SHIPPING STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 9

SHIPPING STRIKE

THE PACIFIC COAST

UNANIMOUS DECISION

NOW IN OPERATION

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, October 30. By a unanimous vote all the maritime unions and all the warehousemen decided to strike against all the shipping companies. The strike started at midnight tonight. On September 30 it was reported that the Maritime Commission at Washington had pleaded with owners and unions to avert a threatened tieup of Pacific Coast shipping which would affect 37,000 men whose union contracts were about to expire. The Commission, urged a 60-day extension of the existing agreement. It was hoped to obtain a 15-day truce, and Mr.- Edward McGrady, the Assistant Secretary of Labour, conferred with the Maritime Commission and theu left by air for the Pacific Coast. Later he announced that he had asked the Maritime Commission to arbitrate and also that he was endeavouring to persuade the union leaders to accept arbitration. A message on October ?.9 stated that the waterfronts were paralysed awaiting the result of the negotiations. It was believed that only personal intervention by the President would avert a strike.