| Show Mediators Seek End to Strike I Darkening Kansas City Walkout Stops Buses Blacks Out Residences By Associated Press The defense me mediation board Wednesday called upon striking striking striking ing of the Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City Power and Light com corn company company pany to return to work and asked national officers of the to exert all their influence to get et back on their jobs The strike blacked out Kansas City Mo for four hours Tuesday night but most of the affected servIces services services ices were resumed by dawn with th the aid of the company's ing William H. H Davis mediation board chairman told a press conference conference conference con con- ference that he had sent a copy of his appeal to William Wil Wil- liam llam Green A F L president who is on his way to St. St Louis in connection connection connection con con- with the A F Ls L's annual convention Urge Work Continue The board recommended that the company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers perm permit t the issues in their dispute to be decided by the courts and the national labor relations board without without without with with- out cessation of operations of the utility Street cars and electric buses were halted hospitals darken darkened d da dand a arid and d the city's water supply threat threatened ened before-a before gradual resumption started and the strike appeared broken Master switches of the Kansas City Power and Light company were thrown at midnight to open the strike with dramatic suddenness suddenness suddenness sudden sudden- ness and soon afterward Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Forrest C. C Donnell ordered a mobilization of units of the states state's recently organized home guard After four hours of darkness workers started two turbines at the company's main plant These supplied power to hospitals the waterworks and residential sections Other units eventually started street lights and traction lines again Before these developments oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc Governor Donnell told re reporters reporters reporters re- re porters at Jefferson City that the state will insist on the strikers strikers ers era returning to work pending mediation or adjustment of differences differences differences dif dif- and well we'll offer the fa facilities facilities facilities fa- fa of the state to provide mediation Few Aware of Strike Although resumption of services services services ices occurred before most of the residents of Kansas City were aware of the strike many emergency situations were cre cre- Power was cut off briefly from the respirator keeping alive a year old infantile paralysis victim but an emergency power source was found A baby was born by caesarean operation under under under un un- un- un der candlelight Mayor John B. B Gage said the blackout was due to an outlaw strike and police pollee subsequently seized six men including Albert F. F Wright ht representative of the theA theA A F L International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Wright arrested at a power plant on or order order order or- or der of Police Pollee Chief Harold Anderson Anderson Ander Ander- son was released on bond after being held Incommunicado several several several sev sev- eral hours Anderson said that charges of sabotage or malicious mischief would be bo sought against the five others all of whom were striking striking striking ing of the electric com corn pany He added that if If there on Pare Page Two Column Ont One J y POWER STRIKE I DARKENS CITY p S tin from Pan Page One Oae were any deaths the charges chares 1 y fy should hould be murder Police Pollee Oust Strikers o Led Led by the mayor and police J. J chief a police squad ousted 25 5 iO strikers from the Northeast power station as police moved to prevent preS prevent pre pre- S vent a repetition of the stoppage T A. A E. E Bettis company vice presIdent president pres pres- ident said he had a sufficient T force to operate his plants If U no Interference were offered The strike grew out of a Jurisdictional Juris Juris- dispute between two twoS S unions v A picket In front of ot the Kansas 1 City Light and Power company's r ain aln plant said the walkout was called b by the International Brotherhood Brotherhood Broth- Broth of ot Electrical Workers That union sought the right to i Bargain for who were members member of the Independent I fib UnIon of Utility The power company has appealed horn from a decision of the regional labor abor board that the independent union was company r v The mediation board in Washing- Washing ruled Tuesday fay that the inter- inter union dispute came within the j Jurisdiction of the labor board J and the U. U S. S court of appeals The power blackout hit some of of Kansas KaMa City's suburbs but not der r sister Ister city Kansas Kama City Kan which h bal 1 a municipal electric system Y Police Pollee and nd light licht company gals dais alJ that announced announced that power would power would R D be De available a Wednesday for do domestic do do- use in homes in iD the city tr water plant and in hospitals but t ne for industrial purposes The national defense delerue mediation board called into session semon at WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- f. f ington to consider a labor dispute dispute dis dis- which has bas halted work at 30 captive coal mines awaited a reply from striking C CIO I O 0 United S Wine l Workers to the boards board's suggestion suggestion sug sug- that the mines be reopened re reopened re- re opened immediately tely The union estimated that of ot Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky captive collieries mines collieries owned by large steel companies were companies were involved in inthe the fhe strike which was called to tor r 1 back up a demand for a union shop bop heads Heads of the big steel companies i r cre ue called to appear at the mediation me me- Uon tion board conference along aloni with th tb C CIO I 0 representatives A strike at the Clairton Pa products by-products plant of Car Car- negie Illinois Steel corporation ended Tuesday night after operations opera opera- operations I in several other steel mills had been hampered I |
