PACIFIC SHIPPING DISPUTE
POSSIBLE INTERVENTION BY COMMISSION
OWNERS ACCUSED OF REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE
(Received October 8, 9.15 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, October 7
In an effort to settle the Pacific shipping deadlock, Mr Edward McGrady, Assistant Secretary for Labour, will confer with the Maritime Commission to-morrow and then leave by air for the Pacific coast to present the commission’s views.
It was said that the commission, which is headed by Rear-Admiral Wiley, will probably offer its services without pressure on the owners and sailors.
Mr Harry Lunenberg. head of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific coast, to-day presented his organisation’s demand that the commission should exert pressure on the shipowners, who, he said, “received millions in subsidies and refused to discuss wages, hours, and conditions.” However, it is said that three joint conferences between the owners and sailors have been held in the last 60 days.
[After the Maritime Commission had pleaded with the owners’ unions to avert a threatened dislocation of Pacific Coast shipping, affecting 37,000 men, because of the imminent expiry of union contracts, a 15-day truce was agreed to on September 30 by the shipowners and longshoremen, temporarily averting a hold-up of shipping.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 11
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