The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-26
100000 WORKERS
!. ON STRIKE LIST
fContinued from Page One)

Status quo maintenance otfereo
.no:relief in a score OF cities large
:.nd small where the complete ces
:sation of private automobile, com
mercial truck, and public bus
Transportation threatened. Detroit
buses were running by tolerance
OF the union which had agreed to
ato deliver gas to the municipality
owned system. Refineries IN ~
! cities in six states with an estimat'
1: ed daily capacity Of 1,107, 800 bar
4 reis were closed. Three OF the
A country's six great refining areas
1.-THE Calument River dnd.0 the
t Texas Gulf coast, and Toledo were
either shut down or crippled.
Il schwellenbach's telegram ad'
dressed to Justice Knous made
forceful use of the imperative
must. Out of the conference, he
said. must come some agree
nnent through which the workers
return to work Immediately. The
oil and gasoline reserves in this
country will be depleted in very
few days.
"a further tie-up of the refineries
threatens to break down both the
military and civilian transporta-
ton systems. Such breakdown
would strike at the reconverslon
program and would prevent the
bringing home and discharge OF
men in the armed services"
Public confidence in free collec-
tive bargaining as a means OF
settling labor disputes, also was
at stake, he said.
AS the conferees naet, more
! workers in other industries were
going on strike and the total idle
: was approximately 43S,
Harvey O'Connor, OWTU public
relations director, said the union
was absolutely determined to
fight bitterly against ANY wage
! cuts"
/, I'VE are spearheading the CLOS
drive to maintain the American
standard Of living O'Connor said.
1--WE are conscious of our respon.
sibility to provide jobs for ex-serv'
ice men,
New York city was laced with
the spread of an elevator operator
and building service strike which
had parlayzed major part OF
Manhattan's commercial activity.
More than 1000 members Of the
Building Service Employees Union
(AFL) walked out yesterday. It
was feared the strike would spread
to the Bronx and Brooklyn.
In Detroit, a step was taken to
reconcile bitterness between the
United Automobile Workers (C1O)
and motor car companies. Chrysler
Corp entered into discussion with
the JAW over the nnion's demands
for a 80 percent pay boost. Cen
eral Motors Corp. offered to dis
cuss the wage demand.
Chrysler's conference was the
first since the JAW made its de.
nand of Chrysler, Ford Motor Co.,
and General Motors. A strike eiec.
ton has been for Oct. "a in the
General Motors System. The JAW
said it had petitioned the National
Labor Relations Board to set a
strike vote date for Chrysler work.
ers and petition will be filed for
a Ford strike vote.
. The JAW said the three com.
panies employed some 600, 900 union
members.
Other strike developments were:
The lumber strike in the Pacific
northwest, involving 10000 AFL
workers, was complicated by an
intra-unior dispute. ALL teamsters
refused to halt trucking opera.
tons into the strike-bound lumber
yards on grounds they had to res
pect their contracts with the
yards. CLIO lumber workers, 49,.
600 strong, were awaiting a call to
walk out.
Union officials cut the force Of
sit-down strikes in New York Ship
building Co. yards at Camden, N.
j., from $4,000 to $500. The big
yard was closed by company Off
Gals who said they would not ne
gotiate until the striking employees
went back to work.
! Some $4,000 miners were idled by
supervisory strikes in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia mine.