Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-10
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for a meeting with state officials,
Rabbi Irving Reichert, San Fran
cisco, offered the intervention of
the MIRA board. He denounced
ranchers who advised grocers not
to give food to strikers.
Meantime peace was believed
near in the strike of fishermen
at Monterey, San Francisco and
Los Angeles.
Under terms of a temporary
truce, the strikers were to return
to their jobs today pending state
arbitration of the wage dispute
and of other differences beginning
Wednesday.
Timothy A. Reardon, state in
dustrial relations director, brought
the disturbants together. he claim
ed the trouble was costing $55, 1000
daily.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10. U.P) -
A threatened strike in the Los An
geleS cloak industry was settled to-
day when manufacturers represen-
tativeS agreed to union demands
for a 35-hour work week, no over
time, no home work and election OF
shop chairman. Employers also
agreed to establish a committee in
each shop to determine prices for
workers on piece work. Approx
mately 1900 workers were affected
by the settlement.
BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Oct. 10.
U.P)-Fear of violence between for
ces of striking cotton pickers and
growers of the Wasco district, both
reported to be armed, brought a
hurried call for officers today.
Sheriff Cas- Walser and Vance
Brite, chief criminal deputy, rushed
to the district, in northern Kern
county, in an attempt to prevent
conflict.
Farmers of the district were as
sembling armed forces with the
Camp, West & Lowe cotton gin as
headquarters, reports to the sher-
ifs office said
They were preparing to issue an
ultimatum demanding that pickers
either return to work or leave the
district"
More than $50 strikers, declared
to be armed, were reported camped
two and half miles south of Was
CO high school, awaiting the intend
ed ultimatum.
No indications Of their answer to
the farmers demands was avail
able.
A delegation of 80 unarmed farm
ers visited the camp early today, it
was reported, Offering free trans
portation to and from the camp to
the cotton fields of the strikers
would return to work for pay of gu
cents hundred pounds.
Growers reported the strikers,
many of them displaying shotguns
and revolvers, became ugly hold
ing out with a demand for pay of
81 hundred.
Within a few minutes after the
farmers departed to recruit their
own forces. approximately $50 adj
ditional strikers were reported to
have assembled at the Wasco camp
SANTA MARIA, Calf, Oct. TO-
U.P)-Salinas Valley labor disturb
ances had no repercussion here to-
day with practically all lettuce har-
vested and tomatoes being picked
under a wage scale agreeable to
both pickers, packers and shippers
BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Oct. TO-
U.P)-Kern county cotton planters
united their forces today in a
campaign to resist any attempt of
agitators to stir up labor troubles
Leaders claimed 1000 growers were
organized similarly to those of
Kings, Fresno, MADEIRA, Tulare, San
Joaquin and other counties where
strike conditions have harried ag-
ricultural regions for weeks. The
leaders said they were determined
to protect pickers who are willing
to work
In a five mile display of force,
growers toured the county's cotton
districts yesterday in automobiles.
The gesture of warning to labor
agitators failed to prevent a mass
meeting of 1000 men, women and
children at the city hall here. The
demonstrators marched through
the business district with placards,
proclaiming themselves striking
cotton pickers. The crowd was adj
dressed by speakers.
A delegation demanded of the
board of supervisors the release
from Jail of Ladislado Guerro,
held as an agitator; relief for cot
ton strikers, elimination of armed
guards from strike areas, hot
lunches and clothing for school
children, ban against evictions
from cotton ranches, and the right
tn assemble