WATERSIDE STRIKE FEARED
NEW TROUBLE AT SAN FRANCISCO (Received April 15, 8.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.
The long-expected break between the radical Waterfront Workers' Union and the local Employers' Association happened to-day, when the employers' organisation broke off relations with the stevedores' local union. The break came when the dock workers refused to handle the cargo of a liner which arrived from New York to-day on the plea that the steamship line involved had discriminated against union labour. The Employers' Association issued a formal statement charging the radical union organisation with "wilful and Dersistent" violation oi the agreement reached, after the strike of 1934. The association intimated that it was prepared to enter into negotiations for a new agreement, but meanwhile ordered it* members to carry out a virtual bovcott of the radical union. According to observers, the militant dock workers must now either call widespread strikes and force the i:sue, or retreat by allowing conservative union leaders to assume control of the Pacific Coast maritime workers.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 11
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