Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-31
|Univis Workers Defy
Governor, Press Plans
For Rally on Monday
BY the Associated Press

/, DAYTON, Ohio. July 31.-CIO
unionists, defying Gov. Thomas
J. Herbert to call out National
Guardsmen, today went ahead
with plans to stage another mass
meeting outside the Univis Lens
Co. plant.
Gov. Herbert, making an on-the-
scene attempt to solve the violence
torn strike by CLIO electrical work.
ers, warned he would call out the
troops unless assured there would be
no demonstration. The plant nor
mally is closed week ends.
II came here to assure there would
be peace in the plant area" Gov
Herbert told union leaders. What
it takes 20 do that will be there. I
am giving you people an opportunity
to avoid meeting force. The respon-
sibility is yours
5000 to $1,000 Outside Plant.
Street fighting broke out yester-
day between pickets and nonstrikers
when the CLIO council called the first
mass meeting to protest what it de-
scribed as police brutality" More
than 100 police were on hand to
escort nonstrikers into the plant.
Of11cers broke up the melee with
tear gas. Estimates of the crowd
outside the plant ranged from 5000
to $4,000.
1t marked the fifth day in a row
that several hundred employees re-
turned to work under police protec-
ton. The company was struck 81
days ago in wage dispute.
The Montgomery CLIO Council,
representing 10000 unionists in this
area, last night asked all second
and third shift Notwithstanding
those belonging to the AFL and
railroad brotherhoods-to attend an
emergency mass meeting Monday
across the street from the
Univis plant.
Refusal to Negotiate Charged.
George Meyer, council president,
said the meeting was called lin pro-
test of the refusal of M. H. Stanley
(Univis president to negotiate with
the Univis workers Shop Commit
tee of Local 1853, UE-CIO. which
still is the legal bargaining agent
of the Univis lens workers"
Univis workers voted last Friday
in a National Labor Relations Board
against continuing the UE
as bargaining agent. Meyer said the
NLRB has not officially decertit1ed
the local.
Until the official certification of
liberalization is received. the coun-
Gil is 100 per cent behind u.s." Mr.
Meyer said. He refused to make
any prediction beyond that state
n.ent."
James Kraft, president OF the
6 ,500-member electrical workers
local at the Delco plant. and a
council member, went further. He
told reporters:
IF the strike Is settled by Mon
day, the meeting is off. If it is not
settled by Monday. we'll be out there
in force and every day thereafter.
They don't scare us by saying what
they'll do. They have to do it"
Since the plant reopened Monday,
% pickets and one nonstriker have
been arrested and several pickets
injured in clashes with police.
Governor Arranges Farley.
Gov. Herbert yesterday got COM
pany and union officials to agree to
attend a conference Monday after
noon, although both the Governor
and company officials warned they
would not attend unless Monday
morning was peaceful" Gov. Her
bert promised to preside at the
Arthur L. Garfield. an interna-
tional officer of the UE, and other
union leaders refused to give the
Governor a fat promise during their
meeting that demonstrations before
the plant would be stopped.
Gov. Herbert told the union rep
resentatives to "cut out that bunk
about spontaneous" when they pro-
tested they could not control SYM
pathizers.
Gov. Herbert, who only once be-
fore has personally attempted to
solve a labor dispute-at the North
Electric Co. plant in Gallon several
months ago, warned the union
leaders:
II told the boys at Gallon a few
months ago that gave them few
days to romp around. But the first
call received from the sheriff, the
troops would be there. II I don't
get my assurance of no demonstra-
ton Monday, I will act accordingly
If you think you can raise your
selves over Dayton and the State of
Ohio, you're barking up the wrong
tree"
The last time troops were called
out in labor dispute was a decade
ago at Middletown. Gov. Martin
L. Davey ordered out the Guard in
the P. Lorillard Co. strike there.