STRIKE SEQUELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7

STRIKE SEQUELS.

Higher Wages and Collective Bargaining. AMERICAN MOTOR INDUSTRY. DETROIT, February 14. There are growing indications that the settlement of the motor strike is likely to result in increased wages not only throughout the motor industry but in related trades. Packard Motors announce a rise of five cents an hour. Three Akron rubber companies have given increases ranging from 5 to 8 per cent.

The union leader, Mr. Lewis, says genuine collective bargaining has come in the automobile industry and the steel industry will be the next. He hopes the United States Steel Corporation will approach the problem of the recognition of unions in a rational and constructive war.

A message from Anderson, Indiana, states that industrial difficulties, the centre of which was the lamp plant of the General Motors Corporation, resulted in a clash in which ten people were injured and the declaration of martial law in the city and county. One thousand National Guardsmen are taking control of the area and blockading the roads to prevent a reported influx of members of the United Automobile Workers' Union's motor cavalcade to assist the lamp workers to organise the differences between the union and the anti-union forces responsible for the fighting. SHIPPING THREAT. Fear of Further Stoppage on Pacific Coast. TWO SHIPS DELAYED. SAX FRANCISCO, February 14. Another Pacific shipping tie-up is threatened as the result of the refusal of seamen to accept the continuous discharge books. The departures of two ships have been delayed for 24 hours. The three maritime unions have obtained a temporary injunction from Mr. Justice Roche to prevent the enforcement of the Copeland Act. The union leader, Lundcberg, alleges that the Government has "doublecrossed" the workers by failing to keep to its promise to withhold the enforcement of the Act pending action on the proposed changes now before Congress. Senator Copeland, in a statement at Washington, asserted that most of the seamen are in favour of the books, but were intimidated by Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen, "and "other acknowledged Communists." STRIKE IN HOTELS. NEW YORK TROUBLE PENDING. NEW YORK, February 14. Orders to 6trike on Monday and Tuesday have been issued to 4000 employees of six principal hotels in New York including the Waldorf Astoria, the Commodore and the Biltmore. The men are demanding increased wages. The hotel managements say they anticipated little difficulty as the unions are not sufficiently well organised.