STRIKERS' DEMAND
Telegraph— Press Assn,
Violatioa of Agreemenl AUeged MORE MAY WALK OUT
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(Reeeived' 19, 8.45 a.m.) TORONTO, April 18. After a two-hour deliberation when ! the strike at General Motors; Canadian i plant was on the verge of settlement, Premier Hepburn disbanded the con- ' ference, alleging that, Mr Cohen refused' ; to sign a statement specifically declar- : ing that he and Mr Millard represented [ the local union only end were not in- | structed by the C.I.O. The Premier | said the company was prepared to, r©- | | open the plant to.-morrow ^.nd make j i reasonable concessions in wagQs, hours ! i and conditions and appealed to th® ; strikers to choose true representatives. ! The American Workers' Union imrue- ; diately served a notice on the company ; that it would order a walk-out of 110,000 ; employees of General Motors in the I United States unless it settles the strike ^ at Oshawa. It claims that the company ; violated the United States settlement s agrecment, which provided that the I eompany Tecognise the union in Canada as well as the United States,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 7
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