INDUSTRIAL STRIFE
DISPUTES IN AMERICA
CLAIMS BY UNIONS
PITTSBURG, March 6.
What is considered another victory ior Mr. Lewis is that the largest unit of the Aluminium Workers’ Union has announced its secession from the American Federation of Labour and its affiliation with the Committee of Industrial Organisation, which will conduct a campaign to organise all workers in the aluminium industry on an industrial basis.
A message from Akron states that the united rubber workers of America have served demands upon the Firestone lyre and Rubber Company to recognise the untfm as the sole- collective bargaining agency. The company has announced that, in view of the uncertainty of present conditions, it will shut all its plant until further notice, rendering 10.000 employees idle.
The employees of the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburg, have demanded a 20 per cent increase in pay or threatened to strike.
INCREASE IN WAGES
DETROIT SALESGIRLS
DETROIT, March G
The sit-down strike by salesgirls em ployed in the Woolwortli company storci lias been settled.
The strikers obtained an increase in wages of live cents an hour. This will be applicable to 40 stores.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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