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Show Looms qs yte Pact Expected to.Fol.ov " 'Bethlehem Blueprint' PITTSBURGH. Nor: II (UP) U. 8. Steel Corp. and tha . CIO United Steetworkera wera reported in agreement on major proviaiona of a etrike-settling pension plan Friday aa negotiator struggled to Iron out the remaining difference. , - CIO Preaident Philip Murray conferred with hi negotlat-big negotlat-big committee and then announced that he "more than likely wUl meet with U. S. Steal aoms -time Friday." Union sources said the company, who produces a third at ths nation's na-tion's steel, will aoeepl a ettatter settlement to that worked out with Bethlehem Steel last week. May Meet Tonight The union's 170-maa tntsrna-tlonal tntsrna-tlonal policy committee stood by to ratify aa agreement Murray said lt may meet Friday night. Meanwhile, Joe Csrmano and John Dougherty, Murray lieutenants, lieuten-ants, conferred with representatives representa-tives of Inland Steel Corp., which employes 15,900 worker In Chicago Chi-cago district plants. Company officials hurried hers to seek peace. According to union sources, ths V. S. Steel ssttlemsnt will provide pensions of 1100 a month for workers over 69 with 19 yeera of service and set up an Insurance program costing the eompany and the workers each lo aa hour per man. . . Cite Twa Snags Industry sources indicated that two points had held up settlement. settle-ment. They ware: 1. Protection of the rights af employes participating in ths company's com-pany's present contributory pension pen-sion plan. This plan is limited to workers earning over f3000 a year. 1. Inclusion in ths pension plan of workers who have retired within the last two years. Ths company reportedly doubts ths legal right of the union to bargain for persons who are not In the company's employment. em-ployment. Meanwhile, another company fell In line. FoUansbee Steel Co, with 1300 workers in plants at Follansbes, W. V and Toronto, Ohio, signed an agreement which a company spokesmsa said waa generally "along the line of what ths union wanted." Follow Bsthlebem All of the settlements were based oa the formula established by the first agreement with Bethlehem Beth-lehem Steel Corp, which cracked the industry's united front against the union's demand for fourth-Sea fourth-Sea Fare t. Column 1 U. S. Steel Treaty With CIO Forecast as Likely Today Coa tinned from rage One round Insurance and pension benefit. bene-fit. The now-famous "Bethlehem plan" provided for pensions financed fi-nanced entirely by the companies, with insurance programs paid jointly by the employers and the workers. Detail varied slightly on the percentage paid by the workers and the firms for the Insurance plans. The latest company to reach agreement with the union was the Colorado fuel and Iron Corp, an Independent producer employing 10.000 persons in five plants. Four other "little steel" firms had settled previously Republic Jones Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tuba and Great Lakes in addition to 40 smaller lndepend-ent lndepend-ent companies. Those settlement left United States Steel as the only major holdout , : ' Hampers Prednctinal Although steel once more was beginning to roll through the big mills, the steel workers' strike still was hurting production of fabricating fabri-cating plant. General Motors announced that It would atop making Its IBM Pontiacs on which production began only Thursday In two weeks because of the steel short-sge short-sge resulting from the strike. About 14,000 workers would be affected. The firm said It hoped to resume Pontiac production produc-tion three weeks later If steel was available then. - . . Meanwhile, the fight for control of the nation's electrical workers appeared headed for the national labor relations board. Moat locals of the United Electrical Workers, which was ousted recently from the CIO, appeared to be voting to shift to the new CIO Electrical Workers union, but many firms said that under the law they would have to continue bargaining with the ousted union until the NLBB or the courts render a decision In the matter. |