Evening star., 1945-07-01
|WLB Moves 70 Revoke
Union Contract Rights
|0f Goodyear Strikers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Government cracked -dowI
on striking Goodyear Tire ans
Rubber Co. workers in Akron, Ohio
yesterday as the Nations total O
idle workers dropped to $4,000, tn,
lowest figure in over q week.
Gov. Frank j. Lausche Of Ohit
directed the State Selectiye Serv.
Ice to Immediately induct all eligi.
bles of the 16,700 striking Goodyear
workers. simultaneously, the Wal
Labor Board in Washington, in az
unprecedented move, threatened tx
withdraw union contract rights un.
less work is resumed Immediately
Chairman George Taylor said tht
board would consider modification
of its orders regarding maintenance
of union membership and dues
checkoff, shift premiums and va
cations.
Detroit, with but TOO idle, hac
dropped almost completely out OF
the Nations strike picture, which
on June 19 showed some $4,000 idl,
workers in the Nation, but by las
Thursday had jumped to more thar
81 900.
Strike Situation Summarized.
Following was the week enc
strike situation by industries:
Rubber-The Goodyear walkout al
Akron caused closing of the com.
pany's Lincoln Nebr.) factory, EN-.
ploying 1000, for lack Of spare
parts in the production of self.
sealing aircraft gasoline tanks.
company spokesman said the EN-.
ployed were being given a weeks va.
cation without pay.
Wages, hours and overtime pay
were issues involved in the origina
Akron controversy, in which United
Rubber Workers Union (CIO) lead.
ers have disregarded previous ap.
peals from the Army, Navy anc
War Labor Board to resume manu-.
facture of rubber tires for combat
planes.
Glass Employees Strike.
Glass-About $4,000 employees oi
the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. anc
the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co
located in IL cities were ordered
back to work Monday by Their
union, the Federation of Glass, Ce.
rannic and Silica Sand Workers oi
America (CIO).
Plants Of the two companies are
in Toledo, Rossford, and Mount
Vernon, Ohio; Ford City and Ia.
rentum, Pa; Ottawa. III; Clarks-
burg and Charleston, w. Va;
Shreveport, La; Festus, Mo-, and
Henrietta, Okla.
However, spokesman for Local
IA at Fort City said glass workers
had voted against returning to
work. The plant employees 5000.
Machinists Cause Walkout.
A thousand employees of the An
chor Hooking Glass Co., Connells-
vile, Pa, also were idle because of
a strike by $50 AFL machinists in
a jurisdictional dispute with the
AFL Glass Bottle Blowers Union.
Auto parts: -Four auto parts
plants In New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania, totalling $500 employees,
were idle. A dispute between the
United Auto Workers (CIO) and
the Mack Manufacturing Co. closed
the concerns New Brunswick, NJ,
plant employing $500 Monday.
Sympathy walkouts Thursday
closed the International Plainfield
Motor Co. plant OF 1000 workers in
Plainfield, Nj; the Mack plant,
Plainfleld, with 1000, and the Mack
plant in Allentown, Pa. with 5000.
~. 1,000 to Resume Work.
About 1000 idle workers of the
Motor Products Corp, Detroit,
agreed to resume work Monday,
officers of UAW-CIO Local 203 said.
. And approximately $4,000 en-
ployes of the Packard Motor Car
Co., Detroit, also chose Monday to
return to work Another 10000 in
three Ford plants and $500 at the
Budd Wheel Co., both Detroit, re-
turned to their jobs yesterday.
Fifteen hundred Waukesha (Wis. }
Motor Co. employees belonging to
the AFL machinists were ordered
back to jobs they left Wednesday
and nearly 500 employees of the
Union City Qnd) Body Co, out
since May "a, received similar Or
ders.
Among miscellaneous disputes re-
manning unsolved were these:
Seven hundred members of the
AFL Carpenters Joint Council, out
at IL lumber yards of five companies
at Detroit; 1,100 idle at the r. r
Donnelley and Sons Co., Chicago
and $50 mechanics employed by the
Dixie Greyhound Bus Service, Mem
phis, Tenn.
Movement of about $4,000 troops
out of Chicago where they helped
end a truck drivers walkout began
yesterday. A battalion left with an
other 1000 to leave today.