Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-07-27


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 vigllantes which ralded the head
quarters and gathering places of the
Communists. The central committee
in charge Of the strike soon realized
the movement was collapslng and the
conservative members, regaining con-
troll, relaxed the restrictions, and made
an offer of prbitration under certain
conditions.
On Thursday the general strike was
formally called off and the men or
dered back to work.
General johnson, MIRA administra-
tor, acting as spokesman for the fed
eral maritime dispute board there, was
on hand determined to bring about Q
peaceful settlement. The Pacific coast
maritime strike, on behalf of which
the mass walkout was called, re-
manned a difficult problem, for thu
longshoremen and maritime workers
were insistent that the main dispute
in their case, control of the "hiriAs
halls" should not be subjected to ~
bitrati0n.
To the average person the whCho
thing looked unreasonable AID nnnrs.
essary. The longshoremen, like thoaP
fellow workers all along the vmf
coast, have been on strike for changed
working conditions, and were jeiaee
by the marine workers and teamsADr4
Then Joseph P. Ryan, national paoba-
dent of the longshoremen, signed aia
agreement that the men would returA
to work pending arbitration na2 Q
labor disputes board was appointed
by President Roosevelt. But Harry
Bridges, an Australian radical che u
head of the local maritime wcekeTth
gained control of the situation anf
absolutely blocked the move for AFsle
tration, persuading the men to repsl&
ate the Ryan agreement In the uAiO10
of the San Francisco metropolitan
area it is said the conservatives go.
number the radicals, but the latteR
are trained in the tactics of intimidn-
ton and are seeking to wreck tbs
-rades unions for the benefit 6 III
'ause of Communism.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi announces
ledge to run every "CommunStie a.
iator" out of San Francisco. rbs
hedge, announced through an saRGR-
.ency citizens committee, said:
Il pledge to you that |, as chief In
scutive in san Francisco, to the fill
,xtent of my authority, will run cut
# San Francisco every Communicate
igitator, and this is going TO he canp
inuing policy In San Francisco"
THERE was disquieting strike news
L from many parts of the country.
lhe unions of Portland. Ore, were
pushing their plans for general
strike. and their officials said nothing
could now be.dOn to prevent It, The
truck drivers OF minneapolis ana their
helpers voted for renewal of their
strike which in May tied up trans
portation and resulted in fatal riots.
Representatives of 40 out of AZ
locals of the United Textile Workers
in Alabama decided on a statewide
strike which will affect $4,000 opera
tives The date was not announced.
Demands MADE 10 tne employers IN
clude: Ihlrty hour week with Sl2 min
mum pay aboliuoh OF the "stretch-
out system reinstatement OF all JOBS
abolished under me s.retchout sys-
tenn re-empioyment OF an workers
discharged Tor union ACTIVITY ana rec
ognition OF the teA'iie WORKERS union
siops Of the MIRA
Emnlovees Of Walter j. Kohler In
strIke and began plcketing the plant,
though il has been closed down since
July 4. These workers for whom Koh
Ter built and maintained an ideal"
industrial town and who have been