RAILWAYMEN IN U.S.A. WANT NEW CONTRACI
Recd. 6.40 p.m. Washington, May 25Presidents of 20 railway unions voted today to demand that the Government either negotiate new contract terms with three unions which recently threatened a nation-wide strike or return the railways to private operation. In a secret conference union officials accused the Government of acting as a strike-breaker in the recent walk-out threat, which resulted in President Truman seizing the lines and turning the operation over to the Army. The leaders then adopted a resolution demanding that the Government either enter into direct bargaining with locomotive engineers, firemen, and shunters, or return the lines.
The 20 union presidents are all members of the Railway Labour Executives' Association. They represent about 1,250,000 railway workers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 May 1948, Page 5
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