Echo of Pacific Coast Strike
INCREASED WAGES AND SHORTER HOURS AWARDED. (By Telegraph-Press Asan. —Copyright). Received Sunday, 7 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. President Roosevelt’s Arbitration Board to-night awarded the Pacific Coast longshoremen, the central group in last summer’s bitterly-fought strike, increased wages and shorter hours, but ruled that they must share control of their hiring-halls with the employers. Unconditional control of the marinehalls, or employment agencies, through which Longshoremen are sent to jobs, was the paramount demand of the union in the weeks of bloody struggle. Wages of 95 cents an hour, with a dollar and 40 cents for overtime, and a 30-hour week were granted to the longshoremen. They had asked for a dollar an hour and a dollar and 50 cents for overtime, as well as a 30-hour week.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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