The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-13
FRISCO RESIDENTS !
FACE STRIKE siege
AND FOOD SHORTAGE
Commerce Expected to Be Al.
most Entirely Halted by
Sympathy Movement
100000 PLEDGE SUPPORT
Snipsr's Bullet Fells 1o-Ysar-
Old Sailor on Cuard.Pa-
trolled Waterfront

San Francisco, July 3-(R)-House.
wives and men In the street felt the
Pacific coasts maritime strike FRI
day as an increasing number OF labor
unions Joined the movement toward
q general strike in the San francisco
bay area.
Shortages Of food. gasoline and fuel
became an actual threat.
With q move toward general strike
gaining Roadway In Portland, Ore,
and rumblings OF q similar movement
heard In Los Angeles, the San Fran
cisco strategy committee called
meeting Of ell unions this afternoon
ut which q general strike Is expected
to be demanded.
Nearly 100000 workers In San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda
have pledged themselves to walk out
in sympathy with ~ 800 striking mari
time workers II the strategy commit
tees say the word.
Twenty five hundred taxicab driv-
ers and chauffeurs walked out here
at 5 o'clock Friday morning. bringing
to 6,370 the number who have already
joined In q protest for immediate set
Element Of the waterfront strike.
Nearly 5000 butchers, laundry
men and retail deliverymen will Join
them Saturday night.
City Health Endangered
DR.. J. G. oeiger, city health officer,
said, THE very health Of the city is
In danger"
With garden trucks being halted
outside the city, wholesale merchants
said San Francisco's fresh fruit and
vegetable supply would be exhausted
by Saturday night. Sufficient meat Is
on hand to last five days.
Grocery stores had supplies on their
shelves sufficient to last from three
days to q month.
Oil companies organized an emer-
gency committee as the gasoline Short
age threatened.
Street car men and 10000 members
Of the building trades council were
among unionists who joined the call
Of the strategy committee today.
A citywide walkout Is imminent, it
vas indicated by Edward Vandeleur,
president Of the central labor council
and chairman Of the strategy" COM
mittee. The committee has called for
. meeting Of all unions Friday after
noon.
While San Francisco and the
cities checked supplies,
heard reports Of IN immediate gaso-
Line shortage and took such steps as
were possible to meet the emergency,
the general strike movement gained
support ct other cities. Eighty unions
In Portland we're reported ready to
strike. Los Angeles unions discussed
= similar proposal.
Sailor Critically Wounded
Shippers bullets whined on the ma
tional guard-patrolled San Francisco
waterfront and . 10-year-old sailor
fell seriously wounded In q small boat
In which he was leaving for service
or . freighter. National guardsmen,
who took into custody four men from
another boat for questioning, said Is
slots were fired In the outbreak Of
sliping fire.
The four men were later released
and militia officers said the unseen
gniper had apparently escaped despite
. pter-to-pier search by the guards.
men. The sailor shot was Jerry Duffy
e Hollywood.
The shooting followed . day OF scat
tered violence. Highways to the city
we're guarded by strike pickets and q
few attempts to move trucks down.
town brought prompt action by strik-
Ing teamsters. Trucks were overturned
In the streets In some instances. 9th.
er drivers were permitted to pull into
garages to avoid attacks
Struggling to restore peace through
; proposed armistice In the maritime
unions strike, . federal board ap-
pointed BY President Roosevelt under
The new labor disputes law. continued
conferences here.