"SIT-DOWN" STRIKES
AMERICAN WORKERS
NEW YORK, February 23. _ A message from Santa Monica, California, states that a "sit-down" strike of 500 out of 5600 employees halted the operations at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation's plant. The strikers demand increases ranging from 15 to 25, cents an hour. The company's unfulfilled orders include a 10,000,000 dollars contract for Government aeroplanes.
At Groton, Connecticut, a "sit-down" strike has been called in the shipyards of the Electric Boat Company, which is building six submarines for the navy, in an effort to compel recognition of the Industrial Union of Marine Shipbuilding Workers as a collective bargaining agency.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 9
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