U.S. TRANSPORT STRIKE
Result oi Strike Between Two Unions (Received 5,- 8.45 a.m.)' WASHINGTON, July 4. The American Federation 'of Labour ordered 25,000 transportation workers to take a general holiday, affecting this and many other neighbouring eities. Perishable products valued at 20,000,000 dollars have been tied up,
and street passenger traffic of all hinds has been crippled. The strike is the culmination of a bitter struggle between the Committee of Industrial Organisation under Mr John L. Lewis, and the American Federation of Labour, and represents a protest by the American Federation of Labour against granting contracts by certain industries to the Committee for Industrial Organisation, A later message says that the strike was settled after an agreement was reached to take a referendum at certain points to determine whether the C;I.O; or the A.F.L. would be the bargaining agent for the men.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 143, 5 July 1937, Page 5
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