Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-28
Dock Strikers
Set D. March
For Tomorrow
New York WuIkout
Is Plot, Federal and
State Officials Soy
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 27.
Members of a striking water
front union tonight planned a
march on Washington after
Federal and State officials de-
nounced their port-paralyzing
walkout as criminal con-
spiracy."
Union sources said between
900 and 1000 members Of
the old International Longshore-
mems Association would make
the trip by bus and automobile
early Monday.
Plans called for demonstra-
tions before the White House
from 9 am. until noon to protest
the Governments role in the
troubled waterfront situation.
The strike began March 5 IN
defiance of Federal injunction
and is costing the Port of New
York an estimated ST. million
daily. 1t was denounced as
primarily a criminal conspiracy"
in joint statement today by
Secretary of Labor Mitchell and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
Officials Meet.
Mr.. Mitchell met with Gov.
Dewey and other officials as the
representative of President Eli
senhoWer. A statement later
promised co-ordinated efforts to
halt the strike.
No specific plan of action was
disclosed, but Gov. Dewey indi-
Gated direct action may come
next week.
The present port situation is
an outgrowth of a dispute which
began when the AFL expelled
the lila last summer on grounds
that it harbored racketeering
elements.
A new AFL-ILA was set up
and the strike itself grew out Of
a jurisdictional struggle between
the unions.
While official union comment
was not forthcoming, it APP
peared certain that the Wash
ington demonstration would
bear at least indirectly on a
hearing scheduled Tuesday be-
fore the National Labor Rela-
tons Board.
Election VOiding to Be Weighed.
The NLRB will consider an ex-
aminer's recommendation that a
recent bargaining election be-
tween the unions be voided.
The lila had a margin Of
1892 when the ballots were
counted last December, but some
1000 challenged votes have
never been officially tailed.
Examiner Arthur Left recon-
mended that the entire election
be thrown out on grounds that
voters were coerced by violence
and threats.
An lila spokesman said the
demonstrators will proceed to
Washington after a rendezvous
outside Newark. N. J. at 2 am.
Monday. He said many men,
berS in the group will wear caps
of various veterans organiza-
tionS.
Banners Planred.
The demonstrators plan to
carry banners with such slogans
as "G1's in l94l; goons in 1854"
This refers to allegations that
the lila is dominated by racket
eerlng elements. a charge which
has been made not only by the
AFL but by various State and
Federal investigating groups.
The tenseneSS of the water
front struggle was reflected by
gyratlonS within lila Local 829
in Baltimore. The local reversed
itself three times within "a hours
in regard to working ships di-
verified from New York.
Last night the local decided
to go along with the New York
unions plea for support. Today
it reversed itself on the advice
of attorneys and said it would
work the ships. Before this de-
clsion was placed in writing.
h viewer, the decision was
changed again.
oath Day of Strike.
This was the oath day of the
strike started by the old In
ternational Longshoremen's AS
ISOLATION. independent, in a lur-
iSdictional dispute with a new
lila set up by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
In a joint statement, Gov.
Dewey and Mr. Mitchell pledged
coordination of Federal and
State agencies to crush the
present illegal conspiracy de-
signed to paralyze the New York
waterfront"
The statement said j. Edward
Hubbard, jr.. United States at
torney for the Southern District
of New York was designated by
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