£5,000,000 STRIKE
RAGE OR SOVIET DUPES AT ITS FAILURE NEW YORK, Oct. S. A textile strike at New Hod ford, Massachusetts, which the Soviet International claimed to have fomented, ended yesterday, when the workers agreed to a 6 per cent, reduction in wages. The conclusion of the strike was bitterly resented bv the opponents of a compromise, and the special editions of the newspapers announcing the end of the long battle were torn to pieces. The strike has been one of the most disastrous in the history of New England. It began on April lit, when the textile manufacturers wished to make a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. The stoppage bus meant a loss to the operatives and the mills of £5,000,000, and many orders have gone permanently elsewhere. As a result! of* the balloting 27,000 strikers will return lo work to-morrow in 56 mills operated by 26 companies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 13
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150£5,000,000 STRIKE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 13
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