| Show Owners Continue Peace Confabs Confab Film FUm Strike Pic Mckei Limies To Un Universal versol By Ey United Press Union and industry spokesmen met again Thursday in an effort to end the spreading coal strike as police guarded against further violence in Hollywood film studio picketing Government officials warned the strike in the soft coal fields unless settled by the week end would reduce steel operations to 25 of capacity The solid fuels administration said steel operations in n the east and industrial plants in Virginia North and South Carolina already had been seriously affected by the fuel Jet shortage Domestic users who have not received coal for a week because o of emergency y shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping controls will feel the pinch within three or four days S F FA A said ald Miners Idle Ille Developments along the explosive explosive explosive sive labor front 1 1 New shutdowns in the soft coal fields boosted to approximately approximate approximate- ly the number Idle in strikes and shutdowns throughout the country 2 Movie making remained at ata a standstill at the Warner Bra Bros Hollywood studio New York port operations were paralyzed and west coast lumber supplies dwIndled dwindled dwin dwIn- died in scattered strikes involving nearly workers 3 The governments government's stabilization stabilization tion lion policies appeared headed for fora a a. major test as the United Automobile Automobile Auto Auto- mobile Workers C CIO I 0 sought consideration of demands for a blanket 30 wage increase 4 Walkouts were expected momentarily among 1800 eastern Massachusetts streetcar and bus employee A F L teamsters in 15 Washington V D. 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C freight delivery concerns and C CI CIO I a 0 mechanics atAm of at Am American rican Airlines and its export sub subsidiary diary Back to Work Vork workers re returned returned returned re- re turned to toJ ther bs- bs jn Pennsyl Pennsyl- nl arid and New Jersey dye plants V Wednesday and a a. back to back work work movement gained momentum among striking em em- in the Pullman Pullman Standard Manufacturing Cos M Michigan chi gal City ity Ind Ind plant 6 A threat of a general walkout walkout walk walk- out of ot metal workers and boilermakers boiler boiler- makers malters in the Gulf Gull c coast ast area from Texas Texas' to Flonda Florida was averted temporarily after fter A Ai F L I. delegates at a man labor management labor gement conference conference conference confer confer- ence tabled a strike motion Mass picketing in the week 29 old movie strike spread Thursday y to Universal studios as 30 workers work work- ers rs from Lockheed Aircraft Corp and pickets from already besieged besieged besieged be be- Warner Brothers Jammed the gates Another 2500 remained at Warners Var War ners where a series of ot skirmishes in the past six days have slowed production to toa a standstill Most workers at Universal were believed to have got Inside IMIde before pickets arrived but latecomers were we're turned back The Lockheed workers members members mem mem- bers of lodge of ot the International International International Asen of Machinists arrived in a car 50 caravan Sheriff Sherif Eugene Biscailuz sc sent t 5 23 deputies augmented by about police poUce from Burbank Glendale and nd Los Angeles to duty at Warners Warness War War- ness ners as worl workers ers faced the enlarged picket lines across a a aNo aNo No IINo Mans Man's land street The mass mas picketing violated a acourt acourt acourt court order allowing 18 pickets before gat gates s and pickets tB were arrested Wednesday on that ground Meanwhile a group ot of veterans veterans vet vet- erans crane of ot World War II filed a protest against being forced for ed to fight now for the right to work in the country we fought to save save They said We Ve cannot understand how civilians who enjoy the rights right we fought to defend for tor all of ot us See rage Page 2 2 Column 5 S U m Sm 5 SR STRIKES KES Continued from P Page r On One can tell us now that we wo have no such Juch rights The group all aU now employed In film ilm studios sale said they felt the spirit of ot the service mens men's billot bill of ot rights Is Js being violated by the pIckets pIckets' un-American un efforts to prevent fellow Americans Americana from working and respecting the orders order of ot their own unions After the demonstration a at Warner a of ot tho the pickets left lett for Universal studios studio where another another another an an- other blockade was believed Impending Im- Im Im- Im pending Hopes of ot Immediate settlement of ot the New York port strike were dispelled Wednesday night when balloting by more mora than longshoremen longshoremen longshoremen long long- on whether to return to work ended in confusion A mass meeting of six Brooklyn locals locate of ot the A AF F L Longshoremen's Longshoremen's Longshoremen's Longshore Longshore- mens men's whose members have paralyzed shipping operations In Inthe inthe the he country's largest port broke up In disorder without a beIng being being be be- ing taken Ships Idle Harbor officials estimated that nearly vessels lay Idle at piers or were anchored in the lower harbor harbor harbor har har- bor as the strike continued Meanwhile lI the tho national war labor board took under advIsement advisement advisement advise advIse- ment the first test case cae in labors labor's almost general demand for or a a. 30 per cent wage increase In a dispute wi with h Bendix Aviation Aviation Avia Avla tion Corp before the board since August 1944 the tho United Automobile Automobile Auto Auto- mobile Workers C CIO 10 changed Its ts demand for a 8 living cost Increase in increase increase In- In crease allowable under W L B polIcies policies pol- pol cles In effect before Japans Japan's surrender sur sur- r render de to to a 30 per Fer cent general genera hike A AJust wage Tage age lUke hike f i r Just ft In case t the tho c. c W L B refused to 6 accept Jurisdiction lU U A WC WC W- W C CIO I 0 officials said the union would ask for a strike vote within 30 days in Bendix plants In Detroit Chicago Chicag B Brooklyn r roo o o k I 1 y n Norwood Mass Mars South Bend Ind Ini and anc Wayne and Owosso Mich Debate Policy The case brought the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's stabilization ag agencies head headon on with one of the biggest problems problems lems ems facing the country country wh whether country whether ther to o deal wi with h growing wage demands demands de- de mands on a 11 case by basis or orby orby by jy an over all formula to be worked out jointly by sion Director John W W. Snyder the theW W L B and the tho office of at price admInistration ad ad- ministration In other C CIO I 0 demands for tor pay boosts to compensate for tor loss of ot overtime pay C CIO I 0 Steel Workers representatives met in Pittsburgh h with officials of United States Steel and its subsidiaries to negotiate I the Unions Union's demand for tor a a. a flat lat 2 a 11 day Increase Tha Thu re- re suiting agreement was expected to o set the pattern for tor contracts with 31 81 other basic ate steel l producers A Washington conference of at soft ot coal operators and United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers officials recessed Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night after neither side was wu able to agree to a compromise proposal proposal pro- pro Bal offered by Secretary of Labor Labor La- La bor jor Lewis B B. B admitted after alter the he meeting that no progress had hadeen been een made but said that both parties artles were still sUll negotiating |
