Evening star., 1934-07-18
UNIONS PUT PEACE
TO SH|POWNERS.
Demand Recognition oil
Maritime Groups to Call
Off Strike.
Continued From First Page.)
Employers to Debate Plan.

IOlikh1OFeI1en tpirSN8AbdNFCs AN
clared the proposal will never be
accepted by the men"
Employers to Debate Plan.
Immediate consideration Of the
olive-branch offer by waterfront and
shipping employers. however. was an
nounced by Thomas G.. Plant their
authorized spokesman He said the
proposal woud be taken up at meet
ing today.
The Presidents Mediation Board.
now preparing to conduct an election
among striking seamen to determine
what leaders shall represent them,
also will meet on the mater. o. X.
Cushing, spokesman for the board,
said.
Labor has done its part, declared
Edward Vadeleur, president of the
General Labor Council and chair
man of the General Strike Committee.
The matter rests entirely with the
shipowners now"
The resolution urged the Governors
OF California, oregon and Washing
ton and the mayors of all cities af~
fected by the widespread conflict to
Immediately appeal to the President
Of the United States to act in this
emergency :"
Members of the General Strike
Committee declined to comment on
their possible course should the arbi
tration edict be rejected. Conserva-
tive members indicated, however. that
they believed the maritime unions. if
they refused consent, would lose gen.
eral strike backing and that the en-
ployers, in the event of failure to ac-
cept the offer, would lose public sup
port.
Seattle Votes Support.
The wave of walkouts extended to
Seattle, where union boilermakers
voted, 222 to 48, for sympathy ac-
ton in support of the maritime work.
ers. Seattle machinists voted rs to
80. for sympathetic walkout." but
l. A. Sandvigen, business agent, said
this was five short Of the necessary
majority.
Gov. Clarence D. Martin of Wash
ington urged "all citizens who are
primarily interested in the public well
fare to join in expression" against
general strikes, which, he asserted,
could not win.
At Spokane, boycott on all busi-
ness with California concerns until
troops are removed from the San
Francisco strike area was announced
by the Central Labor Council through
Albert Leslie, secretary.
Belief that strikers may need pro-
lection from the fury of citizens"
unless the mass walkout in the bay
region, now in it's third day here, is
ended was expressed by Acting Gov.
Frank F. Merriam of California.
Three hundred men in Oakland
wanted to arm themselves and 60
after the strikers" the California ex-
ecutive said in an address at Colusa.
Il am not going to advocate anything
like that. but feel the people have
a right to exercise the spirit that
marked the activities of their fore
fathers and determine these questions
for themselves. In such an event, the
State will have to protect the strikers
as well as the other elements"
TrOlleys in Barns.
Street car service, stopped in the East
Bay cities of Oakland, Alameda and
Berkeley early yesterday, remained at
standstill In San Francisco only the
cars of the municipal railway, repre-
senting but about one-fourth of the
citys normal traction service, were
running. Large sections of the city
still were without any service, as the
two privately owned systems remained
tied up under strike conditions.
Continued operation of Southern
Pacific ferry boats on the bay, on
which thousands of daily commuters
depend for service, was assured when
the Ferry BoatmenS Union of Cali
fornia failed to take strike vote,
merely pledging support to the Gen
eral Walkout Committee. The Key
Route boats, their connecting cleo
trio lines in the East Bay gone,
stopped operation yesterday.
In San Francisco 76 union ZAP
proved" restaurants we're meeting the
needs of the community of 100000,
as compared with the 19 eating places
open the first day of the strike.
Meat Shops Reopen.
The city's $50 union butcher shops
were issued one-day permits for to-
day, bringing to an end the meat
famine, and the Strike Committee
indicated the permits would be ex-
tended, Movements of foods to retail
groceries also we're extended under
permit.
Conveys of fresh fruits and vege-
tables, which broke the blockade of
highway pickets yesterday, were
escorted to the patrolled commission
house district.
There the authority of the union
and military force over1apped. Two
permits were required-one from the
National Guard to get into the dis
trict and another from the Strike
Committee to get back through picket
lines. Each grocer's truck. under the
strike permit, must have union
driver.
Further complications developed
when the GuardSrnen forced removal
Of union permit signs from trucks on
the ground they involved an illegal
special privilege" from a non-con-
Stituted authority
The drivers then had to obtain new
signs before venturing out to make de-
liverieS.
Members of the Strike Committee
said there should be no interference
with deliveries of fuel oil and other
necessities to apartment houses and
hotels, but the major oil companies
refused to order out tank trucks, de-
claring they feared attacks by pickets.