SHIPPING TIE UP FEARED
Received Fridav, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. (5. The eomplete paralysis of tne nation 's shipping is expected today when all the A.F.L. merchant seamen picket lines are established at pier entrances. All the A.F.L. and C.I.O. Mantime L" nions have promised not to eross the lines and the result i 11 g tie-up or shipping is expeeted to affect 4(I(),(J(JU ro 500,000 Maritime workers. Skippers have been warned that if the strike is sustained for r. period of days, as seems very likely, the efl'eet 011 the eountry will be that of a niajor disaster. More than 3000 Ameriean ships as well as foreign shipping vvill soon bu involved. The Mayor, Mr. O'Dwyer, has taken personal command of eff'orts to averi serious food shortages in.New York as -the, --df " t he^truek64•S',- stfikq, whi §h',eXtenhi.bn.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1946, Page 5
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