The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-18

Notified that the Standard Oil Company of California would be allowed under a dispensation from the strike committee to deliver fuel oil to apartment houses in trucks carrying strike committee permits, Philip Patchin, vice-president of the oil company answered.:
 Apartment house owners will be served without limit but our permits will be in the form of po- lice protection"
 National Guardsmen assigned to protect food trucks in the whole sale district, ripped from severa. trucks the strike committees per- mits, which they were displaying
 The strike committee further re- faxed it's embargo on food stuffs.
 Having increased the number of licensed" restaurants yesterday to 70, during the night the permit committee issued authorization to $50 butcher shops to open for to- day only, giving housewives a chance to replenish meat supplies.
 Communists Ousted
 Vigilantes rode again in the city. A rowing band of men, clad in leather coats and believed to have been from the teamsters union, raided communist gathering places, wrecking them. They drove the people found there into the streets, where, probably not entirely by coincidence, police were waiting.
 Over 300 alleged communists were arrested on vagrancy charges.
 Food convoys-caravans of mo. tor trucks laden with foodstuffs- rumbled into the city, bringing the first provisions to arrive here since last Thursday. They came under guard but met no violence.
 In Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Hayward and suburbs on the east short of San Francisco Bay some 10000 additional men struck, tie- ing up street railways transporta- ton and the key system ferries. In San Francisco the municipal rail- way, which resumed operations yesterday, ran continuously and without interference of serious nature.
 Unions relaxed their grip upon the city through issuance of per- mits allowing a. few additional res- taurants to open. the 19 previous " AidNlh5 pLoNCu ly inadequate even to feed the public. Plans were made to allow wholesale and retail delivery of under a rigid permit system.
 The national guard remained in control of the San Francisco em- and forced its lines two blocks deeper into the city. barri- cading the entire product commits sion house district. Four hundred guardsmen took over aptrol of the Oakland waterfront and reserves were stationed at the Oakland and Berkeley armeries, equipped with fast motor trucks, them mobile units subject to call anywhere in that area where trouble might develop.
 Conditions generally were quiet during the night. There was the usual amount of scattered morgan ized violence but none of majof nature.
 Arbitration Vote Dispute
 The public centered first inter. est upon the arbitrations proposals. The news spread slowly. First word went out that the strike was set tied. This cry started with the shouting, excited men who burst from the labor temple in the early evening, after the conference there had passed it's resolution. They cried that 1t was all over. But they had reckoned without Harry Bridges and his powerful. militant left wing faction in the maritime unions.
 Bridges himself emerged iron, the meeting in an angry mood.
 The vote was phoney," he cried. There wasn't even q roll call. Kid well George Kidwell. committee secretary introduced the resolu- tion and then railroaded it through with standing vote which he himself miscounted. A lot of men voted who were not accredited representatives"
 Later Kidwell. in formal statement, denied Bridges charges and added that not only was the vote honest but extra precautions were taken to make 1t so.
 Resolution Passed
 The resolution. which passed by vote of POT to 1SU, said the mar itime strike threatens the stabil- ity of the entire Pacific coast"
 Therefore be 1t resolved" 1t read, that the governors of the states of Washington. oregon, Cal ifornia and the mayors of the cities of san Francisco, Oakland, Berke- ley, Los Angeles, Portland. Taco ma, Seattle and other affected ports be asked immediately to appeal to the president of the United States to act in this emergency to the fol- lowing end:
 ''That all waterfront employers and recognized organizations of the employees be requested imme- diately to supmit to arbitration all questions involved in the dispute between them which for months have remained unsolved to the presidents longshore board. and that their decision shall be accept ed by all parties,
 It was specified that the propo- sal was contingent upon acceptance by all maritime employers and, while not written into the resulu- ton, 1t was understood tacitly that acceptance by the unions was nec- essary.
 Also while not written into the resolution, it was understood tacit- ly that acceptance of arbitration by all parties would bring an end to the strike. This could not come. 1t was generally agreed, for prob ably 24 hours at the earliest.
 The resolution was the propssas of the conservative group of laAor leaders controlling the San Fran cisco labor council. They worked most of the preceding night trying