Others Advance

While the auto workers appear to be stalled, other unions are making significant wage gains, even in hard-hit industries. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. figures that wage increases this year are running close to last year's high level. Washington's independent Bureau of National Affairs examined the 943 wage agreements signed from Jan. 1 to May 1, found that about one-fourth brought hourly boosts of 13-c- or more, another fourth won 10-c- to 12-c-, another fourth got 7-c- to 9-c- while the rest got 1-c- to 6-c-.

Many more increases are coming. Under existing long-term contracts, rail workers will get a 7-c- boost this November, on top of cost-of-living hikes of 4-c- last month and 5-c- last November. Steel workers will get an average 9-c--an-hour wage increase on July1 plus a cost-of-living boost of about 3-c-. Altogether, under existing contracts, about 4,000,000 U.S. workers will get automatic wage raises this year and 4,300,000 will get cost-of-living boosts.

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