The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-18
TENTATIVE
 AGREEMENT
 |S REACHED
Sailors and Longshoremen Must Vote on Ratification
 of Plan, However

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ls.-The end of the 48-day West Coast mar itime strike was set today for We'd nesday morning, subject to ratiii- cation by striking sailors and lcng- shoremen.
 As unions began voting today on tentative agreement reached yes- terday, the principal terms of the settlement were set forth as: l. "Unfreezing" of the port of Gees Bay, Ore. by agreement be- 1 tween the AFL Sailors Union oi the Pacific and the CIO unions of the Committee for Maritime Unity. This was ship operator demand
 ?. Definition of the geographi- cal limits of the steam schooner trade (coastwise lumber shipping, --described as the only new steaia schooner provision in the longshore contract. CIO longshorenlen ori- ainally sought separate steam schooner. contract.
 3. No preferential hiring of ma rine engineers, originally the top demand of the CIO Marine Engin- cers Beneficial Association. 4. Agreement tc settle loilg shore stop work disputes by ininaesI fate arbitration. This was an elii- ptoyer demand
 Wage Increases i.
 5 A wage increase of approKi- mately II percent for longshoremen and related dock workers, increas- ing the basic straight time hourly rate for longshoremen from si.37 to sl52
 G. 15 percent wage increase fo rmarine engineers. bringing top salaries of chief engineers to s625 month and over.
 l still remaining to be settled was the new contract with the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots. As with the CIO engineers, the masters de- mand q preferential hiring clause. but it had been generally accepted the deck officers would fall into the same pattern of agreement as that for the engineers with prefer ential hiring either out altogether or watered down.
 The strike, ship operators estimat- cd, has cost longshoremen about : s6,500,000 in wages, and seafarers about $ll 100000.
 Agreement Reached i Reaching of a tentative agree ment was announced yesterday by the operators and leaders of the In- i tclnationai LongsEoremen and 1 warehousemen ILWU and the Ma rine Engineers Beneficial Assoeia- i ticn MEBA), both CIO unions. Un- ion leaders urged membership rati- i iicaticn. Harry Bridges. ILWU leader. said the agreement includ- ed the Coos Bay. Ore, Jurisdiction al dispute between the CIO con- mittee for Maritime Unity and Harry Lundeberg's AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific Lundeberg could not be reached for comment
 Employers had demanded that stoppages such as that which has tied up Coos Bay since mid-June 1 Bridges said the agreement an- nounced would mean substantial f,, IIr said it will go to the union mem bership with the unanimous recom- mendation of the joint negotiating committee for approval" ILWU members would gain an hour wage hoost to a base rate of Sl.52 an hour. and the MEB mem bers also get a hike under the pro posed contracts. The ILWU also obtained appointment of Federal fact finding committee to study the waterfront safety conditions.
 The strike began October on East, Gulf and West Coasts. A compromise providing for prefer ential hiring of union members was reached on the East and Gulf Coasts october ?. but the Pacific American Shipowners' Association refused to accept it.
 i An employer spokesman estinat- ed that the strikers have lost ap- i proximately SIT 800 900 in salaries and that cargoes valued upward of , S350 GOO 900 have been delayed Food