AMERICAN STRIKES
THE MOTOR DISPUTE CONFERENCE UNSUCCESSFUL WASHINGTON, January 21. The conference regarding the strike in the automobile industry ended without any progress being made. Mr. A. P. Sloan, president of General Motors, and other of the corporation's officials, : nnounced that they are leaving Washington as it is useless to continue the discussions. Mr. John Lewis, the Labour leader, issued a statement that he is serving notice on President Roosevelt that union labour, as a result of its support in the last election, expected him to assist the strikers in "every legal way." Mr. Homer Martin, president of the union, asserted that his union represented three-fourths of all General Motors Corporation employees, but the corporation denied this, and said that more than 79 per cent, of the idle employees protested against the strike, as it forced them into idleness. The situation is becoming more tense hourly, and pressure on President Roosevelt to intervene is growing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 9
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