Evening star., 1936-11-03
STRIKERS ORDERED
TO BLOCKADE ALL
AMERICAN PORTS
New Move Is Made to Com
pleteIy Tie Up Shipping
in United States.
FEDERAL COMMISSION
HEARING POSTPONED
Action Follows Boiling by Unions.
Safety Crews" Are Becoming
Critical Issue.
STRIKE AT A GLANCE.
4, the Associated Press

BY the Associated treSs
San Fruncisco-Strike committee
drdUs blockade on Pacific ships
around United States and asks Sit
down" tie-ups OF all other American
craft. Federal Maritime Commits
sion hearing indefinitely postponed
after unions bolt. Question OF
safety crews" for idle craft be-
comes critical issue.
New York-Rank-and- file leader
claims 1873 ships held at Atlantic
and gulf ports. First de lure trans
Atlantic liner affected.
Philddelphid-Mdyo orders ar
rest OF all pickets. Declares "Sym-
pathy strike" illegal. Seuen jailed.
GalpeSton-WorkerS call for gen.
eral mater front strike at all gulf
ports.
Houston-"Symprthy" strike out
lawed by officials OF International
Longshoremen's Association, but
rank-and- file workers Dote to con-
tinue "sit-doUn" tie-upS.
Boston - Rank-and- file leaders
threaten ito tie up port OF Boston"
SAN FRANCISCO, November 3 ZAP,
Leaders of the Pacific Coasts gen.
eral maritime strike called today fol
tie-up of all American ships. They
sought to extend the blockade to At.
iantic and gulf ports.
The new policy" Instructions issued
by the Joint Committee representing
seven dock and seagoing unions
ordered crews ofsD4cific Coast ships
to walk of at 'any United States
port"
Crews of all other American ships
we're urged to "sit down" and draw
the blockade tight around the entire
United States.
Hearing Postponed.
A hearing here by the Federal Mari
time Commission, from which union
representatives bolted yesterday. was
postponed indefinitely by Admiral
Harry G. Hamlet.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed
ward F. McGrady continued efforts to
bring about resumption of settlement
The immediate critical
issue was the employers demand that
safety crews" remain on tied-up
ships.
I'VE will have to take whatever
steps are necessary" said Thomas G.
Plant of the Employers Committee,
ito put men aboard for the safety of
the vessels"
His statement was interpreted by
observers as the first threat from en-
ployers to replace strikers with non-
union crews.
In the first official action against
strikers. Philadelphia Mayor, S.
Davis Wilson. declared the sympathy"
walkouts of seamen illegal and ordered
the arrest of pickets. His police
"strike squad" jailed seven men who
refused to move on"
Many Ships Declared Idle.
Vessels in paralyzed Pacific Coast
ports increased to $50 or more
Joseph Curran, head of the Seamens
Defense Committee at New York,
claimed 1873 ships were idle at At
lantic and Gulf ports.
David Grange, third vice president
OF the International Seamens Union,
threatened at New York to meet
force with force" if Curran's rank
and-file followers attempted intimida-
ton Of sailors deciding to remain at
work.
Regular union officers also sought
to check the spread of the rank-and-
file sympathy actions at Philadelphia
where they were shouted down, ano
at Houston, Tex.
Maritime workers at Galveston
Tex. decided at a meeting to work
for general waterfront strike al
Gulf ports.