PACIFIC OIL TANKERS
NEW LABOUR FEDERATION
BIG ISSUES INVOLVED
United Press Association—By ■ Electric. Tele-
graph—Copyright,
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.
Mediation efforts by the Government Board in the coastwise tanker strike collapsed on the heels of Support for a walk-out from the Maritime Federation at Seattle. Marine circles admitted that the situation was delicate. The strike began with a demand by the seamen for the preferential hiring of union members. The request was later dropped, and in its stead a demand for a 44-hour week in place of the present 56 hours, and the re-em-ployment of the union strikers, became the critical issues. The employers refused to comment on the negotiations which led to the breakdown. . The recent ultimatum is recalled in which they set Friday night as the deadline for the 12,000 striking seamen, masters, mates, pilots, engine-room workers, and radio operators, to end 'i the dispute. Members of the joint tankers' strike committee today blamed the deadlock on the arrogant attitude of the Standard Oil Company in refusing to. give an inch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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