U.S. TRADE UNIONISTS
PHENOMENAL INCREASE FIVE YEARS OF NEW DEAL (2.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 10. The Twentieth Century fund has released a survey of the major United States industries, revealing that during the first five years of the New Deal the trade union membership rose from 3,000.000 to 8,000,000 and has now reached the all-time high level of 11,000,000. However, despite the spectacular progress of collective bargaining, nearly 30,000,000 American wage-earners are not members of trade unions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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