The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
Ships Men
Are Barred
In Balloting
Minneapolis Drivers Re-
ject Strikebreaking
Arbitration Plans
FEW TRUCKS ROLL
Roosevelt Board Aims
To Bar Militants as
Frisco Delegates
BULLETIN

MINNEAPOLIS Mimi, July rs.
Governor Olson has just issued
an uItimatum giving until noon
tomorrow to settle the strike.
Failure to settle, he says, means
martial law and the taking over
of transportation of goods by
National Guardsmen.
As final basis of settlement
he proposes: II immediate return
to jobs; q all workers to be re-
instated; 81 an immediate cleo
ton to determine the authority Of
the union to represent the work.
ers; A. an arbitration board of
two from each side and a neutral
chairman; s. arbitration as to
wages to start at 5214 cents for
drivers and 421a cents for inside
men.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.
Maritime workers contin-
ued their strike along the
Pacic Coast as unconfirmed
reports, obviously originating
in the N.R.A. offices, an
nounced that the longshore-
men were overwhelmingly in favor
of throwing all their demands into
the lap of the Roosevelt Arbitration
Board.
Although no official announce
ment on the voting was made by
DR.. Louis Bloch, secretary of the
board, the reactionary Examiner
stated that it had been reliably in
formed that the lockers had voted
for arbitration,
Returns from Seattle and Tacoma
remain to be counted, it is reported
Seamen Excluded
So far the seamen, firemen, mas
tiers, mates, pilots and engineers
the men who man the ,ships-have
been excluded from the voting.
The men on the ships are men,
bers of several unions. 1t was re-
vealed today that the Roosevelt
Board will attempt to exclude the
majority of seamen from voting.
"The board had yet to deter
mine how, where and who among
-, he oil 10
vote in choosing representatives
in collective bargaining" said
local press report here today.
1t is obvious that the board will
attempt to exclude the members OF
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, which represents the ma
jority sentiment of the seamen.
Reactionaries Plan To Move In
Andrew Furuseth and Paul Shar-
renberg, reactionary leaders of the
International Seamen's Union, are
attempting through the N.R.A. tc
act as the spokesman for the sea-
men, despite the fact that the ma
jority of the men have repudiated
these leaders.
1t is clear that the MIRA. Off
Gals will use all their power to turn
over the question of negotiation tc
these reactionaries.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union demands that only an elected
rank and file committee Of the sea-
men shall have the right to nego-
tiate and that all questions of nego-
tiation shall be referred back te
the seamen for a vote.
Minneapolis Strike Firm
MINNEAPOLIS, July 25-Federal
mediators and Governor Floyd B
Olson, Farmer-Laborite, are still
pressing for a strikebreaking agree
ment to break the strike of the
truck drivers.
Olson has threatened, under cover
of sympathy for the strikers against
the brutality of the police, to send
1000 National Guardsmen into the
city under martial law.
The striking workers are firm in
their refusal of all strikebreaking
arbitration proposals offered by o.
son and Father Haas, the Federal
conciliator.
Police are conveying some scah
trucks. but the militant picketing
of the workers has tied up the
greater part of the city's trucking