Ohio Brass strike over

O-B BARBERTON

STRIKE ENDED

Employes Start Back To Jobs

After Plant Accepts U. S.

Settlement Program.

BULLETIN

Richard Neibur, field organizer for the UERMW said today he had been informed by the National Labor Relations board members that a representative of the board will meet with representatives of the union and the Ohio Brass company Friday at 10 a. m. in the common pleas court room here, regarding the union's request for certification as sole bargaining agent for the Mansfield plant.

A three-and-a-half-month-old strike at the Barberton insulator plant of the Ohio Brass company ended today when members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union (CIO) returned to work.

Company spokesmen in Mansfield said strikers were going to work as fast as the company could take them back, but that it would take "a little time" to get production rolling again.

**The return-to-work decision was made, union organizers said, "after the company accepted the National Defense Mediation Board's proposal for settlement."**

Edwin Fout, president of the Akron CIO local, said the union accepted the mediation board proposal a month ago but that the company did not agree to it until yesterday. Negotiations in which the union is seeking a .10 an hour wage increase will be resumed in Washington Friday under board auspices, he said, and any wage increases reached will be retroactive to today.

Charging the company with "stalling" in negotiations, the union went on strike May 28. The National Defense Mediation board on Aug. 14 proposed a return to work with further bargaining under the board's sponsorship, and it was under this proposal that agreement was reached to resume production of insulators used in the construction of Bonneville dam and other national defense projects.