WAVE OF LABOUR UNREST SWEEPS AMERICA
NEAV YORK, August 23. A wave of Jabour unrest and union, ^defiance is mounting throughout the nation as the new Taft-Hartlev Aci imposes its sweeping restrictions 011 America's 15,000,000 unionists. Thc lirst day of the new era of labournianagement relations found 135, 0U workers on strike in 180 separate dis putes — not all neeessarily in protest against the Act — and about 250,000 others involved in crueial contrad negotiations. There are rumblings of a completi tie-up of West Coast sliipping, whilv throughout the nation union aftei union and employer aftfer employer signed eleventh-hour contracts circumventing the most stringent clauses of the law. Resignations from thc National Labour Relations Board eoiitinue as retiring officials say they cpunot conscientiously administef th-1 new Aet.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1947, Page 5
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