NATION-WIDE STOP PLANNED
UNREST ON PUBLIC WORKS IN U.S.A. GOVERNMENT THREAT OF REPRISALS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received October 4, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. October 3. It has been disclosed that the Workers Alliance of America is planning a nation-wide strike or an equivalent demonstration, at the end of the month. A million Works Progress Administration workers demand a 20 per cent increase in pay, and a minimum wage of 40 dollars a month. “The Works Progress Administration strike plans will take definite shape when the national executive of the board meets at New York, within ten days, under the chairmanship of Mr David Lasser (national chairman),” stated Mr B. Sexton, head of the New York branch of the alliance. The demands are virtually the same as those the alliance has already made in New York and Minnesota, without success. The Government authorities recently said that in case of a strike against the Works Progress Administration, its projects would be cancelled, if necessary. Nevertheless organisers are at present touring the East and Mid-West, shaping plans for concerted action.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 9
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