INDUSTRY THREATENED
BIG RAILWAY STRIKE. AGAINST REDUCED WAGES. (Reuter.) Received October 16, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, October 14. United States industry is confronted with a stoppage in consequence of the menace of a railway strike. The railway executive is cutting the wages of two million workers ten per cent, in order to permit of reduced freights, for I which the public is clamouring. Locoj motive men, engineers, conductors, firemen ajid switchmen are mapping out a plan to strike. In Wall Street railway stocks have dropped, reflecting the possibility' of a strike. ■ WASHINGTON, October 15. The Chicago Telegraph states that the heads of the railway brotherhoods have issued a strike call to become effective on October 30, unless the employers in the meantime re-open negro- I tiations regarding wages and working I conditions. The leaders have divided the country into ten zones, and propose to call a strike successfully in each zone until the managements confer I with the railway executives. A meeting at Chicago decided to ask the United Stales Railroad Labour Board to sanction an additional 10 per cent wage reduction, besides the 12 per cent already ordered.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14777, 17 October 1921, Page 5
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