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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200296-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 296
• Publication Date: September 24, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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out nm:bsr doming in Jane, n7ter wagon were unfrozen. Of these disputes, 114
resulted in strikes, the other 1,941 were settled otherwise. Persons involved
numbered 445,143. Therewac a loan Of 193,335 worlr-ng days.
Factors in the disputes wore: contracts, wngee, hours, 'enure, treatment,
regulations, stoppage of work, ate. The disputes were most frequent, Eind ales
the east qutekly settled, in the textile induatrioe, where the lrnrgoet number
of wer7ssrs were employed.
Of the total mnsber of dieputoa, by far the majority, 1,^89, wore :n
Ohineswowned plants. Next came British plants with 90, American 52, French 11,
Soviet 14. and all others 19.
There were three poak periods in tho course of labor disputes in 1947.
The first sine in January and was concerned with the year-end (T11, n=tivo 1anar
year is probably meant) bonus. This was fixed by the city gove:rrunt at a
month's wage. A number o. adjustments, considorinr, the interosto of both cap_i-
tal and labor had to be mcae. On the whole tho many disputes were aettied.
amicably.
A second peat; come in June aftaa wages were unfrozen, Itomoval of blanket
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"striations gave' opportunity for endlesspre?euring"end bargaining. In goner
al,, agreements sere made for higher wages and longer hours, with the previous
month+o cost-of-living index as the basis. By the end of June conditions ha
bseome normal again.
The third peak came in September. with a series of Communist-fomented
strikes in the public utilities. These were settled throngs government meth
ation.
Causes of the 1947 disputeeleq along two correlated lines, economic end
politi,cal.. Purely economic conflicts were utilized by elements that wanted to
serge political power. Political agitation !'stored economic discontent and
strgggl.ea for better conditions. The Communists were guilty on both these
counts.
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