Evening star., 1934-07-14
GENERAL WALKOUT.
LIKELIHOOD GROWS.
Pacific Coast Cities Act to
Meet Famine and Dis
ease Threat.
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continued FROM Flfkt rage
and vegetables were becoming scarce.
Thousands of panicky residents
swsrmed to grocery stores 10 lay in
siege supplies. The San Francisco
Retail Grocers' Association limited
purchases Of -four and sugar TO FIVE
pounds for each customer.
In reply 10 a rat epidemic" warning
from DR.. J. c. Geiger, city health
officer. who spoke Of bubonic and
other plaques. the teamSters' union
consented 70 removal Of accumulating
restaurant garbage. The refuse Is also
the life fodder of $1,000 hogs on out
lying ranches.
Supplies intended for the blockaded
San Francisco peninsula, which is
threatened with almost complete
isolation II ferry boatmen should
strike, were reported congested far
back In rural farming areas.
Strike pickets and sympathiZers
guarded highways and warned truck
drivers against bringing produce into
the bay region. Petaluma. known as
the egg basket" of California. re-
ported refrigerators pressed TO the
limit to hold the swelling surplus.
The same held true with butter and
other dairy products at other points,
though milk delivery continued.
Nine Pickets Jailed.
AS far south as Stockton In the
San Joaquin Valley. crates Of fruits
and vegetables piled up. Butchering
and fruit harvesting we're halted at
some places because of the tranSpor-
tation blockade.
Highway patrolmen. attempting to
prevent violence and keep trucks
moving, jailed nine alleged strike
pickets at Santa Rosa. -Four were
accused of shooting holes in the gaso-
line tank OF produce truck.
The Southern Pacific Co. an
nounced special guards were being
placed along its rail lines after re-
ceipt Of reports that bands Of reds"
were converging on San Francisco to
wreck bridges.
Revolutionary handbills were dis
tributed at Portland, resulting in the
arrest of Dirk De Jonge, one-time
Communist candidate for mayor
The Columbia River district from
Portland east to Pendleton and south
of Marshfield faced a gasoline short
age. From one-half to one-third of
the Portland service stations reported
empty tanks
An acute shortage of gasoline and
fuel oil was faced at Seattle. One
Puget Sound steamer was fitted out
to burn wood instead of oil and
others were to be similarly equipped
If the shortage continues.
Union Vote Is Advocated.
The Federal Mediation Board said
1t would issue public statement on
the situation after another meeting
today. Gushing said the board felt
it should call for vote among the
maritime unions for selection of
leaders to carry on collective bar
gaining. but that such procedure
would require a month or more.
A shortcut was attempted, he ex-
planned in the hope that employers
and workers would consent to an
armistice and voluntarily submit the
issues in dispute to arbitration.
Water front employers had agreed
to unconditional arbitration of the
longshoremen's strike, but the ques-
ton Of the other maritime unions
deadlocked the truce proposal.
It was after prolonged confer
ence on this question with Thomas g.
Plant, president Of the Water Front
Employers Union, and Hugh Gala
CHER of the Matson Navigation Co.
that the board disclosed it had failed.