C.1.0. CAMPAIGN
UNION FOR TELEGRAPH EMPLOYEES
NEW YORK, April 10.
'.'.The Committee ibr industrial Organ-; isatioh announces that it has begun' a campaign to organise the, ,270,000, em-; .ployees. of the ■■' AmericanV Telephone and Telegraph, Company, the nation's largest corporation. ;. .■■.:, ~ ;' ■ '
A vein of .whimsy ran through the New Jersey, strike situation when , the estranged wife of an industrialist joined the picket line of his employees carrying a'banner .^reading: "It's unfair to the workers." It is reported that her divorce suit, just filed, charges her husband with living extravagantly. She is asking for, 1000 dollars a week alimony, and induced the workers to demand ■ a'higher wage. ; - ■
■ At ; Columbus, Ohio,. deputy/ sheriffs armed with clubs ejected;7s men'and women after a two-day sfedown strike in the office of Governor Davey., They demanded a ,50,000,000 dollars ' relief appropriation. Five- were sent ■to gaol and two are in hospital suffering from cuts on the head.:, ' .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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150C.I.0. CAMPAIGN Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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