Evening star., 1934-07-09
TRANSFERS VOTE
STRIKE TO FORCE
PORT LABOR PEACE
Other Unions Scheduled to
Consider General WaIkout
for Longshoremen.
NEW NATIONAL BOARD
FACES ITS FIRST TEST
San Francisco Butchers Delegate
Authority to Strategy Unit
for Decision.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9-Walk-
out votes by teamsters Of San Fran
cisco and Oakland intensified gen.
eral strike threats on the Pacific
Coast today as the National Long
shoremen's Board here brought the
Federal labor disputes act TO It's first
test.
The a.700 teamsters OF the two
San Francisco Bay cities served no
tice that unless definite progress Is
made toward settlement Of the mari
time strike they will abandon their
trucks Thursday morning. General
strike proposals gained impetus at
San Francisco, Oakland, Portland
| and Seattle.
The general strike proposal sup
ported by is of San Francisco's 100
trade unions, is expected to come
before other unions In the next few
days. The butchers voted yesterday
to leave the question with the Gen.
tral Labor Councils Strategy"
Committee.
Portland Unions TO Act.
At Portland, representatives Of 30
unions will meet ito formulate plans
for a general strike" Gust Anderson.
secretary Of the Central Labor Coun-
Gil. said. The question will be dis
cussed at Seattle by the Northwest
Maritime Strike Committee.
In the face Of the increasing ten
sion the Longshoremen's Board, re-
Gently appointed by President Roose-
velt, invokes its full authority under
the new law as It opens public hear
ings on the dispute between the
$1,000 maritime workers and their
employers.
The board, headed by Archbishop
Edward j. Hanna, will hear the work.
ers' side first. with representatives OF
longshoremen, seamen and allied
workers scheduled to appear. They
will support the demand which has
blocked voluntary mediation effort of
the board-for complete control Of
hiring halls.
Strategy Board to Attend.
Members Of the seven-man Com
rnittee OF Strategy" named by the San
Francisco Central Labor Council, will
attend the hearings.
While expressing hopes for q set
tlement, e. D. Vandeleur, chairman
Of the Strategy" Committee, de-
clared: 1--WE are ready to unleash the
full strength OF organized labor in
San Francisco"
Charles w. Beal, secretary Of the
Oakland teamsters, said the strike
vote was technically not in sympathy
with the longshoremen and seamen.
The conditions" referred to, union
heads said. included use of non-union
truck drivers behind protection Of po-
lice and National Guardsmen and the
police gunfire in Thursdays bloody
waterfront fight.
Big Funeral Planned.
The bodies of two men killed by the
police in the skirmishing in which 80
other persons were shot are TO be car
rted in a funeral procession from
headquarters of the International
Longshoremen's Association today. All
trade unions in the city planned to be
represented. their war veteran men,
bers dressed In the same olive drab
worn by the Guardsmen q few blocks
away on the water front.
Thousands passed the biers of the
two victims, Howard Sperry, q steve
dore, and Nicholas Bordoise, union
waiter, as they lay in state at the /.
L. A. Hall, under a picture Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Teamsters who voted the condi-
tional include general heavy freight
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