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ASK PRESIDENT TO INTERVENE IN CIOPACKERS DEADLOCK The C I O has appealed to President Roosevelt to intervene in the controversy between the union and Armour and Com ¬ pany one of the nations largest meat pack ¬ ers it was revealed today Henry Johnson director of the C I Os Packinghouse Work ¬ ers Organizing Committee which has threat ¬ ened to call a strike unless Armour agrees to collective bargaining for C I O employes on a national basis outlined the current situation as follows The deadlock between the P W O C and Armour has been ex ¬ plained to President Roosevelt with an ap ¬ peal for executive intervention National leaders of the C I O and P W O C were conferring at Washington with department of labor officials demanding that Armour be compelled to recognize a N L R B order naming the P W O C as exclusive bar ¬ gaining agent for Armours Chicago workers Every approach to a peaceful solution of the impasse is being made Union forces are getting ready to strike if no settlement is reached The Armour management appar ¬ ently was standing pat on its announced in ¬ tention to reject the P W O Cs request for a national bargaining conference The com ¬ pany claims it will continue to bargain indi ¬ vidually with C I O workers at such of its twentynine plants over the nation in which the union has a recognized majority but will not include in its program any plants where the unions majority is in doubt
