Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-06
Phone Farley
.Recesses;; Sill
In Deadlock
ConciIiotor Admits
Lack of Progress in
Morning Session

TELEPHONE COMPANY hopes to
maintain service during strike.
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Cancellation Chief Edgar L.
Warren admitted this afternoon
no progress was being made to-
ward preventing national tele-
phone strike scheduled for 6 am.
tomorrow.
His statement came at a recess
point in another Government eff
fort to reconcile the contractual diff
ferences of II affiliated unions Of
the National Federation of Tele-
phone Workers and subsidiary COM
panies of the American Telephone 81
Telegraph Co.
Earlier today, Joseph A. Beirne,
NFTW president, told The Star the
union would consider anything"
that might head off the Walkout
affecting 100000 workers.
Fourth Conference.
Mr.. Warren this morning attended
the fourth Government sponsored
conference between the A. T. g. T.
and the Federation of Long Lines
Telephone Workers. The third Of
this series broke up at am. today
after IA fruitless hours.
This Cancellation chief said he ex-
pected to talk this afternoon to
"other people, including C. F. Craig,
vice president of A. T. g. T. in charge
of personnel.
Although he declared following
the meeting that he could see no
"eleventh-hour action-other than
a satisfactory company offer-which
can prevent the strike" Mr.. Beirne
reiterated previous statement that
the union was willing to consider
arbitration under certain conditions.
Asks Clarification.
IF terms of arbitration were
spelled out so We could see just what
it was, we would be willing to con-
slider it, Mr.. Beirne said. He added
that the union would consider fact
finding on the same basis. No word
has come from the company on arbi-
tration or fact-finding views and
there has been no intimation either
has been proposed by conciliators.
Mr.. Beirne threw some light on
what settlement in the Long Lines
"A. T. & T. case might mean toward
averting the national shutdown.
/ This is the case Government con-
ciiiators are concentrating on with
! hope of penetrating the barrier be-
tween company and union in Is
other wage disputes.
| He said satisfactory settlement
might provide basis for settling
all disputes if the A. T. g. T. de-
fined it as pattern for an in
dustry-wide agreement But before
such settlement could avert thes
strike, all other locals bargaining
would have to pass on it as salts
factorily applicable to their cases,
Mr.. Beirne said.
Fears Time Too Short.
Asked if this could be accom-
pliShed before the am deadline
for tomorrow's walkout, Mr.. Beirne
said it would be difficult, but might
be done by telephone conference
with the bargaining locals.
There was the possibility that
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
would enter the discussions if nego-
tiations reached point where his
intercession would avert the strike.
The Secretary remained in his
office until midnight during yester-
days meeting and was kept inform
ed of progress by Assistant Secre-
tary John Gibson.
The negotiations being conducted
here between Long Lines and the
a. T. & T. were hung somewhere
between an 1872 cent union demand
and a lucent company offer. In
New York, a spokesman for A. T. 81
I. said the company was ready to
consider Cancellation suggestion
that the company improve its offer
to slightly under II cents.
AS the third 14-hour conference in
a week broke up this morning, Mr..
Warren indicated the Cancellation
Service was prepared to carry to-
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