TELEGRAPH STRIKE IN NEW YORK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 3

TELEGRAPH STRIKE IN NEW YORK

Reed. 6 p.m. New York, Jan. 8 Telegraphic isolation from the rest of the nation, and a partial cable isoation from the world, hit. New York to-day, when 7000 Western union telegraphic employees struck for higher wages. Almost immediately the heart of lhe company’s great, network came Io a near standstill, while union members in eight international and radio message firms refused to accept traffic emanating from Western Union. A union spokesman described the strike as 100 per cent, complete, affecting 1600 points in New York and New Jersey. The president of Ihe Congress of Industrial Organisations' Transport Workers’ Union, Mr. Michael Quill, told a rally of several thousand Western Union strikers that, if necessary, a general strike would be called in New York. He added: “It is about time for all American workers, organised or unorganised, to stick together.” The C.T.O. Council secretary, Mr. Saul Mills, said: “Every C.T.O. Union in Now York has been given an alert for all the support deemed necessary for the Western Union, or any other strike under way.”