STRIKE PREPARATIONS.
DISCONTENTED AMERICANS. NEW YORK, Oct. 3. It has been disclosed that the Workers’ Alliance of _ America is planning a nation-wide strike or equivalent demonstration at the end of the montn. One million Works Progress Administration workers demand a 20 per cent increase in pay and a minimum wage of 40 dollars a month. “The Works Progress Administration strike plans will take definite shape when the National Executive Board meets at New York within 10 days under the chairmanship of Mr David Lasser, national chairman,” stated Mr B. Sexton, head of the New York branch of the alliance. The demands are virtually the same as those the alliance has already made at New York and Minnesota without success. Government authorities recently said that in the event of a strike against the Works Progress Administration its projects would be cancelled if necessary. Nevertheless organisers are at present touring the east and mid-west shaping plans lor concerted action.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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157STRIKE PREPARATIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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