Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 4 | Auto Walkout Peace Looms

AUTO WALKOUT ' PEACEjOOMS DITROIT, Jan. 15 ()-SettTe-men ; of a strike whici has closed four of the five Eatnn Manufac turing company plaits in two states and threatened Interruption Interrup-tion of work on defense orders appeared imminent Wednesday. Alter a night of conferences with representatives of the com-pany com-pany and two rival labor unions, James F. Dewey, federal labor conciliator, said he was "hopeful" for a quick end to the dispute. -r Dewey, a labor trouble-shooter who aided in settlement of the 1937 automotive sit-down strikes, has insisted that the United Automobile Workers C I O) end the strike and that the company . reopin the plants pending a permanent per-manent truce. Acceptance "without reservation' reserva-tion' of. this demam was contained con-tained In a telegran sent to Dewey by R. J. Thon as, U AW. CI O president. Thpmas asserted the strike "can be eh'ded within a fev hours" If the rival U A W-A F L, which has been challenged as bargaining ageni for Saginaw plart employes, would consent to a na ional labor relations board election. State police stood guard at tha Saginaw plant, where seven persons per-sons were injured Monday in clashes between Saginaw police and UAW-CIO pickets. "Sympathy" strikes tept plants closed at Battle Creek, Detroit, Marshall, Mich., and Cleveland. -The U A W-C I O has ontracts at all four plants.