Intervenes New York, Mar. 5.
Two new strikes affecting defence industries developed in the United States yesterday, one of them leading to intervention by the War Department for the first time in American history.
Picketing by an organizing committee of steel workers was reported to have nously interfered" with over $70,000,000 worth of defence orders in the Curtiss-Wright Company's propeller factory at Pittsburgh.
A strike of 400 construction workers at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. interfered for the second time in a month with work on $1,550,000 worth of army aircraft. As a result, of this Strike, the War Department intervened in a labour dispute for the first time in American history and ordered the Penner Corporation to resume electrical installation work Which had been interrupted.
The Dayton strike is understood to have resulted from protests by union members affiliated with the American Federation of Labour that the Penner Corporation was employing workers affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations—United Press,
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