The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16
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Negotiations 10 End Ship ping WdIkoui Collapse
 on Twelfth Day
GET TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS,


 The twelfth day of the nation- wide maritime strike found New York City's waterfront tense today with threats of clashes between thousands of picketing CTO seamen
 and AFL longshoremen under in- | structions not to respect any commy picket line CIO National Maritime Union leaders hauled out their most for nidable weapon-the massed picket lines with marchers so closely link I'd it is virtually impossible to equeeze through--as negotiations to end the walkout collapsed. Police strength was bolstered throughout the sprawling dock areas CIO leaders said last night there might be trouble if the AFL long, shoremen attempt to breach picket lines, as they did Saturday to help unload the s. s. George Washing ton.
 Fourteen liners with more than 5000 passengers-half of them Army and Navy personnel--were due in New York port during the day.
 First Clash The first clash between the op- posing unionists came in mid-af- ternoon shortly after the French liner, Colombie, arrived with ap- proxiinateiy l, GOO passengers About 150 longshoremen, accord l.ag to police account. crashed the NMU picket lines and started re- moving baggage.
 In the confusion which followed one AFL longshoreman was arrest ed and taken to 54th street police station because he struck an NMU picket, police said. No charge was placed against him immediately. Many other longshoremen were on the job along the waterfront put they had not passed picket lines to get there. Some men, an- yious to return to work after II days of idleness, reported for work early, before the CIO pickets were dispatched Tor duty.
 Men Urged To W~~ Joseph P. Ryan. President of AFL
 lcngshoremen, was covering the
 waterfront in his black limousine,
 urging his men to go to work
 where steam was up and winches
 ould be operated Twice he shouldered throuttl masses of the NMU pickets alone,
 unmolested, to confer with his
 men.
 We don't respect any Commy picket lines" he said If the AFL seamen will give us steam, we'll work
 There was no indication that AFL seamen, who had the support of CIO seamen in the early days of he strike, would return to work
 until members of the rival union, too, had won pay raise.
 The AFL seamen won their de-
 mands in a ruling by Economic S.ahilizer John R. Steelman, but no
 provisions were made immediately for passing the increase along to CIO maritime workers. On March Today NMU bosses. consequently. de- slared that more than 10000 of their men in New York port alone would be marshalled for the great est show of strength ever seen in a maritime labor dispute. More than 5000 were expected to go on the march today. Joseph Curran. NMU president, said that the union will intensity the strike all up and down the coast. leaving nothing but dead ships
 We want peaceful strike" Cur ran told mass meeting of union members, but we will not allow our own members to get hurt when someone tries to cross picket line" Curran said the strike was effec- tive in every port of the nation and that Atlantic and Gulf seamen stood in solid solidarity" with West Coast unions.
 We tell the shipowners,' Cur ran said. don't allow one drop of our blood to be spilled on this wa terfront."
 TROUBLE IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. l6,-CIO