U.S. LABOUR UNREST
EFFECT OF RESTRICTIONS MEW YORK, Aug. 22. A wave of labour unrest and union defiance is mounting throughout the nation as the new Taft-Hartley Act imposes its sweeping restrictions on America’s 15,000,000 unionists. The first day of the new era of labour-management relations found 135,000 workers on strike and 180 separate disputes—not all necessarily in protest against the Act—and about 250,000 others involved in crucial contract negotiations. There are rumblings of a complete tie-up of west coast shipping, while throughout the nation union after union and employer after employer signed eleventh-hour contracts last night, circumventing the most stringent clauses of the law.
Resignations from National Labour Relations board continue as retiring officials say they cannot conscientiously administer the new Act
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19470825.2.64
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 6
Word Count
123U.S. LABOUR UNREST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.