Northwest History. State History. Box 110. Organized Labor.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: San Francisco; California; Oakland; Thomas Plant; Seattle; Robert Wager; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States > State History > Organized Labor > Northwest; Pacific; Beck; Handle The; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101120

New Labor Hired. Under police guard, men were recruited in San Francisco today by waterfront employers to take the place of striking longshoremen, while minor disturbances occurred here and at Portland. . In efforts to keep ships moving in Pacific coast ports, men were being hired and sent to the waterfronts under police protection. Strikers at Portland, police said, disabled three stages which were to be used for transporting 100 men to the docks, and several men suffered minor injuries in fist fights. San Francisco mounted and foot, police drove back crowds of longshoremen and a recruiting place near the waterfront was ordered closed after several near fights had occurred. 600 Men at Work. Thomas G. Plant of the waterfront employers here, announced that 19 gangs of 18 men each had been put to work to keep the 35 ships in port moving. Plant said that between 550 and 600 men, including seamen on several ships, were at work. The shippers were preparing vessels to house the men to avoid contact along the waterfront with the striking longshoremen. At Oakland the crews of a dozen ships were reported to have quit work, in sympathy with the longshoremen, saying they would refuse to handle the cargoes. Charges by the International Longshoremen's association that University of California students were being employed as stevedores were met with a Work If They Want to. "We are taking no part in the strike and will not aid in any endeavor to recruit men to break it up,' Sproul said. "We cannot, however, control actions of students as individuals save as to their relations tc the university." William J. Lewis, head of the Pacific division of the longshoremen, aid "conditions look very favorable to us," and predicted support from Other waterfront workers. Plant said all passenger vessels were being loaded and unloaded and that skeleton crews were working the freighters. * Wires to Wagner. Seattle, May 10.—OP)—Alfred H. tundin, president of th« Seattle Chamber of Commerce, today wired Sen. Robert F. Wagner, New York, chairman of the national labor board, urging a government appeal to striking Pacific coast longshoremen to return to work pending federal medla- j tion of the wage issue. I Meanwhile despite 300 pickets who (relieved each other at the docks, operations continued at three piers here. The Alaska Steamship company loaded the Cordova and began unloading the Yukon. A lighterage company loaded the President Jefferson, and the Admiral Chase was unloaded. At each of the three docks placed to house the substitutes for the I striking stevedores. Operators said only 150 men were worked today, but that larger crews would be used tomorrow. The strike proceeded quietly though bystanders reported slugging of one man. — Teamsters to Return. Seattle, May 10.— iA>) —As an important step here in the Seattle part of the longshoremen's strike, taken at the request of Sen. Robert F. Wagner, chairman of the national labor I board, Seattle teamsters tonight withdrew the order under which members of eight local unions have been barred from handling merchan- I dlse to and from Seattle docks. The action was announced by Dave Beck, northwest representative of the International Brotherhood of team- "In harmony with the position of the government, the teamsters will resume their work in the same capa-