STRIKE SABOTAGE.
NEW YORK BUILDING WORKERS. LEADERS ORDER EXTENSION. (United Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 5. After a futile conference in which property-owners refused to accede to the union’s demands for an increase in wages, orders were issued to extend the strike of building service employees. The inconvenience and suffering caused by the strike, which is now five days old, increased sharply. More than 200 families were without water and heat to-day when the boiler rooms of “multiple” dwellings were flooded to a depth of six feet. It was the most serious act of sabotage since the strike began. The District Attorney summoned the union leaders to explain threats to “tear down the entire town” and to “fight it out in the streets.” , In many oases tenants in Sympathy with the strikers fed picketers on the streets and declined to be served by substitute employees supplied by the building owners. Six young woman whose office building was affected by the strike, while they were lunching, climbed 21 storeys and had to receive medical aid for hysteria and exhaustion. Snow and freezing weather add to the gravity of the situation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 124, 7 March 1936, Page 5
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189STRIKE SABOTAGE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 124, 7 March 1936, Page 5
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