NEW CONTRACT TERMS
RAILWAY UNIONS’ DEMAND ECHO OF RECENT STRIKE THREAT N.Z.P.A.—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 25. The presidents of 20 railway unions voted to-day to demand that the Government either negotiate new contract terms with the three unions which recently threatened ■ a nation-wide strike or return the railways to private operation. . In a secret conference, union officials accused the Government of acting as strike-breaker in the recent walk-out threat, which resulted in President Truman seizing the lines and turning the operation over to the army. The leaders then adopted a resolution demanding that the Government either enter into direct bargaining with the locomotive engineers, firemen, and shunters, ond return the lines. The 20 union presidents are all members of the Railway Labour Executives’ Association. They represent about 1,250,000 railway workers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26782, 27 May 1948, Page 5
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132NEW CONTRACT TERMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26782, 27 May 1948, Page 5
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