From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Thursday, 6/20/1946, p. 8, c. 5

New Contract Settles Strike At Tredegar

Members of an AFL Federal Labor Union at Tredegar Company, who went on strike last Thursday, last night voted approval of a new contract providing for a 12-cents-an-hour wage increase, United States Labor Conciliator Thomas B. Morton announced last night.

The union members’ decision settling the walkout came after a meeting yesterday of its negotiating committee with company representatives at Mr. Morton’s office.

Mr. Morton said the contract will be drawn and signed today and the men should be at work “full force” on Monday. Preparing for production and firing of the furnaces requires a little time, he explained.

“A good understanding was arrived at out of the negotiations which I hope will work to the benefit of both parties,” Mr. Morton said.

Besides the 12-cent wage increase the contract will call for 3- and 5-cent shift differentials for the second and third shifts, he said.

No pickets were used during the strike of some 160 union members engaged in the manufacture of railroad spikes, horseshoes and clinch bars which shut down the plant. Negotiations had deadlocked on the wage issue with the union asking 15 cents an hour and the company offering 5 cents, according to a union spokesman.

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