STRIKE DANGERS
NEW YORK TEAMSTERS MAYOR WARNS AGAINST BLOODSHED AND INJURY NEW YORK, September 10. The mayor, Mr William O’Dwyer, told the International Teamsters' Union president, Mr Daniel _ Tobin, that unless the union negotiates a settlement bloodshed arid injury are likely to result, for which the unions will be to blame. Beer deliveries to 10,000 bars and 12,000 stores ill New York were suspended by the brewing industry after striking truckers, armed with baseball bats, threatened brewery drivers, whose union is not on strike. Several thousand workers have been laid off in the city as plants and shops are forced to close down because of lack of materials. The striking maritime unions decided to. permit the working of tug. ’■"a*-*, ind tow barges containing food, fuel, and other essentials for the city. The shipping strike continued throughout the nation as the wage stabilisation board deferred until to-morrow action on the seamen’s demand for wage increases, to which the operators agreed, but the board partially vetoed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25895, 12 September 1946, Page 7
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165STRIKE DANGERS Evening Star, Issue 25895, 12 September 1946, Page 7
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