ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 9

ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE

Negotiations Continue In Automobile Strike (Received February 5, 7.20 p.m.) Detroit, February 4. Following the end of a second conference on the automobile strike without results this afternoon, a telephone message was received from President Roosevelt requesting that it should meet again. This resulted In a night session. The parties are optimistic of the outcome. The State Governor, Mr. F. Murphy, said things looked verygood. In the meantime the threat of violence at Flint again became an actuality. When the police began to swear in a thousand special officers, strikers charged city officials with breaking yesterday’s agreement with them concerning the disbandment of the so-called “vigilantes.” The General Motors Corporation counsel consulted Judge Gadola, but declared that he had not asked for an order for contempt of court authorising the expulsion of the sit-down strikers.

RAILWAY WORKERS Strike Ballot in Canada Ottawa, February 4. A strike vote has been called among 117,000 railway employees following the Arbitration Board’s refusal to order a restoration of the 10 per cent, wage cut made in 1932.