Evening star., 1945-10-21
Nation's 5 Idle Expected
To Drop 10 100000
With Miners Return
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The Nations total of idle worker,
due to strikes Is expected to dror
to around 100000 tomorrow with
the anticipated return of striking
coal miners. 80
However, a strike of $4,000 glass
workers in 10 cities, following q
breakdown in contract negotiations
between glass companies and 9
union wage committee, definitely
can be expected by Monday" Lewis
McCracken, secretary treasurer oi
the CIO Federation of Glass, Cer-
anaic and Silica Sand Workers o1
America, announced at Columbus
Ohio.
Mr.. McCracken said the strike
would affect employees of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Co. and the Lib
bey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. in Ford
City and Creighton, Pa; Clarksbure
and Charleston, w. Va; Toledo and
Mount Vernon, Ohio; Ottawa, ILL.,;
Crystal City, Mo-; Henrietta, Okla.
ana shreveport, La.
Telephone Workers Set Deadline.
Tomorrow also was the deadline
set by the Western Electric EN-
ployes' Association of Kearny. N. j,
for the company to meet wage de-
mands.
A union spokesman said the
Kearny plant has been selected for
collective action by the union unless
the unions 1900 plant employees
were granted 35 per cent wage
increase and improved working
conditions" by tomorrow.
A vote by % State locals of the
CLOS State Utility Workers Union
last night ended a three-day strike
of some 1000 Michigan power work.
ers and halted threatened cutoff
eof gas. and electrical service to
100000 Michigan residents.
Workers Accept Agreement.
The power workers voted 56S to
1863 to ratify a settlement agree
nlent accepted earlier by union
leaders. Fourteen locals voted to
accept the proposal, and eight voted
to reject it.
Garland W. Sanders, chairman
OF the State Utility Workers Coun-
Gil, instructed the strikers to return
to their jobs Immediately.
Production at the KenoSha wis
plant of the American Brass Co.
was resumed after operations had
been suspended for seven weeks.
After an 18-day strike of $4,000
stevedores, officials of the AFL long
shoremen's union reported a GEN
eral resumption of work in New
York, but new waterfront trouble
was reported at Houston and the
entire central Gulf Coast of Texas.
Warehousemen Walk Out.
A wage dispute precipitated the
walkout of 1000 warehousemen in
Galveston and Lake Charles, La.
and $500 longshoremen Joined in
a sympathy strike which tied up
shipping in Houston and along the
Texas Gulf. :
AT the Akron, Ohio, Seiberling
Rubber Co., more than $500 en-
ployes were made idle by walkout
of rs mechanical and maintenance
employees, members of the CIO
Rubber Workers, over a wage dis
pute,
In Tennessee, the AFL carpenters
local No. so voted to end two
week Walkout of 1000 Knoxville and
Clinton Engineer Works carpenters.
Carl Whisman, union recording sec
retary yesterday, said the men were
returning to work pending the deci-
sion of national wage officials on a
19 per cent wage increase.
Lumber Strikers Warned,
At Coos. Bay, Greg, a group of
lumber operators warned AFL lum-
Der and sawmill workers yesterday
that unless their strike ends by Fri
day their working contracts will be
cancelled.
The notice claimed the strike
violated the working agreement, and
Contended that - under contract
terms-employers have the right to
sue for damages or cancel the en-
tire agreement.
The letter declared that operators
were ready to resume negotiations
on wage demands
Approximately 1000 United Stee
Workers (CIO) were idle yesterday
at Alcoa, Tenn, as Aluminium Com.
pany of America plants remained
closed.
A scheduled meeting between
company and union officials wa.
called off last night and tentativel,
reset for tomorrow.
Workers staged their second walk
out of the week Friday after al
earlier one was settled by agree
ment Thursday night.