Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-05
SHIPPING STRIKE
GAINS MOMENTUM
Threat to San Francisco
Food Supply Averted.
ALASKA Faces Shortage.
Ay the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO. November S.
TIE throttling of Americas maritime
trade increased throughout the Ma
tons ports today, but an immediate
threat to San Francisco's food supply
was averted Union warehousemen
agreed to move perishable fruits and
vegetables.
Even as representatives ofsboth the
Warehousemen's Union and the
wholesale grocery industry voices hope
the warehousemens strike here would
be settled before the week end, the
threat Of general strike Of East
Coast seamen was heard in New York.
Peace Plans Get Setback.
Agencies seeking an opening for
peace negotiations received a setback
here when it was reported that the
shipowners of the Pacific, represent
ing the coastwise steam schooner
group, met last night without decid-
ing to renew conferences with the
Masters, Mates and Pilots Associa-
ton.
The steam schooner men and six Of
the seven striking unions reached an
accord and were separated from an
agreement with the Masters, Mates
and Pilots by the lone issue Of SIS
per month wage increase when the
strike was called.
Representatives of the 50 coastwise
freighter operators met briefly, then
withheld statements. It was au-
thoritatively said, however, that they
did not favor further conferences.
Meanwhile Alaskan ports faced an
imminent food shortage. Authorities
at Honolulu rushed preparations to
cope with any violence that might
arise.
= Strike Is Separate.
The warehousemen's strike here Is
separate from the maritime strike
that started on this coast and spread
to ports trimming the United States
and to territorial ports. The Ware
housemen's Union is an affiliate of the
international Longshoremen's Asso-
citation, one of seven major unions in
VOWED in the maritime walkout.
THE warehousemen agreed, after
conference with wholesale grocers and
municipal authorities yesterday, to be-
gin today moving fruits and vegetables
from the warehouses to retail stores.
A joint statement announced another
conference for pm. % pm, E. S. to
and said Substantial progress was
made toward settlement" of the
Strike.
a Walkout Is Urged.
I'm New York, as in other Eastern
and Gulf ports, some rank and file"
seamen conducted a Shutdown" strike
IN sympathy with the West Coast
walkout. Proposals we're made there
last night at a large meeting of left
wing members Of the International
Seamen's Union that the "sit down"
be extended into general strike of
seamen in the East. The gathering
resolved to call meeting of repre-
&ntatives of seamen of the North
and South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
70 consider the general walkout pro-
posal. ....
At Washington, Federal shipping
experts estimated unofficially that the
overall cost of the shipping tieup is
100000 a day. They based this on
the assumption 325 ships are strike
bound
At Fairbanks, Alaska, the chamber
Of commerce. asserting merchants
had food enough to last only 80 days,
voted to protest the closing of the
Government owned Alaska Railroad,
only connecting link between interior
Alaska and the sea.
The road was ordered closed by
Col. o. F. Gibson, general manager,
because of the loss of freight and
passenger business caused by the
maritime strike,