The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-14

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 parties might arrive at Q formula for settling spreading wake dis- puteS.
 3. The United Electrical Work CTS (CTO) notified 124 local unions to go on strike as scheduled to- morrow in plants of General Elec- tric, Westinghouse and General Motors.
 4. Industry and union officials met with representatives of three Federal agencies in zero-hour ef- forts to avert 0 strike of 335, 900 packinghouse workers, slated for Wednesday.
 5. Delegates for 175,0O0 strik-
 ing auto workers backed down from an original 30 percent wage demand and offered to end the 55-day General Motors strike for @ 19 1-2-cent hourly pay boost.
 Abides by Strike Act
 In a swift-moving series of events, the National Federation of Telephone Workers last night issued & strike call to it's members, then agreed to abide by the 3O-day "cool- ing of" provisions of the Smith, Connally Act and asked the Asso- ciation of Communications Equip ment Workers, an affiliate, to call of it's strike and turn its dispute over to the parent union for settle ment.
 Telephone service over the coun- try was drastically curtailed Friday when fellow unionistS refused to cross picket lines formed by striking installation workers.
 Developments in the steel indus try were the most heartening on the labor front, although locals in at least four cities left their jobs despite the weeks grace granted by Steelworkers President Philip Mur- ray.
 May Appeal to Other Unions
 Murray agreed to the one-week pontponement after meeting at the White House with Benjamin Fair less, president of the U. s. Steel Corporation. They were scheduled to meet again Wednesday,
 Reports circulated that the Gov- ernment might appeal for similar postponements in the electrical and meat packing strikes, in the hope that a steel settlement might pro- vide formula for other wage dis putes.
 Some 11,0O0 steelworkers jumped the gun at the Lackawanna, N. Y. plant of Bethlehem Steel, 4,400 walked of their jobs in Buffalo, N. r., and Indianapolis. and more than 5000 struck today in five plants in the Worcester, Mass, area. In each case, union leaders cited other grievances" than the wage issue.
 30 Plants Get Orders
 Neil Brant, international repre- sentative of the CIO Electrical Workers Union, said strike orders were issued last night to members in approximately 30 plants across the nation.
 Brant said GEE and Westinghouse had rejected union proposals for postponing the walkout with an irn- mediate l5-cent hourly raise. The union is seeking an additional $2-a- day.
 Edgar L. Warren, U. s. Concilia- tion director, adjourned a day long Sunday conference with union and meat packing officials last night with the terse announcement that ''no definite progress" had been made.
 Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stabiliza- tion representatives participated in the meeting, indicating that a new government price relief plan had been offered the packers to enable them to boost wage proposals.
 Panels Report Approved
 CIO Auto Workers union dele- gates, meeting in Detroit. last night approved a presidential fact-finding boards report recommending a TIA percent wage increase even though General Motors already had reject ed it.