FOR GENERAL STRIKE.
Motor Union Leader Issues Order to Prepare. ACTION CONSIDERED BLUFF. DETROIT, March 22. The union leader, Mr. Homer Martin, has telegraphed orders to all the motor union branches here, with the exception of General Motors, to prepar% for a! general strike in the motor industry and await further orders. The Governor! of Michigan, Mr. Frank Murphy, called the action a bluff and predicted peace. A message from Providence, Rhode Island, says that a general strike of retail store employees, affecting more than 10,000 workers, was voted at a mass meeting called by the Committee of Industrial Organisation, and resulted in the shutting down, of 12 stores. It was announced that the strike would exempt only food and chemist shops.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 7
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122FOR GENERAL STRIKE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 7
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