U.S.A. STRIKES

Grey River Argus, 5 January 1946, Page 5

U.S.A. STRIKES

Big Increase Indicated

(Rec. 10.40). NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Nearly twenty thousand workers of all types in factories at Stamford (Connecticut) staged a two-hour mass demonstration in sympathy with

striking Yale and Towne lock company employees who seek a closed shop, and a thirty per cent, wage increase. The demonstration stopped all factory work throughout the city. The C. 1.0. has fixed January 14 for a steel strike affecting seven hundred thousand workers, and January 16 for a meat workers’ strike affecting two hundred thousand.