FACTORY DISPUTE
BETHLEHEM STEEL WORKERS CALL STRIKE OTHER STOPPAGES PREDICTED. DEFENCE ORDERS AFFECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright* BUFFALO. New York. February 2G. The C. 1.0. steelworkers’ organising committee has declared a strike of 12,000 men at Bethlehem Steel’s Lackawanna plant. Unionists predict that similar strikes will follow quickly in other Bethlehem plants tying up production of 1.000.000.000 dollars’ worth of defence orders. involving 60.000 workers. The strike was called in spite of Washington efforts to halt it. for which reason it i s considered a demonstration of the C.1.0.’s determination to organise all major industries. It has already obtained agreement with the largest steel company, namely. United States Steel, but has fought for many years a war with the little steel group, of which Bethlehem is the principal members. Bethlehem owns mines and shipyards, and if the strike were fought cut. it would be the biggest battle between labour and capital in the history of the United! States.
FLARE OF VIOLENCE MANY MOTOR CARS SMASHED. APPEAL FOR PROTECTION (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) LACKAWANNA. February 27. The earliest stages of the strike brought a flarc of violence. C. 1.0. strikers deployed in a two mile picket line, fronting the seven gates of the huge plant. Many automobiles were smashed. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation appealed to the sheriff for protection. alleging that the strikers were creating terror, and that police protection had broken down, creating a situation of real menace to the defence programme. A union leader claims that the strike is the most effective ever seen, but the general manager asserts that the strike is a dismal failure. Only one bar mill is shut down for lack of workers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 5
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