ARMY ENDS STRIKE
IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. Declaring the war effort was being impeded and delayed, Mr Roosevelt ordered the Army to take over and operate the Los Angeles Municipal Water Power Departmen which has been crippled by a 10-day strike which has deprived 160 war plants and 125,000. homes .and offices of electricity. Twenty-five hundred of the Department's 5700 employees are striking for an eight per cent, wage increase. The Mayor of Los Angeles (Mr ■R'leteher Bowron) requested the Armv seizure as the only method of nersuading the strikers to return to their jobs Candles are being used in many'homes and radios are silent. Tons of meat and other perishables are threatened with spoilage. Farmers estimate that nearly a million aggs in electric incubators in the San Francisco Valley, may never hatch Over 2000 dairy cows are unmilked because the milking machines are without power. LATER. The strikers returned to their jobs after the army’s seizure of the plant.
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Grey River Argus, 25 February 1944, Page 2
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