UNION, RESPONSIBLE.
SIT-DOWN STRIKE DAMAGE. PHILADELPHIA, April 4. In the Federal District Court, Philadelphia, yesterday, a jury consisting of eight women and four men set an important precedent in labour history by finding a union responsible for damage incurred during a sit-down strike, a method of protest outlawed by the United States Supreme Court. The branch union of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers was ordered to pay the Apex Hosiery Mill 237,310 dollars.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 11
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