FORD FACTORY STRIKE
WAGES REDUCTIONS RESENTED. NO SANCTION FROM UNION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, March 27. Three thousand of the 7000 employees of the Ford factory at Dagenham, the largest in Europe, struck without the sanction of their union, owing to wages reductions ranging from 3d to 7d an hour, though the company asserts that the reduced wages exceed the trades union minimum. The strikers of subsidiary factories bring the total to 8000. The strikers blocked traffic, prevented the clerks returning and picketed the road six deep outside double barricades the company erected to prevent a rush. UNION OFFICIAL’S DIRECTION. EFFORT TO FORM UNION. Rec. 7 p.m. London, March 28. The Ford factory strike, which is directed by a union official and not by an employee, is an attempt by prominent officials of the engineering union to establish a union in the works with the company's recognition.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1933, Page 7
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