SHIPPING STRIKE SPREADS
FOREIGN SHIPS INVOLVED
NEW YORK, December 19.
Baltimore longshoremen Joined the maritime strike following a speech by Mr. Harry Bridges. Members of two unions are involved, bringing the total number of strikers there to more than 5000 and spreading the strike to foreign ships. Leaders of the Pacific Coast strike announced that the proposed terms of settlement had not been agreed to.
At New York warring ...elements among the strikers had- a fight on the waterfront, many being bruised and cut. Mr. Joseph Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, complained to the police that his members, when reporting for duty at the piers, were attacked by striking seamen. Mr. Citrran, leader of "the rump" faction of the seamen, stated that his men had been ordered to keep the peace but that he could not control the hotheads.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 13
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