LABOUR HOLIDAY
INDUSTRY PARALYSED AUTOMOBILE workers in MICHIGAN Received June 8, 9.20 p.m, LANSING (Michigan), June 7. As a protest against the arrest jf strike pickets, the United Automobile Workers called a labour holiday which paralysed the industrial plants. Die tins systems, taxi-cabs and main arteries were blockaded by rows of cars. Crowds of union members manned the 1 ratlie intersections directing tne milling crowds. After the demonstration started the local president of the United Automobile Workers’ Association announced that an agreement had been reached lex the release of the pickets.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 7
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91LABOUR HOLIDAY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 7
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