GENERAL STRIKE
THREAT IN AMERICA MOTOR WORKERS' DISPUTE CRITICAL STAGE REACHED By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received January 4, fi.27 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 While the strikers in the motor industry continued to defy the injunction to vacate the occupied plants, 200 representatives of the International Union created a Board of Strategy and authorised it to call a general strike in the 60 plants of the General Motors Corporation in 14 States, if the company persists in refusing to confer with the union on a national scale. This action was taken at a meeting where speeches criticising the corporation were loudly cheered. There are indications in ashington that Miss Perkins, Minister of Labour, who already has conferred with John Lewis, union leader, will attempt to play the role of peacemaker in order to avert the threatened general strike.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 9
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137GENERAL STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 9
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