Madera Tribune, Volume LXXVIII, Number 126, 29 October 1941 — WELDERS REJECTED GOVERNMENT ORDER Refuse to Return to Their Work in Seattle [ARTICLE]

WELDERS REJECTED GOVERNMENT ORDER Refuse to Return to Their Work in Seattle

SEATTLE, Oct. 29. Mayor Earl Millikin today sought an immediate conference with quarreling American Federation of I abor unions and preilicted that the jurisdictional strike of 2000 welders threatening $1,250,000,000 worth of defense shipbuilding would be settled within 48 hours. SEATTLE, Oct. 29. Welders whose jurisdictional strike threatens $1,250,000,000 worth of defense shipbuilding today rejected a government demand that they return to work. Joseph D. Keenan, assistant to Sidney Hillman, associate director of tlie office of production management, had telegraphed government “insistence” that the 3000 idle welders “immediately offer themselves for reemployment through their proper channels in order that national defense may be speeded up.” SAVE 5000 PENNIES OAKLAND When Verrne Smart was married on January 14, 1931, he and his wife, Gladys, began saving all their pennies against the day when there would be a third member of the family. When the baby came recently, they had