PACIFIC COAST DISPUTE
MENACING ATMOSPHERE i |SEVERAL PORTS PARALYSED BY CONGESTION 11Jii11«•<! I’ITHH AtfHiiriiiliim - Hv Electnc Telegraph ■ ( '..nyriphi I j SAN FRANCISCO, 81b September. I A more menacing atmosphere is ac- | companying the waterfront dispute bcI tween the longshoremen and the : teamsters. I The teamsters have paralysed Oak- | land, Richmond, and other East River i ports, but the secretary ot the union I denied that they intend to move in ! when the congestion of cargoes stopped ! the longshoremen’s activities. | The longshoremen’s leader, Mr Harry i Bridges, said: “They will have their j heads sewn up it they try it." It is expected the congestion will compel shippers to place an embargo on the affected ports for 10 days. The dispute between the longshoremen and teamsters commenced on Ist September, when Mr I-larry Bridges personally led 500 pickets of the Committee for Industrial Organisation in a raid against American Federation of Labour teamsters at a warehouse on the waterfront. This action was the outcome of factional rivalry for jurisdiction. The police fought through the mob and persuaded the teamsters to desist. The Teamsters’ Union, in retaliation, placed an embargo on all cargo in the San Francisco docks until the question of jurisdiction is r ttlcd.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 September 1937, Page 5
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204PACIFIC COAST DISPUTE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 September 1937, Page 5
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