Memorandum, Notes on Joint Meeting

Joint Meeting 9:20 P. M. Mr. Murray, Mr. Goldberg, and Mr. McDonald representing labor Mr. Homer, Mr. Moreell, and Mr. Stephens representing industry The first hour and thirty minutes was devoted to long discussion of the union shop with a very clear position being taken by both sides. Industry was adament that there be no union shop and the unions were equally as adamant that there would be union shop. During this dis- cussion the industry introduced a new concept -- namely, that since we were in an emergency the status quo in the industry should be maintained and therefore no radical changes such as the union shop should be made. Rather, this issue should wait until the end of the emergency at which time industry and the unions might fight it out on a normal economic basis. However, each time a suggestion was made that there was no use continuing negotiations if both sides remained this adamant, the suggestions were ignored. Nevertheless, there was basic and fundamental disagreement on the union shop issue. A+ 11 p. m. the discussion turned to Sunday pay. This discussion was much briefer, yet with the same firmness of differences being dis- played on both sides. This was followed by a b ief discussion of"local practices" brought up by Mr. Stephens of United States Steel. The union promptly pointed out that the only company where this is troublesome is United States Steel, showing that in the New York nego tiations other companies were polled and only United States Steel had problems on this point.