NEW YORK: President Roosevelt is expected to take action today [Nov 23] to prevent the possible strike of telephone operators throughout the United States. It is anticipated he will order the armed forces to take over and operate switchboards at Ohio where 5,000 girls are on strike in spite of Government warning that they are impeding the war effort at a critical hour. Some of Washington’s 2,500 operators left their switchboards in sympathy with Ohio workers late on Wednesday night but service to the capital was resumed after only slight interruption. 2,000 operators in Detroit, heart of America’s war industry say they will leave today. An earlier message from Washington stated that a telephone strike threatens to affect the entire United States. Officials of the Ohio telephone workers who are at present on strike have appealed to other operators throughout the nation to join them and the Telephone Traffic Union has voted unanimously to leave the switchboards in sympathy with the Ohio workers.

[Meanwhile,] a scheme costing nearly Rs. 39 crores for introducing free and compulsory education in the province is suggested by the Education Sub-Committee of the Post-war Reconstruction Committee, Bengal. (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn, November 24th, 2014