BILL TO OUTLAW STRIKES
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES IN NEW YORK GOVERNOR TO SIGN • MEASURE 7 30 P-™-* NEW YORK. March 15. ihe Governor (Mr Thomas E Dewey), risking his political future, will sign a bill which has passed both Houses outlawing strikes by public em pl pyees in New York~ State,” says the Albany correspondent of the Associated Press. “The measure forbids public employees striking under penalty of automatic dismissal, and if they were afterwards reinstated they would receive no salary increase for ;;J^ y f arS xr and suffer loss of security rights for five years, during which nrnrily ey be discharged sum-
, bill has been fiercely opposed by civil service employees’ organisations and by organised labour The measure is the outcome of the recent strike by public school teachers in Buffalo. Mr Dewey himself asked for its introduction.” •
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25135, 17 March 1947, Page 8
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