STRIKE CALLED OFF
UNION OFFICIALS’ ACTION
GOVERNMENT ISSUES INJUNCTION
Rec. 11 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 10 It is officially announced that eight hours and a-half before the deadline, railway union chiefs called off the strike. This action followed their refusal to call the strike off at the conference with Mr Kenneth Royall and the issuing of an injunction by Federal Judge Alan Goldsborough on the application of the Attorney-general, Mr Tom Clark, restraining railway unions from striking. The action was taken under a section of the Labour Law forbidding strikes against the Government. The injunction was made returnable for argument on May 19. A spokesman refused to speculate on whether the no-strike order would reach the 150,000 railwaymen in time to avert at least a partial interruption of the rail services. The United Press says members ot three unions will remain on the job under direction of the army, which took over the operation of the railway system to-day. . If the v/age dispute is not settled when the temporary court order expires on May 19, the Government will ask for another injunction to ensure continued train services.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26769, 12 May 1948, Page 5
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