AMERICAN SHIPPING STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 194, 12 May 1921, Page 5

AMERICAN SHIPPING STRIKE

FIERCE CONFLICTS AT BALTIMORE

DESPERADOES ATTACK NEGRO WORKERS

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. May 11, 9.5 p.m.) New York, May 11.

Striking seamen at Baltimore, numbering 1500 desperadoes, made several fierce attacks on non-union workers, chiefly negroes, on the wharves yesterday.' Violent conflicts resulted, during which pistols and knives wero used. A dozen men were badly injured, and 100 were arrested.

The police were temporarily overpowered during a heavy assault in the financial district, hut quiet was restored by the evening. The Merchant and Miners’ Company’s steamer Persian was partly burned at tho docks. The cause of tho fire is un-known.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PREPARATIONS FOR LONG STRUGGLE

VAIN ATTEMPTS AT ARBITRATION. (Rett May 11, 5.5 p.m.) New York, May 10.

After conferences lasting a week between the Labour Department and the strikers, the Government’s efforts at arbitration have been suspended, following the refusal by unionists to accept a 15 per cent, wage reduction, which the Shipping Board insists upon. The latter is now preparing for a lengthy strike. The strikers claim that only eighteen vessels have sailed from Now York since the strike began.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.