Pay Rises in Motor Industry

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6

Pay Rises in Motor Industry

SEQUEL TO STRIKE MOVE United Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. DETROIT, Feb. 13. There are growing indications that the settlement of General Motors strike is likely to result in pay rises not only throughout the motor industry but also throughout related industries. Packard Motors have announced a rice of five cents an hour and three Akron rubber compahies gave increases ranging from five to eight per cent. FACTION CLASH AT LAMP WORKS Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 34. A message from Anderson, Indiana, says that industrial difficulties at the Guide lamp plant of General Motors re suited in a clash in which ten persons were injured, and a declaration of martial law in the city and county with a thousand National guardsmen taking control of the area- and blockading the roads to prevent the reported influx of members of the United Automobile Workers’ Union by motor cavalcade to assist the lamp workers to organise. Differences between union and antiunion forces were responsible for the fighting. STEEL INDUSTRY NEXT Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. DETROIT, Feb. 14. Lewis declared that genuine collective bargaining has come in the automobile industry and it will start in the steel industry next. “I hope the United States Steel Corporation will approach the problem of union recognition iu a rational and constructive way,” he said. STRIKE CALLS TO HOTEL WORKERS Received Sunday, 7 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Strike calls to four thousand employees of six principal hotels in New York, including Waldorf, Astoria, Commodore and Biltmore, on Monday and Tuesday, threaten a shut down. The principal demands are for increased wages. Hotel managements declare that they anticipate little difficulty, declaring that the unions are insufiiciently organised. SHIPPING TIE-UP THREATENED. Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. Another Pacific shipping tie-up is threatened as the result of a refusal by seamen to accept continuous discharge books. Two ships have announced a delay in departure of 24 hours.