GENERAL MOTORS STRIKE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 329, 9 January 1937, Page 5

GENERAL MOTORS STRIKE

, CONFERENCE FAILED. ANOTHER POSSIBLE Union Not Recognised As Sole Bargaining Agency.

Press Association—Copyright Detroit, Jan. 8.

The conference between General Motors and the union failed to materialise again but after an alt-day meeting between the strategy board of the union and ttls , Michigan Governor, Mr. Frank Murphy, the board agreed to drop its demand for the recognition of the union as th e sole bargaining agency pre-requisite to a joint conference, which indicated renewal hope that such a conference will soon be possible. Meanwhile General Motors announce that the total idle is 56,323 at 20 plants and an additional 15,126 ■will be Paid, off from two plants on Friday. Two hundred strikers at Flint, following a night mass meeting, marched to the jail to demand the release of two men arrested earlier for alleged'felonious assault following a brief battle between strikers and non-strikers at the Fort Main Chevrolet plant. The marchers were dispersed by the police using tear gas. Idle workers who are not union members have organised a Flint alliance composed of thousands of men and women who demand that the strike should end so that their jobs will be restored. The police and sheriffs’‘deputies are guarding all roads leading to Flint to halt a delegatlon 'of strikers from Toledo known known to be eli route.