Show Ford foremen Stage Plant Goes On DETROIT May ay 21 UP Fore UP-Fore- Fore Foremen men struck in Detroit area pla plants tj of the Ford Motor Co Wednesday but the company said sald It it woUld continue to oJ operate crate as long as materials ma ma- tennis and personnel are available A Ford Ford- spokesman conceded that the walkout already had hat slowed production in the steel mill of the giant River R Rouge uge plant The strikers members of ot the thc Foremen's Asan of America in independent independent independent in- in dependent walked off the job jab at 10 am a.m. in the first union author stoppage at Ford since inee the end of ot the war Involves In The strike involved some soma of ot the firms Detroit area foremen More than ti prod prad production lion tion w most wOrkers most of them members members mem mem- bers bera bersot of ot the C CIO I 10 0 United Auto Aut Workers Workers were were expected to rem remain remain re re- re- re m main ln on the the job Robert H. H Keys FA FAA A president dent ent said the strike probably would force closing of o the th plants affected in three Unee or four days at the most A A comp company ny spokesman spokes spokes- man a said laid that th ts probably as 3 good a guess gucas as anyone can make In a later statement how however ver the e company company- said it had bad instructed instruct Instruct- ed plant ed plant managers managers' to continue jo continue to p ta lJ J i I IF personnel are a available F Fill iii it in Gap Gap We believe that the majority of tf our supervision and o our r em en- are strongly opposed to an unnecessary unnecessary- stoppage it said In that conviction we have asked those supervisory remaining re re- re- re on the Job to stepin and fill the g gaps left by y striking fore fore- men melt 4 1 Picket lines lines' were set up In a driving rain Production workers members of the C CIO ClO I 0 United Auto Workers remained o on the job Tommy Thompson president of ot UA U-AW U W Ford local said th the themen men probably probably ably would pass p s through FAA F A A definitely definitely picket lines but that they will do no supervisory work Keys said laid the strike was called after breakdown of negotiations seeking to avert the stoppage He said ho he met with Henry Ford H U president and other top Ford officials Tuesday but that they refused d to move from their insistence that a contract terminated terminated term term- by both parties five weeks ago be reinstated instated without change |