TIME
When F. W. Woolworth Co. last fortnight dispatched a freight car loaded with school supplies from a warehouse where its employes were on strike, union men at San Francisco’s Haslett Public Warehouse refused to unload it. Their employers fired them, shut the warehouse. Hitched behind a speedy switch engine and chased by pickets, the hot Woolworth car was shunted from San Francisco to Oakland and back again last week, shutting a warehouse wherever it stopped. Score at week’s end: 35 closed warehouses.
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