U.S. TRANSPORT STRIKE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22136, 5 July 1937, Page 9

U.S. TRANSPORT STRIKE

LABOUR FEDERATION ACTS

MOVE IN STRUGGLE WITH RIVAL BODY

(Received July 4, 7.30 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, July 2.

The American Federation of Labour has ordered 25,000 transport workers to take a general holiday, affecting this and many other neighbouring cities.

Perishable products valued at 2.000,000 dollars are held up, and street passenger traffic of all kinds is crippled. The strike is the culmination of a bitter struggle between the Committee for Industrial Organisation and the American Federation of Labour, and represents a protest by the latter against the granting of contracts by certain industries to the Committee for Industrial Organisation.

"SITDOWN" STRIKES CONDEMNED

MISS PERKINS ISSUES DISAVOWAL

BELIEVED INTENTION TO CURB EXTREMISTS

(Received July 4, 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. The Secretary for Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) condemned "sitdown" strikes as illegal and undesirable.

Before this neither Miss Perkins nor Mr Roosevelt could be drawn into a disavowal of the "sit-down" strikes, in spite of strong urging by the vice-president, Mr John N. Garner.

It had been alleged that they were giving tacit consent by their silence. It is now believed that the Administration has decided that the time has come to curb the extremists among Mr J. L. Lewis's followers.