HOURLY CLOSER

Evening Star, Issue 25894, 11 September 1946, Page 7

HOURLY CLOSER

TRADE PARALYSIS IN NEW YORK 2,000 PROBATIONARY CONSTABLES TO BE APPOINTED NEW YORK,, September 10. With the city drawing hourly closer to trade paralysis as the result of the strike, the mayor, Mr William O’Dwyer, announced that he had issued orders for the appointment next week of 2,000 probationary constables, who are going straight on duty instead of undergoing a training period. Mr (VDwyer denied that the appointments were specifically aimed at the strike situation, but it is known that he is determined not to permit the strikers to. defy the union leaders and interfere with trucks driven by members of other unions. Bands of strikers are already roving the city, stopping trucks and warning drivers to be off the streets to-day. SHIPPING HOLD-UP. The only hope of halting the nation’s worst maritime strike is for the Wage Stabilisation Board, at its meeting in Washington to-day, to reverse its decision not to approve of the seamen’s increases gained by collective bargaining. .... Compliance of a court injunction by union' officials' ‘early this morning called off a strike of 3,500 power workers in Pittsburgh in less than an hour after the men had left their jobs and thrown the industrial area into confusion. The union president said an injunction ordering the Du Quesne Company to bring the directors of its giant holding companies, to Pittsburgh to negotiate with the union had accomplished the purpose of the strike.