Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-29
Union Accepts Truce
Lockheed Strike Ends
Tuft-HurtIey
Injunction
Still Sought
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
The Government announced
today that the AFL-CIO Inter-
national Association of Machin-
lists has agreed to end its two
day strike at Lockheed Aircraft
Corp. Immediately.
The announcement was made
by Director William E. Simkin
of the Federal Mediation and
Cancellation Service.
Mr.. Simkin said the union
and the company had accepted
his recommendation that the
union end its strike and the
firm reinstate all the terms and
conditions Of expired labor con-
tracts. -.
Mr.. Simkin said these tenn
porary terms will continue
pending a report by the spe-
cial board of inquiry named
late yesterday by President
Kennedy to study issues in the
labor dispute and submit a
report to the White House this
week end.
Assurances Given
The union was understood to
have given the Government
assurance it would do every
thing possible to get the work.
ers back on the job on shifts
due to report this afternoon
at the two strike-bound Lock-
heed divisions in California.
These employ about $1,000
workers, or two-thirds of the
important defense producers
total work force.
The unions agreement to
return to work covers Lock-
heed's major installations al
Burbank and Sunnydale, Calf,
and the missile bases at VAN
denberg in California and Cape
Canaveral in Florida, all Of
which have been affected by
the walkout that began early
Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Simkin said that he
made the back to-work recon-
lamentations in hopes that the
effects Of the stoppages on
important missile and defense
production under way at Lock-
heed could be fninimized.
He had taken q direct hand
in the negotiations with Walter
A. Maggiolo, director of the
services mediation activity.
Plans Continue
The Government is expected q.
to go ahead with its plans to
obtain a court Injunction under
the Taft-Hartley laws emer!
gency provision, proably early
next week, to restrain any
further walkout for an 80-day
cooling off" period.
This would provide time f64
more negotiations on the causd
of a deadlock-the unions pro-
posal that the company agree
ito poll Of Lockheed employees
on whether they wanted q
union shop arrangement under
which employees would have to
be union members.
An earlier White House board
recommend that Lockheed and
other aeroSpace producers grant.
the union shop if workers gave,
approval by a two thirds mar,
gin. In three cases in which
such voting was held at other
firms the workers approved the.
idea by margins between so andl
so per cent, not enough, how.
ever, to require the union shop.
under the two thirds vote ar
rangement.
Report Due Monday
President Kennedy yesterday
appointed a three-man board
to look into the dispute and
report to him no later than
Monday.
The chairman of the Presi7
dents three-man board is Profl
Arthur M. Ross, director Of the
University of California Insti-
tute of Industrial Relations.
Prof. Ross announced shortly
after his appointment that the
board would meet in Los An
geleS tomorrow with Lockheed
and union representatives.
Others on the board are
Frederick Bullen of Pueblo,
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