Western Electric Workers Walk Out
(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3,
The first of a series of strikes ordered or planned in various industries for January involving nearly 2,000,000 workers, began in 21 plants of the Western Electric Company today when 17,400 workers walked out for a wage increase.
The Western Electric strike is expected to lead to the disruption of the national telephone service because the National Federation of Telephone Workers with 260,000 members has been asked to stage a sympathy strike which would affect an additional 45,000 Bell System employees.
The packing-house workers threaten a strike which would close butchers’ shops throughout the country.
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1946, Page 3
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