Evening star., 1949-09-30
Barge Still Seeks Port
To Unload Hawaiian
Pineapple Cargo
BY the Associated Press

! THE DALLES. Oreg.. Sept. 30
An orphan pineapple barge from
Hawaii was looking again today
for a port, loser in another bout
with CIO longshoremen.
The Dalles port commission Or
dered the barge and its 100000
load of pineapples to shove off to
prevent any further outbreak of
labor violence.
Jubilant longshoremen asserted
they we're making good their boast
of six weeks ago-when the pine
apple cargo left strike e-bound
Hawaii-that they would make
the barge another Flying Dutch
man." destined to sail years with
out finding port.
, Earlier the longshoremen's s
rowing picket platoons baked the
barge's attempts to find a Puget
Sound port where it could unload
Pickets Rough Up Workers.
Then the barge, slipped up the
Columbia River, arriving here last
Saturday before pickets could
catch up. But the unloading was
delayed and longshoresmen ap-
parently won their battle Wednes.
day by swarming 200-strong onte
the dock. They roughed up 1C
cargo workers and. truck drivers
wrecked unloading equipment, ano
tossed 100 cases of pineapple into
the river.
This led the Port Commission
to cancel its agreement last night
with the Hawaiian Pineapple Co
for unloading on the commission
dock. A clause permitted cancela-
ton in case of labor violence. The
action came before the company
had moved any pineapple from
the waterfront.
A company spokesman, A. K.
Tobin, protested that the long
shoremen had been permitted to
intimidate an American COM
munity. through a display of vio-
lence and brutality" Another as
serted The Dalles had been sub
jected to a reign of terror"
Still another, R. M. Botley, was
reported in Seattle today to con-
fer with Dave Beck, vice president
of the AFL teamsters, on the pos
sibility of attempting to unload
elsewhere.
The elsewhere may be at some
obscure port like Tillamook, Creg.,
where an estimated $50 tons Of
pineapple slipped in last Tuesday.
Teamsters drove some of the
trucks moving the fruit inland.
The unloading was made there
on a privately owned dock,
guarded by private employees.
That led, however, to violence
In Portland yesterday. Longshore-
men caught up with the two nom
union pineapple drivers from Til
lamook and mauled them slightly
before police arrived.
- Two Suits Before Courts.
Still to be settled are two court
SUITS here. One lis request by
the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. for
an injunction against longshore-
mems picketing. ~ z
The other is a $40, 900 damage
suit filed by the company after
the longshoremen's dock raid. It
asks $4,000 for damage to equip
naeht, $4,000 for lost time and
$4,000 punitive damages against
Gu longshore 'union' and it's key
officials. - H-' "a as
In addition there may be assault
complaints. Guenther Krause, at
torney for the company, said pho
tographs of the Wednesday raid
were being studied in an attempt
to identify participants.
Squads of State police, armed
with riot guns and bayonets, pa
troled the waterfront here yester-
day to keep the peace. They we're
sent by Gov. Douglas Mckay of
Oregon, who later telephoned
Mayor r. j. Mauser of the Dalles
to urge, quick settlement of the
controversy, since he said he
couldn't keep the State police there
long. This was believed to have
played an important part in the
commissions decision to order the
barge away.