The Archive · 1937

U.S. MOTOR INDUSTRY HITS NEW SNAG

C.LO. Affiliate Union Veto Results of Long Parleys

Detroit, Nov. 14.

Delegates of the United Automobile Workers of America, a CIE. affiliate, to-day unanimously reletted the proposed new labour agreement.

Five months of negotiations failed when delegates from sixty nationwide General Motors plants expressed disapproval. The workers asked their union to petition the National Labour Relations Board for an election in all plants on the grounds that the company ignored the union's demands. The long negotiations "were aimed at amending the pact drawn up at the end of the recent costly strike in the motor industry.

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