The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-13
Seek Same PoyScoIes
 Given AFL
Federal OfficioIs Believe Thot NMU Con Get Increase

WaShlngtOn, Sept. Is - (UP)-A new wage dispute blasted hopes for maritime labor peace today when C.I.0 seamen struck for the higher pay scales evolved in the na- tionwide strike by A.F.L maritime workers.
 The powerful National Maritime Union (C.I.O0 called the new strike at ah most the same moment that A.F.L. seamen began voting to return to work under Govern ment formula granting them wage increases $5 to $10 a month more than won by C.I.O. unions last June.
 NM.U. President Joseph Curran charged that this new revision of the Governments wage policy was a deliberate creation of inequitieS which provide different rates of pay for men doing the same work on the same type of ships" 100000 Ordered Out
 Some of these inequities occurred after an agreement was reached inl Washington in which the union (NMW.) was assured by the War Shipping Administration and th@ operators that no further inequities would be created in the industry, Curran said in ordering his 100000 CIO. seamen out on strike.
 Government officials believed the C.IO. workers would be eligible for the same raises granted the A.F.IA seamen under the new pay formula. CurTan said the walkout had the full approval of OTO. President Phillip Murray. In addition it had the support of the one independent and five CI.O. unions making up the committee for maritime unions-
 Curran sent telegrams to the A.F.L. Unions asking them to sups port the strike of his union, espe~i cially by respecting picket lines.
 Shipping Still ParaIyzed
 If the AFL. unions respect the C.1.O. picket lines, shipping in the nations major SeaportS would re- main imrhobllized despite cancella~ tion of the A.F-L. strike.
 Some 5000 members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific on the West Coast were first to call off their walkout after the change in Cove ernment policy was announced by Stabilization Chief John P. Steel. man. They were scheduled to re- turn to work at noon, EDT.
 A.FL. strike leaders on the Ab. lantic Coast announced their wake out would continue until they re- ceived official notification of the Government plan
 Steelman's new wage regulations in effect overruled the Wage Stab- ilization Board, and there were some indications the board might disintegrate as result of the pres sure brought against it in the mari> time pay crisis.
 Board Refused Increase
 The dispute arose when the Sail> ors Union of the Pacific and the Seafarer's International Union, both A.F.L., won pay increases for sea- men of $22.50 a month from Pacific Coast employers and $27 from East Coast and Gulf companies and $1O more respectively than approved by the board in the pattern" CI.O. case.
 The board said there was nothing to prevent the shipowners from putt ting the higher raises into effect but that they would not ask the government for price relief to cover anything over the $17.50 date set in the CIO. case. The unions struck to protest the adverse decision.
 Steelman opened the way for granting them the higher rates less than 24 hours after the board re- fused to reverse its earlier decision.
 Under Steelman's order, the Maritime Commission may rein. purse these operators for the higher . costs resulting from the $27.50 a month increase. Steelman ruled that the government may pay wages and salaries comparable to the wages and salaries paid for the same or comparable services by other operators in the same indus try"