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394.1141 Singer Sewing Machine Co./29: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, February 10, 1933—10 a.m.
[Received February 9—11:35 p.m.]

36. The Singer Sewing Machine Company strike was settled in a conference on the night of February 8 through the good offices of the Director of Police of Kanagawa Prefecture. The company reports that it made no concessions with respect to the objects for which the agitation and strike were first started. Dismissed strikers are to be reemployed after individual interviews excepting those who have committed criminal acts. Full report by mail.25

Grew
  1. Not printed. The Ambassador in Japan, in his despatch No. 313, March 8, reported the punishment of persons involved and stated the belief “that the matter of the strike can be officially considered as closed” (394.1141 Singer Sewing Machine Co./38).↩