LABOUR DISSENSION
INCREASING TROUBLES IN U.S.A. CHARGES AGAINST BRIDGES. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE JUDGE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, September 6. Labour trbuble is growing more serious. A strike of 7,000 employees of 27 of the largest emporiums will probably begin tomorrow. The Warehousemen’s Association, who employees are cn strike, has rejected a peace offer. Harry Bridges, the Labour leader, is on trial at Los Angeles on contempt of court charges arising from a dispute concerning the San Pedro longshoremen. He is accused of attempting to influence the judge’s decision by publishing a telegram he sent to the Secretary for Labour, Miss Perkins, allegedly threatening a longshoremen’s strike if the decision were adverse, also of verbally threatening to call a strike.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 7
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