The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08
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 The spokesman declined to dis close any details of the meeting. It was recalled that the youthful Ford president had made personal visit to the strike scene early this week.
 Hope for Negotiations
 McCullagh did not indicate on what basis the meeting would be held or whether it had been set for any definite time. Previously Mitchell had announced postpone ment of such meeting, originally scheduled for last night.
 Mitchell indicated he still hoped it would be possible to bring Ford officials and union leaders together and denied that negotiations were collapsing.
 Mitchell, admitting he was less optimistic than yesterday when he predicted a settlement within 24 hours" said previously that he had decided not to meet with union leaders until I had something definite to offer"
 By United Press)
 Reconversion labor disputes, the majority centering on petitions for higher wages, kept 294,o0O U. S. workers away from their jobs.
 Transit Wokers Return
 Washington transit workers at a mass meeting yesterday accepted recommendation of their union off, cers that they adjourn a "continu- ous meeting" called to support de- mands for a 30-cent hourly wage increase.
 As the National Labor-M Manage ment meeting entered it's fourth day, the 36 delegates began spade work toward the conference goal development of program to mini mize industrial disputes.
 CIO President Philip Murray con- tinued his fight for consideration of the explosive wage-price ques- tion despite almost unanimous op- position from industry and other la- DOT representatives.
 JAW officials last night rejected a General Motors offer to raise wages to match the cost-of-living increase as U. s. Steel Corp. re- fused to renew negotiations on a union demand for 8 $2-a-day pay boost and Ford workers voted over whelmingly in favor of strike action, if necessary, to obtain a 30 per cent wage increase.
 Rubber Men Out
 Approximately 5000 Akron, O., Goodyear Tire and Rubber Go. em- ployes and 2,500 workers at the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co.,, Stamford, Conn.,, were on strike for the second day, and New York plumbers went ahead with plans to walk out tomorrow in support of de- mands for siX-hour day.
 Yale and Towne Co.,, employees, asking more money and mainten- ance of membership clause In their new contract, forcibly showed com- pany President w. Gibson Carey, Jr., of the steps fthe factory yes- terday when he attempted to cross picket lines.
 In Detroit, Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO vice-president, rejected a counter-proposal by General Mo- tors, offering limited pay increases equal to eight to ten per cent for the majority of GM employees, in lieu Of the fiat 30 per cent asked by the union.
 Machinists Agree to Raise
 At least one company and union, however, had resolved dispute over higher wages. In joint statement, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and the International Association Machin- ists, Burbank, Calf, local, announce ed they had agreed on a 15-per cent increase for 24,000 hourly-paid employees.
 Elsewhere on the West Coast, 150 merchant seamen, captured at Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1941, demon strated in front of the American President lines office in San Fran cisco. The seamen claimed they had been promised payment for the four years they spent in Japanese prison camps.
 In Chicago, employees of the Union Stockyards and Transit Co.,, voted 295 to 5 last night to call a strike unless demands for shorter hours and increased wages were met.