Evening star., 1945-06-21
10000 Workers Idle
Due 10 WaIkouts in
Many War Plants
ny the Associated Press.


Hy the Associated Press.
Labor disputes kept some 10000
employees on the side lines along
the Nations labor front today.
The strikes and work stoppages
curtailed production in war plants,
hampered transportation of some
60,000 passengers in a interstate
area and slowed truck movement of
foods and war materials in parts of
the Midwest.
A new strike in the Detroit in
dustrial area was more than Offset
by returns to work in other disputes
there.
One thousand CIO United Auto
mobile Workers left their jobs at
Packard Motor Car Co. in juris-
dictional controversy between CIO
maintenance men and AFL con-
lstruction men. But 7,525 CIO main
tenance men resumed work at three
Budd Wheel Co. plants and one
Ford Motor Co. plant.
Packard production workers at
tributed the walkout to the con-
tinued employment of AFL workers
on reconversion construction. The
CIO union demands that no AFL
men be called in on automotive
reconversion jobs until all UAW-
CIO manpower is utilized.
1000 End Walkout.
Seven hundred AFL workers re-
manned on strike at five Detroit
lumber yards in jurisdictional dis
pute, but 1000 Bendix Aviation
Corp. workers ended a one day
walkout.
The WLB sought to halt the
spread of glass workers strike to
eight plants as some 5000 remained
out at two Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Co. plants in Ford City and Creigh-
ton, Pa.
A fire in four parked trucks was
being investigated today in Chicago
as more troops poured into the city
to haul goods tied up by six-day
strike. The fire occurred at the
Consolidated Freight Lines terminal.
Fire Chief Edward Harper blamed
the fire on careless use of gasoline"
and estimated damage at $4,000.
Paul Meeker, foreman, said the COM
pany would ask an inquiry into the
possibility of arson. He estimated
damage at $4,000.
Six thousand more soldiers were
expected by the Army to arrive
today to swell to l4200 the total
Of those who moved in starting
Monday to assist 1,700 Government
seized truck lines in hauling cargoes
The number of soldiers exceeds
the $4,000 members of the two unions
involved in the work stoppage.
which stemmed from a WLB wage
hour decision.
Ordered Back to Work.
Two other striking groups in Chi
cago were given WLB directives to
return to work. There were between
1000 and 5000 CIO United Farm
Equipment Workers on strike at an
international Harvester Co. plant
over differences Of Interpretation of
plecework wage schedules,
The other WLB directives in Chi
cago ordered l,l00 employees Of r. r.
Donnelley 81 Sons Printing Co. to
terminate their 17-day-old work
stoppage. Company and union off,
cials are deadlockewd over the COM
pany's insistence that the 4O-year-
old open shop policy stand.
Other disputes kept idle $500 CIO
Steel Workers at the Armco Works
IN Ashland, KY, as they rejected a
WLB back-to-work order; 700 CIO
United Auto Workers att the Uni.
versal Cooler Co at Marion, Ohio.
who also ignored a WLB directive;
500 CIO United Automobile Workers
tat Acklin sta atnping Co, and MatherI
Spring Co. at Toledo, and 500 AFL
United Auto Workers at the Oakes
Division of Houdaille- Hershey Corp.
at Decatur, ILL.,, making Navy shells.
A strike of more than 400 bus
drivers and mechanics of the Tri-
State Co.. which started in Jackson,
Miss, June 8. and spread to eight
more States, hampered transporta-
ton Of 10000 passengers.
At Shreveport, La, a union offlcial
said 600 employees of Liberty Owens
Ford Glass Co. would strike tonight
in defiance of WLB appeal to keep
production moving.