The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-03

Continued from Page l) AFI lumbermen in five western states yesterday announced their determination to continue a fight for a $1.10 industry-wide hourly minimum despite compromise wage settlement accepted by ClO lumber workers.
 The Woodworkers of America (CIO), whose members had threat ened strike action to force wage demands, accepted 12l2 cent an hour increase-half the unions original 25-cent demand.
 Clothing Output Curtailed
 Twenty thousand CIO textile workers in four New England states left their jobs, curtailing clothing production in one of the nations s major manufacturing sections. The walkout. which began with spor- adic strikes in Rhode Island, spread yesterday to p plants, including the worlds largest blanket mill at Nashua, N. H.
 At Washington, federal labor con- ciliators disclosed they had been in contact with company officials and representatives of striking Grey hound bus employees in an effort to end the transportation tieup.
 Greyhound schedules in Is east ern states have been disrupted since the walkout was called at midnight Wednesday following breakdown in contract negotiations.
 Maintenance workers of the
 Maintenance Men To Return American Export Lines, an Ameri- can Airlines subsidiary, voted last night to return to work on all shifts today, ending a To-day Walkout.
 The company said it would renew contract negotiations with the Unit ed Automobile Workers (CIO) and agreed to refer the case to the na- tional mediation board if wage is- sues were not settled within three or four days"
 Brewers went back to work today at four plants at Lowell and one plant in Boston, Mass. The men, on strike only a few hours, were granted a l7-percent wage boost.
 Dock Reopened
 At Houston, Tex, the country's largest inland port, l3-day strike ended yesterday. Rock operations were paralyzed when 25e0 long shoremen agreed to honor picket lines thrown up by 700 striking AFL warehousemen, clerks and shippers.
 Meanwhile, top labor and man agement leaders gathered at Wash ington for the long, -heralded la Encouragement conference, begin- ming Monday.
 Organized labor, for the most part seeking a 30 percent blanket pay increase to compensate for re- auctions in take-home pay, saw significance in the disclosure yes- terday that President Truman fa- yors a 20 per cent wage increase for federal workers. The presidents wage-prlce statement Tuesday night did not recommend a specified wage raise percentage.
 Diamond Cutters Quit
 In line with the new government policy, the War Labor board last night returned all wage issues in some 1000 pending cases to the par ties involved for collective bargain ing, The move swept the WLBs docket clean of all disputes in which parties can apply the newly amended wage-priee program.
 On the west coat, a six-day-old machinists' strike appeared no nearer settlement as AFL and CIO strike leaders accused employers of causing A breakdown in coneiliation efforts.
 More than 5000 workers at two plants of the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co, struck yesterday because the company allegedly denoted a machine workers who had been six years on thejob. and some 0O0 New York diamond cutters walked OF in wage dispute.