Evening star., 1945-10-28
lonciIiafors Predict
-
Near Normal Labor
Situation by Nov. IS
BY the Associated Press.

Cllned slightly to q total OF 235 900
and the Federal Cancellation Servict
in Washington predicted yesterda,
that near normal conditions" MAY
be reached by mid-November.
/ The Cancellation Services state.
ment said that last week the numbe,
of strikes settled exceeded the mum.
Der of new ones. Labor Department
sources predicted, unofhcially, tha
major work stoppages would be de
layed until the end of the year be.
cause such strikes now might in.
lfuence Congress in its considera.
tion Of anti-strike legislation anc
would hinder the national labor
management conference beginnins
November S.
= The conciliation service, however
was apprehensive over the outlook
IN Detroit. It's near normal by
mid-November" prediction was tenn
apered by the phrase unless there
Is failure to reach agreement II
/ some Of the heavy industries, such
! as automobiles"
Z Murray to Speed Petitions.
! Philip Murray, president of botf
{ the CIO and its affiliated United
{ Steel Workers, said he hoped tt
have strike vote petitions in thu
9 hands of the National Labor Rela.
3 tions Board, which would conduct
Z the balloting, War Labor Board, ano
4 Secretary of Labor mo later thar
! Monday"
: The strike vote was planned after
j major steel companies rejected &
! ! union demand for a $2-a-day wage
E increase. The ballots would affect
: SOC, 900 workers in 766 steel, aluinun
: and iron ore plants.
: Mr.. Murray said the wage de-
mands were necessary to sustain
I purchasing power and prevent an
! other depression"
Company Opposes Demand.
However, United States Stee.
; spokesmen contended the company
Z could not meet the demands be-
cause of existing ceiling prices fol
! steel products, together with the
= Governments wage stabilizatior
program"
In a Senate speech this week
end, Senator Murray, Democrat, OF
Montana, suggested that corpora
tions which declined to bargain
collectively in good faith" with labor
unions should be subject to an in
come tax penalty.
! One big strike, Hollywood's mo-
stion picture-AF'L dispute, appeared
lended after seven months of picket
ting that was spotted by incidents
sof violence.
: Movie Picketing Ends.
! Picketing ended at all studios
safter producers and union leaders
sagreed on settlement terms which
were announced earlier this week
lin Cincinnati by the AFL Execu-
tive Committee.
A new walkout, that of 1,500 mem
2bers of the United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers (CIO) en-
;ployed at the Philadelphia plant OF
General Electric Co., was termed
by union spokesman mot a
strike, but protest" because the
company will not negotiate"
At Cleveland, Stephen c. Eddy
Federal conciliator, announced that
q four-day meeting with officers of
two AFL-Tugmen's unions and the
Great Lakes Towing Co. ended with
out an agreement. Towing service
In several Lake Erie ports has been
cncrnrdnI hnna4rcn nf
Rubber workers at all plants of the
Firestone Tire 65 Rubber Co. have
asked for a company-wide strike
ballot, I. H. Watson. president of
Firestone's Akron (Ohio) local of
the CIO-United Rubber Workers,
announced.
In st. Louis, the American Train
Dispatchers' Association announced
that "a per cent of the dispatchers
on the Missouri Pacific Railroads
main system had voted to strike on
ar undisclosed date because of the
railroads "use of lower paid classes
of employees to do dispatchers' work.
In Pittsburgh a union spokesman
said $500 workers at the Westing-
house Air Brake Co., and its sub
.sidiary, Union Switch & Signal Co.
voted a return to work tomorrow
ending a stoppage which made H..
300 idle.
Z. Calvin A. Fulmer, business agent
,ifor Local 610, CIO-United Electri.
zeal, Radio and Machine Workers o.
America, said the union had re.
iquested a meeting with the com.
pany to settle the grievance.