WOOLWORTH STORES
AN AMERICAN STRIKE. Received Dec. 19, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 17. Pickets are at three Woolworth stores, where the personnel striking carried placards derisively commenting on Barbara Hutton's citizenship. They also wirelessed her asking her to instruct the "Woolworth management to concede a living wage to thousands now existing on a starvation wage." RETURN TO WORK Received Dec. 19, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 18. The Woolworth strikers agreed to return to work pending negotiations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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78WOOLWORTH STORES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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