STRIKE IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26043, 5 January 1946, Page 6

STRIKE IN AMERICA

WESTERN ELECTRIC PLANTS EXTENSION PROBABLE (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3. The first of a series of strikes ordered or planned in various industries for January, involving nearly 2,000,000 workers, began in 21 plants of the Western Electric Company to-day, when 17,400 workers walked out. for a wage increase.' The Western Electric strike is expected to lead to the disruption of the national telephone service because the National Federation of Telephone Workers, with 260,000 members, has been asked to stage a sympathv strike which would affect an additional 450,000 of the Bell System employees. Nearly 20,000 workers in all types of factories at Stamford (Connecticut) staged a two-liour mass demonstration in sympathy with the striking Yale and Towne Lock Company employees, who seek a closed shop and a 30 per cent, wage increase. The demonstration stopped all factory work throughout the city. The C. 1.0. has fixed January 14 for a steel strike affecting 700,000 workers, and January 16 for a meat workers’ strike, affecting 200,000.