SEQUEL TO STRIKE.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. QUESTION OF COERCION' 1 . NEW YORK, July 14. The Inter-Borough Subway Company, after discharging 688 strikers, has commenced Supreme Court proceedings against the strikers to prevent them coercing other employees. The company asks for £47,80U damages from the union for revenue lost during the first week of the strike, and also threatens proceedings against newspapers that sympathise with the strikers. ’ The company has also filed a suit against the New York News for publishing a cartoon entitled “Remember the Picture Disaster of 1918,” and carrying the legend, “Eighty-one lives were lost through unskilled operation.” From the terrific congestion in the streets estimates are freely made, that a million motor cars and buses ■ have beer, operating in New York and its vicinity during the subway strike. The third day of tliejstrike found the traffic badly impedld, but by .no .means paralysed* „
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 199, 23 July 1926, Page 8
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