END OF SHIPPING STRIKE?
Owners and Seamen In Conference
IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT
EXPECTED
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 29, 9.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, January 28.
The possibility of an immediate end to the shipping strike was seen when the owners and seaman started a conference. Mr H. P. Melnikow, a close associate of Mr Harry Bridges, the union leader, told the Associated Press as he entered the meeting that he believed the strike would be settled during the night. Meanwhile Mr Bridges at a mass meeting of 9000 strikers won his fight to block a resolution by Mr Lundenberg, secretary of the Sailors’ Union, to continue the strike until the Copeland Act was repealed. The strikers cheered Mr Bridges and hissed Mr Lundenberg. The resolution was not even introduced.
Associates of Mr Bridges said that he was anxious to settle the strike before the Copeland Act becomes involved and also before the split with Mr Lundenberg widens. The owners are reported to be buying supplies, but it is doubtful if the Monterey could sail on schedule if the strike ended this week, because it would take another week to get her ready. •
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 13
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