STRIKE THREAT.
AMERICAN RAILWAYS. DISPUTE OVER WAGES. A NATIONAL STOPPAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received Oct. 15, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 14. Industry in the United States is confronted with a stoppage in consequence of the menace of a railway strike. The railway executive is cutting the wages of two million workers 10 per cent., in order to reduce freight rates, for which, the public is clamouring. Locomotive engineers, conductors, firemen and switchmen are mapping out a plan to strike. In Wall Street railway stocks have dropped, reflecting the possibility of a strike.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A«sn. Received Oct. IG, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 14. A Chicago telegram states the heads of the railway brotherhoods have issued a strike call, to become effective on October 30 unless the employers m vno meantime re-open negotiations regarding wages and working conditions. The leaders have divided the country into ten zones, and propose to call a strike successively in each zone, until the managements confer. The railway executive’s meeting at Chicago decided to ask the United States Railroad Labor B ard to sanction an additional 10 per cent, wage reduction besides the 12 per cent, already ordered.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1921, Page 5
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195STRIKE THREAT. Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1921, Page 5
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