Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-21
More Violence
In Sperry Strike
By the Associated Press


Gyroscope plant at Lake Sue.
cess, N. Y.
And there appeared little
progress toward immediate set
Element Of any Of the Nations
major strikes.
CIO electrical workers re-
sumed mass picketing at the
Sperry plant and two men were
reported injured. Several autos
were damaged as nonstrik.
ing workers tried to enter the
plant.
A proposal by Southern Gov
errors to end Immediately the
39-day Louisville & Nashville
Railroad strike was rejected by
incorporating unions. A union
official said the walkout would
continue until any arbitration
is completed.
The railroad had said it was
willing to submit to arbitration
''if the strike is Immediately
terminated" but that the issues
to be arbitrated should be rea-
sonably limited" The union
said 1t was willing to submit the
dispute over a health and vel.
fare plan to binding arbitration
Seaboard Curbs Service
Meanwhile. the Seaboard Rail-
road temporarily Cancelled serv-
ice on its Birmingham-Atl
line as picketing began at its
yards in Birmingham.
A Seaboard official said the
pickets ARE not Seaboard en-
ployes," but that union members
had declined to cross the picket
lines.
The Seaboard yards in Bir-
mingham interchange freight
with the strike-bound Louisville
g. Nashville.
Passenger service Cancelled
temporarily on the Birmingham
Atlanta leg only, included the
Cotton Blossom from Birming-
ham to Washington and the Sill
yer Comet, Birmingham-N New
York streamliner.
Pickets at the Seaboard yards
bore signs reading:
"Seaboard RR officers unfair
Strike breaking against L. g. N
employees"
P. L. Shackelford, strike di-
rector for L. & N. incorporating
union members, said he didn't
know with what organization the
pickets were connected.
Governors to Meet
A group of Southern Gov
ernors planned to meet in At
lanta Saturday with representa-
tives of the Southern Bell Tele-
phone Co. and the striking CIO
Communication Workers OF
America in an attempt to end
the 39-day telephone strike. The
union demands arbitration on
fringe points and higher wages
The company says that a no
strike clause is the bar to a new
contract.
Governors of six Southern
States and representatives Of six
others had met in Nashville
earlier this week to discuss the
L. g. N. and telephone walkouts.
Both strikes, marked by violence,
have cut deeply into the economy
over wide areas Of the South
and Southeast. Unemployment
mounted in many areas because
Of the rail strike which has
forced the shutdown of some
related industries.
No Roadway was reported in
efforts to settle the CLIO Textile
Workers Union strike against
"a mills in four New England
States. The strike started last
Saturday in a dispute over wages.
Another Plant Closed
A strike of CLIO steelworkers
closed the Curtiss Wright metals
processing plant at Buffalo, N.
Y, making idle about 1900 en-
ployes, Members of Local 1910,
made up of engineers and tech
nicians, walked off their jobs
yesterday and last night in a
strike termed unauthorized by
the locals president. The strike
was over employment of a nom
union industrial chemist.
Rioting also marked the
Sperry strike yesterday. One
man died of a heart attack and
a policeman's leg and a strikers
arm were broken in the outbreak.
About 100 automobiles were
damaged as some 800 massed
pickets attempted to stop non
striking employees from entering
the plant.