MEAT STRIKE IN U.S.
Country’s Supply Threatened 100,000 "packing WORKERS IDLE ®ec. 12.30 a.m.)
NEW YORK March IS. A strike of meat-packing workers for higher wages against the major United States meat-packing firms and scores of independent packers began a minute after midnight to-day. A total of 100,000 union workers, affiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organisations, were called •St. A spokesman for the industry* ®id that this would cut the nation’s meat supply in half. The strike was called in spite of an eleventh-hour appeal to the ynion by President Truman to condone working until a special board, so far not named publicly, had investigated the dispute and *®Ported to him.
About 140 meat-packing firms are involved in the strike.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25445, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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