U.S.A. SHIPPING STRIKE
SETTLEMENT PROBABLE. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] WASHINGTON, November 13, The Maritime Commission, after a Cabinet meeting, where Mr. Roosevelt : was advised by the Secretary for Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) that there was a possibility of early peace, announced the consolidation of the investigation into the strike on the At- • lantic and Pacific coasts. Meanwhile, Mr. Harry Bridges (the union leader), at San Francisco, threat; ened to fight to a finish unless Govern? ■' ment.officials brought pressure to be»r>’ on the operators to end the tie-up. He alleged that operators, fattened on Government subsidies, intended a’four months’ siege. “Each union ready to settle in a few hours,” he said? “All they ask is a guarantee of certain fundamentals. The strike was local. Now it is national. . After-it is over we will show them more.. Our creed must be-a six-hour day, not for ? ourselves,, bitt for all labour.” : ■’ ’ - j At New York the insurgent seamen won a partial victory when the American Range Lines made a tentative separate agreement governing .conditions on the west coast. ‘
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 7
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