Show STEEL ACCEPTS ACCEPTS' PAY ORDER L. L CHICAGO Sept 3 UP Unit UP Unit United i ed States Steel corporation subsidiaries subsidiaries sub sub- Thursday placed Into effect effect effect ef ef- under protest a war labor board directive providing retroactive retroactive retroactive retro retro- active 5 S cents an hour wage In Increases in in- increases creases maintenance of union membership and the check The W L B directive affecting an estimated workers was issued August 25 and was accepted accept accept- ed by the Illinois Carnegie Steel corporation American Steel Tube Columbia National Tube and the T Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Railroad Rail Rall- road company all big steel subr sub sub- r T Tho rho o directive extended the union and wage benefits al already already al- al r ready ady imposed upon little steel steel 6 Blasts Decision J. J L. L L Perry president of Car- Car negie Illinois said in his letter of acc acceptance that this company b bows ws to your decision and accepts that which it considers unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary undesirable and subversive of the workers' workers Individual free free- dom The four other subsidiaries Perry announced had forwarded similar letters to the tM W L B. B Compliance with the union security security security se se- se- se and retroactive wage directives tives s is not to be construed as an acceptance by this company of f the fairness or propriety of the directives or of ot the underlying p philosophy which led to their formulation for- for or the reasons advanced to support them Perry said Premise Stated The acceptance is predicated on one premise only namely that the country is at war and that your board created by the president president resl- resl dent of the United States of America Amer Amer- ica iea has ordered this company todo to todo todo do certain things embodied in your directives The W L B ordered the wage increaSe increase in in- increase crease retroactive to February 15 Workers will receive an estimated in back wages The Th steel companies did not protest protest protest pro pro- test the wage increase itself but butin butin in the course of the hearings conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted by the W WL L B the employers employ employ- ers argued that It should not be retroactive They maintained that such action would violate contracts covering wages until July |