Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-21 | Page 2 | Arbiters Seek to Save Talks

Arbiters ArbIs Seek To Save Talks DETROIT May 21 Govern iP P Govern Government ment men strove Saturday to save the Ford strike negotiations from collapse In a developing emergency federal federal fed fed- eral cral mediators worked to keep the company and the striking striling C CIO I 0 United Auto Workers at the pe peace ce table The strikes strike's negotiation session was scheduled Saturday A union ultimatum to walk out unless Ford agreed to st start lt 1949 contract negotiations on Monday ronday forced the new issue on the U A AV W V up speed strikes strike's day Ford all of whose production production production pro pro- workers are arc idle bluntly refused The union and ma management in inan inan inan an exchange of sharp words laid the blame on each other for any possible washout of the peace talks Vice President John S. S Bugas Bug of ofFord ofFord ofFord Ford and U A AV W V President Walter Valter Reuther chief negotiators blasted one another Bugas told Reuther in a letter Your intention seems throughout through through- out to have been to use ever every possible possible possible pos pos- sible dev device ce to keep this strike going This was in reply to a Reuther accusation that the company was I using a legitimate strike as a subterfuge to delay contract ne ne- ne- ne