EMPLOYEES STRIKE
SEVEN THOUSAND FORD HANDS (United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright/
(Received this day at 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, March ,27.
Three of the seven thousand employees of the Ford factory at Dagenham, the largest in Europe, struck without the sanction of the .union executive owing to reductions ranging irom three pence' to seven per. hour, though the company, asserts (hat the. reduced wages exceed the trades union minimum.
Subsidiary factories bring the strikers to eight thousand. ' The strikers blocked the traffic, prevented clerks. returning,, and picketed the road six deep outside the double barricades which the company erected to prevent a rush.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 6
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