STRIKES IN AMERICA.
AIRCRAFT AND SUBMARINE WORKS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 23. A message from Santa Monica, California, states that a “sit-down” strike of 500 out of the 5600 employees halted operations at the Douglas aircraft plant. The strikers demand increases ranging from 15 to 25 cents an hour. The company’s unfulfilled orders include a, 10,000,000-dollar contract for Government aeroplanes. At Groton, Connecticut, a “sitdown” strike was called in the shipyards of the Electric Boat Company, which is building six submarines for the navy, in an effort to compel recognition of the Industrial Union of Marine Shipbuilding Workers as a collective bargaining agency.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 115, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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