SHIPPING PARALYSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 194, 30 May 1934, Page 5

SHIPPING PARALYSED.

AMERICAN PACIFIC COAST. .

STRIKERS CLASH WITH! POLICE. VANCOUVER, May 10. Paralysis hangs over the extensive shipping activities of the United States, Pacific Coast, as 10,000 waterside workers have downed hooks, while the transport men of Seattle and Oakland have begun sympathy strikes. Faced with the task of getting cargoes, some perishable, from the holds of 128 ships now berthed between Seattle and San Diego,' the shipping firms advertised openly for strikebreakers; . / V . ' 'Sensing a war to a finish, the companies pressed into service old freight*ers and idle passenger ships to provide living-quarters for them. In San Francisco an armoured car, flanked by police motor-cycles, transported the men to the docks. The strikers, dressed in their Sunday best, hooted truck-loads of strike-breakers and clashed with the police squads. ; The Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland stoppage is complete. Under special dispensation, union, men removed'mail and passenger bags from incoming ships, but it rush silk cargo, worth about £IOO,OOO, on board the Tatsuta Maru at San Francisco was not touched.

Federal mediators so far have not moved the men from their demands of a dollar an hour and a 30-hour week.