Evening star., 1945-09-28
Textile Strike
to284
Eastern Plants
$1,000 Workers Idle,
Union Estimates:
Orders Men Back
BY the Associated Press,

New storm warnings were
hoisted along the country's la.
Dor front today as a fresh major
dispute threatened to force more
than a half million workers of
their jobs.
A union spokesman estimated that
$4,000 workers, including 5000 ir
the Paterson IN. j. area, hac
walked out in 284 textile printing
and dyeing plants in nine Eastern
States although a back to-work Or
der had been issued by a CIO Ma
tional Executive Committee.
Joseph w. Knapik, president OF
the Federation of Dyers, Finishers
Printers & Bleachers of America
(CIO), said the National Executive
Committee directed the workers to
return to work at meeting held in
New York to determine policy" on
the walkout which began in Pater-
son yesterday, closing 10 plants.
Referendum Ordered.
Mr.. Knapik said the $4,000 were
out in plants in New Jersey, Massa =
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina
The National Executive Committee
he added. had directed at its meet
ing yesterday that a referendum be
taken among the workers tomorrow
Mr.: Knapik said the workers are
asking l5-cent-an-hour wage in
crease.
Charles Vermorel, president of the
Dyers and Finishers' Employers AS
sociation, said the employers had
mo formal demands for any in
crease"
Across the country, strikes and
shutdowns made more than 425 900
person idle.
Oil Farley Here Tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the threatened Ma
tion-Wide strike of 250000 CIO oil
workers was delayed After meeting
three days in Chicago, principals in
the conciliation conference moved
to Washington to resume their ef-
forts tomorrow to effect a settle
ment in the dispute over wage de-
mands and of the 13-day-old strike
OF 5000 workers in eight States.
The move to Washington was sug-
gested by Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach. The union is asking
for 80 per cent wage rate increase,
and in three days of negotiations IN
Chicago the conference was dead
locked. (Story on Page A-3J
In the Pacific Northwest, threat
ened strike of some $1,000 CIO lum-
Der workers was postponed at least
until Wednesday. But the area S
wood fuel supply was steadily
shrinking as the strike of 10000 AFI
workers for wage increases entered
its fifth day. (Story on Page A-3J
Top-ranking officers of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) are
scheduled to intervene directly to-
night in an effort to end 37-day
walkout of 4,500 employees of the Kel.
sey-Hayes Wheel Co. in Detroit.
R. J. Thomas, president of the
UAW-CIO. and Percy Llewellyn, ad
ministrator of the Kelsey-H Hayes
Local 1877 are due to speak at a
back-to-work mass meeting of the
strikers. Informed union sources
predicted the workers would favor
an end of the long walkout.
Delegates Head for Farley.
Union delegates representing 1O9,-
900 Ford Co. workers headed into
the city for two-day conference
which union spokesmen said was a
preliminary to formal request fol
a strike vote at all Ford plants.
New York City's paralyzing strike
of $4,000 AFL building service en-
ployes continued but there was. a
possibility of arbitration as Leaf Ell
and their employees agreed to meet
with the New York State Mediation
Board. The strike, costing an esti-
mated millions of dollars in trade
and wages daily, spread to 100 addi-
tional buildings yesterday, but the
union promised no further struc-
lures would be struck. Wages and
hours are the main issues in the
dispute.
Mayor F. H. La Guardia appealed
to strikers to return to work, telling
them in a radio address that the
dispute had caused millions of dol.
lars of losses" and had disrupted
several important city industries
He told them railroads had advised
him they will declare an embargo
because there is such a backloe
OF express and freight in the yards.
The brightest spot on the troubled
labor scene was the settlement of 6
sitdown strike at the New York
Shipbuilding Corp. in Camden, N. j.
enabling about 10000 workers to &c
back to their jobs Monday, after 6
weeks idleness.
Another stoppage reported settled
was at two Sloss-Shefneld Steel &
Iron Co. coal mines in Birmingham
Ala, putting 900 mine workers back
in the pits.