STRIKERS DISMISSED
MR ROOSEVELT’S DECISION. NEW AMERICAN ACT ENFORCED. I By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. WASHINGTON. July 12. Thousands of dismissal notices were sent out striking at Works Progress Administration workers tonight after President Roosevelt, despite the move within Congress to restore the union wage rate, ordered the W.P.A. Act to be enforced. Colonel Harrington. W.P.A. administrator. threatened to "crack down" on the men who were not striking but I adopting go-slow tactics. I The majority of the strikers are I skilled workers who object to working 1 150 hours a month instead of 50 for the same income.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 7
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98STRIKERS DISMISSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 7
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