NEW YORK BUS STRIKE
HO SIGH OF BETTLEMEHT UNION REFUSES MEDIATION Pres*. Association — By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March 11. (Received March 12, at 9.15 a.m.) The bus strike docs not show any signs of an early settlement. The companies have published full-page advertisements in many newspapers showing that the employees’ rates compare more favourably than those in the automobile or aircraft industries. The bus companies offered mediation, but the union refused. Meanwhile the subway and elevated lines arc jammed to capacity. Taxicab revenues have soared. Nearly 1,000,000 passengers are carried on the buses daily, which coustitutes OS r.'C*r cr-ut, oi New York s suiface transput tation. The unions demands include a 25 per cent, wage increase and three weeks’ holiday instead of two.
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Evening Star, Issue 23832, 12 March 1941, Page 9
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123NEW YORK BUS STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 23832, 12 March 1941, Page 9
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