Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-10-18
Sfevedore Disputes
Threaten 10 Spread
lowest Coast Ports
By the Associated Press

LOWEST Coast Ports
BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 18.-Wildcat
dock strikers frightened their grip
on New York City piers today, as
rumblings of possible violence
spread along the waterfronts here
and on the West Coast.
Apparently beyond control Of
AL longshore leaders, the strike
leap-frogged to more docks in
Brooklyn, and virtually numbed
the entire Hudson River water
front on Manhattan's West Side.
Vital defense and commercial
shipping alike were severely Grip
pied.
At Brooklyn's big port Of en-
barkation, one of the Nations
major shipping centers for mill
tary supplies and troops, nearly
1000 stevedores gathered on the
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"shapeup" whistles.
Army Bars Anastasia.
1t was the fourth straight day
of the union-opposed strike,
spanked by unrest over a newly
ratified contract.
AS an aftermath to yesterdays
episode when strikebreakers led by
Underworld Figure Anthony
Anastasia temporarily sent Army
base stevedores back to work. the
Army today banned any repiti-
ton.
If the regular crews won't
work, we're going to shut the
gates and not let any outsiders
ill.," said Army Col. I. w. Littell.
1--WE don't want any roughnecks or
fights"
Amid rumors of possible clashes
at struck Brooklyn docks. police
doubled their guards in the areas
sending out a detail Of SO patrol
men, detectives and mounted
police.
Only four piers were reported
working in Brooklyn, all of them
repeatedly under control Of
Anastasia, a head foreman in the
longshoremen's union.
In San Francisco a smoldering
labor dispute threatened that key
city's water front with its biggest
battle since the bloody dock strike
OF 1884.
The West Coast trouble stacked
up largely as a struggle between
New York's Joseph P. Ryan, presi-
dent of the AFL International
Longshoremen's Association. and
the West Coasts Harry Bridges,
president of the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems Union.
Will Fight Bridges.
Mr.. Ryan announced in New
York that he was opening a drive
to wrest control of the Pacific
Coast steveadores from Bridges,
his bitter left-wing rival.
Mr.. Ryan said LA officials
could do no more at the moment
in their efforts to get insurgent
union members back to work at
the Brooklyn Army base and at
the Chelsea piers in Manhattan.
New York police doubled the
Brooklyn pier guard to 100 men
today.
The chief grievance of the dock
ers-as stated openly-was against
negotiation of a two-year con-
tract calling for a wage boost
from 50 to $2.10 an hour.
The union membership Of 65.-
0e0-from Portland. Me-. to
Hampton Roads. Va.-ratified the
contract settlement last week.
With six vessels lying idle at
the Brooklyn Army Base piers.
Army officers continued to express
concern about vital cargoes.
Manhattan longshoremen held
meetings at which they declared
they would hold out for their
original demand of a pay increase
Of Is cents an hour. along with
other benefits.
In San Francisco CLIO Marine
Engineers charged that Harry
Lundeberg's ALL Sailors Union of
the Pacific is planning to unload
two struck Isthmian line ships
with strike breakers.
Lundeberg Denies Charge.
Mr.. Lundeberg denied it but
added: when we get the oppor-
tunity to work those ships, they
will be worked. But it won't be
by sailors. It will be by the AFL.
And the sailors will be right be-
hind it-maybe in front of it,"
The CIO said Mr.. Lundeberg
has recruited a 65-man COON
(strong arm) squad.
The Coastwise Line and the
Alaska Steamship Co., the only
common carriers operating be-
tween the States and Seward,
Alaska, yesterday announced can
collation. Of the service for an
indefinite period.
The joint announcement said
the cancellation was because of
q longshoremen's strike in prog
resS against the Seward Stevedor-
ing Co. since last Friday.