LABOUR AND DEFENCE
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PROBLEM IN U.S.A.
MEDIATION BOARD ftiEETS
(Received March 26. 2.30 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, March 25
Mr. Uykstra, chairman of the Defence Mediation Board, 'tas assembled the members of the board to work oui their powers and duties with defence and labour officials. Mr. Dykstra saxi that the board had an open mind on ill current labour controversies and was determined to begin its york without bias.
It was the first meeting of the Mediation Board which President Roosevelt, set up last week to insure against
work stoppages in vital defence industries and it coincided with what is potentially the most serious strike yet. to occur in the defence industry, in t!ic Steel Corporation Plant at Bethlehem.
A spokesman of the CIO. Far.1;) Equipment Workers" Organising Committee announced at Chicago that strikes will be called at ail the sixteen plants of the International Harvester Company in retaliation for th>.reopening of the McCormick works by A.F.L. workers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1941, Page 10
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