Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-06 | Page 2 | Union Requests Chrysler Poll

UNION nbllucS IS CHRYSLER POLL DETROrT, An. The Unit- ed Automobile Workers, engaged in a dispute with the Chrysler corporation corpo-ration which has kept the Plymouth plant closed since Wednesday, disclosed dis-closed today it had asked the national na-tional labor relations board to conduct con-duct an election in all Chrysler plants. Richard T. Frankensteen. organisational organ-isational director of the U. A. W. A., said the petition was filed "with Frank Bowen, regional director of the NLRB, on Tuesday. That was U hours before an outbreak out-break of violence between members of the U. A. W. A. and the Independent Inde-pendent Association of Chrysler Employes resulted in the closing of , the Plymouth plant i An estimated 21.000 automobile i workers in the Plymouth plant and factories supplying Plymouth bodies i were idle while charges and coun-i coun-i ter-charges flew. Negotiations were resumed this morning.