TREBLE FIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 81, 5 April 1941, Page 11

TREBLE FIGHT

FORD PLANT STRIKE

OTHER WORKS AFFECTED

APPEALS TO COURTS

(Received April 5, 2.30 p.m.)

DETROIT, April 4

The strike which has closed the Ford's Company Rouge River plant has developed into a threefold bailie, first, a legal struggle in which both sides are seeking injunctions to restrain each other, second, a bloody physical battle in which pickets and unionists have been gravely injured, and third, a battle of words waged by the Federal Conciliator, Mr. Dewey, who is endeavouring to persuade both sides to adopt a reasonable view and take a sensible course to enable the giant plant to resume. The stoppage is hindering many plants and forcing others to close.

The attorneys for the striking unionists, who belong to the Congress of Industrial Organisations, obtained subpoenas for Messrs. Henry and Edsel Ford this morning in a move to combat the Federal restraining order,obtained .. by the company. The court order forbade members of the United Automobile Workers and of the C.1.0. from interfering with Ford employees entering or leaving the riant.

Mr. Ernest Goodman, attorney ' for the union, who obtained the subpoenas, said: "We intend to show that there is an affiliation between the Ford Company #nd the Fascist Governments."

Mr. Bennet, who is Mr. Ford's personnel director, said that the Rouge factory would remain closed until the labour problem had been entirelysolved. Acting on reports that hundreds of negro workers who had been besieged inside the factory since Tuesday were running wild, Mr. Dewey sought an agreement with the union officials whereby some 5000 men could be reI moved peacefully through the picket 'lines. An Oakland (California) message states that a two weeks' strike by C.1.0. United Auto Workers in four I General • Motors plants ended today when 2200 employees resumed work.