CALL FOR STRIKE
AMERICAN STEEL WORKERS PREVENTIVE EFFORTS FAIL (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, June 10. N.R.A. officials are prepared to make last-minute efforts to-morrow and on Tuesday to prevent a general steel strike,. which has been tentatively called for Saturday. So far all efforts to mediate in the differences, which revolve around the refusal of companies to recognise the independent labour union, have failed. The union leaders claim that between 100.000 and 150,000 workers of about 400.000 in the industry will answer the strike call, and believe that the number will be enough completely to halt production, which, if it resulted, would seriously retard the President’s recovery programme. The N.R.A., with the co-operation of the dominant steel companies, has made several compromise proposals, one of which would create an impartial board to consider the grievances. All of these the unionists have flatly rejected. It is reported that the operators are preparing for a long and perhaps bloody conflict, and are recruiting strikebreakers and special guards to protect property in the event of violence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22286, 12 June 1934, Page 9
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