re.
spectively. In Kentucky 10000 min
ers we're away from the pits and
in Ohio, 1850.
The strike cut heavily into steel
mill fuel supplies. The U. S. Steel
Corporation reported only three OF
its Is Western Pennsylvania mines,
most of them producing metalur-
gical fuel, were operating. A
spokesman said steel-making oper-
ations might become affected.
Supervisory employees demand
recognition of their union, branch
of the maffiliated United M i n e
Workers. as collective bargaining
agent. Operators, in opposing the
demand, contend ground forennen
and similar personnel are part of
the management.
T. j. Price, union official, said
all $4,000 miners in Ohio might
stop work.
AS the oil strike extended to
California and New Jersey, high
Labor Department official said in
Washington he was confident" the
disputants in the industry-wide con.
troversy would accept a govern.
ment arbitration proposal. In CLIO
quarters a conflicting. view w as
taken.
Under Secretary Scnwellenbach's
proposal all refinery stoppages
would end with temporary IS per
cent pay increase and agreement
by both labor and management to
accept an arbitrator's final settle