COMMUNITY NEWS
| Muscatine County, Iowa COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Source: Muscatine Journal & News Tribune, Muscatine, Iowa, March 18, 1937
Submitted by Lynn McCleary, February 22, 2013
Cutters at Local Shop Halt Work Claiming their demands for a 15 per cent increase in pay had been denied, 99 men employed at the Pennant Button company plant at 604 East Third street, staged a sit down strike at 10 a.m. today.
The workers appointed three men to meet with the management in the office of the plant at 2 p.m. in an effort to settle differences over the wage scale.
About half the men remained at the plant during the noon hour today to eat their lunches or sit down by their machines until the return of other workers who had gone out to eat.
Representatives of the strikers said they would continue to sit down by their cutting machines until they were given other orders b the committee.
A check of two auxiliary cutting plants, the Wiliam Boldt plant of Newell avenue, and the Robert Schmitt plant on Adams street, revealed at noon that the approximately 40 cutters at the two plants had not joined the sitdown as rumored earlier in the morning.
Cutters at the Fred Grau plant were said to have received an increase in pay several days ago.
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