The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-18

/ Notified that the Standard
Oil Company would be allowed
a permit from the strike COM
mittee to deliver fuel and oil
to apartment houses. Philip
Patchin, vice-president of the
oil company, answered:
Apartment house owners will be
served without limit and our per-
mits will be in the form OF police
protection"
National guardsmen assigned to
protect food trucks in the whole
sale district ripped from several
trucks the strike committees per-
mits which they were displaying.
The strike committee further re-
Taxed its embagro on foodstutfs.
Having increased the number OF
licensed restaurants yesterday to
seventy, during the night the per-
nit committee issued authorization
to $50 butcher shops to open Tor
today only, giving housewives a
chance to replenish meat supplies.
1t was agreed by the permit conf
mittee of the strike committee that
retailers would be allowed to drive
their own automobiles to wholesale
houses and haul away supplies,
Trucks can not be used to deliver
| to retailers.
Buy Bootleg Gas
The city of San Francisco put
seventy street repair trucks back
into operation.
City and county automobiles
were buying their gasoline from two
gasoline stations which we're run
ming without licenses and SELL
gas "bootlegged" against the strh
committees orders.
F. M. McAuliffe, chairman Of the
committee of 500 formed by Mayor
Angelo RoSsi, announced the or
ganization would proceed without
reference to the possibility of arbi-
tration.
Our purpose" Mr.. McAuliffe
said, lis to see that every citizen
is free to pursue his accustomed
work without fear Of violence or
intimidation"
Numerous arrests were made DUR
ing the night on both sides of San
Francisco bay. -Four men were ar
rested in Berkeley for throwing
creosote bombs on the roof of a
market.
First reactions of employers and
others concerned, to the strike
committees arbitration proposals
made last night, were not enthusi-
astic.
Mediation Board to Meet
Thomas G. Plant, president of the
Waterfront Employers Association.
believed ship operators as a whole
would refuse to arbitrate until cleo
tons are held determining who are
the bona fide spokesman Of their
sea-faring employees.
A. E. Boynton, managing di-
rector of the Industrial Association,
maintained the strike should be
ended first and arbitration dis
cussed afterwards.
The Presidents mediation board,
attempting to settle the maritime
strike, was scheduled to meet today
to conSideY the arbitration proposal
and hasten action upon it.
The arbitration proposal was
framed by conservative labor lead
ers and adopted last night at a
stormy meeting of the general strike
convention composed Of delegates
from all unions.
One Man Is Injured
TWO cases of intimidation against
crews of the municipal railways and
half dozen involving small shop
keepers were reported to the police.
In Oakland one man was taken
to a hospital with injuries result
ing from fight alleged to have
occurred between gangs Of union
men and Communists. A tavern,
under the protection of a citizens
committee, was wrecked by a gang.
National gardsmen were stationed
in the uptown section TO aid police
in emergencies.
In Oakland, the national guard
extended its operations, taking over
the protection of the municipal
piers and the Howard terminal.