Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — SUPPORT DES MOINES STRIKE [ARTICLE]

SUPPORT DES MOINES STRIKE

Sixty-Six Unions Vote to Back Wage Demands of Car Men— Teamsters Quit. Des Moines, la., Aug. 15. —Organized labor at a mass meeting at which all of the 66 local unions were repre seated, indorsed r the strike of street car employees which went into effect Wednesday. One -hundred teamsters went on strike, demanding an increase from $27 to S4O weekly.