SEAMEN'S STRIKE NEAR END

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22005, 1 February 1937, Page 5

SEAMEN'S STRIKE NEAR END

PACIFIC WORKERS GAIN CONCESSIONS DECISION TO RETURN THOUGHT CERTAIN (TTXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 31, 7.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, January 30. The Joint Strike Policy Committee passed a resolution recommending the Seamen's Union to conduct a membership referendum immediately on the question of ending the maritime strike. A strike official estimated that it would take three or four days to conduct the voting by 40,000 strikers. "They would return to work under agreements and understandings reached by their negotiating committees with the employers," he added.

The approval of a majority is regarded as a foregone conclusion since, with few exceptions, the unions have won their major demands, particularly the right to control the hiring of halls, an eighthour day or less, cash pay instead of time off for overtime, and union recognition. The employers, however, have retained full freedom to select ships' officers, engineers, masters, mates, pilots and marine engineers. The unions have accepted wage increases and other concessions and have given the shipowners the right to hire such men outside union ranks.