Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-14
Workers Expected
To Speed Approval
|0f GIN Settlement
BY the Asseeioied Press

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BY the Assseiaisd Press
DETROIT, Mar. 1.-THE auto
industry-eager to get into full pro-
duction It oday awaited General
Motors workers approval of q set
Element worked out yesterday on
the 18th day of the costly GIN
strike.
Both GIN and the CLIO United
Auto Workers predicted speedy ap-
proval of the proposed contract,
calling for an 1874 cent hourly wage
rate increase for 175,000 workers.
Harry w. Anderson, GIN vice pres
ident, said it might be possible to
recall some workers "some time next
week" and Walter P. Reuther, JAW
vice president and head of its GIN
division, said the workers could be
back on the Job within a week after
ratification of the settlement pro-
posal.
Delegates OF the JAWS 2O0-man
GIN council were en- route here for
a Friday meeting at which they are
expected to ratify the agreement
that ended the longest and costliest
work stoppage in the history of the
auto industry. Reliable sources said
the tieup-which began November
2l-cost the industry more than a
billion dollars.
Little Opposition Expected.
After the councils action. the con-
tract transporting additional
funds for adjustment OF wage rate
inequalities between GIN plants
are to be placed before the approx
imately 80 JAW locals involved.
The contract will be sent on for
local approval regardless of the
stand taken by the GIN council.
JAW sources indicated the locals
action would be completed by mid
week and competent observers fore
saw little opposition to the con-
tract.
The agreement, worked out as
compromise on the JAWS demands
for a 30 per cent wage increase for
GIN production workers, was de-
scribed by Mr.. Anderson as "a very
good contract"
Referring to the unions conten-
ton that wage inequalities to be
remedied would more than equal the
extra penny" which it had sought,
he said:
We'll, that's the unions inter-
probation. AS a matter OF fact, no
one knows what the adjustments
will amount to. They're to be dealt
with on local level, and until they
are, the amount cannot be deter
mined"
Thomas Echoes Sentiments.
His sentiments were echoed by
r. J. Thomas, JAW president, who
commented, Considering everything
1 think we have q pretty good
contract"
Agreement on the touchy wage
issue and other major contract
points WAS announced by James r.
Dewey, Federal mediator, at 2:45
pm. yesterday after the negotiators
had been closeted for "a hours in an
uninterrupted, unprecedented all
night session.
Announcement that the 16-week
strike was finally near an end was
greeted in widely divergent ways.
GIN workers, many of whom were
plodding their way along picket lines
when the strike settlement was an
nounced, greeted it with varying
degrees Of enthusiasm.
Some expressed complete satisfac-
ton with the agreement, while
others. indicated they would wait to
see what action GIN Rnd the JAW
took on issues vital only to certain
localities. GIN and the union agreed
to thrash out these problems on
local levels. A
Terms Of Contract.
The contract terms, although snot
released in full pending action by
the council and GIN workers, in
cluded, in part. according to the
JAW:
l. The 1872 cent n6.5 per cent?
increase. This raised the GIN ma
tional average to $1,000 and the
Detroit area figure to 1881.
2. Increased vacation pay, which
the JAW said would amount to
5000 900 annually.
3. Equal pay for women.
a. Higher overtime rates.
5. A retroactive clause giving all
workers an additional 1914 cents an
hour from November Z to Novem-
Der 81.
On two of the most controversial
points of the strike-seniority and
union security-both sides claimed
gains.
Maintenance of membership pro-
visions in the old contract were
eliminated and replaced by q clause
for checking on collection by the
company union dues and general
assessments. The checkoh provision
had not previously appeared in any
GIN contract with the union. On
this provision, the union said:
I'VE have won a new union Sc
curity provision which amounts to
a long step forward toward the
union shop. The contract, as pro-
posed now, provides for a checkoff
of dues and general assessments ir-
revocable for the life of the agree
ment."
GIN had objected vigorously to
renewing the maintenance of men,