The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-16
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# t'on ~ S S6 (Continued fl on it's walking shoes and trudged over sidewalks and streets to busi- ness as usual. tf
 At the peak of the rush hour lstreets were crowded with Il great l parade of pedestrians, while auto- mobiles, their gas supplies replen- ished yesterday by, visits to out of town filling statione, whirled through the thoroughfares.
 Some persons rode bicycles and a few resorted ito roller skates. | The strike was thoroughly ef- fective but. the populace still had its spirit and San Francisco today was far from the deserted village of yesterday.
 Police Are Bobilized
 Police, mobilized in expectation of rioting, were forced to turn to duty as traffic cops, untangling the snarls and keeping the swarming pedestrians from being run over. Most violence was in outlying districts. Last night there was one food riot of serious proportions when an angry crowd wrecked grocery store and took away $2,- OOO worth of food.
 In Hayward an~O Oakland suburb, communist headquarters Vt s wrecked and the furniture burned.
 One case of attempted sabotage against the municipal railway was discovered. A switch had been thrown so as to cause derail- ment. Numerous arrests were made. During the morning thousands of offers to volunteer services or other aid, poured in to the mayors office and to headquarters of vari- ous organizations. Among these off, fers was one from A. F. Gianni, head of the Bank of America, offer ing the full support of his organ izatiOn. .,.,. A
 Had Baseball Bats A group of strike sympathizers or strikers drove up to the Labor temple during the morning, swing ing baseball bats over their heads amid loud cheers.
 "We'll get 'em," they shouted and drove away. S,Ts The convention of delegates of all unions, which on Saturday pre- cipitated the general strike, met to hear reports of progress. Government Acts On Food Washington, July 16.-(UP).-| The United, States government is prepared to guarantee that no one in the San Francisco general strike will go hungry. | The government also:
 1-Considers the San Francisco strike situation as strictly local problem to. be settled if possible
 by local machinery now function ing. ,S&
 | s2-Gave assurances that Presi- dent Roosevelt, now vacationing in the South Seas, would not change his plans and turn thee ruiser Houston to San Francisco to take a personal hand in. settling the strike.
 While the strike was considered local, the matter of moving pro- Visions into the area irk event of necessity would be an Interstate lcommerce matter and thereby go from local to governmental control. under broad provisions of the in- terstate commerce acts which give the administration broad powers to act in cases of emergencies.
 one definite strike move by the administration was the ordering of Sen. Robert F. Wagner, democrat, New York, to Portland, Ore, where another strike is impending. ' | In the White House announce mcnt of his trip, it was said that
 he would act solely in an advisory capacity. The order, however, was l interpreted here as an administra. tion move to obtain settlement of the Portland trouble before the ,ac- tual strike goes into effect rH @ ~ | Wagner headed the national la-
 bor board which passed out of ex- istence recently When the new la- Dor relations board became ef- fective- under the law passed dur
 ing the closing hours of congress. 1 As chairman of the old board Wag- ner was active in settling many dis putes which came before the MIRA in the last year. '>gftt@ ] Meantime, the new labor board remained in session Across the street from the labor department in secret conference. No Hword came either from there or from the off,
 flee of Secretary of Labor Francse Perkins. Both the beard and the | secretary tOHteHQeQ tHSy ndu not received any strike communications from the west coast today.
 National General Strike
 New York, July 16.- (UP).-A complete tie-up of all Atlantic ports or an alternative national general strike were disclosed today as the objective of the marine workers in- dustrfal union.
 Leaders of the''union agreed at d membership meeting today to pre- sent the question of calling strike against all incoming and outgoing chipping on the Atlantic seaboard to smembers on Wednesday night.
 Through Secretary Harold J. Baxter, the M. w. l. U. announced as its objective basic pay of $i.00 an hour with $i.50 an hour over- time. six hour day, and five day week. work gangs the same size as in 1929 and central hiring halls patrolled by, elected committees Of longshoremen.
 Meanwhile plckets of the union assembled to demonstrate on the arrival of tho Grace liner Santa | n4. A