MID-CONTINENT PETROLEUM RECOGNIZES UNION; 15 MONTH STRIKE TERMINATED
Mid-Continent Petroleum Recognizes Union; 15 Month Strike Terminated Agreement Is Reached; Strikers Return to Plant WEST TULSA, Okla.—Under an agreement reached last week, the first batch of 20...
...Jack Hays and CIO Regional Director David Fowler...
...The settlement was a compromise, with the company yielding on the chief union demand: recognition...
...County authorities had proved willing accessories of the company in an attempt to crush the strike through criminal action...
...Strikers were arrested by scores on charges of inciting to riot and other accusations...
...Union (CIO) ended when the firm reorganized the union and agreed to reinstate the strikers...
...Charging the CIO leaders with refusal to talk peace, Green said: "It is the duty of the honest rank and file to cal: a halt to the internecine strife...
...William Green at a banquet in honor of Thomas Murtha...
...newly elected president of the Central Trades & Labor Council...
...Fowler said that the winning of bargaining and seniority rights were "the greatest victories of organized labor in the oil industry...
...Six hundred men struck the company in December, 1938, when de-mauds' for union recognition, the checkoff and vacations with p y were summarily rejected...
...Union (CIO...
...In May 1939 a group of 93 unionists won simultaneous acquittal...
...Van Arsdale flatly denied that the union had ever forced contractors to rewire equipment when the material had arrived in a finished state...
...If union and company representatives fail to agree on their status, (lie question of rehiring will remain in the hands of the NLRB...
...Hits Indictments As Blow at Labor NEW YORK CITY—In another Department, of Justice action under the Sherman anti-trust act, indictments were handed down against Electrical Workers Union Local 3 (AFLi...
...R. B. Callaway, OWil" international representative, said that "there was no appreciable drop in the number of strikers from the date the strike began to the date of settlement...
...PROSECUTOR INDICTED TULSA, Okla...
...lasted three weeks...
...E. W. Marland, a former oil operator, sent troops to the refinery' on Christmas Eve of 1938, and the guardsmen remained until the following May...
...Leon C. Phillips (D...
...The 15-month walkout of the Oil Workers Intl...
...Although the OWIU has not waived its rights in the N"LRB proceedings, the company arranged for the dismissal of 84 indictments of strikers...
...the rank and file can make their own choice, they can make the change, they ran come back to the AFL in spite of their leadership...
...Green said...
...Money was spent freely to provide local police with teargas and other equipment...
...Dixie Gilmer, former Police Commissioner Floyd L. Rheam and several undisclosed persons were indicted last week by a federal grand jury for wire-tapping during the strike against the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp...
...County Atty...
...Strikers Return to Plant WEST TULSA, Okla.—Under an agreement reached last week, the first batch of 20 strikers resumed work March 26 at the Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., marking the end of a bitter 15-month strike by the Oil Workers Intl...
...Representing the AWIU were Intl...
...If the leaders say no...
...The alleged violations center around a long-standing agreement between the union and employers which gives Local 3 the right to assemble and wire certain classifications of equipment on the job...
...In addition to granting union recognition, the company agrees to confer six months later on an agreement covering wages, hours and conditions...
...This militancy was maintained in the face of an amazing strikebreaking program in which county and state officials cooperated fully...
...All nondischarged strikers are to be rehired on a seniority basis as soon as work becomes available...
...The indictments charged the maintenance of a monopoly over certain sections of the electrical fndastry in New York City...
...which has been conducting lengthy hearings on a complaint against Mid-Continent...
...Testimony before the NLRB charged that part of the work of state troops was wire-tapping and espionage...
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...He said, however, that some contractors had voluntarily permitted rewiring...
...Negotiations for the settlement, arranged through Gov...
...instead of the work being done at the factory...
...The grand jury investigation, which started early in February, was based on evidence at NLRB hearings that there had been rigged up a dictaphone and wire-tapping system through the co-operation of police and national guardsmen to listen in on conversations of union officials and members...
...John Coulter, Loral Pres...
...a group of its officers, five associations of electrical and plumbing contractors, and the Building Trades Employers Assn...
...Green Asks CIO Members Return BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The CIO rank and file was urged to return to the AFL in an address by AFL Pres...
...The 247 strikers who were fired will have their cases reviewed...
...The AFL is here to stay and civil war in organized labor can only make more difficult the task confronting the progressive forces seeking a more just social order in the framework of the American republic...
...Pres...
...Former Gov...
...The order of their return is bring worked out by the Ioa:.i strike chairman and the company personnel director...
...Business Manager Harry Van Ars-dale of Local 3 made a blanket denial of the charges insofar as they concern his union and charged that Thunnan Arnold, head of the anti-trust division of the justice department, was engaging in a "vicious attack" against labor unions...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
