LABOUR UNREST IN U.S.A.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20670, 8 March 1937, Page 9

LABOUR UNREST IN U.S.A.

WIDESPREAD DEMANDS FOR CONCESSIONS ITENSIFIED ACTIVITIES OF RIVAL GROUPS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 7, 7.30 p.m.) PITTSBURGH, Marell 6. What is considered another victory for the Lewis taction is the secession of the largest unit of the Aluminium Workers Unions from, and affiliation with the C. 1.0., which will conduct a campaign to organise all workers in the aluminium industry on an industrial basis. A message from Akron states that the C. 1.0. United Rubber Workers of America have served demands upon the Firestone Tire Rubber Company to recognise the union as the sole collective bargaining agency. The company has announced, in view of the uncertainty of the present conditions, that it shut all its plant until, further notice, thus rendering 10,000 idle. Further Demands. The employees of the Westinghouse Electric Company, at Pittsburgh, demanded a 20 per cent, increase in pay, or threatened to strike. Settlements at Woolworths. A Detroit message says: The Woolworth sit down strike has been settled. The strikers obtained a 5 cent hourly wage increase, applicable to forty stores. INDUSTRIALISTS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT CONTINUANCE OF FARM RELIEF URGED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 7, 7.30 pjn.) WASHINGTON, March 6. Following a conference between President Roosevelt and the Governors of the six large industrial States, including New York, Ohio and Illinois, it was announced that the Federal Government would delay the plan radically to reduce the W.P.A. allowance. The Governors had insisted that their States were unable to bear the relief burden without the continuance of Federal aid. The suspensions, planned for June and May will be indefinitely postponed.