Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-08-02

MT%& E Eldm. MAYOR hO6Bl
and other officials,
strongly backed by
. public opinion. we're
-y D'os1 determined that San
Francisco and the surrounding com
munities should not be deprived of
the necessities of life. that the en-
barge on food shipments should be
broken and that transportation should
not be stopped Nearly 5000 members
of the National Guard were modified
TO aid the police, and their efforts
were seconded by hastily formed bands
OF xigilanfex which raifed the head
quarters and gathering places of the
Communists. The central committee
In charge OF the strike DON realized
the movement was collapsing and the
conservative members. regaining con
troll, relaxed the restrictions. and made
an offer OF arbitration under certain
conditions.
On Thursday the general strike vas
formally called oil and the men or
dered back to work
General Johnson, NRA admInistra-
tor. acting as spokesman for the fed
eral maritime dispute board there. was
on hand determined to bring about a
peaceful settlement The Pacific coast
maritime strike. on behalf OF which
manned a difficult problem. for the
-longshoremen and maritime workers
were insistent that the main dispute
In their case. control Of the hiring
halls" should not be subjected to ar
bitration-
To the average person the whole
thing looked unreasonable and unnec-
essary. The longshoremen, like their
fellow workers all along the west
coast, have been on strike for changed
working conditions, and were joined
by the marine workers and teamsters.
Then Joseph r. Ryan. national presi-
dent of the longshoremen. signed an
agreement that the men would return
to work pending arbitration and 4
labor disputes board was appointed
by President Roosevelt But Harry
Bridges. In Australian radical who Ii
head OF the local maritime workers.
gained control of the situation and
absolutely blocked the move for arbi-
t~ration, persuading the men to repudi-
ate the Ryan agreement In the unions
OF the San Francisco metropolitan
area II Is said the conservatives out
number the radicals, but the latter
are trained In the tactics OF intimida-
ton and are seeking to wreck the
trades unions for the benefit of the
aus of Communism.
Mayor Angelo T. RossI announced \
pledge to u every -Communistic ag-
itator1 of San Francisco The
pledge, announced through an emer-
gency citizens committee, said.
Il pledge to you that l. as chief ex-
ecutive In San Francisco. TO the full
extent OF my authority. will run out
OF San Francisco every Communistic
agitator. and this is going to be a con-
tinuing policy In San Francisco"
THERE was disquieting strike news
4 from many parts OF the country.
The unions OF Portland, Ore, were
pushing their plans for \ general
strike, and their officials said nothing
could now be lone to prevent 1.-THE
truck drivers of Minneapolis and their
helpers voted for q renewal OF their
strike which In May tied up trans
p~ortation and resulted In fatal riots.
Representatives OF 40 out OF a.
locals OF the United Textile Workers
In Alabama decided ON a statewide
strike which will affect 1900 opera
lives The date was not
Demands made to the employers in
clude. Thirty hour week with S12 min
fmum pay, abolition of the stretch
out system, reinstatement OF all Jobs
abolished under the stretchout sys-
tenn; unemployment of all workers
discharged for union activity and rec
ognition of the textile workers union
for collective bargaining under provi-
sions OF the NRA-
employees OF waiter j. kOhicr In
Kohler village. Wisconsin. are out ON
strike and began picketing the plant,
though 1t has been closed down since
July 4 These workers for whom Koh-
Ter built and maintained an sTdeal~
Industrial town and who have been
treated with remarkable generosity by
the company. demand recognition OF
their union. a minimum wage OF 65
cents III hour and a W-hour week.
The company has its " employees
union. a minimum wage of 40 cents
m hour, and 4 40-hour week
ONSTITUT1ONALTTY OF the Bank
head cotton act La to be tested In
the federal courts CASTOR Therrell OF