STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA
A TRUCE REACHED
MEETING INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES
WASHINGTON, August 5. (Received August 6, at 8 p.m.)
Administration officials announced that a truce has been reached in the bituminous coal strike and that the men will return to work. .'They have been granted minor concessions, but have not the right to form a union pending the formulation of a code for the coal industry. President Roosevelt has also announced that he has appointed a commission to arbitrate in all industrial labour disputes calculated to interfere with the success of the recovery programme.
A cablegram from Washington under date August 1 read as follows:—An acute situation has developed in the bituminous coal districts of Pennsylvania, where some 80,000 miners have been called out, partly due to the refusal ot some operators to allow unionisation, although many union men are striking in sympathy with non-unionists. To-day there were clashes throughout the area, strikers fighting strike breakers and peace officers, and detachments of State militia were called out to preserve order. One striker was killed and several were critically injured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 7
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