WORKERS' DEMAND
"FIRST ROUND" IN U.S.A.
NEW YORK, December 20
Michael Quill, president of the C.1.0. Transport Workers' Union, addressing a rally supporting the General Motors strike, called the walk-out only the first round in the struggle.
"We want to tell the American people and the powers that be that we will not have a repetition of the labourbreaking which followed the last war —starvation wages, breadlines, the Ku Klux Klan, and race riots," he said. "If we cannot get our rights in a legislative way we will slug it out in the streets and factories."
A Windsor (Ontario) message says that Ford workers who have been striking since September 12 voted to return to work under the Government's plan providing for negotiation on most issues, but arbitration on such deadlock matters as the union's demand for a union shop. The strike was the longest in the history of Canada's automotive industry.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945, Page 7
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