AMERICAN STRIKE SPREADS
FOREIGN SHIPS NOW, INVOLVED FIGHT ON WATERFRONT IN NEW YORK (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—COI’iTUOIIT.) (Received December 20, 11.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 19. The warring elements among the maritime strikers had a fight on the waterfront. Scores were bruised and cut. Mr J. P. Ryan (president of the Longshoremen’s Association) complained to the police that his members reporting for duty at the piers were attacked by striking seamen. Mr J. Curran, leader of the rump movement, stated that his men had been ordered to keep the peace, but he could not control the hotheads. Baltimore longshoremen joined the strike after a speech by Mr Harry Bridges to the members of the two unions involved, bringing the total strikers there to more than 5000 and spreading the strike to foreign ships.
Leaders of the Pacific coast strike announced that the terms of settlement have not been accepted.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21971, 21 December 1936, Page 12
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