MARITIME STRIKE NEARER
•Received Mondav, 7.25 p.m. WASHTNGTON, June 9. The National Maritime Union 's National Council lias issued a statement that it would have no alternative but to st.rike unless the shipowners agreed to reduce the present 50-hour ship working week. The council also threatened to call out the crews of tankers, lake vessels and river steamers not hitherto inciuded in the strike negotiations. The council appointed a national strike policv committee with headquarters at Washington and authorised the spending of the union 5s 1,000,000 dollars strike fund on a 'country-wide liold 'up. Government conciliators are coutinuing negotiations with the owners and uniong.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1946, Page 5
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