Wives And Children Sit On Tracks To Aid Brazil Rail Strikers
RIO DE JANEIRO. Rec. 9 p.m. Sept. 27. An unprecedented “mother and child” sit-down strike against Brazil’s largest, railway company is likely to be settled as the Government has come to the company’s aid. The railwaymen. who. have not been paid for three months, struck last Thursday for their money. Their wives and children supported them by sitting on the tracks of the railway in a considerable portion of south-eastern Brazil. President Dutra to-day authorised the Bank of Brazil to lend the railway the money it needed to meet its payrolls.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27197, 28 September 1949, Page 5
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