PACIFIC SHIPPING STRIKE
♦ UNION LEADER OPPOSES ARBITRATION “CANNOT SIGN BLANK PAPER” (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—COTYRIGHT.) (Received December 8, 9.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, December 7. Mr Harry Bridges, a unionist leader in the shipping strike, in a radio address, said that he would submit any normal issue to arbitration, but added, “I cannot sign a blank paper empowering somebody to write our death warrant.” He condemned subsidies, which, he said, were put in the ship owners’ pockets in the form of extravagant salaries and bonuses, without benefiting the workers. (
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 14
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