PACIFIC COAST DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 18 September 1937, Page 15

PACIFIC COAST DISPUTE

TERRORIST VIOLENCE REPORTED VOLLEY OF SHOTS FIRED AT TUG WORKERS TEAMSTERS' EMBARGO SAID TO BE TIGHTENED (TOTTED PEESS ASSOCIATION—COFraiOHT.) (Received September 17, 9 p.m.) PORTLAND (Oregon), Sept. 17. Terrorist violence flared up in the labour organisation's dispute on the Pacific coast between the longshoremen and teamsters. A tug crew reported that a volley of shots had been fired at them from the river bridge, and three mill workers attached to the Committee for Industrial Organisation allege that a man fired a rifle at tjiem. Captain Guy Gill, a tug master, said a gang of 20 boarded his boat and threw him overboard. The incidents are attributed to the embargo placed by American Federation of Labour teamsters and carpenters against mills manned by workers of the Committee for Industrial Organisation. Several mills have been forced to close. Meanwhile, the teamsters are tightening their embargo on San Francisco and all other ports on the coast. The north-west lumber camps are being transformed into a battleground. The dispute between the longshoremen and teamsters began on Septemberl. when Mr Harry Bridges Sonally led 500 pickets of the Committed for Industrial Organisation in a «dI aga°nst American Federation of Labou? teamsters at a warehouse on the waterfront. This action was the outeome of factional rivalry for jurisdThen'Teamsters' Union, in retaliation, placed an embargo on all cargo in the San Francisco docks until the question of jurisdiction is settled.