MOTOR STRIKE IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 13

MOTOR STRIKE IN U.S.

ONE UNION DEMAND DROPPED HOPE THAT CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD I POLICE DISPERSE MARCHERS WITH TEAR GAS (united PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 8, 11.50 p.m.) - DETROIT, January; 8. The conference between the General Motors Corporation and the union again failed to materialise; but after an all-day meeting between the board of strategy appointed by the union and the Governor pf Michigan, Mr Frank Murphy, the board agreed to drop the demand for the recognition of the union as the sole bargaining agency—the pre-re-quisite to the joint conference which indicated renewed hope that such a conference will be possible soon. , ~ x Meanwhile General announced that the total idle is 56,323 at 20 plants, and an additional 15,126 will be laid off from two plants on Friday. . Two hundred strikers at Flmt, after a night mass meeting, marched to the gaol to demand the release of two men arrested earlier for felonious assault after a brief battle between strikers and non-strikers at Fort Main, where the Chevrolet plant is situated. The marchers were dispersed by the police using tear gas. Idle workers who are not union members have organised the Flint alliance, composed of thousands of men and women, who demand that the strike should end so that they will be restored to their jobs. Police and sheriffs are guarding all roads leading to Flint to stop a delegation of strikers from Toledo, which is known to be on the way.