Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1937, Page 8

- PEACE IS DISTANT - INMOTOR STRIKE Boene Shifts to Capital and New York—Two Minor Disputes Settled. BULLETIN. PITTSBURGH, January 20 P).— The 98-day-old strike involving 6000 employes of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. ended today with the signing of an agreement in which the workers received an in- crease in pay of 8 cents an hour. The closed shop and check-off of union dues, which the Federation of Flat Glass Workers had de- manded, were not mentioned in the contract. Bt the Associated Press. Settlement of two strikes and pros- cts for an amicable agreement in & hird brightened the dark picture ©of induatrial strife in the Nation today, but there was no hopes for immediate solution of major labor disputes. A week-old strike at the Briggs Man- ' wfacturing Co., in Detroit ended after & clash between pickets and police yesterday. Some 1,800 workers, in- eluding .2 number who had been Jaid off, were to resume work at the au- tomotive body plant. An agreement achieved after three weeks of negotiations ended an 18- month-old strike at the A. J. Linde- mann & Hoverson Co., stove works in Milwaukee. The accord, involving €00 strikers, called for .maintenance of strikers’ seniority rights, recogni- tion of a shop committee, adjustment of piece-work rates and a bonus for 3937, Hope for Settlement. Striking employes of the Pittsburgh, Plate Glass Co. looked hopefully for settlement of a three-month dispute that has kept 6,000 flat glass workers idle. Glen W. McCabe, union presi- dent, promised an important an- nouncement today. Developments were watched by 7.000 striking em- | ploves of the Libbey-Owens-Ford | Glass Co. The widespread General Motors | Corp. strike front shifted to New York and Washington. William S. Knud- sen, General Motors executive, went | to New York, presumably for a con-| ference with Alfred P. Sloan, jr. Later @t the General Motors offices it was Bnnounced that Sloan and Knudsen | caught a 9:30 a.m. train for Washing- | Son. Homer Martin, president of the | United Automobile Workers, said he would confer with John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, at Washington. Gov. Prank Murphy of Michigan conferred yesterday with Federal officials and | planned further conferences this week. Striker Is Injured. | A clash between pickets and deputy | gheriffs at the Berkshire Knitting tion probably would leave for Wash- ington by train at 5:15 p.m. Knudsen presumably was to talk with Alfred P. Sloan jr., president of the company. He was accompanied by Donaldson Brown, chairman of the Finance Committee, and John Thomas Smith, chief of the corporation’s legal stafl. J Later at the General Motors offices it was announced that Sloan and Knudsen caught & 9:30 am. train for ‘Washington, D. C. Martin sald the purpose of his trip was to confer with John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, which is co-operating with the U. A. W. A. in its strike. John Brophy, a director of the C.I. went with him. Murphy Confers Here. Already in Washingon was Michi- gan's Governor, Frank Murphy, who has easayed—thus far futilely—the role of peacemaker in the auto-labor crisis, For nine hours Murphy conferred at the Department of Labor yesterday with Secretary Frances Perkins, Lewis and James F. Dewey, Federal concilia- tor assigned to the auto strike. At the conclusion Secretary Perkins indicated that they had formulated no plan to break the deadlock between the union and General Motors. ‘The presidential inauguration was not expected to prevent further dis- cussions of the situation from being held in the National Capital today. It was said there that a high execu- tive of General Motors might possibly talk with the Labor Secretary and Lewis. This possibility was strength- | - ened by the fact that four of General Motors’ top officers were within a few hours’ travel of Washington. Talks With Officials. Miss Perkins said that she and the three men who conferred with her yesterday talked by telephone with General Motors executives during the day. . Knudsen, Brown and Smith were to have been the corporation’s rep- resentatives in the conference agreed upon last week in Gov. Murphy's office —a ‘conference which failed to ma- terialize when General Motors and the union each accused the other of vio- lating their truce. Martin and Brophy were two of the three men the union had designated to represent it in the same unfulfilled negotiations. ‘The presence of these men, along mcs&ng]:nvifa{imw and Announcements ar new styles 9( ngraving ¢)r¢¢uud n true Brewood manner Mills at Reading, Pa., resulted in in- | gury to one striker and arrest of two others last night. Rioting broke out | mwhen non-strikers emerged from the | Plant. Striking lumberjacks upset two loads | ©of timber bound for Cloquet, Minn., | imills. They voted against a peace Plan proffered by independent jobbers and eperators. Gov. Elmer Benson mamed a committee to seek settlement #f the dispute, affecting 4,500. Some 40,000 men remained idle in the Pacific maritime strike. This dispute, involving 24,000 other mari- time workers on the Atlantic and Guif Coasts, continued. STRIKE FRONT SHIFTS. General Motors Officials Leave for New York Conference. DETROIT, January 20 (#).—Rival | feaders In the automotive industry's labor conflict traveled to the East to- day to confer v.ith associates on means of terminating the widespread strike. A few hours after William S. Knud- #en, executive vice president of Gen- eral Motors Corp., entrained for New Xork Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- Sca, said he would fiy to Washington. 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In revealing last night that the al day session at her office had product no tangible results, Miss Perkins said she would not call it ailure.” * “Other people who are tryin, things need a few more hours,” sl said. The statement was left unex- plained. Her conferees declined to comment upon their conversations. ‘The Meldrum avenue plant of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., closed yes- terday by a “trotting picket line” of 1,000 or more United Automobile ‘Workers who withstood a tear ‘gas attack by police, reopened without in- cident this morning under terms of a settlement reached late yesterday with the union. Richard Frankenstein, organization director of the U. A. W. A, had charged that 350 Briggs employes were laid off because of union merbership. Announcing the settlement, Dean Robinson, personnel director for the Briggs Co., said the union’s complaint ‘was based upon a “misunderstanding” which" arose when several employes were laid off because of material short- ages, He said that “this situation has now been corrected. POPE'S CONDITION STEADILY WORSE Pain and Loss of Sleep Un- dermine Strength, Add- ing to Crisis. By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, January 20.—A semi-official Vatican source said to- day it was no longer possible to “dis- guise” the fact Pope Plus XI was sinking. Continuous inroads, this source said, were being made on his stationary fundamental condition by attacks of pain and loss of sleep. ‘The Pontiff's condition . was re- ported to be worse this morning, after it was thought in the early hours hg had passed another crisis in his ill- nees. Dr. Aminta Milani, who left the Vatican :30 C., returned with the dawn and re- mained in the papal bedchamber through the early part of the day. 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