MORE STRIKES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 5

MORE STRIKES

IN UNITED STATES THREAT AT BETHLEHEM WORKS. RIVAL UNIONS IN CONFLICT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) JOHNSTON (Pennsylvania), March 28. Mr. Morris Mallinger, an official of the Steel Workers’ Organising Committee, reported today that members of his union had started a walk-out at the Giant Cambria Works of the Bethlehem Steel Company here, in protest against the scheduled election by the Steel Workers’ Organising Committee’s rival, namely, the employees’ representation plan. Mr. Mallinger said men were leaving posts, in five sections, to prove to the company that? they would not tolerate any intimidation “and to prove that we are organised.” At the Richmond circuit, Judge Hoelscher summoned the Grand Jury to investigate disorders yesterday, when the International Harvester Company plant was opened. Policemen and pickets and four C. 1.0. strikers were severely injured.

PICKETING IN ILLINOIS

NO INTERVENTION BY POLICE. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) GARY (INDIANA), March 28. Several thousand members of the C. 1.0. Steel Workers’ Organising Committee picketed the mills of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation today, barring the gates to workers who could not show union cards. Sheriff John Knotts, of Lake County, proclaimed a state of emergency in the steel-making district yesterday, but deputies and policemen assigned to the plant did not attempt to interfere with the picketing by pickets, who marched to the plant from a mass meeting, passing through streets lined with thousands of spectators. Workers who could not show paid cards were thrust aside from the gates, but no other violence was reported. SETTLEMENT REPORTED STRIKERS REINSTATED. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) BETHLEHEM (Pennsylvania), March 28. The Committee of Industrial Organisation has announced that the fourday strike at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s plant has been settled. The terms included re-employment of strikers without loss of seniority of any discrimination.

GARAGES IDLE DEMANDS BY NEW YORK WORKERS. NEW YORK, March 28. A thousand garages in Manhattan and The Bronx remained strikebound today, as a result of the refusal of the. union rank and file to accept the negotiators' settlement of the claifn of 3,000 members of the Garage Washers' and Polishers’ Union. The American Federation of Labour voted down a proposal which would have given them vacations with pay and left all other issues to be settled by mediation. The dispute affects 8,500 workers. The terms of a tentative agreement had been accepted by the General Manager of the Metropolitan Garage Board of Trade and the SecretaryTreasurer of the Union. ACTION ORDERED DEFENCE MEDIATION BOARD. WASHINGTON, March 27. The chairman of the Defence Mediation Board, Mr Dykstra, has ordered immediate action on four disputes referred to the board by the Secretary of Labour, Miss Perkins. The board will begin work tomorrow. There will, be a separate panel on each dispute.