The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-19

definite efforts to bring the gen. eral strike to a close.
 In Oakland the strategy com. mittee directing the strike of 42,- 900 men in, the city, Alameda Berkeley, Hayward and suburbs, called a meeting for tonight to vote on the question of returning to work. The committee recoIn- mended an affirmative vote.
 In San Francisco, the general strike committee today will coll slider a resolution formally ending the new admittedly disintegrating strike.
 The resolution will have the sup port of conservative labor leaders who were tightening their control of the situation. The resolution was framed after a meeting during the night with General Hugh Johnson, MIRA administrator. who took command dramatically for the government yesterday.
 Meantime, defiance of the strike committee policy of issuing per mits" to do business increased.
 Mayor Denounced It
 Mayor Angelo Rossi, denounced it as a ''usurpation of constitutional authority" Trucks, delivering produce to the wholesale district, gasoline to filling stations and sup plies to butcher shops rumbled along without the permit to op- crate" signs so prominent yester- day and the day before.
 Employees of the key system, op- erating electric trains and the street railway systems of Alabama county and the key system ferry on San Francisco Bay, called q meeting for tonight at which Il was considered certain they would vote to return to work tomorrow.
 In Oakland, even bartenders an- nounced they would put on their white coats and begin shaking up cocktails again, almost immediate ly.
 It seemed clear that the general strike was likely to end within "A hours.
 A convoy of 28 trucks loaded with vegetables was brought into the wholesale produce district dur ing the morning, followed by a sec- ond convoy of six trucks. After daylight numerous single trucks arrived, most of them not bother ing to wait for officers to make up a carvan and furnish guards.
 Tickets on the Bayshore High way were withdrawin.
 Restaurants began opening at dawn and trucks began delivering supplies. Cooks, walters and waitresses were scurrying back to work. It twas estimated 5.000 would be employed by afternoon. Contra Costa county unions which met last night to consider joining the strike, postponed ac- tion because of developments. In the midst of it all sat the presidents mediation board, With General Hugh s. Johnson at the helm, issuing statements thai amounted to commands. Verge of Breakdown The strike apparently tottered on the verge of breakdown through an ominously quiet morning yes terday.
 Then in the early afternoon statements with the force of edicts, and reportedly backed by word quietly passed to strike leaders through unofficial channels that military and citizens forces were ready to back them up, began to be issued.
 "The federal government cannot act under the continued coercion of the general strike" announced who during the morning had be- come the controlling force on the General Hugh Johnson, MIRA chief presidential mediation board. "The first step to peace and agreement is to lift that strike or der. Until that is done I have nothing to offer"
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