Evening star., 1941-09-23
Lands Peace ParIey
by Seamen;
q Ships Tied Up
A. F. |. Muchinists Take
Strike Vote at Huge
West Coast Bomber Plant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A seamens strike kept more than
score Of ships needed for defense
and lease-lend aid at anchor today
and A. F. L. machinists reported a
strike vote was being taken at big
West Coast bomber plant.
The Maritime Commission offered
to sponsor conferences at Washing
ton in an effort to end dispute
over war bonuses on various sea
trade routes-and brought in reply
an appeal by the New York unit of
the Seafarers International Union
"a. F. L. to President Roosevelt to
investigate the commissions anti
labor activities"
The 11-day-old strike spread to
three more vessels in the Atlantic
and Gulf last night and Secretary
Treasurer John Hawk of the S. 1. U.
said % ships were idle.
Land Makes Appeal.
Chairman Emory S. Land, sending
the Maritime Commission offer of
aid to unions representing un-
licensed personnel as we'll as to ship
operators, said the strike was dis
rupting shipping so vitally needed
for national defense and all-out aid
to democracies.
The Seafarers Union has sought
unspecified bonAses for its men who
60 into war zones and has demanded
$50 a month bonuses for trips to the
West Indies.
At the same time. an S. l. U. off,
cial said Atlantic and Gulf port units
would vote on a resolution authoriz-
ing a general strike referendum.
The International Longshore-
mems Union meanwhile. strove for
a quick settlement of the dispute
between the Alcoa Steamship Co.
and the S. I. U. Joseph P. Ryan,
I. L. U. president, said that AL
legiance to the Government COM
pels" longShoremen to handle car
goes where non-union crews were
being used.
The commission has requisitioned
three strike bound Alcoa freighters,
two of which have sailed with Gov
ernment-recruited crews.
Trouble at Bomber Factory.
At San Diego, A. F. L. machinists,
announcing the airplane factory
strike vote, said that a conference
with Maj. R. H. Fleet, president of
Consolidated Aircraft Corp, had
failed to settle the unions demand
for a fiat 10-cent-an-hour wage in
crease for workers not covered by a
minimum pay raise for beginners.
w. J. Chudleigh, president of the
local of the international machin-
lists. and George Castleman, inter-
national vice president, predicted
that there would be a walkout
among the $4,000 workers if the
company did not grant the blanket
increase.
The union president estimated
the membership was voting 10 to !
in favor of strike.
A strike of $50 members of the
Sugar Workers Union &C. I. o. at
the Revere Sugar Refinery at Boston
tied up two other steamships sought
by the Maritime Commission for
defense purposes. State Cancellation
Board Chairman Charles H. Cole
said that the Ellenor of the Bull
Line, which had arrived from Puerto
Rico, and the Mayari, a Panaman
United Fruit steamship, with cargo
from Preston, Cuba. had been un-
able to unload. The Maritime Com
mission has served notice that both
craft were required for defense use
Coal Miners to Return.
In the coal fields, one anthracite
union in the Wilkes-Barre area re-
ported its members had decided tc
return to work despite appeals from
other workers who are protesting in
creased United Mine Workers Of
America &C. I. o. dues and assess
ments.
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