The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-10
LEWIS MAKES BID
TO CLOSE STRIKE
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ments:
l. Scattered new strikes and the
spread of the soft coal dispute
boosted to 457,00G the number
away from work in strikes and
stoppages.
2. Soldiers unloaded the Queen
Elizabeth when she arrived in the
strikebound port of New York with
$4,000 troops, mail and baggage.
3. Federal labor conciliators in
tervened in wage controversies be-
tween Ford, Chrysler and Gene--
al Motors and their $4,000 en-
ployes.
In addition, to the 181,700 men
idled by the strikes coal shortages
forced steel operational shutdowns
and furloughing of some 1000
Pennsylvania mill hands of the
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation.
Because of no coal to move, so
trains and 300 employees of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
in Kentucky were imperative.
Carnegie-Illinoi blast furnace
operations in Youngstown, O.,
were down from Is to IL and the
steel production late was about
SO per cent, lowest since before
the war with the exception of the
week in August when the Japanese
surrendered.
Soldiers turned stevedores in
the port of New York, tied up nine
days by a strike, when AFL lons-
shoremen refused to unload mail
and baggage from the Queen
Elizabeth as she arrived with
nearly $1,000 troops.
More than 200 ships are tied up
at piers. The Wa Shipping Ad
ministration said, and scores of
others are standing in the harbor
waiting for berths. An embargo
has been placed on all shipments
of freight to New York for export.
LONDON, Oct 9 - P) British
troops were ordered out tonight to
start unloading food cargoes from
approximately 300 ships tied up by
the country's most paralyzing dock
strike since 1926.
The walkout threatened a criti-
cal food shortage.
The unauthorized strike, started
at Liverpool more than two weeks
ago, was gaining momentum with
$4,000 men idle despite return-to-
work pleas of both government and
union officials.
Stoppages spread today to Lon
don's giant docks and four small
er ports, as lockers sought to en-
force their demands for a standard
40-hour week at Is shillings. ($5) a
day.
About 1000 workers at three huge
London docks joined the walkout
after mass meeting at noon to-
day. The strike began with a walk
out of 60 Liverpool men 16 days
ago. Sixteen thousand men are idle
IN Liverpool now.
Work continued at other port of
London docks, but leaders warned
of a probable complete shutdown
by tomorrow.
Earlier today some 1000 lockers
walked out at Preston, South
Middlesbrough and Cars
ston, joining idle stevedores at Liv-
erpool, Hull, Manchester, Sunder-
land and other ports.
Food stores, which have been on
a virtual day-to-day ration basis,
reported stocks of many types of
food were running dangerously low. !
Food Minister Sir Ben Smith said |
there were at least 80 food ships |
in various harbors waiting to be
One ship at Liverpool has
|, 679 tons of bacon, 1889 tons of
cheese, and 851 tons of meat.
The Ministry of Labor, in a back
;o-work appeal, declared: 1.-THE
work stoppage is affecting the ex-
oeditious handling of imported food
and raw materials. If continued it
IS bound to inflict serious hardship
IN the whole country"
An appeal for voluntary labor to
lnload perishable food, including
80 tons of butter, from a Danish
hip at Hull, went unheeded. Also
waiting unloading at Hull is a car
10 of meat and butter, and another
II Sapnish oranges.
Meanwhile, a strike of some co.
100 building industry workers doing
'omb repair work in London was 4