WAGES RISE ONLY WAY OUT OF STRTKE
Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Bept. 10. With the city drawing hourly closer to trade paralysis as the result of the shipping and transport strike, the Mayor, Ylr. O'Dwyer, announped that he had issued orders for the ap pointment next wei.-k of 2000 probutionary constables who were going straigiit on dutv instead of undergoing a training period. ilr. O'Dwyer denied that the appointments were specifLcally aimpd at the strike situation but it was known he is deterinined not to permit •the strikers to ilefy Ihe Union leaders aiul interfere with trucks driven by memhers of other unions. Baiuls of strikers are already roving Ihe city stopping trucks and warning the drivers to be off the streets today. The only hope of halting tlie nation's worst maritime strike is for the Wage Stabilisation Board, at a meeting ' in Washington today, to reverse its decis ion not to approve the seamen's in creases gained by collective bargaining Power station employees at Pittsburg have decided to strike at midniglit for a 20 per cent wage increase and also a profit sharing plan. Tlie Pittsburg area, with its million and a half people, is threatened with a blackoufc and eurlailrncnt of industiy.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 September 1946, Page 5
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