RISE IN PAY

Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 10

RISE IN PAY

MOTOR WORKS STRIKE SETTLEMENT OTHER FIRMS FOLLOW SUIT Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright DETROIT, February 13. There are growing indications that the settlement of General Motors strike will likely result in pay rises not only throughout the motor industry, but also in the related industries. Packard Motors announced a rise of five cents an hour. Three Akron rubber companies have given increases ranging from five to eight per cent. TROUBLE IN INDIANA CLASH AT GENERAL MOTORS PLANT. NEW YORK, February 14. A message from Anderson, Indiana, says that industrial difficulties centring round the guide lamp plant at General Motors resulted in a clash in which 10 persons were injured, and martial Jaw was declared in the city and county. A 1,000 National Guardsmen are taking control of the area, and blockading the roads to prevent the reported influx of members of the United Automobile Workers’ Unions by a motor cavalcade to assist the lamp workers to organise. The differences between the union and anti-union forces are repsousible for the fighting. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING DETROIT, February 14. Mr Lewis, a union leader, declares that genuine collective bargaining has come in the automobile industry, and that it will start'in the steel industry next. “ I hope the United States Steel Corporation will approach the problem of union recognition in a rational constructive way,” he said.