STRIKE AVERTED
GENERAL MOTORS’ PLANTS REFERRED TO MEDIATION BOARD (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Apl. 26, The Herald-Tribune reports that the employees of 60 of 61 of General Motors plants had voted authorising a strike, whereupon the Secretary of Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, certified the dispute to the National Defence Mediation Board. General Motors employ 160,000 men in 61 plants, and have 700,000,000 dollars' worth of defence contracts. COAL DISPUTE SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES WASHINGTON, Apl. 26. Defence officials have disclosed that the continuation of the coal strike will force 19 major arms plants to go on part-time operations within 48 hours and compel the steel industry to cut operations to 85 per cent, next week. SENATOR’S DEMAND REPLACEMENT OF MISS PERKINS WASHINGTON, Apl, 25. Senator Byrd demanded in the Senate to-day that Miss Frances Perkins be replaced as Secretary of Labour by “ a two-fisted man who will have the intestinal fortitude to say to both Labour and Capital that strikes in defence industries cannot be tolerated.” Senator Byrd said Miss Perkins had demonstrated ineptness, weakness and inability to meet her responsibility in settlement of strikes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24592, 28 April 1941, Page 6
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184STRIKE AVERTED Otago Daily Times, Issue 24592, 28 April 1941, Page 6
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