Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-02
Detroit Strikes Spread
Ito 6 Plants as Men
Reject Work Pleas
BY The Associated Press.

DETROIT, Mar. Six war
plants in the Detroit area were
closed today and operations In
IA others were affected as strikes
that began a week ago continued
to spread. The number of idle
employees now is approximately
Is, 900 and threatened to rise.
Closed were the Chrysler Corps
Dodge main and Dodge truck plants
and four Briggs Manufacturing Co.
factories. The strikes spread to
three Briggs units this morning after
back-to-work pleas by International
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
Union officers were voted down at
mass meetings last night.
Approximately $3.50 workers were
affected by the spread of the strikes
to the Briggs Milwaukee avenue,
Vernon highway and Hamtramck
plants. AL were engaged in the
production Of aircraft components.
Aircraft Production Hit.
Other affected factories included:
Dodge main plant of Chrysler
Corp.-13,500 on strike since last
Friday, halting production Of parts
for B-29 bomber engines, anti
aircraft guns, rockets and other war
materiel.
Dodge truck plant, employing
5000, assembly line at Chrysler tank
arsenal, employing $50, and depart
ments at other Chrysler plants
shut down for lack Of parts pro-
duced at Dodge main plant.
Briggs Manufacturing Co.'S Mack
avenue plant-closed by walkout Of
$500 workers on two shifts yester-
day, slowing the flow OF aircraft
parts and tank assemblies to six
other Briggs plants.
About 5000 Of the Dodge strikers,
attending a mass meeting called by
the international union, rejected q
truce" proposal by the Executive
Board Of Dodge Local 3. The mo-
ton stipulated that work be resumed
Immediately, but unless eight
workers fired by the company are
reinstated during an eight-day Pc
Rod the strike would be resumed.
A short time earlier members Of
Briggs Local 212, UAW-CIO, voted
to continue their strike over the
discharge of seven employees accused
by the company Of melting previous
stoppages. -Four other workers &C
cused Of fomepting yesterdays
walkout were dismissed later.
Union Solution Given.
UAW-CIO international officials,
meanwhile, wired the War Labor
Board asking immediate action to
avert general shutdown of war
industry in the Detroit area"
A telegram from Union Vice Presi-
dent Richard T. Frankensteen said
a change Of policy by the WLB re-
quiring management to submit all
disciplinary discharges to estab-
lished grievance machinery before
becoming effective would eliminate
80 per cent Of the work stoppages
that occur among our membership
despite our no-strike pledge"
In an appeal to union members,
Acting President George r. Adde's
said, unauthorized strikes are aid
ing those employers who are seek
ing to blacken our union In the pub
lie eye and thus pave the way for a
full-fledged attack on US In the
postwar period"
Army and Navy officers have been
present as Observers at three meet
ings at which back-to-work moves
have been spurned by the Dodge
strikers. A message from Under
secretary Of War Patterson read at
last nights meeting strongly urged"
them to go back to their jobs "un-
less you wish to accept the RESPONSE
bility for denying vitality needed
planes and trucks to our soldiers on
the fighting fronts"