ITALIAN STRIKE
96 Ships Now Idle (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) GENOA, June 18. Italy’s crippling merchant marine strike, now 10 days old, continued to expand today as hopes for an early settlement grew dimmer, the American Associated Press reported. The trade unions’ committee that called the strike over a wage issue, said in Genoa today that 96 ships were now affected. 19 of them abroad and the others in Italian ports. It repeated today that it was willing to resume negotiations with the shipowners, but they must start while the ships were still idle. The owners have refused to talk on these terms, insisting that the strike must first be called- off.
The situation is expected to worsen tomorrow as the result of a threat by administrative employees of Genoa and Trieste navigation companies to go on a 24-hour strike in support of the seamen.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28926, 20 June 1959, Page 13
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