THREATENED TIE-UP
PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING ENDEAVOUR TO AVERT (By Telegraph—Propß Awsoniation) WASHINGTON, 30th September. The Maritime Commission pleaded to-day with owners and unions to avert the threatened tie-up of Pacific Coast shipping, affecting 37,000 men. The union contracts will expire early to-morrow and the Commission sent a telegram to Mr Bridges, President of the Longshoremen’s Union on the Pacific Coast, at San as the key man. asking him to accept a six-ty-clay extension of the present agreement.
Meantime, a New York strike, resulting from a row within a union, prevented the sailing of the liner President Roosevelt. FIFTEEN DAY TRUCE WASHINGTON, Ist October Later information stated that a fifteen day truce was virtually assured in the dispute between the shipowners and the longshoremen.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 2 October 1936, Page 5
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