MOTOR INDUSTRY STRIKE
GIANT FORD ASSEMBLY PLANT PENNSYLVANIA WAGE DISPUTE. WORKERS DEMANDING INCREASE WEEK OF 32 HOURS SOUGHT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph O.ipyrigbtJ CHESTER (Pennsylvania), Sept. 26. A strike has been declared at the giant assembly plant of the Fprd Company here, between 4000 and 6000 men walking out in orderly fashion. Every department is affected. The strikers’ principal demand is a wage increase from 16 to 25 dollars. They are claiming a 32-hour week at 50 cents an hour. Under the newly-inaugurated plan the minimum wage had been reduced to 16 dollars from the former wage of 20 dollars.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 9
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102MOTOR INDUSTRY STRIKE Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 9
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