AIRCRAFT WORKERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1941, Page 5

AIRCRAFT WORKERS

REFUSAL TO RESUME WORK IN CALIFORNIA PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DEFIED. UNION OFFICIAL HOWLED DOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 9. In defiance of President Roosevelt's threat to place the army in control of the factory unless work is resumed, 12,000 strikers in the North American Aviation Company’s plant at Inglewood (California) decided not to return to work today (Monday). Mr Richard Frankensteen. national director of aircraft for the C. 1.0. United Automobile Workers, attempted to urge the men to return to work but was howled down. ; The Mayor of Los Angeles (Mr Fletcher Bowron) said he would use a thousand police if necessary to keep North American Company’s gates open . on Monday for those desiring to return to work. Mr Frankensteen declared that the strike is an attempt by the Communist. Party to sabotage the defence programme. STRIKE BROKEN FACTORY TAKEN OVER BY ARMY UNDER PRESIDENT'S ORDER. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 9. The Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) announced that the strike in the Inglewood plant of the North American Aviation Company had been broken. A message from Washington announced that President Roosevelt had ordered the Army to take over the plant. i TROOPS USED i — i FOLLOWING ON CLASH ' AT GATES. ( 1 WORKERS CHEER ARMY CONVOY 5 (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) ) LOS ANGELES, June 9. j A clash occurred at the gates of the £ Inglowood plant when two thousand t pickets prevented a thousand men from c returning to work. Disorder broken out when the gates were .opened. The / police used tear gas but the pickers quickly reformed and threw back the c bombs at the police. 1: Colonel Bradshaw, commanding an i Army force in the vicinity, advised the s use of troops, because the situation c was beyond the control of the Los c Angeles police. A convoy of fifty s trucks loaded with troops moved into n Inglewood and was greeted with cheers from the workers who had been pre- s vented by pickets from entering the I plant. j|