AMERICA'S LABOUR WAR
C.I.O.'S Fight for Supremacy (Received 11, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Mareh 10. Mr. John Lewis has announced that the C.I.O. is starting the creation oiS State labour federations, city and cen-i tral labour bodies as rivals to similar bodies existing within the American Federation of Labour, thus making ai ■final break with the federation. It is also announced that the C.I.O. is soon to start the organisatiOn ofi drives to enroll most of the 2,250,000 1 workers in the textile and oil refining! industries. Mr. William Green, leader of the La-, bour Federation, said the action of the1 C.I.O. is only what he predicted a year ago. Meanwhile the strikers hold full control of the Chrysler plants at Detroit and the Hudson plant has also been closed, but General Motors' plants at Flint have re-opened. Govcrnor Murphy is prcpared to fly from Florida to xonew his peace cfforts.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 6
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