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The strike which is being threatened by Division 1070 of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employees of America is NOT over wages.

On January 4 of this year, the union made a demand for a 30% increase in all base wage rates. The Company offered an increase of 5c per hour retroactive to January I, and 7c per hour more effective on May |.(total 12¢c) on top of the. bonus provided for in the confract. The union rejected this offer on February 21 and asked that this wage issue be arbitrated, to which the Company has agreed. The union and the Company have each selected an arbitrator and the two thus selected are-now in the process of

; selecting the third arbitrator.. The wage issue will be arbitrated

by the three arbitrators thus selected.

The threatened strike is over the 40-hour week, which the union demanded and got through arbitration. =

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Up to now theCompany never was operated on a 40-hour week, being exempted therefrom in the Wage and Hour law. We operated on a longer work week until the union’ got its lemand for a 44-hour week, granted over our objection by the National War Labor Board on January 18, 1944. Next, the union demanded the 40-hour week and got it granted, over our objection, by a majority of a Board of Arbitration on October 20, 1945. That award was ap-. proved by the Stabilization Administrator on January 24, 1946. :

‘In granting the union's demand for the 40- hour week, the arbitration board award states the following: : «

“At the moment the shortage of manpower makes it necessary to work overtime even under the prevailing schedule but the end of the war doubtlessly will serve to alleviate this shortage. Most

every other industry has the same problem. With adequate man-

power, schedules can be devised which will eliminate or minimize the overtime payments required under the proposal.”

. "The record shows that the Union has’no abjection to the schedule reductions necessary to eliminate the payment of overtime if the Company chooses to do so. On the other hand, nothing in the proposal will require the Company. to “alter any schedules. . It is free to operate on the present basis so long as it chooses to do so."

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At the arbitration hearing the union’s witnesses testified that they wanted - the 40-hour week as a part of postwar planning in order to share the work

with returning service men who would be needing jobs.

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¢ : Thé contract between the Company and the union provides that this award shall be final and binding on both parties. The award also granted other union demands retroactive to May 1, 1945, the benefits of which are being aceepted by the union and the employees.

"After this award, the Company proceeded to secure additional employees, including many ex-service men, in order to operate on the 40-hour week thus forced on us. We recently gave notice that operators should select runs on a five-day, 40-hour week basis, effective March 3rd. We have augmented the operating force for that purpose. - 2

The contract does not guarantee a work week of any number of hours. It is, not a violation of the contract for the Company to go to the 40-hour week,

but it is in exact accordance therewith,

A strike is now threatened because the Company is going on the very 40hour week which the union demanded and got through arbitration.

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The.reason is plain.” The union now wants to sew up the work for fewer men who would work 48 hours a week and receive overtime rates for 8 of the 48 hours. This is diametrically contrary to the findings of the Arbitration Board and to the representations made by the Union to the Board. ;

And it would require the Company to discharge 102 ex-service men who were em-

ployed and trained as operators in order to goon the 40-hour week in accordance with ~ the arbitration award.

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Also, the existing contract between the Company and the ‘Union contains a no-strike provision. The threatened strike would be in direct violation of that contract provision. ne

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any hopes that its employees will live up to the arbitration award for a 40-hour week which their union got for them and to the no-strike provision of their contract, so that the people of Indianapolis will not suffer an interruption in the transportation service to which they have a right.

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‘reason for the sudden drastic slash of food rations in the British-ocou- | pied zone of Germany appeared | today to be Britain's failure to ob-| taln emergency supplies from the United States. | Whether that failure is due more, to the fast materializing world shortage in grains, or to the fact that Britain cannot muster suffic-

ient dollar exchange to finance im- |

4! The British authorities announced | that beginning March 4 rations for | normal consumers in the. British | zone must be cut approximately | one-third, to 1014 calories per day.| ~§|Nutrition experts considered this virtually a starvation -level. Moreover, the British indicated | unofficially that they would not] even be able to sustain that figure | for more than four weeks from | present stocks and that th- ra. | tions would have to be cut to between 600 and 700 calories unless | more supplies were received from | abroad. ;

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the British zone has been maintained for the last six months from imports. That ration alone must now be sliced in two. This-does not mean that Germans in the British zone are starving. But officials say that they will un« less they get -almost Immediate relief. = il The food situation in the American zone is difficult, but not so serious as in the British area, Deputy Military Governor Lt. Gen. Lu=« clus D. Clay said that the present dally minimum of 1550 calories would have to be reduced if the present flow of imports were inter-

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