IMPORTANT WIN FOR MARITIME STRIKERS

Northern Advocate, 30 November 1936, Page 5

IMPORTANT WIN FOR MARITIME STRIKERS

TWO COASTAL LINES ACCEPT TERMS

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! NEW YORK, November 28. The maritime strikers claim to have won an important victory, in that two coastal lines flying the American flag have accepted their terms for wages, working and hiring conditions. The American Steamship Owners’ Association, however, claims that these lines are not members.

At San Francisco, the unions picketed the Matson and the Dollar Lines’ buildings. The secretary of the strike committee, who is regarded as Harry Bridges’ understudy, said the companies named and the American and Hawaiian Lines were preventing a settlement. Crew Leave Monterey.

The Monterey arrived at San Francisco high out of the water. The Honolulu cargo was not loaded, as the crew would have walked ashore immediately. On tying up today, the crew left the vessel, the future sailing of which is doubtful. ■ A few; Australians are among the passengers. They, include Mr R. Falkiner, a Rivefina grazier, who is en route to England, and Mr von Schilling and family, of the Texas Oil Company, Sydney. , Harry Bridges, addressing the Labour Council, , challenged the

shipowners to present their side

of the. dispute at a mass meeting to be held next week. “We can

show that four big companies are

holding up a settlement of the whole strike,” he said. Truce Ship For Hawaii?

The Hawaiian delegate to.,the United States Congress, Mr Samuel King, who has arrived in New York, has revealed a plan to obtain a truce ship to carry food to Hawaii. Union circles deprecate the scheme, saying the Army and the Navy "are capable of relieving civilian food shortage. ;

The Secretary of the ’ Interior; Mr H. L. Ickes, announced in Washington that the first shipload of foodstuffs for Alaska would leave Seattle on Monday. The New York Board Of Trade has telegraphed to the Minister of Labour, Miss Perkins, asking her to recognise the existence of a national emergency, and saying that, at the end of the first month of the strike, on the east coast and of two months on the west coast, there is no hope of settlement.