GENERAL STRIKE AUTHORISED
AMERICAN MOTOR DISPUTE DETROIT, January 4. While automobile strikers continued to defy the Court's injunction, 200 representatives of the International Automobile Union set up a board of strategy which it authorised to call a general' strike in 69 plants of the General Motors Corporation in 14 States if the company persists in refusing lo confer with the union. A national scale of action was taken at the meeting, where speeches criticising the company were loudly cheered. ' Indications at Washington are that the Secretary of Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, will attempt to play the role of peacemaker to avert the threatened strike. ___________
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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104GENERAL STRIKE AUTHORISED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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