STORM CENTRE SHIFTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 9

STORM CENTRE SHIFTS

INCIDENTS AT PORTLAND

SENATOE TJNDEE FIEE

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NEW YOEK, July 19.

"With the San Francisco general strike over and every indication of arbitration in the longshoremen's strike, interest shifted to other striko centres.

Portland (Oregon) assumed, chief importance. The Governor (Mr. Meier) ordered out the National Guard following a clash between strikers and special guard/ whom, organised labour officials declared to.be "irresponsible persons armed%y the city." A tragedy was narrowly averted when Senator Epbert Wagner, who was sent specially as President Eoosevelt's mediator, cruising along the waterfront in his motor-car, unwitting crossed • the guardsmen's line. A volley of eleven bullets immediately riddled the' car shattering the glass and sides. Nobody was hurt, but Senator Wagner could hear the bullets whining past his head. The sentry said ho heard someone shout "Fire!" He fired and then every excited soldier'in the'vicinity followed suit. . ' ' : .

" A 'clash centred round Pier Pour, resulting in serious injury to several persons and the arrest aiia'disarming of four special guards. The'arrests of the- guards followed their firing at Senator-Wagner's automobile. The- Congressman for the- district seat a wireless message to President Boosevelt recommending that the Federal Government take over the Pacific coast shipping. A message from Oakland (California) states that.union labour voted tonight to return to work tomorrow, bfli- i cially ending the walk-out of 47,000 Alamcda county workers. ■ . ISSUE AT SAN FRANCISCO. : , Mr. H. Bridges states that the striking longshoremen at San Francisco- will never return to work unless they receive the control of "hiring; halls" where longshoremen gather for the allocation of employment. ■ Hitherto emplayers have-! distributed jobs through their "straw bosses!?*. The longshoremen construe the N.B^.'s recognition of collective • bargaining as meaning union control of "hiring halls." ■■; "■- Two textile union officials and another unionist were -wounded in Alabama as rioting broke out anew. -The Ohio onion-bed weeders, who are. onstriko, rioted, and four men were- injured. . : - ~-'■-. .-'■

Washington today issued a statement showing that American workers lost 15,000,000 days this year, due to strikes and lock-outs. Workers* income losses totalled 50,000,000 dollars. :