U.S.A. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 13

U.S.A. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

WATERSIDE FIGHT. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN.—-COPYBIGHT.] NEW YORK, December 19. The warring elements among the maritime strikers had a fight on the waterfront. Scores were bruised and cut Mr J. P. Ryan (President of the Longshoremen’s Association) complained to the police that his members reporting for duty at the piers were attacked by striking seamen. Mr J. Curran, leader of the rump movement, stated that his men hac been ordered to keep the peace, but he could not control the hotheads. Baltimore longshoremen joined the strike after a speech by Mr Harry Bridges to the members of the two unions involved, bringing the total strikers there to more than 5000 and spreading the strike to foreign ships. Leaders of the Pacific coast strike announced that the terms of settlement have not been accepted. FORD WORKERS IDLE. DETROIT, December 19. Mr Henry Ford has announced that he has put off 10,000 men because of a shortage of brake drums from the Kelsey Wheel Company, where a sitdown strike has entered its fourth day. The United Automobile Workers Union stated that the number put off was nearer 20,000. Lack of parts has also curtailed the activities of the Ford assembly plant in Buffalo, where 2200 workers are idle through lack of material result- ■ ing from the Detroit strikes.