WORK WITHOUT PAY
UNUSUAL FORM OF STRIKE
NEW YORK, May 30. Eleven thousand employees of the Brewsler Aeronautical Company are involved in the most unusual labour dispute of the war, says the United Press of America. They have refused to leave the company's two plants and pledged themselves to work without pay to aid the war effort.
The "reverse sit-down strike" arose when the Navy Department cancelled future contracts for Corsair fighters. Brewster officials immediately dismissed 4500 of the workers and declared that the remainder would be dismissed on July 1 when the work on the present contracts was completed. The- workers voted to stay together as an industrial unit, and turned down employment offers from other war plants. The president of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, Mr. Philip Murray, telegraphed to the Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Forrestal, requesting an investigation of the political background of the Navy's action, and stated that the termination of the contracts had very great political significance in this election year, particularly when it was demonstrated that the Navy had not planned for or considered the people thus thrust out of work. He added that he hoped the action had not been precipitated by Navy people unfriendly to President Roosevelt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 6
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206WORK WITHOUT PAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 6
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