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Show lASSER CALLS OFF STRIKES ON PROJECTS R..' WASHINGTON, July 18 f- (U.R) I'resident David Lasser of tlie Workers Alliance to-i'l- day ordered his membership to abandon the WPA strike "- and called a nation-wide dem- onstration Thursday demand-'X demand-'X ing sweeping revision of the i,.J940 relief act. . p. l'ro,;rani Announced .. lessor's announcement coin-iiVcided coin-iiVcided with report-s from various E'; centers of WPA strike activity i Indicating tliat only 30,000 to 50,-(t': 50,-(t': 000 workers are still remaining ,r';jwny from their jobs. . ,' Lu.sser announced that a Work-j Work-j Vers' Alliance program for protest f jguinst the relief act had been jyreed upon following a poll of : tlie members of the alliance 'S .hoard. p. Tlie program comprised: ' A temporai'y return to work ers 'under protest" in all cases wheru ty : APA stoppages are being led by f j. Workers Alliance units, p' Recommendation for temporary i. sliding of the strikes in which the u' rganization is cooperating with P.rther labdr groups. reduction in the hourly wage rate will cause private industry to reduce re-duce its scales. More than 100,000 workers have been affected by the strikes. Approximately 25,000 have been dismissed for violating an order to Works Projects Commissioner Com-missioner F. c. Harrington that no one could remain away from work for more than five days on strike. "Xl!" WASHINGTON, July 18 (U.R) s ,. Congressional advocates of the i ai" srevailing wage today renewed v.;heir effwrts l revise the 1940 e .eiief law. (t.' Sen. James R. Murray, D., . r lunt., author of a b'll to restore aj r he prevailing wage which con-a"fress con-a"fress replaced with the "security to vages," called a meeting of his ;jj .jupporters and announced he v ou Id press for action at this ession. app. Murray said he had announced ; o. laturday that he was abandoning i lis efforts because he wanted to ;elp stop the current strikes of '-VPA workers protesting the "se-urity "se-urity wage." Strikes Diminishing taU "The strikes were having a bad ffect on the legislation," he said. This is a legislative matter and 3 not to be settled by strikes." i He said he thought the strike Ituation was now "settling down." ' Murray is supported by the imerican Federation of Labor and he Congress of Industrial Organ-zations Organ-zations whose leaders have pro-ested pro-ested the "security wage" which equired skilled workers to work 30 hours a month for the same lay they received under tnc pre-Ulling pre-Ulling wage for less than half hat time. ; Organized labor fears that this |