SENATOR INDICTS BIG CORPORATIONS
SIT-DOWN STRIKES
They, Not Workers, Are Law-Breakers, He .Claims (Received 10 am.) . WASHINGTON, March 31. In a speech i nthe Senate yesterday, Mr R. F. Wagner 1 (Democrat—New York), alleged that the sit-down strike had been provoked by the “longstanding ruthless tactics of a few great corporations.” Labour had won by means of sit-down strikes only such. industrial liberties as the law and morals had long sanctioned. The government lack of power to enforce the Labour Relations Act, was responsible for the economic . warfare, Mr Wagner added. The workers were denied their fair share of the products of industry by the “greed and monopoly of capital, and were forced to use the strike weapon. The real law-breakers were the companies, which, he said, openly banded, together to defy the law and congress and systematically use spies, discharges, violence and terrorism to shatter the workers’ liberties as 'defined by Congress. The leader of the Committee of Industrial organisation, Mr John Lewis, has ordered a stoppage of 400,000 coalminers'in 12 states. The operators rejected the tentative wage and hour agreement accepted by the sub-com-mittee of the organisation.
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Northern Advocate, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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