Summit County Labor News

VICTORY FOR LOCAL 856 ENDS STRIKE AT G. A. C.

Nearly 3,000 persons raised their hands Monday night and ended the Goodyear Aircraft Corp. strike in its 64th day.

The membership of Local No. 856 of the United Automobile Workers-CIO, voted unanimously by a show of hands to accept a hard-won settlement.

The union's bargaining committee, which reached an agreement with the company about 5 A. M. Monday in Cleveland, recommended that the membership accept the settlement.

Each committeeman took his turn before the microphone in Goodrich Local No. 5 hall to recommend concurrence.

It was a turnaway crowd. Had the hall been larger it might have held some 4,000 Goodyear Aircraft workers who last Sept. 21 in the Rubber Bowl took a standing vote to strike.

President Ray Fowler told the membership that it could have either a secret ballot or a standing vote upon acceptance.

The vote for a show of hands, accepted in lieu of a standing vote because of the crowded conditions, was unanimous.

Some 5,000 have been on strike at Aircraft.

The agreement accepted by the membership includes a union shop, a 10-cent-an-hour raise, retroactive to Sept. 1, automatic progression of wages to within 5 cents of the top of
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Each wage classification, a two-year contract to expire Aug. 8, 1954, reopening of the contract for wages upon 10 days' notice, selection of an arbiter by Jan. 2, 1953, and establishment of a learner classification wherever found necessary.

The accepted contract was reached after the United States mediation and conciliation service assigned a panel of three to keep at it.