The Bismarck tribune., 1934-07-16
LABOR DISPUTES ARE
GROWING MENACE TO
NATIONS COMMERCE
Frisco, Houston, Alabama, Min
neapoIis, kohler in Grip Of
Controversies
COAST CRISIS APPROACHING
Mill City Truckmen Will Renew
WaIkout Unless Agree
ment Is Reached
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
Strikes threatened to paralyze busi-
ness over wide area of the nation
Monday with the Pacific Coast, Ala
hama and the Middlewes. as the prin-
cipal centers of labor controversies.
The "siege of San Francisco"-a
general strike intended by union labor
to paralyze the entire metropolitan
area Of 100000 persons-was ordered
begun at a. m. Pacific Coast time
Monday.
The strike. involving an estimated
100000 workmen, is aimed to assist
$1,000 Pacific coast longshoremen and
marine workers who have been on
strike for two months seeking changed
working conditions.
Four thousand national guardsmen
are on guard, 1000 additional men
having been ordered out late Sunday
night.
Food supplies are low. Some COM
modities are exhausted. There is q
shortage of fuel for motorcars. Extra
police have been sworn in to meet
the emergency.
Plans are being pushed with all
possible haste" for a general strike In
Portland. Ore.
Frisco Man Bayonetted
A man was bayonetted at San Fran
cisco Sunday by q national guards
man, and may die.
Three negroes were killed, three
others wounded and white man was
shot as guns blazed in Houston, Tex,
where there is longshoremen-employ
trouble
The President of the Alabama Cot
ton Manufacturers association said
that general strike in the industry
there. as proposed by ~ locals Of the
Union Textile Workers Of America,
would probably mean an indefinite
shutdown Of every mill In Alabama.
At Minneapolis the efforts Of anti
strike speakers at labor meeting to
have truck drivers cancel q strike set
fol- midnight Monday were howled
down.
Picket lines were ordered Monday
at Kohler. Wis.,, called the model in
dustrial village" Twelve hundred
employees are demanding the right
of collective bargaining. union leaders
explained.
The San Francisco metropolitan
area with population Of more than
1900, 900 persons was completely par
alyZed by the general strike.
All business and traffic ceased and
the national guard moved swiftly to
prevent violence.
Tanks, Artillery Held Ready
Tanks were enroute to the city.
bearing machine guns and one
FOUNDER guns.
A field artillery unit got under
way from Salinas with IS millimeter
guns.
The national guard force here was
increased to 1000 men, 1000 troopers
being moved quickly into the city.
Violence broke out here and in
the transbay region. Police said
mob nearly $500 men tsormed AID
looted grocery store at 2rd and
Mission streets.
At Hayward SO men raided an al
legged communistic headquarters.
dragged the furniture to a nearby lot
and set it afire.
Pickets warned pedestrians not to
go to work. Thousands Of persons
trudged miles to their offices.
Restaurants Are Closed
All San Francisco restaurants had
closed except 10 designated by the
unions general strike committee. The
committee organized its own police
force of strikers and outlined q pro-
gram to control necessities with sup
ply depots to ration food.
Automobiles were left in garages.
All car lines had stopped operating.
In the face Of threats they would
lose all civil service benefits NUM-
cipal carmen ran their trans into
barns.
Telephone service. electric power,
light and gas were assured. Federal,
state, city and union officials prom
tsed San Franciscans would not
starve despite the blockade that has
kept food in loaded warehouses from
reaching homes, and stopped farm
produce miles from the city.
Theatres and small shops were
closed. Department stores did not
know how long they would b open.
Milk and bread alone were delivered.
Private citizens with automobiles
loaded with food were apt to Be-
stopped and their supplies dumped.
Generally q strange Qltet hung
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