Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-07
Pacific Owners
Plan Offer 10
B Ship Unions
Action Due Today;
Cabinet Considers
Strike Situation
BY the Asxocioted pr.,s

BY the Associoted Press
West Coast ship owners today
agreed to make an offer to three
OF the maritime unions threat
enlng a Nation wide shipping
strike June Is.
This development conceded with:
l. A White House cabinet meeting
at which the strike situation was
considered. Attorney General Clark
said Reconversion Director John w.
Snyder termed the outlook pretty
bad"
2. A council of war by top men of
the big CLIO National Maritime Un-
ION. Its leaders from 40 ports as
sembled to talk strategy.
Agree to Make Offer.
The unions to which the West
Coast operator proposals will 60 are
the cooks and stewards, marine
hremen and engineers. A long
discussion at the Labor Department
resulted in agreement to tender the
offer at 3 pm.
In addition, a meeting was ar
ranged for the first time in more
than a week between Harry Bridges.
president of the CIO-International
Longshoremen and Warehousemens
Union and Frank P. Foisie, president
OF the Waterfront Employers AS
ISOLATION of the Pacific.
The Labor Department, in pro-
gramming the maritime discussions
aimed at heading off the June Is
Walkout by members of six CIO
maritime unions and one independ-
ent union, had delayed resumption
OF talks between those two.
Report on Pacific Meeting.
In a statement after this morn
ngs discussion between the Pacific
Coast operators and representatives
of the three unions with which they
are involved, the parties reported:
The discussion encompassed all
the issues involved in the disputes
between the unions and the Pacific
Coast operators. Methods were dis
cussed by which the results of the
National Maritime Union negotia-
tons with the East Coast operators
could be applied as the basis for a
settlement of the disputes between
each OF the West Coast unions and
the Pacific Coast operators.
The situation between the unions
and the Pacific Coast operators
varies because of different contract
expiration dates and varying COL
lateral issues. The parties are work.
Ing on a solution of these points.
The operators will prepare a pro-
posal on these issues to be submitted
to each of the respective unions at
3 pm. today
AL Seamen Returning.
AS AFL seamen filtered back to
their ships still talking of expand
ing their sample tie-up into a full
dress Walkout, members of the
MINUS national council convened
for the strike strategy session.
They possess a 100000 strike
chest, the support of six other
unions allied in the Committee for
Maritime Unity-and the signs were
ominous.
Reminders of the bitter. some
times violent. rivalry between the
CLIO and AFL for control of the
water fronts surged up in the wake
OF AFL's stop-work meetings in 30
cities yesterday.
In New York, members of the AFI,
Seafarers' International Union and
its chief affiliate, the Sailors Union
OF the Pacific, voted to conduct a
strike poll at once. They denounced
the CIO-dominated GNU as Com
nist-dominated."
Men Want Immediate ParIey,
In most cities the men returned
to work, but in San Francisco, Los
Angeles and Seattle, for instance.
they decided to hold daily meetings
and accompanying work stoppaees
until employers open wage talks.
AT the AFL seamen,s headquar-
tiers In San Francisco, President
Harry Lundeberg said his men. hot
to strike want immediate negotia-
tons with their employers. The
employers spokesman are in Wash
lngton, standing by for the GNU
and Cancellation conferences.
MI. Lundeberg denounced the lat
ter as "three-ring political circus"
ana said his men would not be
pound by any decisions made in
Washington.
Called Bid for Attention,
Some Labor Department men
thought the AFL demonstration
walkouts were bids for attention to
Mr.. Lundberg's own demands. one
lrrltated official said privately thev
might have been means to "har-
pooh" the meeting here.
because Joseph Curran, president
OF the NMU, was to be tied I'D with
MS national council session all dav
negotiations for the East Coast were
set for 8 pm.
AN employers negotiator said that
nothing was Accomplished" in YES.
terdays session, while the Concilia-
ZION Service gave this report: THE
nosltlons OF both parties were fur
ther clarified"
Despite the fact that this left
tnlngs right where they were We'd
nesoay' when NMU offered to set
tle 1or a 44-hour basic workweek
instead of the 40-hour week orig
lnally demanded, Assistant Secre-
.ary OF Labor John w. Gibson said
ne old not believe the time had
come Tor the Government to make
a proposal of its own.