MEAT STRIKE IN U.S.: COUNTRY’S SUPPLY THREATENED
NEW YORK, March 16
A strike of meat-packing workers for higher wages against the major United States meat-packing firms and scores of independent, packers began„a minute after mid-night today. A total of 100.000 union workers, affiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organisations, were called out. A .spokesman for the industry said that this would cut the nation's meat supply in half. The strike was called in spite ol an eleventh-hour appeal to the union by President Truman to continue working until a special board, so far not named publicly, had investigated-the dispute and reported to him. About 140 meat-packing firms are. involved in the strike.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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