WORKERS’ ALLIANCE
STRIKE BEING PLANNED IN U.S.A. MORE PAY AND MINIMUM WAGE (United Press Association—By Electric telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 3rd October. It is disclosed that the Workers’ Alliance of America is planning a nation-wide strike or the equivalent demonstration at the end of the month. A Million Works Progress Administration workers demand 30 per cent, increase in pay and a minimum wage of 40 dollars a month. The “The Works Progress Administration strike plans will take definite shape when the National Executive Board meets at New York within ten days under the chairmanship of Mr David Lasser, national chairman,” stated Mr B. Sexton, head of the New York branch of the Alliance. The demands are virtually the same as those the Alliance has already made in New York and Minnesota without success. Government authorities recently said that in the case of a strike against the Works Progress Administration its projects would be cancelled if necessary. Nevertheless the organisers are at present touring the east and mid-west shaping plans for concerted action.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 2
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