The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-26
Ray
May Relieve
Labor Unrest
tBy the Associated Press)

A bright ray broke through dark
clouds OF unrest along tho nations
labor-troubled front today.
A threat OF a strike OF hundreds
OF thousands Of workers in the
heavy industrial area OF Detroit
was lifted, at least temporarily.
In Chicago, the governments
promise to break strike OF truck
drivers after 1t seized l,7o0 lines
10 days ago appeared near fulfill
ment.
In Columbus, a CLIO official said
he expected "an early end" OF the
strike OF $4,000 glass workers in
10 plants in six states. Six Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Co., and four Lib
bey-owens-Ford plants are affected.
But there remained scores OF dis.
putes apparently no nearer settle.
ment. The latest count OF men and
women staying away from their
jobs over labor controversies is ap.
proximately $4,000. The total in
cluded more than $4,000 in Detroit.
Danger Averted
Immediate danger OF a wide
spread walkout In some 800 Detroit
factories was averted last night
by action OF CLIO union officials
who tabled proposal to call
strike for some $4,000 organized
maintenance men. About 1900 of
the 10000 idle auto workers in
Detroit were clio maintenance men.
Rival AFL-CIO unionists plan
ned today to resume efforts to set
tie the jurisdictional dispute which
has kept idle the auto workers. In
GLIDING $4,000 at the Packard Mo-
tor Co., and 1900 at Budd Wheel
A second conference OF the rival
unionists in Washington with the
Department OF Labor was project
ed in an attempt to settle the dis
pute over reconversion jobs in
the auto industry.
Harry Bennett, Ford Motor Com
pany official. termed strikes by
$500 Ford workers as vicious and
planned work stoppages that show
complete disregard OF the JAW
CLIFFORD contract. Other stop
pages in Detroit affected $50 at
Hudson Motor Co.: 975 at the Aero
nautical Products Corp; 500 at
the Stinson Aircraft plant, ana
700 In IL years Of Ave retail lum-
Der companies.
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officials Of the Independent Chi
cago Truck Drivers Union directed
5000 members to 20 back to their
jobs today, to join the estimated
9S per cent OF the 5000 members
of the ALL International Brother.
hood OF Transfers who had return
ed.
There were no pew developments
affecting the walkout OF 1900 en-
ployes OF Goodyear Tire and Rub.
Der Company in Akron, o. The
CLIO United Rubber Workers, now
in their tenth day on strike. for
the third time defed WLB direc-
tives to return to their Jobs.
The national WLB assumed juris-
diction in walkouts in two other
Ohio plants affecting 1000 CLIO.
JAW workers. These were stop
pages at the Universal Cool
er Corporation. At Marion
where 700 have been OUT since
June II in protest against the dis.
charge Of two employees and com.
pany refusal to adopt union-sug.
gested bonus system, and at Tole.
dos Acklin Stamping Co. where
300 quit work on June 7 after dis
charge Of two employees. Workers
at both plants defied regional WLB |
back.to-work orders.
Other labor disputes unsettled |
kept idle LOO AFL printing trades
men at r. R. Donnelley and Sons
Company in Chicago; 1000 en-
ployes OF the Anchor Hooking Glass
Company in Connellsville, Pa. and |
500 at the Houdaille-Hershey COM
pany in Decatur, III.