AMERICAN STRIKES
CONVENTION’S DECISIONS OTHER INDUSTRIES TO JOIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Aug. 19. 7.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Strikes involving 325,000 additional workers were voted on Friday night in the woollen, worsted, silk and rayon knitters’ industries by the convention of the United Textile Workers of America. The convention yesterday had voted for a strike in the cotton textile industry employing half a million workers. The silk and rayon industries’ delegates left to the discretion of the new executive committee of the United Textile Workers, and the executive committee* of their own branches, the time the strikes were to be called. The woollen, worsted and synthetic rayon workers, however, decided to go out at the same time as the cotton textile employees. The convention had voted to call at 72 hours’ notice the cotton textile strike on or before September 1 in an effort to force increased w'ages and improved working conditions
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 196, 20 August 1934, Page 7
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