CABINET MEETS.
Possibility of Early Peace in
Maritime Strike. DISPUTE IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, November 13. The Maritime Commission, after a meeting of the Cabinet, where President Roosevelt was advised by the Minister of Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, of the possibility of early peace, announced a consolidation of its investigations into the strike 'at Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports.
The union leader, Harry Bridges, at a mass meeting in San Francisco, threatened a fight to a finish unless the Government's officials bring pressure to bear on the operators to end the deadlock. He alleged that the operators, fattened by Government subsidies, intended to carry on a four months' siege.
"Each union is ready to settle in a few hours," said Bridges. "All they ask is a guarantee of certain fundamentals. The strike was local, but now it is national. After it is over we will show them more of our creed. There must be a six-hour day, not only for ourselves, but for all labour which is attached to lis."
In New York the insurgent seamen won a partial victory when the American range of lines made a tentative separate agreement covering conditions on the west coast.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 271, 14 November 1936, Page 9
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