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Last week, after the election, Univis reopened, gave an 11?-an-hour raise to returning workers. The union retaliated by drawing "observers"' from other C.I.O. unions to strengthen its picket lines.
Fed up with the local's brass-knuckle tactics, 30% of the 658 Univis production workers asked for and got a National Labor Relations Board election. Result: the U.E. was rejected as bargaining agent. Even then, the local refused to call off the strike.
The trouble began when power-hungry Local 768 of the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers asked Univis for an immediate 10?-an-hour raise, with an added, unspecified amount to follow. The firm had requested a 60-day extension of negotiations, but the workers refused and walked...
At first, picketing was peaceful. Then, after pickets broke up a back-to-work movement, Univis got a court order re stricting picketing. Later, nine men & women were fined for violence, two of them given jail sentences. The U.E. local and international were fined $250 apiece.
As the violence continued, Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert rushed to Dayton and persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order...