The Washington times., 1934-07-16
ECOND TORSO I'M TRUNK DISCOVERY BATTLES. POLICE
Citizens Flee City
AS General Strike
Ties Up Frisco

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hour when the walkout Of 10000
men officially took effect.
Mob RObs Grocery
Shortly before the zero hour, q
food riot broke out in the mission
district of the city, A mob OF
1000 persons broke the windows
Of q groceryteria and looted the
store of 81, 500 worth of food. I;
Police cars sped to the scene,
but the mob had vanished with
the foodstuffs. No arrests were
made.
While the official hour of the
strike was 8 q. m. today, the gen.
eral walkout has been In effect
since Saturday. when the strike
executive committee Of the Cen.
trail Labor Council issued the or.
der for complete cessation of work
"a disastrous aftermath Of the
67-day tie-up of Pacific Coast
ports from Canada to. Mexico,
due to the LongShoremen's strike.
The streets of San Francisco
were practically deserted as the
rumor Of martial rule kept resi-
dents indoors. Police. mounted
and afoot, patrolled every down.
town block, coping with violence
as best they could.
HOOdlums Rove City
Reminiscent Of the wild DAYS
after the gold rush, rowing bands
Of hoodlums we're ranging the
city by the Golden Gate.
The transportation tie-up was
complete. Street car and bus
lines were totally paralyzed by
the general walkout. The only
automobiles seen on the streets
we're those Of physicians and
those on urgent business.
The food shortage made itself
felt more acutely as hundreds of
restaurants and cafes closed their
doors.
Downtown restaurants. which
the unions have permitted to re-
main in operation, we're scenes Of
wild disorder as block-long lines
sought food.
Milk and bread trucks crawled
slowly along the streets between
the picket lines. The unions have
agreed not to modest them.
Here and there a food or gaso-
line truck, bound on emergency
business. was escorted by squad
cars Of heavily armed police with
screaming sirens.
Citizens Leave City
The exodus of men, women, and
children that damned the railway
stations and highways yesterday
was diminished today. Everyone
who possibly could do so had left
the city.
Northern California towns and
summer resorts outside the strike
area were reported damned to
overlooking, with emergency
tents and cottages being erected
for the frightened horde.
Not a room was available in
San Francisco's downtown hotels
as the public utility companies
and other firms. which must con-
tinue in operation, chartered en-
tire floors to house employees.
How these employees will be
fed was an open question.
Tomorrow the tieup Of indus
trial and economic life will be COM
pleted with 70 more unions in the
East Bay-Oakland. Berkeley, Ala
media and seven other municipal
ities-with their $4,000 men throw
ing their weight into the general
strike-a strike which already has
brought privation. danger and
fear to the $500. 900 people in the
affected region.
Theater Men Strike
San Francisco theaters were to
be darkened after last nights per-
formances as a result Of walkout
Of film projectionistS, stage hands
and musicians.
The threat of the San Francisco
Bay cities being plunged into
darkness through cessation Of
electric service was definitely
stilled when the Electric workers
Union voted to defer their vote on
strike participation until July Is.
When the full strike tally is
marked up it will read:
Coastwide, $4,000 longshoremen
and Seamen in Seattle, Tacoma,
Portland, San Francisco, Oakland,
Los Angeles and San Diego: San
Francisco, 1T unions and $4,000
men; Oakland, Berkeley and other
East Bay cities, lot unions ami
$1,000 mentor a grand total Of
las, 900 men on strike on the
Coast with 1872, 900 Of these in the
San Francisco Bay area. Esti-
mated cost Of the tieup is $2,50O..
600 q day in money, with the cost
in human misery-and possibly
human lives-yet to come.
Conveys Lined Up
Under the leadership of Acting
Governor Frank F. Merriam, the
State highway patrol Of 400 men,
captained by e. Raymond Cato,
was lining up sheriffs Of counties
and mayors Of cities surrounding
the bay to convoy trucks through
their territories with deputy sher-
Alexandria Court
Has HeuUu Session
One Of the heaviest dockets in
years. was called in Alexandra