Evening star., 1949-08-21
|njjunctions Sought
To Protect Hawaii S
Operation Of Docks
By the Associated Press


Attorney General today sought
both temporary and permanent
injunctions to restrain striking
CIO longshoremen from picketing
or otherwise interfering with any
government stevedore operation in
Honolulu.
Circuit Judge Edward A. ToWse
signed an order for the union to
show cause why temporary in
junction should not be issued. He
set a hearing for Tuesday after
noon.>
The same judge already had set
a hearing for Wednesday on a
narrower injunction issue: Order
ing the union and a number of
John Does to show cause why they
should not be held in contempt
for violating an injunction against
picketing the freighter Hawaiian
Merchant.
Attorney General Walter D.
Ackerman, jr., sought the general
iniunctions today under a new,
penalty strengthening amendment
to the act under which the ter
ritorial government has gone into
the stevedoring business.
Ching Pressed to Mediate.
Meanwhile. Mayor John H. Will
son asked United States Attorney
neral-designate McGrath and
six Democratic Senators to urge
Cyrus Ching, Federal labor con-
ciliator, to come to Hawaii to
mediate the strike.
Il see this as our only chance
for settlement of the strike in the
near future" the Democratic
mayor wrote. He addressed his
letters to Senators OMahoney
Tydings. Hayden, Pepper, Con-
molly and Ebert Thomas.
Acting Gov. Oren E. Long urged
Mr.. Ching directly to accept the
invitation of union and employer
negotiators to come to Hawaii.
In Washington Mr.. Ching's Of
flee said no decision would be
made before Monday in any event.
Mr.. Ching earlier had indicated
he would be unable to come to
Hawaii.
The deadlocked negotiators ra-
diced a request to Mr.. Ching to
come as quickly as possible after
they ended the futile talks late
yesterday.
Bridges Flies to Mainland.
Harry Bridges. president of the
C1O International Longshore-
mems and Warehousemen's Union,
whose 1000 stevedores have been
on strike for 112 days, left last
night by air for San Francisco.
He said he probably would return
to Hawaii next week. Onlookers
at the airport booed as he de-
parted.
The strikers. who went out May
l demanding a 32-cent raise in
their $1.40 hourly wage, adopted
la resolution last night calling on
President Truman to remove Gov
Ingram M. Stainback.
The Governor called a special
session of the territorial legisla-
ture which on August 6 passed
"a special act putting the territory
into the stevedore business to try
to end the paralysis of Hawaiian
commerce. a-
This special session went into
La three-week recess yesterday
Leaders said they wanted to OBJ
serve operation of the emergency
law before working on a perma-
|nent strike-control bill for docks
and public utilities.
The Isthmian freighter Thomas
Cresap, one of the first ships un-
loaded by the government, sailed
last night for Long Beach, Calf :,
in ballast. An ILWU spokesman
said it would be a "hot ship" on
arrival.
Meanwhile, American Factors,
Ltd, one Of Hawaii's big Five"
sugar agencies, announced that
because of the strike it would not
pay a third-quarter dividend. the
first dividend missed in company
history. The normal quarterly
dividend of 80 cents share was
cut to Is cents in the second quar-
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