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duire price increase" the boards
report was "a complete Endorsement
Of the unions position and repre-.
sents an historic step in the fight
to establish full production, full
employment, full consumption econ.
omy."
In making its wage findings, the
board assumed that GIN auto pro.
duction in the next year will q,
least equal the corporations peak
car output of 1941. Mr.. Reuthel
believes that output will far exceed
that figure, and said he would sug.
gest to GIN that additional wage ad.
justments be made If production
reaches his expectations.
The panel, in addition to recon-.
mending a 19a-cent hourly in.
crease, called for immediate end o.
the strike, reinstatement of striker,
without discrimination, and restora
ton of the l945 contract. The boarc
commented that the company had g
right to cancel that contract on De.
cember 10, as it did.
The board consisted of Chairman
Garrison, Milton S. Eisenhower ane
Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy OF
the North Carolina Supreme Court
Prices of General Motors cars viii
be II per cent higher than 1874
models, but as productivity and out.
put develops, an increase of as much
as SO per cent over 1941 production
can be expected in 1947, the boaro
said.
No Bonus Increase.
It made no provision for higher
pay for wage earners out of that
melon, however.
Cancellation Chief Warren pro.
posed to the Swift and Armour com.
panies in Chicago that the Govern.
ment pay so cents hundred pounds
more for all meat it buys, in his at.
tempt to get the packers to make q
satisfactory wage offer to its work.
,rs. The CIO union originally de-
manded a Is cents per hour pay
raise, and later said it would settle
for an immediate 171a cent-an-hou,
hike. The best company offer was
tor III cents additional.
Despite the apparent breakdown
In packing house negotiations, off.
cials were confident they could keer
the industry operating. Plans fol
Federal seizure of the industry are
all set up, and it is believed, the
workers would stay on the job II
they were working for the Gov.
ernment.
Swift and Armour said the Gov.
ernnlent price relief proposal woulc
enable them to pay only one and a
half cents an hour more in wages
In the steel dispute three mar
delegations headed by Philip Muir.
ray, president of the union ane
of the CIO, and Benjamin Fairless
president Of the Nations biggest
steel producer, conferred for three
hours yesterday but adjourned with.
out giving any indication what
progress-if any-had been made ir
settling the wage dispute.
Yesterdays meeting was the first
since collective bargaining talks
vert broken off last October wher
the company refused to make any
concessions on the union demands
for a ,s2-a-day pay raise and was
held amid speculation that a basis
for a settlement had been reached
The corporation had been ex.
pected to make wage increase
offer to the union at the start oi
the meeting and Mr.. Murray pre-.
viously had declared that if the
offer were satisfactory he woulc
notify union officials to hold tn.
strike "in allegiance" But the meet
ing adjourned without any sign tina,
8 wage offer had been extended.
The recommendation of Presiden,
Truman's fact-finding committee
may have some bearing on the stee
negotiations. 1t was indicated II
CIO circles last night that nothin,
less than an, increase similar to thu
GIN boost would be acceptable II
the steelworkers union.