Show Strikes Cripple Auto Plants DETROIT May 15 INS INS INS-Ap- Ap Approximately proximately war workers were idle Saturday as two strikes crippled production in the D DeSoto Soto automobile plant and the Fruehauf Fruehauf Fruehauf Frue- Frue hauf Trailer company The strike at the DeSoto plant involving 2000 men hinged on the company's refusal to furnish cov coy coveralls coveralls and sandals to welders welder said I IThe The walkout started Friday at 1 30 p. p m. m when 1500 workers re refused refused refused re- re fused to work Five hundred more joined the walkout and the plant was forced to close Saturday At the trailer company U A WC W W- C CIO I 0 officials said the men declined declined de de- de- de dined to report for work Saturday Satur Satur- Saturday day morning pending cut clear management statements ts involving job releases and the proposed moving moving moving ing of the company's machine shop division to Cedar Rapids Iowa Earl Waters president of local 99 U UA A W W-C I 10 O 0 said the company plans to move its division within two months yet declines to grant job releases to affected em em- |