SIT-DOWN EPIDEMIC
Thi'ty Factories Delayed in Detroit (Received 15, 8.45 a.m.) DETROIT, March 13. Governor Murphy has arrived and opened a series of conferences in an attempt to settle the Chrysler and Hudson strikes. The sit-down strike epidemio is spreading here and a total of 80.such strikes is reported in factories and stores. General Motors have signed a final agreement with the union. Where the union won concessions regarding working eonditions and seniority it lost minimum wages and the 30-hour week, recognised bargaining agents and membors of unions only. I Four five and ten cent stores are experiencing a sit-down strike, the first in the city. Approximately 200 girls are demanding a 20 dollars minimum weekly wage and a 40-hour week.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 7
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