Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaska; Strikes and Riots; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Pacific; Yukon
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101858

Passengers Lug Own Baggage To Alaskan Vessel PASSENGERS LUG OWN BAGGAGE 10 ALASKAN VESSEL SEATTLE, May 1. (AP)—All police beat men and patrol car crews were rushed to the waterfront today when the Alaska Steamship company complained teamsters would not deliver baggage to the 224 passengers aboard the liner Yukon, scheduled to sail at 9 a. m., for Alaska. She sailed 25 minutes later, after passengers acted as their own "baggage smashers." There was no disorder. Police, however, remained on the water front to watch the arrival] of the Alaska Steamship company's liner Northwestern from Alaska. Pickets Stopped 'Em. The teamsters had refused to pass through a picket line established last night by the Alaska cannery workers' union in its controversy with the cannery workers' and farm laborers' union which signed an agreement with the Alaska salmon packers last week. The line said most of the ship's cargo had been delivered to the pier before the picket line was established. Longshoremen continued to handle freight already delivered.