WORKERS RETURNING

Evening Star, Issue 23908, 11 June 1941, Page 8

WORKERS RETURNING

AMERICAN PLANE FACTORY STRIKE MILITARY PROTECTING PLANT LOS ANGELES, June 10. Nine hundred men reported for the night shift at the Inglewood plant of the North American Aviation Company, which normally consists of 6,000 men. There are now 3,500 troops at the plant, including motorised units, who are patrolling the areas in which returned workers live, affording them protection. Telegrams were sent to 8,000 strikers inviting them to return to work and guaranteeing them protection. It is reported that the Government is taking over the plant and setting up machinery for more extensive operations by Government men, who will take the place of the company’s executives. The Attorney-General, Mr R. H. Jackson, speaking in 'Washington, said that the Inglewood situation more nearly resembled insurrection than a strike. He believed that the Labour leaders did not want a settlement of the strikes, which were following Communist Party lines. Mr Stimson said that Colonel Bradshaw had reported that the Inglewood strike was completely broken and the employees are streaming , in. Conditions are satisfactory. The War Department announced that 2,600 troops are on duty at the plant.