Evening star., 1945-10-29
Steel Workers File
Petition for Strike
Vote on November q
Bethlehem Turns Down
Union Demands; Two
WoIkouts Settled
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The CIO United Steel Workers
OF America filed a petition with
the National Labor Relations
Board for a strike vote on No.
vember % among soc, 600 workers
in 766 steel, iron and aluminium
plants throughout the Nation.
The petition was filed as the
Bethlehem Steel Co. announced it
had rejected the steel workers de-
mand for a wage increase of 50 a
day. The United States Steel Corp
had rejected a similar demand last
week.
These Developments came as set
tlemsnt OF two strikes Offset to an
extent new walkouts In Akron, Ohio
and San Francisco.
= 1AS.Aee Now Idle.
Chankes In the national strike
picture placed the total number d
persons not working because o1
labor troubles at as 900, compared
with 22s, 600 1 week ago and abou,
235,000 over the week end.
The number out would have beer
scaled closer to last weeks levek
had not leaders of the Hollywood
motion picture strike delayed from
today until Wednesday the return
Of about 1000 persons to studios.
A stoppage at the Westinghouse
Air Brake Co. and its subsidiary
Union Switch g. Signal Co., Pitts
burgh, ended and 1880 persons
affected resume work. Directly In
volved in the walkout were 2,5OC
C1O electrical workers, whose leader
said a meeting had been sought
with the company to settle a griev.
ance over wage scales. The stop
page began Wednesday.
Another $500 workers in Cam.
den. N. j., on strike for nearly two
weeks, returned to work.
Unauthorized Walkout.
In Akron an unauthorized walk.
out Of 400 maintenance and power
employees Of the Firestone Tire &
Rubber Co. halted production ane
kept $1,000 other workers OF ths
job.
Thirteen thousand AFL and CIC
machinists struck in ITO San Fran.
cisco and East Bay plants after de.
mands for more pay were unsuccess.
full. Ultimately the walkout may af
feet from 10000 to $4,000 workers.
Meanwhile. the AFL Commercial
Telegraphers' Union planned a five.
hour work stoppage in the Western
strikes. revolved about wages. Ths
Union Co. Friday. Union spokes
men said $4,000 Of Western Union,
$4,000 operators would join tn,
demonstration.
Issues, as In, the principal othe
strikes, revolved about wages. Tn
telegraphers' union, demanding ,
28h per cent increase, planned 1t
demonstration iIi protest OF Al
NLRB award iof IN average 4-cen
an hour boost.
Strike votes and continued jockey.
ing for position threatened furthel
disturbances. The CIO United ElecD
trical Radio and Machine Worker.
reported plans to seek strike vote.
affecting 10000 persons in 81 Gen
eral Electric plants, and $4,000 IL
electrical manufacturing plants O
General Motors.
The workers sought wage in
crease Of 81 a day.
The lengthy Hollywood jurisdic
tional dispute appeared ended q
studio executives continued con
ferences with representatives of 1
AFL unions.
The NLRB announced that Locs
1921, Screen Set Designers, Illustra
tors and Decorators Union, afili
ated with the Brotherhood OF Paint
ers, Decorators and Paperhangers o
America (AFL), has been certifie
as bargaining agent for Set Deco
rators at eight Hollywood studios.
The studies involved in the deci
sion were Columbia Pictures, Loew'
Inc; Paramount. RKO, Republic
20th- Century FOX, Universal an
| Warner Bros.