Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-21 | Page 2 | President Sees Ship Firm Head

PRESIDENT SEES SHIP FIRM HEAD f r By As Associated Press PressA A second conference with Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company officials was scheduled by President Roosevelt Thursday In Jn an effort to end the two weeks weeks' old strike at the company's Kearny Kearny Kear- Kear ny N. N J J. J plant The chief executive conferred Thursday morning with L L. H H. Korndorff president of the company company com com- pany and Myron C C. Taylor former former former for for- mer board chairman of the U. U S S. S Steel corporation parent firm firmand and these two later met Navy Secretary Knox Sidney Hillman Hinman O 0 P M associate director and William William Wil Wil- liam H. H Davis chairman of the defense mediation board Knox Knok Hillman and Davis were to go go to the White House with Korndorff and Taylor for lor the he e 4 p. p m m. conference There were Indications meanwhile mean while that a de development might be expected soon In the wide city transportation strike up tie-up in De De- troit Shortly before resumption o of conferences aimed at settlement settlement settle settle- ment of the union jurisdictional dispute there Thomas Thoma J. J Donahue Donahue Donahue Dona Dona- hue Michigan labor mediation board boam chairman declared There are signs of a break Mayor Edward J J. J Jeffries of Detroit called for further conferences conferences conferences con- con Thursday with leaders of the two transit unions in an effort to restore service on municipally municipally municipally mu mu- operated street car and bus lines used wed by y hundreds of thousands of defense workers and office Negotiations which ended shortly short short- ly after midnight apparently were unproductive and the situation teemed seemed deadlocked then Spokesmen for the Amalgamated ed Association of Street Railway and Motor Coach Operators A FL which called the strike spoke of the possibility of sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy strikes by union members in other city departments The A F L organization demands demands demands de de- mands the right to act as sole bargaining agent for of the department of street railways rail rall- w ways Ys A C CIO I 0 union the State County and Municipal Workers of America has contested the de l mand wand Mayor Jeffries has taken the position that the A F L is in effect demanding a closed shop and threatened to call upon the might of government to end the tie