Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-01-27
Surprise Move Hits City Af-
ter Labor-Management
Peaceful Relations


cal 497 have notified Standard
Products Company employees that
a strike vote will be taken We'd
nesday, February /, from 6 a. m.
until S p. m. in the Locals new
headquarters at Maple and Sec
ond Streets.
Displeased with some provi-
sions of the Master Agreement
and the Port Clinton Local Agree
ment, union members at a meet
ing in the school auditorium SUM-
day afternoon failed to ratify the
new contract and voted for the
strike vote.
Negotiation committees from
the union and management had
worked over five months to COM
plete the contracts, which are to
govern the plants operating con-
ditions until August 81, 1851.
Failure to ratify the contract
and the strike vote call came as
a surprise to this city, which had
enjoyed peaceful abor-manage-
ment relations in recent years.
Notice of the strike vote call
was posted Monday on the unions
bulletin board at the plant. 1t is
understood that the union has
not as yet, notified the Standard
Products Company of the failure
to ratify the contract or of the
strike vote.
There has been no announce
ment from the union as to why
ratification of the new contract
was not forthcoming.
Clifford Franck is president OF
the Standard Products Local 497,
and Tom Kinney, who becomes
Port Clinton's acting postmaster
next Wednesday, is the unions In
ternational Representative.
Lay-off Looms
A special edition of Between
Ourselves, the publication for
employees of the Standard Pro-
ducts Company, Wednesday an
nounced the far-reaching strike
at Chrysler Motors. The letter
stated the local management will
make every effort to keep as
many employees working as pos
sible, but limited lay-off is i'm
minent due to holdup of Chrysler
orders.
Text of the recent Between
Ourselves" is as follows:
"Chrysler Motors, one of the
large customers of our Division,
was struck today-just at a time
when we were beginning to recover
from the effects of the recent steel
strike. In fact, we had been able
to recall practically all of our
laid off employees and had anti
cipated a good volume of business
during the first half of this year.
"We have already received COM
plete holdups of orders from
Chrysler Kercheval, Dodge, Ply
mouth, and DeSoto Plants, as well
as frsm Meldrum, Mack, Eight
Mile and Indiana Plants of the
Briggs Corporation. Similar
holdups from Motor Products and
other suppliers of the Chrysler
Corporation to whom we furnish
our products are expected.
1--WE are working with the
Chrysler Corporation TO determine
how much fabricating they will
authorize, but as we told you in
our recent message on layoffs, we
are unable to continue making
the products we furnish Chrysler
Corporation and their suppliers,
because of the inventory invest
ment involved, and because even
tually layoffs would become neces-
sary if the Chrysler strike is a
prolonged one.
"We are likewise contracting our
other customers not affected by
the Chrysler strike to see what
additional business we can get
from them in the meantime to
help fill the gap caused by the
holdups from Chrysler and sup
pliers of Chrysler.
$50 just what the Chrysler
strike will mean to us from the
standpoint of layoffs, we cannot
fully determine at the moment,
but we wish to assure you that we
will make every effort to keep
as many employees working as
possible, as we realize this stu
alton was not caused by any of
our people.
"We feel the situation is of suf-
ficient Importance to warrant
bringing you this first-hand re-
port, in line with our policy of
keeping You promptly informed
of happenings in our Divisions