U.S. Motor Unionists Ordered To Prepare For Strike
(Received 12 a.m.) DETROIT, March 21. The union leader, Mr Homer Martin, has telegraphed orders to all the motor union branches here, -with the exception of General Motors, to prepare for a general strike in the motor industry, and wait orders. The Governor of Michigan, Mr Murphy, called the action a bluff, and predicted peace. A message from Providence, Rhode Island, says that a general strike of retail store employees, affecting more than 10,000 workers, was voted at the mass meeting called by the, Committee of Industrial Organisation, and. resulted in the shutting down of 12 stores. It was announced that the strike would exempt only food and chemist shops.
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Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 5
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