Evening star., 1937-07-24
CLAMP.
EMBARGO ON MEAT.
IN BUFFALO T|E-UP
Joint c. |. 0. and A. F. L.
Action Menaces City's
Whole Food Supply.
WILL TEST
STATES LABOR ACT
Workers Seeking Shorter Hours
$25 Weekly Wage and
Closed Shop.
|y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 24-The In
ternational Longshoremen's Associa-
ton clamped a meat embargo on
Buffalo today as DR.. John P. Boland
State Labor Board chairman, called
quick conferences in an attempt to
settle the four-day strike Of 1000 food
handlers
Stewards of the Longshoremen's As
sociation announced they would allow
no more meat shipments unloaded in
Buffalo after wholesale grocery truck
drivers and butchers extended their
strike to fourth meat packing firm.
Union leaders called a Walkout and
started a picket line going at Swift g.
Co.'S plant after Sam Licata, business
agent OF the United Teamsters' Union,
charged the companys trucks We're
hauling butter and eggs for whole
sale grocers shutdown by the truck
drivers strike.
DR.. Boland, whose move into the
strike was the first use of New York
States new Labor Board set up under
little Wagner act" announced the
grocery wholesalers and union leaders
had agreed to meet with him for an
initial mediation conference.
Closed Shop Is Issue.
After a meeting with employers
this morning he said:
The crux Of the matter appears to
be the closed shop issue
DR.. Boland, former Buffalo Cath
olic priest and chairman of the Ma
tional Labor Relation Boards regional
office here. said he had been sent
here as a specially commissioned
mediator Of the State Mediation Board
because he was familiar with the local
situation
A meat truck was overturned and
burned slightly in the first violence Of
the strike
Bitter rivals on the Nations labor
front, the American Federation of
Labor and the Committee for In
dustrial Organization have pooled
their efforts here to tie up AZ whole
sale butter and egg markets as we'll
as the four meat packing plants.
c. I. o. pickets paraded before
wholesale creameries and warehouses
where truck drivers afI1liated with the
A. F.. of LIS teamsters union struck
for higher wages, shorter hours and 4
preferential closed shop.
State Help Asked.
In turn. truckers ordered their
union members not to deliver at pack
ing plants where c. I. O. workers
asked union recognition.
A merchants committee headed by
Raymond Wattles pleaded with Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman yesterday to inter-
vene 'in the interests Of justice and
the solution OF 4 very serious situa-
ton
Only thin trickle OF trucks made
their way out Of strikebound ware
houses under police guard.
Howard F. Toy, A. F. OF L. or
ganizer, said the teamsters walked out
because wholesalers failed to meet
demands for a $25-a-week minimum
wage, 44-hour week and a closed
shop.
Food Shortage Seen.
Meanwhile poultry and dairy prod
ucts. -four, sugar and canned goods
ran low on store shelves; retail grocers
estimated that by Monday there would
be serious shortage
Striking c. I. o. meat packers shut
down the Danahy, Dold and Upgrade
plants, charging the employers vio-
lated the Wagner act by refusing to
hold collective bargaining agent
election.
Hugh Thompson, regional director
for the Lewis forces, put the number
Of men out at between 1900 and
l,500. Executives at the struck plants
said only about 500 had walked out,