STRIKES IN AMERICA.
FORTY CONCERNS AFFECTED. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IDLE. Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 25. The chief of police at Santa Monica read an ultimatum to the strikers in the Douglas aircraft plant demanding that they should vacate the premises immediately. If they ■ did not he threatened to use force. Two Elgin watch case plants in Illinois ai-e closed because of a strike by COO workers. At Boston strikers in 27 shoe plants have won tlieir demands for a 15 per cent, wage increase.
It is estimated that 25,000 workers are idle throughout the country through labour disputes in more than 40 industrial concerns.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 5
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