The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-19

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Strike Rank To Swell
The ranks of local brass strikers
will be swelled by 700 more work.
ers Monday, when a walkout be-
gins at the Oakville Company d.
vision of the Scovill Company.
Strike plans will be made at a
meeting of the Oakville unit of the
C.I.O.-Mine, Mill g. Smelter Work.
ers Union tomorrow night at IS
Bank street. No progress was made
at a company-union conference
yesterday afternoon.
1t was reported today that US.
Conciliator j. H. Cantillon is ar
ranging an early conference in an
attempt to settle the strike which
has been in progress since January
IA at the Waterbury Farrell Foun-
dry g. Machine Company. The
CI.O.-United Steelworkers, repre-
senting the employees, ask a settle
ment based on the 1872 cents an
hour increase granted in the steel
industry. Unofficial sources said
that the Farrel-union meeting may
be held Thursday.
Declaring that price limits set by
the OPA made impossible any offer
to raise wages, Chase and ABC
declined to make any counter-offer
to the unions 80 percent wage de-
mand during months of negotia-
tons. Scovill offered a 10 percent
increase, with another raise to bring
the figure to that arrived at in
brass" in Waterbury, but this pro-
poSal was withdrawn after the
union had rejected it and gone on
strike.
The two leading CLIO. spokesman,
Executive Board Member John
Mankowski and State CLIO. Secre-
tary John j. Driscoll, have an
nounced the unions willingness to
accept the 1879 cents an hour boost
granted by steel.
Cancellation Not Exhausted
U. S. Conciliator william Truax
plans to attempt settlements of the
Chase and Scovill strikes, but no
meetings have yet been arranged.
Conciliator Walter Maggiola is
awaited here in a peace effort in
the American Brass strike, which
also has hit plants in Torrington,
Ansonia and Buffalo. N. Y.
The ABC dispute is further cloud
cd by a bonus issue. the union
seeking payment of about $l,0O0,0OO
to about 1000 workers. Payment of
the bonus was ordered by the re-
gional WLB, but the company took
exception to the ruling.
The Oakville Co., yesterday Of
fered the union committee a wage
increase OF 10 per cent, with later
increase to equal that given by the
big 8" Mr.. DriScoll said that the
proposal was contingent OH union
agreement not to call a strike while
other issues were being negotiated.
This was just another attempt
to buy the union off with an in
adequate wage offer" Mr.. Driscoll
charged.
Determined TO Strike
H. Wesley Leavenworth, Oakville
Co., director of employe relations
asserted that the union was de-
termined TO strike"
Arrangements for maintenance OF
the plant during the strike will ot
made at management-un con-
ference Thursday. Certain neces-
sary employees will be allowed tC
enter the factory during the strike
Mr.. Driscoll labeled the contract
offered by the Oakville Co. "outrag-
eous". The company proposed, he
said, to eliminate a maintenance
of membership provision and to
break up" grievance procedure
Seniority rights would also be hit
he said, and arbitration OF disputs
would be eliminated.
A strike at the Oakville Co. will
halt production at. the last local
scovill unit still In operation. The
main and Waterville plants have
been strike-bound since Feb. 6. The