The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-18
F1ue Men Control
 In San Francisco
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anteroom and other parts of the labor temple. The place sounds like the Tower of Babel.
 A large forid man peeks through the peep hole. Frequently he opens the door. He asks you what you want. You tell him. He grunts and slams the double door.
 Would Join Any Man.
 A little guy with stubby whisk- CTS hops into the anteroom. He says he is the entire sales force and delivery man for a small cof- fee company. He wants permit to resume driving his truck. He wants to join union. He doesn't seem to care what union so long as he can take his truck out once more. The little guy is a salesman, all right. He makes you think his company can't get along without him.
 The big, florid doorman keeps opening and closing the door, di- recting traffic into the committee room. Finally it is the little sales mans turn to go in. The door, man pokes a stubby finger in his direction. The little fellow, pretty cocky up until now, wits. His knees shake and he gulps. He takes off his hat as he sides toward the double door.
 The permit committee has ruled that bread trucks and other types of food truck may run unhamper- ed; that funeral must not be held up for any reason; that doctors and nurses obtain all of the gaso- line they need.
 Allowed To Eat Certain clubs and hotels have been allowed to keep a union cook and skeleton force to feed per- | manent guests.
 Nineteen restaurants permitted to stay open when all others closed on Monday proved inadequate and the committee issued additional permits. It also revoked one of the original 19 permits because the proprietor was profiteering.
 The old San Francisco Press club wanted to keep two of it's union bartender. The committee i said okay as long as only paid-up members were served.
 The committee ruled certain vegetable trucks might c m c through picket lines from Stock ton. Police, truck drivers and city | officials were suspicious. This looked like a trick. But the boys on the picket line waved the trucks.
 The permit committee is in the saddle and riding hard.
 Mediation Board Works The presidents mediation board
 members discussed among them
 selves this morning the probable
 effects of the arbitration proposals
 of the general strike committee. | Perhaps the most important de-
 velopment came from the strike
 committees press bureau. It said the proposals left these two courses | ope to the committee.
 |. If both sides accepted the arbitration proposal the general
 strike would end immediately and almost automatically.
 2. If the maritime unions should
 reject arbitration the strike com
 mittee would be in a position to say that they had spurned the i good offices of the other unions and would be ready to call an elec- tion to determine whether the gen. eral strike would continue. | While efforts at settlement were
 being made in many quarters. the ordinary citizens still proceeded to protect himself against possible l disorders.
 ] In Piedmont, fashionable suburb of Oakland. 150 volunteers from among the residents were do- | ing patrol duty, assisting police. ! Every street leading into the town was barricaded and all who enter ed were forced to prove their right to pass.
 National guardsmen in Oakland | threw up barricades across Mar ket. Grove. Jefferson and Clay
 streets block and a half back
 from the approaches to the water
 front piers.