STRIKE SETTLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 142, 18 June 1934, Page 7

STRIKE SETTLED.

PACIFIC WATERFRONT Longshoremen Accept Formula For Peace. TRAFFIC TO RESUME TO-DAY. (Unitea P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, June 17. A message to the "Sun" states that the Pacific longshoremen's strike lias been settled and traffic will resume on Monday. The formula for the settlement of the strike was signed on Saturday by the employers, the union representatives and commercial organisations. A two-thirds majority was necessary for ratification of the settlement by the union members, but the labour leaders predicted that it would be approved. This has ended the trouble which has paralysed the sea trade of the coast for more than a month. The trouble at the ports of the Pacific Coast began on May 0, when 10,000 to 15,000 longshoremen struck for an increase in pay from S5 cents to one dollar an hour, and a 30-hours week, compared with the 48-hours week provided in the new shipping codej. Later the ranks of the strikers- were reported to have been joined by several thousand members of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, the Masters, Mates and Pilots' Union, and the Marine Firemen's Union. The strike had a direct effect on vessels trading between the Pacific Coast and- New Zealand ports, and when the Matson liner Monterey arrived at Auckland on Friday the local waterside workers refused to handle her cargo, because of the non-union crew aboard, and this work was done by the members of the ship's crew, assisted by a few men who were secured in the city.

Information was received in Auckland to-day that the longshoremen's strike had been settled. The Union Company's steamer Waihemo was held up at San Francisco for three /.eeks, but is now to be loaded. The coi/pany's steamer Wairuna is aleo on the Pacific Coast, but the latest advice was that she was to sail from Vancouver for Tahiti and New Zealand.