Evening star., 1937-04-16
AGREEMENT ENDS
MARITIME STRIKE
Seamen and Radio Oper-
ators Won to Plan of
u. S. Mediator.
Es the Associated Press,

Z! the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April l6.-A strike of
seamen and wireless operators which
threatened to tie up II ships. two of
them richly-appointed transatlantic
liners, was settled early today at a
conference attended by the regional
director of the National Labor Re-
lations Board
Two vessels already lay idle at ad-
Joining piers in New York harbor
when An agreement to terminate the
short-lived walkout was announced
by Mrs. Gilmore M. Herrick, the board S
New York representative.
The immediate issue in the strike.
which was called Wednesday and in
volved only ships of the International
Mercantile Marine Corp, was the
supremacy of one faction of seamen
over another.
haolO operators Strike.
Injected into the situation Yesterday
was corollary strike of radio opera
tors, coincident with receipt of a
charter by the American Radio Tele-
graphists' Association from the Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton
The agreement included a provision
Tor conferences looking toward an
election to determine proper bargain
Ing agencies among I. M. M, en-
ployes
Another provision was that passes
to board all I. NJ M. ships would pc
issued Immediately to rank and file
delegates of the Sailors, Firemen and
Stewards Unions"
Outgrowth of Winter Strike,
This strike was an outgrowth of the
rank and file" strike for three months
last Winter, in defiance of leaders of
the International Seamen's Union.
which occasioned sporadic Interrupt
tions of shipping.
John M. Franklin, president of
/. M. M, had appealed to Mrs. Herrick
to intercede.
In turn, the Seamen and wireless
men had made settlement contingent
on the removal of two non-union radio
operators from the trans Atlantic liner
President Roosevelt. The seamen had
succeeded in ousting from the engine
room handful of men they accused
of refusing to support Joseph Curran S
lnsurgent' strike last Winter. Curran
is chairman of the Seamen's Defense
Committee.
Those ousted were I. S. U.-approved
threatened by the strike, which had
tied up the President Roosevelt and
the liner California, were two crack
ships of the United States Lines
l. M. M. subsidiary, the Manhattan
due here today-and the Washington
The charter granted the Telegra-
phlsts' Association, it was announced.
signalized the entry of the Organizing
Committee founded by John L. Lewis
into the broad field of the commune
cations industry.
Driving toward the goal of union
1zing several hundred thousand work.
ers in the operating and manufactur-
Ing divisions of radio and telegraphy,
directors of the movement found their
initial response among the wireless
operators. Engine room and deck
crews constituted the remainder of l.
M. NJ strikers.
In the repercussions to Wednesdays
"sit-down" on the President Roosevelt,
delayed in sailing since Wednesday
noon, the telegraphists ordered strikes
on all II I. M. M. ships, and 300 crew.
men on the Panama Pacific liner Cali
fornia sat down in sympathy with the
Roosevelt's workers. The Panama Pa
ciflc is another I. NJ M. subsidiary.
The Telegraphists' Association an
nounced it would cooperate with the
United Electrical and Radio Workers
Of America in drive to organize radio
and telegraphy employees. The field
includes workers for the commercial
telegraph, cable, broadcasting and
aviation companies and the American
telephone and telegraph companies.