DOCKERS RETURN

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30042, 29 January 1963, Page 18

DOCKERS RETURN

34-Day U.S. Strike Ends

(NX. Press Am.—Copyright) NEW YORK, January 28. New York waterside workers returned to work yesterday for the first time since December 23.

A 34-deiy strike had crippled the United States largest port and ottier pants along the Atiantic seaboard.

A half a dozen 20-man gangs returned to their jobs here at 8 am., the Associated Press reported. More than 60,000 watersiders agreed to go back to load ing and unloading ships waiting to eater ports atong the seaboard and Gulf coast. But at least two local unions refused the order of the MetnaMooai Longshoremen’s Association’s national headquarters to return to work.

About 2000 wotensiders in Mobile, Alabama, want a guarantee that they will be paid When work is stopped because of rain. The other port to remain idle is Norfolk, Virginia. Maritime sources said st would take at least two or three days for the port of New York to return to normal and up to three weeks elsewhere.

Millions at dollars of goods have piled up in warehouses, piers, and railway goods waggons waiting to be transhipped to ship holds, while more than 600 Ships are either tied up in ports or waiting to enter.