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FORD’S MEN STRIKE (United Press Association —x»y Electric Telegi aph—Copyright.) CHESTER (Pennsylvania), September 26. A strike was decided at the giant assembly plant of the Ford Company here, between four thousand and six 'thousand men walking out in orderly fashion, every department being affected. The strikers’’ principle demand is a wage increase from sixteen to twentyfour dollars, they are claiming a 32 hours’ wefek at fifty cents an hour. Under the jieWly inaugurated plan tfto minimum wage had been reduced to (sixteen dollars from tlm former wage of twenty dollars,
STOCK EXCHANGE WINS. NEW YORK, September 27. Rather than have the New Yorx Stock Exchange move to New' Jersey with a loss of financial prestige, as well as real estate values to the city', the Municipal Government to-day' scrapped the stock transfer and brokers’ profit taxes. The stock exchange at the same time announced that its plans for money had been cancelled, and that it will continue to do business in its Wall Street building. CANADJAN EMPLOYMENT OTTAWA, September 26. The Dominion Bureau statistics states that 246 thousand Canadians have returned to work last April, and that there were twelve (thousand less unemployed in August (instead or the usual seasonable decline of four thousand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5
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