GEN. MOTORS’ REFUSAL
ARBITRATION PROPOSAL WORKERS’ PAY CLAIMS NEW YORK. March 4. General Motors Corporation has rejected the proposal of the United Automobile Workers that the dispute over the claim for higher pay should be referred to on arbitrator named by President Truman. The corporation proposed that the strikers should hold a secret ballot on the issue of returning to work. The union leaders said that if the corporation accepted arbitration, they would recommend the men to return to work under the terms of the corporation’s latest proposals, pending a report by the arbitrator, whose decision would be binding on both parties. The corporation’s offer included an increase in wages of 18i cents hourly. The union has been insisting on the recommendations of President Truman’s fact-finding board, including an increase of 191 cents,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 5
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