STRIKE PRESSURE
MARITIME WORKERS DEMANDS IN AMERICA (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 9. The National Maritime Union's National Council issued a statement saying that it would have no alternative but to strike unless the shipowners agreed to reduce the present 56-hour ship working week. The council also threatened to call out the crews of tankers, lake vessels and river steamers not hitherto included in the strike negotiations. The council appointed a National Strike Policy Committee with headquarters at Washington and authorised the spending of the unions’ 1,000,000dollar strike fund on a country-wide hold-up. The Government conciliators are continuing negotiations with the owners and the unions. They submitted to the owners and the union a compromise plan, giving the seamen paid time off in port instead of reduced hours, at sea Latin American maritime unions decided not to handle merchant ships manned by the United States armed forces.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26175, 11 June 1946, Page 5
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