AMERICAN SHIPPING
THREATENED STRIKE DN PACIFIC COAST PRESENT AGREEMENT EXPIRING Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, September 30. The Maritime Commission pleaded to-day with owners and unions to avert the threatened tie-up of Pacific Coast ■hipping, affecting 37,000 men. The union contracts will expire early tomorrow. The commission sent a telegram to Mr Bridges (San Francisco) as the key man, asking him to accept a GO-day extension of the present agreement. In the meantimo a New York strike resulting from a row within the union prevented the sailing of the liner President Roosevelt. A TRUCE ASSURED. WASHINGTON, October 1. Later information stated that a 15day truce was virtually assured in the dispute between the shipowners and tho longshoremen.
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Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 9
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117AMERICAN SHIPPING Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 9
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