RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES
EXTENSION OF CUT REFUSED STRIKE MAY BE CALLED WASHINGTON, 21st April. President Roosevelt urged unions to accept a six months’ extension of the 10 per cent, pay cut in railways, Ihe owners to pledge themselves to use the increased earnings for the rehabilitation of equipment and the extension of services to absorb more unemployed. The unions rejected the suggestion, declaring that tile workers bad lost faith in the operators, and therefore demanded a return to the pre-depression wage level, or they would be obliged to cali a strike.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 April 1934, Page 5
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90RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 April 1934, Page 5
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