STRIKE AT FORD PLANT
"Seniority Rights Ignored" HOPES OF SETTLEMENT (Received 5, 8.45 a.m.) KANSAS CITY, April 2. Six hundred employees are taking part in a sit-dow|. strike in the Eord assembly plant as the result of a lay-off of 350 which the company said was seasonal. The leader of the strikers alleged that the company ignored seniority rights in the lay-off. A later eiessage states that the strikers evacuated the Ford plant and formed picket lines outside. Representatives of tihe automobile workors and Ford representatives arrived by aeroplane from Detroit to begin conferences on Monday. The hope is expressed that a settlement will be effected.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 9
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