STRIKES IN U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, April 25. Defence officials disclosed that the continuation of the coal strike will force 19 major arms plants to go on parttime operations within 48 hours and will compel the steel industry to cut operations to 85 per cent, next week. The New York Herald-Tribune reports that the employees of 60 out of 61 General Motors plants had voted authorizing to strike, whereupon the Secretary of Labour (Miss Francis Perkins) certified the dispute to the National Defence Mediation Board. General Motors employ 160.000 men in 61 plants and has 700,000,000 dollar defence contracts.
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Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 5
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97STRIKES IN U.S.A. Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 5
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