THREATENED STRIKE
ULTIMATUM TO CONGRESS. WHOLE COUNTRY LOOKING ON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, August 31. The situation is causing the most intense interest. Individual members of Congress are anxious to avoid antagonising organised labour, and the present indications are that Congress before Monday next will pass a law making an eight-hour day legal for railwaymen. In the meanwhile the managers of the companies are pressing the Government to give the companies authority to increase the freight rates in order that they may recoup themselves. It is thought that Congress may postpone taking action in this matter. In effect the trades unions have delivered an ultimatum to Congress for the first time in the history of the United States, and the whole nation is most interested to see whether Congress will back down. The latest indications are that a strike is not likely, or that it will be averled at least for the time being.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 5
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