STRIKES IN U.S.A.
IMPEDING WAR PRODUCTION PRESIDENT TAKES ACTION. SPECIAL MEDIATION BOARD CREATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright/ WASHINGTON, November 8. President Roosevelt has created a special emergency board to mediate in a dispute between the Railway Express Agency and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed the president of the union, Mr. Daniel Tobin, requesting him to send the members who are at-present striking at Detroit back to work within 48 hours, saying that it was interfering with the defence programme and was threatening to interrupt interstate commerce by a' strike in eight major cities. He added that it was essential to reply tomorrow morning. A message from Chicago states that five railway, brotherhoods have fixed
December 5 as the deadline for ‘ the strike. A message from Indianaolis says that Mr. Tobin has refused to accede to Mr. Roosevelt’s request. In San Diego the Navy told the building trade unions of the American Federation of Labour that their 1435 striking members must return to work? on 10,000,000 dollars defence projects by November 10, or be replaced by other workers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5
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180STRIKES IN U.S.A. Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5
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