JOINT APPEAL
TO AMERICAN STRIKERS. EVERY MAN NEEDED AT POST. WASHINGTON, February 2. Mr Donald Nelson, head of the War Production Board, Admiral Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, Mr Stimson, the War Secretary, and Colonel Knox, Navy Secretary, have issued a joint appeal to the welders on strike in the Seattle and Tacoma shipyards to return to work and “repudiate the leadership which has encouraged reckless disregard of the needs of the country.” They declared that every man was needed at his post of duty producing ships to back up the men fighting on the Pacific battlefronts. While the welders had the right to belong to a union of their own choice, there was no justification for trying to break the agreement of a duly recognised bargaining agency by the means they have employed. The statement added that many striking welders had already returned to work, which indicated that “American workmen will not long tolerate impairment of war production through the means adopted by the leaders of the striking welders.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 3
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171JOINT APPEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 3
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