The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-18
WAGE PLAN
 REJECTED,
 U. 5. STEEL
CI0 Accepts Proposal But Corporation Refuses
 Other Labor Troubles
(BY THE ASSOCIATED pREss)

(BY THE ASSOCIATED PREss)
 The CIO accepted today President Truman's proposal for settling the threatened steel strike but the United States Steel Corporation re- jected 1t.
 i A nationwide steel strike of 800,, 900 workers is scheduled for 12:0l a. m. Monday
 Meanwhile. the governments ef- forts to settle the nationwide meat packing strike broke down during l Washington conferences and the meat fact-finding panel announced public hearings would be opened in Chicago Tuesday.
 Appeals Publicly
 After the U s. Steel Corporation announced it's rejection. President Truman appeared publicly that it reconsider It's answer.
 White House Press Secretary Char les G. Ross said the Presidents pro- rosal called for a wage increase of 8la cents hourly-within one cent of the Unions revised offer but three { and one-half cents above the indus try's offer.
 [ The President, Ross said. had no plans for seizing the industry and no further steps were under consid- eration for averting the walkout.
 The Presidents proposal would have made the suggested wage boost retroactive to January |. Steel States Side 1 Tn a. letter to- the President, Ben- jamin F. Faifless. President of U. s. Steel. said the proposal Is almost equivalent to granting the full un- ions revised demand of wage in- crease of 19 Ia cents an hour
 Tn our opinion he added. there | is no just basis from any point of view for wage increase to our steel workers of the large size you have proposed.
 He said the companys increased offer of IS cents. boosted from IF i-2 cents. represented "the limit" in the extent to which union demands could be met by his corporation.
 OH Strike In Chicago, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana announced 1t had accepted a U. s. conciliation service recommendation for an l8 per cent wage increase and would make 1t the basis for wage adjust ments at It's huge Whiting. Ind, refinery and to other employees. Similar settlements had been made by other companies previously.
 Meat Strike
 In the three day nationwide meat strike. which has cut reserves to very low levels in nearly every part of the country, Government repre- sentatives renewed conferences with 1 tn CIO and AFL strikers and repre- sentatiyes of the packers. Meanwhile, another CIO union threatened a possible city wide strike of 32.0o0 transit workers in New York who operate all of the city's municipally owned subways. buses, street cars and elevated trains.
 Michael J. Quill, President of the CIO Transport Workers union, said such a shutdown might come with in two weeks in protest against proposal by the Board of Transpor- tation to sell city-owned power plants to the Consolidated Edison Company.
 Another No Settlement | The strike of 100000 CIO Electri- cal workers. the second largest walk out, showed no indications of irn- mediate settlement. Albert J. Fitz- gerald. President of the CIO United Electrical Workers union. in Wash ington. offered to submit the wage dispute to limited arbitration. He specified that the range for any ar bitration award must be between the 25 cents an hour wage hike demand ed by the Union and 19 Ia cents.
 Westinghouse Electric Corp. one of the three struck firms. said it had not been notified by the union of desire to arbitrate the wage issue. The walkout. which started Tuesday. also involves General Electric and General Motors. Electrical Division.
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