Evening star., 1948-11-26
Terms Reached
lin Dock Strikes
On Both Coasts
SIS Ships Await
Union Ratification to
Sail After Tieup
BY the Associated Press

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Terms for settling waterfront
strikes on the East and West
Coasts today cleared the decks
for early resumption of normal
American shipping.
Negotiators in the 86-day CIO
longshore strike on the Pacific Coast
announced settlement terms last
night. Earlier in the day negotia-
tors agreed on peace in the 17-day
strike of AFL longshoremen on the
Atlantic Coast.
Both tentative agreements must
be ratified by the union member
ships before some SIS strikebound
ships put to sea.
On the Pacific Coast four other
unions are involved in the strike,
but the longshore terms are consid-
cred the key to peace. The four
other unions scheduled meetings
with management today.
$4,000 to Return to Jobs.
Final settlement would return 92,-
900 to maritime jobs and many
thousands more to work in other
industries halted or curtailed by the
strike.
1t would release some 100000. 900
Iof Marshall plan cargo in Eastern
docks and restore business running
into the millions of dollars.
The Pacific tieup, second longest
in history. has cost by estimate of
the Pacific American shipowners
about 100000 in trade at the
rate of s4,000,000 a day.
The regotiators agreement boosts
the Western longshore basic wage by
Is cents to s182 an hour, which was
the amount the union was asking
when it struck September 2.
The AFL union officers tentative
ly agreed on a 13-cent increase
retroactive to August 81 to bring
the Eastern daytime base scale to
$1.88 an hour.
Union Vote Tomorrow.
The 5000 AFL union members
vote tomorrow on the terms. The
unions lowest previous demand was
25 cents above the prestrike $1,75
hourly daytime rate.
Water front observers predicted
union ratification of the Pacific
agreement, but believed that If no
bitches developed it would be about
week before dock work resumes
on the 265 idle ships.
The Pacific Coast Water Front
Employers Association agreement
with the longshoremen carried pro-
visions for a three-year contract, to
be operated under a peace plan
underwritten by the national CIO
on one side and the San Francisco
Employers Council on the other.
1t provided for improved grievance
machinery, increased vacation ben
efits and designated day off each
week. There would be maximum
shifts of nine hours, and an am.
starting time.
The announcement Of the Pacific
terms described the proposed new
pact as "one based on complete
good faith" The two sides joined
in the prediction that this contract
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era for West Coast shipping"
98-Day Strike in 1886.
Some $4,000 strikers and others
made idle by the walkout have been
off the job from Canada to Mexico
in this maritime strike, exceeded in
length only by the bloody 1886
strike that lasted SO days.
The Pacific American Steamship
Association still must settle with the
CIO Marine Cooks and Stewards.
the Independent Marine Firemen
and the CIO Radio Operators. An
agreement was reached some time
ago with the Marine Engineers, but
it was contingent on settlement
with the other unions.
The employers resolve to do no
more business with Presidents Harry
Bridges of the Longshoremen and
Hugh Bryson of the Cooks and
Stewards unless they signed nom
Communist afhdavits was dropped
as direct negotiations were resumed
two weeks ago under a fresh burst
of harmony.
The East Coast strike affected the
sailing and docking of several
luxury ships, and tied up sbout $50
vessels. Besides the pay boost, peace
terms include broad welfare plan,
extra vacation benefits and reten-
ton of the twice-a day work call
with a guarantee of four hours of
work for men called out in any