THREAT OF TIE UP
PACIFIC COAST SHIPS TRUCE ARRANGED WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. The Marine Commission pleaded toilay with owners ami unions to avert a threatened tie-up in Pacific Coast shipping, affecting 37,000 men. The union contracts will expire early tomorrow. The commission sent a telegram to Mr. T. Bridges, at San Francisco, as the key man, ashing him to accept a t>o-dny extension of the present agreement. Meantime a New York strike, resulting from a row within the union, prevented the sailing of the liner ['resident Roosevelt. Subsequently a 15-day truce was virtually assured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 5
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