The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-18
WIDESPREAD LABOR
DISPUTES DIVERTED
TO Smoother PATHS
Arbitrate or Lose Support Is
Mandate Handed Down to
Maritime Workers
NO VIOLENCE IN MILL CITY
Portland's General Walkout
Held in Allegiance Pend
ing Conference
NO VIOLENCE IN MILL CITY
by the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
From Oregon to Alabama the ma
tion's turbulent labor currents swung
into smoother channels Wednesday.
The most striking example was in
San Francisco, where the general
strikes board Of strategy took the
lead to divert the longshoremen's con-
troversy into q more peaceful course.
Arbitrate or lose our support, the
general strike committee virtually told
the maritime workers. LEFT wing"
leaders reared In vain. The Water
front Employers Association was to
decide Wednesday its stand on the
arbitration proposal.
/, Portland's proposed general strike
sWas held In allegiance to permit labor
leaders to confer with Senator Wag-
ner, the governments representative,
in q move for mediation. The public
was promised q hours notice should
q general walkout be called.
In Berkeley, CAL, General Hugh 8.
Johnson termed the general strike
"civil war" It Is bloody instruction
to deprive whole people Of the nee
essities Of Nfe," he said.
The mayor Of Houston, Tex, named
q committee to seek q solution Of the
maritime strike which has taken three
lives there.
Miners at the RAYMOND Red ore
mine, near Birmingham, Ala, returned
to work. Their agreement with the
Republic Steel corporation wrote the
last chapter In strike which called
out 5000 workers and cost two lives.
In Montana, where $500 employees
Of the Anaconda Copper mines are on
strike, mine properties at Butte were
stoned.
Rioting at one mill inaugurated the
textile mill workers strike in northern
Alabama. The walkout and conse-
ouent shutdowns left sn estimated
$1,000 employees Of 20 mills idle. Strike
leaders predicted $4,000 would b out
soon.
st. Louis police Wednesday arrested
Is Of the 1908 striking employees Of
the Century Electric company, where
q strike has been In progress since
June %, for the purpose Of "averting
future attacks on working employees Of
the company" The strike started
when the company refused to grant
q 10 per cent wage increase.
Minneapolis remained orderly de-
spite the strike Of 1000 truck drivers.
Picketing was casual but 2l6 national
guardsmen were on hand In case
Trouble began.
Mediators sought TO restore peace to
Kohler, Wis.,, once labeled the model
village" because Of the relations be-
tween the Kohler company. plumbing
equipment manufacturer. and its EN-.
ployes, now on strike.
In New York, the national labor
committee Of the Socialist party called
on its locals to demonstrate their
solidarity and support Of the San
Francisco strikers.
Joseph p. Ryan, president Of the
International Longshoremenis Union,
stated emphatically there would b no
sympathy strike on the eastern sea
beard. Other organisations were press
Ing for walkout.
Mediators Work In Mill City
Meantime, in Minneapolis . new
federal drive to settle the strike Of
union truck drivers began.
Father Francis ]. Hass, . member
Of the federal labor relations board
who helped negotiate I peaceful end
to Milwaukee's recent electric strike,
was en- route from Washington in . |
government move to settle the driv-
ers' walkout, which has halted vir-
tually oil truck traffic in Minneapo-
lis.
Leaving Washington Tuesday
night, the mediator 10 expected TO
arrive late Wednesday by airplane
t. assist E. H. Dunnigan, labor de-
partment conciliator, and Governor
Floyd B. Olson in their efforts to
arbitrate the matter.
National guardsmen were in readi-
ness in the downtown district to
stop any disorders.
Striking union workers toured the |
downtown streets in cars, but with
few trucks moving, there was little
occasion for disorder. Newspaper,
gasoline and milk and market gard
eners' trucks were exempt in the
tieup, which began 1t midnight
Monday.
J The city market, center Of rioting
which cost two lives and many in
juries in : previous strike in May,
remained closed. Employers said
they did not plan to move any trucks |
for 4 day or two.
Troops Ready for Action
The troops were called out BY
Governor Olson, who said hs would |
discipline either or both conflicting
groups Il circumstances require"
Pickets stationed q . few Of the
main roads into the city turned back
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