Sympathy Strike Closes Every Grocery Store
September 25, 1942
A sympathy walkout resulting from a wage dispute between members of the AFL Retail Clerks Union 750 and Purity and Safeway stores today closed every grocery store and meat market in Susanville.
The Purity store closed Thursday, and the Safeway store today. Spokesmen for employers said both stores would remain closed indefinitely.
The J.C. Penney store in Susanville has been closed for three weeks over a wage dispute, despite attempts by a federal wage conflict conciliator to affect a settlement.
Indications were that the sympathy walkout would be extended to other businesses shortly.
All affected stores were members of the Susanville Employers Council.
