MANY STRIKES IN U.S.
DEFENCE JOBS HELD UP £20,000,000 IN ORDERS (Reed. Feb. 25, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 24. A report from Lansing, Michigan, says that Mr. Shaw, a director of the Motor Wheel Corporation, announced the settlement of a strike affecting £1,000,000 worth of defence orders. A Buffalo report says that employees of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s plant at Lackawanna voted in favour of a strike.The New York Times reports that prior to the two strikes mentioned above, a total of 16 strikes were blocking £20,000,000 worth of defence orders. Many dependent factories have been forced to close altogether. Twenty-three thousand workers are idle through the strikes. The Allis Chalmers strikers alone have lost 1,560,000 work hours.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 25 February 1941, Page 7
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