POWER WORKERS' STRIKE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 5

POWER WORKERS' STRIKE

-Press Assn.'

Labour Trouble in Michigan Area 350,000 AFFECTED

(By Telegraph-

-Copyright.)

(Beceived 10, 11 a.m.) NEW YOBK, June 9. Striking employees of the Flint Company, Flint, pulled out the distribution switches, shutting off all the electric current for the city of 165,000 population, except that used for ' hospitals, sanitation plants and dairies, resulting in the closing of six of the General Motors Corporation plants employing 42,000 men. Officials of the Power Union, which is affiliated wiith the United Automobile Workers' Association, said that the strike was likely to epread to the entire Saginaw Yalley, in which 350,000 persons were served by power. Pickets have been stationed about the power distribution stabion. Commercial power was later shut off from the remainder of the valley, including Saginaw and Bay City, causing the closing of four more General Motors' plants. An earlier shut-off halted trackless trams and traffie signals in Flint. Homes throughout the yalley, with the exeeption of Flint, are not affected. Governor Murphy, who is visiting Pittsburgh, said that he would fly to Flint, unless there was an immediafce settlement. "Current must be turned on before nightfall," he said. "The people of Flint must not endure a night of darkness. I personally guaranteo to prevent it."