Show Wags Wage Increase Demands Keynoting Strike Scene By As Associated Press Wages were the chief issue in Fridays Friday's major labor develop develop- ments There were ere thousands of workers work- work ers era rs on strike in support of demands demands demands de de- mands for h higher gher pay The C CIO I 0 United Steelworkers union wants a 8 boost in wages for its workers Some strikes of long duration ended wage issues agreed upon Meanwhile other thousands of workers in several industries won wage wag h hikes 1 es up to 1010 10 Some of the corporations acted voluntarily taking into consideration such items as cost of living ll trends In some cases unions took the pay hikes under consideration In others others others oth oth- ers they became effective auto auto- Notify MOO 1400 Firms The C CI I Steelworkers O union through President Philip Murray formally Cormany notified 1 HOO firms finns It wants higher pay PRY for its members The exact demands are to be worked out by the unions union's wage- wage policy committee at a n meeting in Pittsburgh on Oct 4 i 5 Aluminum Company of America which has approximately workers a affiliated f f i l 1 i a ate t e d with wit nine unions offered a general boost of 10 on present basic wage rates to hourly paid and other hikes for salaried workers The Bates Manufacturing Co which has cotton textile mills in and Saco Me Lewiston Augusta also announced a voluntary boost of 10 to A new ne contract granting 1886 hourly package hois hoists was up for ratification before some C CIO I 0 United Auto Workers employed b by Overland Willys-Overland Motors Inc at Toledo G 6 Pay ray Raise The Standard Oil Co Indiana a 6 pay raise for about supervisory and other unorganized unorganized unorganized un un- un- un organized salaried and wage- wage I earni earning g plo cs in 1 15 st states t s i The hc wage demands of union union workers either have been settled or orare are in negotiation tion oth Other r labor devel p e ts Shipbuilding Six Shipbuilding Six t h ho o u s a and n d dA dA A F L workers of the New York Shipbuilding Corp at Camden I N. N J. J Friday were were ordered to re repeat repeat re- re peat their yn strike which Friday closed the company's yards I An official of local 1 I A F L Industrial Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial Union of Marine ari and Shipbuilding Shipbuilding Shipbuilding Ship Ship- building Workers said the work stoppage was called in protest over what he described as mass layoffs and in an effort to speed up government government government gov gov- I building of an adequate merchant marine marme The shipyard last week ordered 1100 men furlou fur- fur lou hed Automotive Automotive Workers Workers r returned e eto turned to their jobs in n Borg V Warner Corp plants in Auburn Muncie tuncie Muncie and New NewCastle NewCastle NewCastle Castle Ind after a day ohe-day strike but plants in t three other cities remained closed The union involved ed i is the C CIO I 0 United Auto Workers Workers- A company spokesman said h ho he understood C more than Borg V Varner workers were er diss dissatisfied with with their new contracts Operations pc at ons remained c n normo rr In in plants in Chicago and Rockford o Ill mt were slowed down in Kala- Kala maZoo masoo Those still closed are arc in lh Detroit Cleveland and Memphis Soda Soda- Some Aph l Ash h Some ome 2000 members of the Unit United d Mine Workers Yorkers district district district dis dis- 50 voted on a n. proposed agreement for ending their old day-old strike against ag a big soda ash plant e N. N Y 1 The proposal calls cals for a a. pay pay- raj raise e o of lOc an hour r retroactive troa t tp tD 12 a of lIving bonus and an additional additional ad ad- an hour pay raise next June 1 Terms were agreed by the union and the Solvay process division division division divi divi- sion of Allied Chemical and Dye C Corp rp last i s. s Sunday Electrical Electrical- Electrical An J n agreement ag i 1 was wad re reached ched Frida Friday in jn the week old strike o of ab shout about lt 1600 Rand workers workers- at Painted Post N. N Y The agreement is to io bo boO submitted tor ratification nor by members members mem mem- bers of local C CIO I 0 International International International mem-I mem Union of Electrical Work Work- I I ers ems on Sunday Terms were not announced The union struck June 28 fot wage for wage hikes Demands later were modified to a a hourly raise of it retroactive tive to July 1 1919 10 I |