STRIKE SETTLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 16

STRIKE SETTLED

WOOLHANDLERS AT BOSTON FEARS FOR IMPORT CENTRE (Received July 9, 5.5 p.m.) BOSTON, July S It was feared that the action of shipping lines in declaring an embargo on the wool trade through the city as a sequel to the woolhandlers' .strike, which started on Juno 29, would cost Boston her supremacy as America's largest wool-importing centre. The strike, however, has been settled, the men receiving increased pay, seniority rights and the recognition of the union. The "closed shop" issue remains irreconcilable. At present 90,000 bales have accumulated on the piers and • docks. Merchants and warehousemen attempted to move some of the supplies with railway goods cars.

MOTOR WORKERS' UNION

CHARGES AGAINST COMPANY ALLEGED BRUTAL ASSAULTS (Received July 9, 5.5 p.m.) DETROIT, July 8 Newspaper photographers gave evidence to-day in the case brought against-the Ford Motor Company by the National Labour llelations Board. The company was charged with the responsibility for malicious and brutal assaults upon organisers of the United Automobile" Workers. The photographers said they saw employees of the company's service department strike from behind and brutually beat, a TJ.A.W. organiser named Frankensteen, who had attempted to distribute literature of the organisation among the Ford workers. A girl organiser was stated to have been kicked by a negro. State troopers', who wore spectators of the alleged assaults, did not interfere.