| Show Meeting fansTo FalisTo fans Falis To End OU on Strike Dispute Union Officers Hail HiI Break Erk os as s Tw Two Refineries Accede By United Press Company and union representatives tives failed again Monday to settie settle settle set set- tle tie the oil strike hampering the nations nation's program as labor troubles kept more than American workers idle At Washington a management representative said the oil wage conference appeared headed for a breakdown unless the government comes up with an acceptable com corn promise Earlier union officers hailed an agreement reached with two independent companies in De Detroit Detroit De- De troit as the first break in the strike situation After the morning meeting of representatives of ot the International International Oil Workers' Workers union C CIO I 0 and company representatives however however however how how- ever both sides said no progress toward ending the oil strike had been made Blocks The rho conferees sought to reach an agreement on the unions union's wage demands as director John W. W Snyder called on both sides to adjust their differences to prevent a serious block to re Ie- re- re conversion I Union officials said the Aurora and Keystone oil companies both small Detroit independents had acceded acceded acceded ac ac- ac- ac ceded to the oil workers' workers demands for a hour an wage increase when the work week is reduced to I 40 hours For Detroit the settlement I meant that the city's gasoline shortage hortage might be eased soon The Detroit police department promised promised prom- prom sed to protect the deliveries of ot two I companies not affected by the strike Electrical Workers I Elsewhere General Motors Motors Motors Mo Mo- tors tors workers failed to cross picket line ines thrown around three Frigid Frigid- i afro tr r plants at Ing- Ing ng United Electrical l l dio tn find Ji Machine Workers CIO dO J The Toledo Peo Peoria a Western railroad Peoria XII Ill was returned to to- o private management by the federal federal- l. l government and promptly struck truck by the Brotherhood of Rail Hail Rail Railroad road Trainmen Locomotive Firemen Firemen Firemen Fire Fire- men and Engineers The road was the first business seized under the governments governments government's wartime oS a seizure e t I z u r e powers The new strikes brought to the number of workers idled died across the nation Motor car car manufacturers still beset by a a. strike spearheading the C I Os Oi wide nation-wide drive for 52 hours hours' wartime pay in exchange for a peacetime hour 40 week cona considered considered con con- a charge by R. R J. J Thomas international president of the United Automobile Workers CIO ClO that they themselves were ing Ing- Thomas addressing a s. meeting of U A AV V regional representatIves representatives Sunday Sunday-In in Chicago said The automotive industry and not the union is on strike The cutting of wages and provoking of grievances is aimed at getting the union to strike at this time liaise Balsa Justified Thomas who accused auto makers mak mak- ers erg of fomenting labor trouble because because because be be- cause they were not ready for re rc- rc e. e conversion said that if hI his MI unions union's demand for or a 30 wide industry wage increase was not Justified now then no Increase anywhere any time was justified In Washington meantime Secretary Secretary Sec See of ot Labor Lewis B. B lenbach said through a spokesman spokes spokes- man Sunday night that the strike of workers worker in three big refining refining re re- re- re fining areas was not settled He Headd add added d despite his warning that army and navy y g gasoline oline and fuel n needs eds made settlement mandatory by the week c end that he hoped an an agreement would be reached Monday l Highlighting the g. g the he oil dispute was withdrawal of ot mass pickets from the the Whiting Ind md plant of at Standard Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil Co of ot Indiana where Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- a a. blockade of C CI I 0 O strikers from other plants temporarily closed the plant one of the worlds world's largest Seriousness of at the U. U S labor situation critical because of re re- re- re conven conversion lon needs was reflected Ina in ina ina a statement from a manufacturers manufacturers' ers ers' spokesman who urged immediate immediate imme imme- diate convening of a a. national laSee laSee la- la See Page 3 3 Column 5 IS OIl OL SR KES Continued from Page One management bor-management conference before before before be be- fore the nations nation's whole economy Is collapsing because of strikes I Ira Mosher president of the National National Na Na- of ot Manufacturers said he would go to Washington Washing Thursday to ask the secretaries of labor and commerce to move up the Nov 5 date set Get for the con con- ference At Cleveland Chairman Ezra Van Horn of the bituminous coal operators' operators negotiating committee declined for lor a second 1 time to meet with the United Mine Workers of America until striking Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners return to pits In a n telegram to U M W Pres John L. L Lewis Van Horn said the strike must be called off for tor the good of the miners operators and our common country Van Horn said that if the men went to work efforts would be made to solve a no dispute over unionization of su supervisory supervisory su- su workers worker Lewis had demanded a conference conference conference confer confer- ence be held to end the contro contro- versy He warned that rejection tion ton of ot his request by the coal operators operators operators op op- op- op would be considered highly provocative to mine foremen foremen foremen fore fore- men and supervisors Adds to Fuel Losses Continuation of ot a strike of 60 A F P L workers in the Pacific northwest lumber industry added to fuel losses already underscored by petroleum producers who said mid the current cold weather made resumption resumption resumption re re- of oil output imperative A federal conciliation meeting recessed in Washington Sunday night without a whit of progress progress progress ress being made to settle th the wage dispute which has closed down 24 refineries O. 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A Knight president of ot the striking C CIO 1 10 0 oil workers' workers union said Meantime sent senta a telegram to August C CIO 10 director for Michigan demanding that Detroit strikers be forced to abandon their self appointed task of rationing gasoline supplies of which were growing shorter in the motor city said a labor department de- de department de de- survey urvey showed the undertaking undertaking undertaking un un- un- un had hadres res resulted in confusion confusion confusion sion and resentment that soon loon will endanger the health and safety of the he p people ople of at Detroit and that such uch rationing should be left to proper authorities Union TImon Charges u On the west coast union leaders leaders lead- lead ers rs charged operators with efforts efforts ef- ef forts to destroy lumber unions union and raise aise prices price as the Pacific northwest northwest northwest north north- west lumber strike went Into its eighth day The stoppage which has clo closed ed COO mills in five states followed A F L union demands for wage increase negotiations on an wide industry basis A work to vote appeared Monday to have ended a three- three week strike of ot white collar I of at the Westinghouse Electric incentive Corp over an I pay grievance They voted at Pittsburgh to resume their jobs Monday londay morning Resumption of ot work by the Westinghouse would send of the firms firm's production production production tion workers back to work The walkout had halted more than production per week and cost an e estimated 3 in wages wage TID Threaten eaten Phone Strike Disruption of ot telephone communications communications communications over the nation was threatened as the C CIO d 1 0 tried to organize organize organize or or- American Telephone and Telegraph Co workers C CIO 1 10 0 U Un n 1 i te tc d Electrical Workers' Workers spokesmen charged that the A. A Tc T. T c T T. T was behind an alleged strike threat from the National Federation Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of Telephone Workers Joseph Bierne president of ot N F T W was waa quoted as committing committing committing commit commit- ting his union to hold continuous meetings on company time this week a a. circumstance which telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone executives s B said a id i'd would amount to a strike The union represents of ot the Bell Telephone system Other labor developments Dismissal al of at 17 minor officials of the Kelsey Hayes Wheel Co C CIO I 0 Auto W Workers Workers' union in Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit was waa announced by Percy Llewellyn union-appointed union administrator admin admin- administrator of the firms firm's union af af- fairs A strike of ot ey- ey r Hayes Hayea workers Aug 23 cut automotive automotive automotive auto auto- motive supplies and caused layoff of Ford Motor Co workers worker Gov Thomas E. E Dewey of ot New NewYork NewYork York named George ler former New York state supreme supreme su su- lU- lU preme court justice to arbitrate a wage dispute between elevator operators and building owners which tied up Manhattan business six lx days before it ended Satur day |
