SERIOUS STRIKE
IN SHIPYARDS ON PACIFIC COAST CONSTRUCTION OF WARSHIPS HELD UP. GOVERNMENT & UNION PROTESTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Dav. 12.40 p.m.) BOSTON, May 13. The construction of 27 destroyers and 45 naval auxiliaries has been halted by a joint American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations strike at eleven Pacific Coast shipyards. The strike has spread to Boston and stepped work in the new dry dock, despite protests by the Government and union leaders. The strikers are 1,700 machinists, but 20.000 other workmen are thereby rendered idle.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1941, Page 6
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91SERIOUS STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1941, Page 6
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