The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-11

eral strikes threatened in the Pa- cific coast longshoremen's strike and Minneapolis truckmen's strike.
 Peace in the steel industry where a special mediation board is examining issues which led to the steel strike threat was dis turbed by announcement by the Republic Steel Corp that 1t would not renew contracts with the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers. There were fears this might lead to d breakdown of the armistice ob- tained only after arduous, last minute negotiations.
 United Textile Workers at Bir- mingham, Ala, announced they would meet Sunday to decide whether the states 10000 textile workers would walk out in de- mand that wages be raised to com pensate for reduction of the work week from 40 to 30 hours.
 Other Developments
 Other developments included an order by the petroleum labor pol icy board that the Phillips Petro- leum Co cease interfering with col- lective bargaining rights of its workers, new talk of a general oil workers strike, rejection of pro- posed settlement of an Akron rub Der workers strike, Walkout of 500 Fall River thread mill operatives, continuance of the Great Lakes tugmen's strike and threat of a traction strike at Ft Worth, Tex. Agricultural strife eascd some- what. The strike of 400 workers at the Seabrook Farm Go at Bridgeton, N. J., was settled. Peace was restored at McGuffey, O., where onion workers struck vio- lently. The~ Strike continued, how ever, and efforts were being made to halt the use of children as strike breakers.
 Miss Perkins announced study of agricultural employment condi- tions would be undertaken.
 Mcdiators Failed
 San Francisco, O., duly H. (UP)-A general strike, with all the possible attendant chaos and bloodshed, appeared imminent to- day.. Federal mediators failed Tn a desperate effort to arbitrate the 64-day old dispute between marine
 
 Teamsters in San Francisco and the teeming industrial communil ties of Alameda county across the bay prepared to walk out to-mor- row morning unless the Pacific coast strike of 23,000 marine workers, in effect since May g, is settled tonight.
 Seventy-nine other unions with a total mem bership of 32,000 pre- pared to vote on a general strike. President RooSeVelt's national longshoremens board strov e throughout the night to convince the warning factions of the marine strike to accept arbitration as the only means toward peace. But no headway was made and some members of the mediation board said they saw little hope O. averting a bay region walkout. An harrassed city, it's port dead locked almost completely to ocean going commerce and its streets smeared with the blood of rioting strikers and police, prepared for the worst.
 National guardsmen expanded and strengthened their positions along San Francisco's waterfront which they have held under mar tial law since last weeks fatal roiting. Housewives and store. keepers stocked up with provision. in anticipation of food shortag, should the teamsters' strike SC off a general walkout movement President Roosevelt's mediator continued to hear the complaints of marine workers and the de- mands of the longshoremen's unior for recognition and control of hir, ing halls-the crux of the coast. wise dispute.
 General strike threats spread as the network of unions from Sar Francisco to Seattle frightened fra formally. A policy committee of nine" was named by the Portland, Oregon, central labor council. + was empowered to draft plans for a general strike vote.
 Los Angeles harbor, least union- ized of Pacific coast ports, was calm and it was believed there would be no attempt at a general strike there.