The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-07-26

- S and other officials,
k strongly backed by
public opinion, were
Harry Bridges determined that San
francisco and the surrounding com.
munities should not be deprived Of
the necessities of life, that the en-
largo 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 yigilantes which raided the head
ouarters and gathering places Of the
Communists. The central committee
In charge of the strike soon realized
tbe movement was collapsing and the
conservative members, regaining con-
troll. relaxed the restrictions, and made
an offer of arbitration under certain
conditions.
On Thursday the general strike was
formally called off and the men Or
dered back to work.
General johnson, NRA administers
tor, acting as spokesman for the fed
eral maritime dispute board there, was
on hand determined to bring about a
peaceful settlement. The Pacific coast
maritime strike, on behalf of which
the mass walkout was called. re-
NAMED a difficult problem, for the
longshoremen and maritime workers
were insistent that the main dispute
In their case, control of the hiring
halls" should not be subjected to ar
bitration. -
To the average person the whole
thing looked unreasonable and unnec-.
essary. The 1ongshoremen, like their
fellow workers all along the west
coast, have been on strike for changed
working conditions, and were Joined
by the marine workers and transfers.
Then Joseph P. Ryan, national presi-
dent Of the longshoremen, signed an
agreement that the men would return
to work pending arbitration and a
labor disputes board was appointed
by President Roosevelt. But Harry
Bridges, an Australian radical who is
head Of the local maritime workers,
gained control of the situation and
absolutely blocked the move for arbf-
tration, persuading the men to repudi-
ate the Ryan agreement In the unions
Of the San Francisco metropolitan
area it is said the conservatives out
number the radicals, but the latter
are trained in the tactics Of intimida-
ton and are seeking to wreck the
trades unions for the benefit of the
cause of Communism.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi announced a
pledge to run every "Communistic az
itator' out of San Francisco. The
pledge, announced through an emer-
geney citizens committee, said:
7 pledge to you that /, as chief ex-
ecutive In San Francisco. to the full
extent of my authority. will run out
of San Francisco every Communistic
agitator, and this is going to be a con-
tinuing policy in San Francisco"
THERE was disquieting strike news
l from many parts Of the country.
The unions of Portland, Ore, were
pushing their plans for a general
strike, and their officials said nothing
could now be done to prevent it. The
truck drivers Of Minneapolis and 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
yves. The date was not announced.
Demands made to the employers in
elude: Thirty hour week with $12 min
mum pay, abolition of the stretch
OUT system, reinstatement of all jobs
abolished under the stretchout sys-
tenn; Unemployment Of all workers
discharged for union activity and rec
ignition of the textile workers union
1or collective bargaining under provi-
slons of the NRA.
Employees Of Walter j. Kohler In
hohler village, Wisconsin, are out on
strike and began picketing the plant,
though it has been closed down since
July 4. These workers for whom Koh.
ier built and maintained an ideal"
Industrial town and who have been
treated with remarkable generosity by
.ae company, demand recognition Of
ueir union. q minimum wage Of 60
cents an hour and a 3O-hour week.
Inc company has it's own employees
union, a minimum wage of 40 cents
an hour, and a 40-hour week.
pNSTITUTIONALITY of the Bank
=, mead cotton act is to be tested in
ne FEDERAL courts. CASTOR Therrell of
Soiumbus. Miss. has served notice
tnat ne will bring the suit in the
onited States district court at Mer-
,uian' directing it against Henry A.
wallace, secretary of agriculture, and
'n'efnal revenue and extension officials