U.S. Strikes Throw
Many Out Of Jobs NEW YORK, Thu.—The steel and coal strikes are daily throwing more people out of work in the United States, and there is no sign of a settlement in either dispute. More than 60,000 railway workers were laid off today because the railway companies last night withdrew 600 trains from service to conserve coal.
Many thousands of other workers In industries which depend on steel have been forced into unemployment. Government officials said today that of the strikes might soon reach two million.
In Washington, a senior Government official said that President Truman had decided to intervene in the coal and steel strikes if no settlement was reached by the week-end. Speculation about the possible course the President will take ranges from a personal appeal to the disputants to end the strikes to an outright seizure of coal mines and steel mills.
Conference Misnamed SYDNEY. Fri. M 0 a.m.)—The president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (Mr A. E. Monk) said that eastern radio stations, including New Delhi, were misnaming tire World Federation of Trade Unions’ Peiping conference.
They had no right to call it the Asiatic and Australasian conference, because the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Federation of Labour had withdrawn affiliation.
Mr Monk added that he had informed the World Federation of Trade Unions by cable.
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 5
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