| Show V 4 STRIKES HIT DEFENSE JOBS By Associated Press PressA A F L construction workers at four big defense plants costing a total of ol stayed away from work Saturday most of them in protest against cutting their overtime pay from double time to time and a half halI Plants involved were An small arms am amy plant near St. St Louis The contractors contractor's personnel director director director tor said more than 2000 bricklayers bricklayers brick brick- layers and laborers failed to re report report report re- re port despite union leaders' leaders in in- in A TNT factory at Weldon Springs Mo The contractor contractor con con- tractor reported only men out of a normal shift of ot were on the job V The Plum Brook V Ohio ordnance works where 1209 craftsmen took a holiday in protest protest pro pro- test against the new overtime rate and carpenters stayed away to enforce dem demands ds for fora a cent 25 increase in iri their thell h hourly wage Strike at Ordnance Plant The Ravenna Ohio ordnance plant where a survey indicated that electricians and painters reported for work while plasterers plumbers bricklayer cement finishers carpenters andiron andl and andi iron workers did not 1 A similar overtime situation was given as the cause of l soo A F L laborers remaining off tin the job at a munitions plant near Kansas City j At New York striking electrical workers agreed to return to the their jobs at the Ford Instrument company company com com- pany in Long Island City which holds in navy con con- tracts Harry Van Arsdale union unior business said 60 70 manager 1 or emp be back at their tasks on Monday On another defense front the theA theA A F Ls L's Gulf Coast Metal Trades Trade District council meeting at Tam pa Fla will consider ratification of a stabilizing agreement fo for labor in gulf coast shipyards It already has been approved by the the C CIO I 0 Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America J Instituted by Human Hillman The master plan one of four i ir in prospect for the nation was instituted instituted by Sidney Hillman asso elate date director of the office of production pro pron management in an effort to forestall work stoppages i in shipyards engaged in defense work I The first of the four plans fo for forthe the west coast already has been beer put into effect and others ar are ari being negotiated for the Great Lakes a ari and l Atlantic coast regions They cover over both A F L Land and C CIO I 0 unions f Under the gulf coast agreement a basic wage of an hour would be paid skilled mechanics 01 The Pacific coast agreement calls for for comparable workers Equitable increases would be given other gulf gull coast and strikes and lockouts would be prohibited 0 P M officials said they were unable to give present average wages in the gu gulf zone I With the master agreement im in for the gulf sector th there ther re was a possibility of trouble on 01 the east coast as the iv board of a C CIO I 0 shipbuilders shipbuilders' union expressed dissatisfaction with a new working contract proposed proposed pro- pro posed by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock company of Kearney Kearney Kear Kear- ney N. N J. J The union claims 1400 members among the em em- at the shipyard and said i a astrike strike vote might be necessary The company proposal included include a modified union shop a 12 per percent percent cent wage increase in curren current wage schedules which were no not disclosed vacation adjustments and reclassification of 1000 em em- Some union electrical workers workers work worl ers returned to jobs at the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn navy yard where a expansion program is under way but about others stayed o on strike throughout New York City in an effort to induce the Consolidated Consolidated Con CoD Edison company to employ employ em en ploy union members in in th the construction of a new power power- house w i |
