Evening star., 1946-08-18
Violence Breaks Out
In Lakes Ship Strike;
Four NMU Men Held
By the Associated Press

-Four NMU Men Held
By the Associated Pres.
i DETROIT, Aug. II. - Violence
fiared again on the Great Lake.
shipping strike front today as two
ofnclals OF the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation were injured and four "CIC
seamen' were detained by South
Chicago police after a melee at an
association hall there.
/ At the same time. Joseph Curran
president of the CIO National Mari
time Union, asserted at Detroit
strike headquarters that two "NMU
pickets were injured today" in an
incident at Ashtabula, Ohio.
! Mr.. Curran, in a statement issued
before he boarded train for New
York, where he will discuss strike
settlement terms, declared:
The seamen want to picket peace
fully in their effort to win the 40
hour work week. If goons from the
Lake Carriers Association want trou-
BILE, they'll get it all across the lakes
We propose to see that no pickets
are hurt. -
Auto Passes Picket Line.
AT Ashtabula, unofficial reports in
dlcated several pickets were injured
When an auto passed through an
NMU picket line. The reported .in-
cldents" were the first since Thurs
day-initial day of the strike-when
NMU pickets and some AFL mem
bers clashed on Detroit dock.
Meanwhile, at Cleveland, the CIO
unioniSts received support from the
AFL tugmen.
Reports from that city said the
tugmen of the ODT-operated Great
Lakes Towing Co. failed to tow two
ore freighters in and out of Cleve-
land Harbor.
/ Lawrence G. Turner manager fol
the Government operated company.
warned the AFL unionists that
failure to furnish normal service
would constitute a violation of
Federal regulations. He then con-
ferred with AFL officials regarding
the stoppage.
Telegrams of Warning.
Mr.. Turner disclosed that he had
sent kilograms to the AFL union
men. warning they should not do
anything to interfere with ODT-
tug service to all vessels.
NMU officials said that heads of
the two AFL unions involved-the
Licensed Tugmen's Protective Asso-
citation for officers and the Tug
Firemen, Linemen, Oilers and
Watchmen's Association of Amer
lea Tor crewmen - had agreed to
provide normal service as a result
of his message.
In the South Chicago affray, DO
lice Sergt. Mark Smiljanic said the
four "CIO sailors" held were men,
bers OF mob of 40 or so" ac-
cused of beating two officials OF the
carriers association.
A spokesman for the maritime
union said, Apparently police are
trying to break our strike"
Vuh 1AIC huCHLlnS0.
Sergt. Smiljanic said the four had
been identified by the victims OF
the assault.
The NMU spokesman said the
men were arrested for no reason
at all" while they were peacefully
going to or coming from a picket
line
The police sergeant said a patrol
man related that he saw furniture
being thrown from the second STORY
window OF the Carriers Association
assembly hall on Chicago's South
Side and ran over and arrested the
four. all he could handle" of the
mob as the men emerged from the
!, hall.
Sergt. Smiljanic said the injured
men were Harold Engelke, superin-
tendent OF the Lake Carriers AS
sociation, and Melvin Lanvro. a
supervisor.
The Carriers Association re-
ported that a survey tonight showed
50 OF Its BIG vessels affected by the
, strike. Earlier today, it had said
29 were involved. The association
claimed that return of the Donnel
Steel Dock, Buffalo, to usual service
, leaves Cleveland dock as the only
one of SO principal docks affected
by the work stoppage.
i Head for Negotiations.
Top leaders of the NMU headed
for New York and Chicago today
for important" negotiations with
two of the companies involved ir
the far-fiung Lake work stoppage
, At the same time the union ex,
: tended its picketing in additiona
: lake ports and said its three-day.
old walkout was hampering move.
ment of 'an increasing number" o
an estimated 400 American fla,
vessels on the lakes.
!; The NMU said about 1O0' ship.
: were Strikebound in ports from Buf.
falo to Duluth and Chicago.
i Mr.. Curran will resume neeotia
tions Monday with Bethlehem
Transportation Corp. operators ol
IL ore carriers.
\ Two of his chief assistants, Vict
President Jack Lawrenson and Johr
Rogan, co-chairman OF the Strike
Committee, headed for Chicago and
flesh talks with the Standard Oh