SETTLEMENT LIKELY.
AMERICAN MARITIME STRIKE. UNION LEADER’S DEMAND. {United Press Association —Copyright/ WASHINGTON, November 13. The Maritime Commission, after a Cabinet meeting, where Mr Roosevelt was advised by the Secretary of Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) that there was a possibility of early peace, announced the consolidation of the investigation into the strike on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Meanwhile, Mr Harry Bridges (the union leader), at San Francisco, threatened to fight to a finish unless Government officials brought pressure to bear on the operators to end the tie-up. He alleged that operators, fattened on Government subsidies, intended a four months’ siege. “Each union is ready to settle in a few hours,” lie said. “All they ask is a guarantee of certain fundamentals. The strike was local. Now it is national. After it is over we will show them more. Our creed must be a six-hour day, not for ourselves, but for all labour.” At New York the insurgent seamen won a partial victory when the American Range Lines made a tentative separate agreement governing conditions on the west coast.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 30, 14 November 1936, Page 5
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