DOCK STRIKE IN U.S.

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28131, 21 November 1956, Page 15

DOCK STRIKE IN U.S.

Rail Freights Halted (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. Nov. 19. All movement of non-military railway freight to east coast and Gulf ports was halted today close on the heels of a White House appeal for a quick settlement of the four-day Maine-to-Texas dock strike. The Association of American Railroads in Washington ordered the embargo at the request of the Inter-State Commerce Commission to prevent an accumulation of overseas and coastal freight at the idle ports. About 700 goods trucks a day normally pour into New York alone. A White House statement issued by the Presidential press secretary, Mr James Hagerty, said it was hoped both sides in the strike “would recognise their obligations to the countrv and the public” in getting the flow of trade resumed immediately. The International Longshoremen’s Association called the strike in New York last Friday when the old contract had not been negotiated. Dock workers at other east coast ports ce m s^ d work in support of the strikers. Today, dock workers on the west coast began a 24-hour strike in sympathy with the strikers.

Raid On Algerian Communists

(Rec. 8 p.m.) ALGIERS. Nov. 19. A total of 119 Communists were arrested yesterday in Algeria and interned in camps at Lodi and Berrouaghia, near Algiers, usually-reliable sources said today. The sources said the Communists included Europeans and Moslems, men and women

’’olice, who believed that recent bomb attacks in Algiers were the of a clandestine Communist organisation. carried out the arrests in Algiers, Constantine. Bone. Batna. Oran, Setif, and other towns in Algeria.

General Gruenther Honoured.—The French Prime Minister ’Mr Mollet) today conferred the Military Medal, France's highest military award, on General Alfred M. Gruenther. retiring Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Europe. General Gruenther will tomorrow hand over his post to General Lauris Norstad, aged 49. another American.—Paris. Nov. 19.