CALLED OFF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 170, 20 July 1934, Page 7

CALLED OFF.

MASS WALK-OUT. COMMITTEE DECISION. Wheels of Business Again in Motion in 'Frisco. MARITIME STRIKE UNSETTLED. i (United r.A.—Electric Telegropt—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. By a vote of 191 to 174 the San Francisco General Strike Committee voted late to-night to end the mass ■walk-out of union labour here. The committee advised all unions who were on strike in sympathy with the maritime strike to return immediately, and declared that they would accept arbitration for immediate settlement. Declaring that it had done everything in its power to avert the catastrophe threatening the community, the committee called off the strike. At the same time it pledged all its resources for a successful termination of the maritime dispute.

The wheels of business in San Francisco metropolitan area moved again to-day, and under pressure from the Federal State, the walk-out of city employees gave indications of collapsing rapidly.

The Strike Strategy Committee of I Alameda County, with a population of 500,000, announced that a vote is to be taken in Oakland to-night on a proposal to end the walk-out. The transport system, including ferries, will bo resumed on Friday, and tho street car system is operating today, while shops have reopened, and the food and gasoline services are nearing normal. The maritime strike, however, is still the key issue in the dispute and remains a problem which officials admit is yet a serious one. Henry Bridges, militant leader of the striking longshoremen, who yesterday reported that "the general strike is over," later repudiated his statement. •She officials of several shipping companies have wirelessed to vessels on the high seas instructing them to put into San Francisco again. These include the Matson liners. The general strike's effectiveness greatly decreased when the Strike Committee lifted its embargoes on foodstuffs, petrol, fuel and oils. Moderate Labour in Control. The moderate labour element has regained control of the situation from the rank and file workers, many of ■whom did not realise the serious adventure upon which they were embarking •when they voted for the general strike. At the request of the Department of Labour, General Hugh Johnson, chief administrator of the N.R.A., has agreed to act as agent of the Federal Mediation Board. He has announced flatly that there will be no arbitration in the longshoremen's strike until the coercive influence of tho general strike has been lifted. The "Western Worker," in its last issue on Tuesday before the "vigilantes" ■wrecked the plant, described itself as the official organ of the Communist party and called upon Communists all oven the United States to spread the strike into every port.

Michael Casey, president of the Teamsters' Union, whose men were generally credited with having wrecked the "Western Worker" plant and offices, congratulated Labour yesterday on the "great victory for Conservatism and sanity."

Many Communists nave T>een arrested, i but. hundreds of others have escaped from San Francisco. In bands these men invaded villages in the Fresno County. "Vigilantes'" committees were quickly formed in these communities and warned the agitators to leave. In Court yesterday 356 alleged Communists were brought before the bench. Only a few of them could find the 1000 dollars bail the authorities demanded. Mr. Justice Lazarus declined to allow accused their freedom on their own recognisance and indicated that many would be deported. "We are experiencing a time of public peril," said the judge, "and we all know that many of these men are undesirable citizens ready to pounce down and make the emergency worse. They are enemies of good government and I am not going to mince matters in dealing with them."