ANOTHER PACIFIC STRIKE?
SEAMEN OBJECT TO REGULATION
TWO SHIPS DELAYED INJUNCTION OBTAINED AGAINST EMPLOYERS (CXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) °" (Received February 14, 7.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 12. Another Pacific shipping tie-up is threatened by the refusal of seamen to accept the continuous discharge books required under the Copeland Act.
Two ships have announced a delay of their departure by 24 hours.
Three maritime unions have obtained a temporary injunction from Judge Roche to prevent the enforcement of the Copeland Act. Mr E. Lundeberg (secretary of the Sailors' Union) charged the Government with having double-crossed the workers in failing to keep its promise to withhold enforcement of the act pending action on the proposed changes which are now being placed before Congress by Senator Copeland. [On February 11, the refusal of seamen to accept continuous discharge books,' compulsory under the Copeland Act, prevented the American-Hawaiian freighter, Columbia, from leaving New York. The crews of several other ships were reported to be unwilling to accept the books.]
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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