STORES FEUD SETTLED
300 BRANCHES REOPEN
2000 EMPLOYEES AFFECTED
CLEVELAND (Ohio), Nov. 5. Three hundred grocery shops of the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, which have been closed for a week owing to disagreement between the company and the unions, are to bo reopened to-morrow following the successful intervention of the National Labor 'Relations Board. More than 2000 employees are affected. 'Phe truce negotiated can be claimed ns a distinct feather in the board’s cap, for at one moment there was a danger that the dispute might spread to the A. and P. stores all over the country and assume national proportions. All employees are to be re-engaged without discrimination, and they will lose nothing, us they -were dismissed with a week's pay when the company decided to close all their Cleveland shops rather than engage in a physical struggle with union pickets.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 12
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144STORES FEUD SETTLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 12
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