Strike Leader Signs Pact in Sick-Bed: Plants in Flint Evacuated: Martial Law in Indiana Detroit, Feb, 11.
The 4-day strike In the plants of the General Motors Corporation came a formal and to-day as representatives of the company and the United 'Automobile Workers signed an agrecment which had been reached ver: ally yesterday, and "sit-down" strik ers evacuated' the plants of the corporation at Flint, The basle agreement was contained in a letter addressed by the company to the Governor of Michigan, Mr Frank Murphy, which binds the corporation to recognize the NAW. a5 the sole bargaining agent for its own members and) which additionally promises that for a period of six months the G.M.C, will not bargain with any other representatives in the twenty plants closed by the strike without the approval of Mr. Murphy.
Furthermore, the union' will be: entitied to specie for its own members. in the other 49 plants of the com-any, which was a compromise of the original union demand for exclusive bargaining rights in all plants of the corporation, Both the company and the union agree to commence collective bar-faining on Wednesday on wages, hours and other Issues, The union agrees to evacuate alt plants of the company while the GMC, binds itself not to diseriminate against. strikers in employment, but the union agrees not to coerce non-members to Join Its ranks, In addition, the NAW, will not call any trikes. pending the' completion of Dargaining. The corporation in. return consents to drop its prosecution of the "sit-down" strikers at Flint and Cleveland.
Mr, W. S. Knudsen, executive vice. a statement Issued today emphasized that the settlement did not compromise the position of non-union employees, He announced that he expected the com. pany to resume operations Dlants within twelve days, returning 100,000 workers'to their jobs. The company plants, he estimated, will return to a capacity of 225,000 cars in. March, Mr. John L, Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organtza~ tion which directed the strike, signed the agreement In bed, He is ill with Influenza, He hailed the agreement 5 "another milestone in Labour's march."—United Press, strike cost both sides about $2,000,000 day, making a total loss of $84.000,- (000 for the entire period of idleness. Reuter.
Martiat Law fa Indiana, Anderson, Indiana, Feb 13. to-day, cancelling all public meetings and closing liquor stores and pool halls as they sought to prevent the recurrence or continuation: of outbreaks in the new industrial battle ere.
'One thousand National Guardsmen' patrolled the streets and barricaded the fourteen highways leading Into the elly. A seventy-ear caravan reported to be carrying 144 men and women from Flint, Michigan, were turned back by 200' state troopers at a highway near Alexandria, Ind, frustrating efforts of union workers from the Michigan city to invade Anderson. "The caravan was forced {o return to Flint under an escort of slate motorcycle police.
Nine persons, it was understood, were wounded and eleven others ar-vested during. an early skirmish today. Violence broke out here when Unioni members attempted to. organize labour in two local subsidiary plants of the General Motors Cor-oration~-United Press.
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