| Show General Motors Yields Yields' To Pay Ruling WASHINGTON May 7 Pi- Pi I General Motors corporation yielded yield yield- PI-I PI ed completely Thursday to the war labor boards board's order for temporary extension of double time payments for Sunday work and acknowledged acknowledged edged at a jammed and tense public pub pub- public lic hearing that its criticism of board procedure was not intended to reflect upon the integrity of the board The hearing came to a sudden and dramatic conclusion as the white-haired white G M C president Charles E E. Wilson unexpectedly announced the company's position He said he had not fully understood understood under under- stood tood the intent of the boards board's order and acknowledged he was uncertain of the meaning of ex parte when he accused the b board boardo ard of o employing that kind of proceeding proceed proceed- ing g Chairman William H H. Davis who had explained that ex x parte could only mean sided one-sided said the fact is the American people know what it means and you dont Wayne L. L Morse a a. member of the board had accused the corporation corporation corporation corpo corpo- ration of engaging in a a. sit down strike stake and taking a contemptuous position in refusing to comply with the temporary order Morse Morie one of four members representing representing representing rep rep- resenting the public on the bo board rd delivered a sharp statement after C. C E. E Wilson General Motors president asserted the boards board's order order order or or- der was an improper use of authority authority authority au au- au- au and repeated his charge that the decision was reached at atan atan atan an ex parte pr proceedings Morse Chairman William H H. Davis also a public member and the labor members of the board demanded not only th that t General Motors comply but bat that it retract the charge of ex parte proceeding which Davis defined as a proceeding proceed proceed- ing at which one party to a controversy controversy controversy con con- is represented and not the other The agreement between the C CIO CIO IO 10 United Auto Workers and General Motors expired on April 28 The board ordered it extended until May 18 while mediation of a anew anew anew new contract proceeded The company company company com com- pany refused to continue the dou dou time ble-time provision I dou |
