The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-22
Dispute N Endonger Six States
Petroleum Industry WoIkouts lneFeos- inc into Thousomds
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 Breakdown of the United States vital motor transpor- tation was threatened today as filling stations either ra. toned gasoline or closed down in the wake of n1ush- rooming petroleum industry strikes In six states.
 So serious was the SituR- ton that the U. s. GcverIls ment called oil company and u n ion representatives to meet Tuesday in Chicago ln an effort to end work stop. pages by some 25,000 refin. cry workers tying up fuel output in three major reflzls ing areas.
 WagO Boosts
 The strikers demand 90 per cent wage boosts to eompensate SoK peaeetlme cutbaeks on woEkin9 hours and overtime. This wage de- mand accounted for most Of the 100000 Idle in labor disputes throughout the country.
 Resumption of gasoline Tatlclaine was ordered effective today Toledo, O., where every refinery Ma4 down and incoming supplies were dwindling,
 Tn Detroit, It's autoEnotive indus. try already crippled by striko1, !. was estimated that % per cent uz the eitys 3,4o0 gasoline stations hAa closed last night for lack oG 1up~ piles, Checker cabs were to be tMzen off the streets there tonight as thelf gas ran out.
 Most Ann Arbor, Mich., filling stations had closed down. The res maining operators said they had & little reserve. At Flint, Mich, wnolss salers and station operators met md decided to hold back 1000 gallonA ok gasoline for emergency needs.
 Q, A. Knight, president of the CIO oil Workers internatlouaA union, to which the strikers belQnN. said he might. ask q delay. of kH3 tJnion- -Managemen teonierence Gozls ference Tuesday 60 ne might Neatf suit his executive counsel.
 Texas Workers Fourteen thousand workers were out at refineries and pipeline com panIes in the rich Texas coastal ull producing area, and motorists theEe were warned that they would haNe no gas after supplies were exF hausted.
 Gasoline on hand in Chicago waa expected to last one or two Weeksl oil company executives said. Cale cago was hard hit by shutdown ek five big Calumet area refineriess Only one large producer, Stanoazsl oil Go. of Indiana, continued opexs ating.
 Standard employees, members ol an independent union, have resisted efforts of OWIU members to enlist them as strikers in the cause Ql wage increases. The Independent unionists also have asked 90 per cent pay raise and turned doNn a company offer of IS per cent.
 The giant Carnegie illinois stesi plant in Gary, Ind, was forced tg slash production to only @ per cent of capacity because of the fuel nil shortage.
 Eastern Reflneries
 Refineries on the Eastern gSn- board, although not affected by strikes, reported they could supply only part of that areas demands lon company officials said that ( motorists in that region had to de- pend on local output the gasoline supply would allow them less than the wartime ration.
 City officials in Toledo claaped down on "fiil her up" sales and formed a committee to issue gngo- line rationing cards to essential auto users.
 A meatless weekend loomed also for many Toledo residents. oil workers picketed the Toledo Food Locker CO. operators of an oil plant. The city already was beset hy g food handlers strike.
 Executive director Rankin Peck og the Detroit Retail Gasoline Dealers Association said the number og sta- tions closing was increasing hour ly." In Cleveland, where two q plants were shut down, some 4lliiuH stations were forced to close at uoon yesterday. Refineries also NeEs closed in Cabin Greek, ". Va Daw&s, V. Va: TTentons hlIrl.I East St. Louis. H.: Port Arthus and Houston, Tex.
 Other strike developments:
 Detroie-T number of idle works CTS in the motor city rose to rzpFe than e0O00 with a strike Qf 4@4 United Auto Workers which cloze4 the Chrysler Corps Dodge truck Iplant.
 Pittsburgh-Asking closed snqn and a @ Q day wage increase. M 900 CIO gteelW0rkers went one the Pressed Steel Car Co.
 Newark. N. LA wage alnps'.2 erupted intot he strike 70 truck drivers employed hy 4l Mz lH New Jersey akiug cpmpaneis. xlE plants said they would not cpsu fH business today.
 BeIlefontasne, Pa.--Sixteen hslNs dred workers were idled by W|lzz strike at the Titan haig. co. ing a lO-ccnt hourly wage boaats
 PoElland : Portland--A threat lo home E ing was seen in a stzlke AMz serfived by AEL union lea6eE1 the nnrlhwes1's lumber |Hs Sixty thousand M6fkzfs 4 'peclnd lo 50 onA AKonf&2 'N western states.