Business & Finance: Revolution in Bayonne

The trouble started when the management ordered employes to put on a green button when they left their work benches to go to the toilet. Practically all the workers were young; about 100 were girls. Walking around with green buttons that everybody understood embarrassed them.

First they tried to get the union to do something about it. The union was an old-line A.F. of L. electrical workers local and did not take the complaint very seriously. When it finally did file a protest the management was just as slow and paid no particular...

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