WESTERN U.S.A. MARITIME STRIKE MAY CONTINUE
P.A. AUCKLAND, October 6. The shipping strike which has been paralysing the United States Pacific ports since September 4, is likely to last a long time, said shipping officials to-day after recently visiting the United States. They added that shipping interests were determined to resist Harry Bridges, the leader of the longshoremen. The American Government was powerless to take any further steps, _ although it had succeeded in deferring the strike for 80 days. The strike, they added, would not seriously affect New Zealand mercantile commerce. Dollar restrictions had curtailed the volume of trade with the Dominion to top priorities and these could be freighted overland to Vancouver and shipped from there. The freighter “Almeria” and “Waitomo” would not now load on the Pacific coast for New Zealand.
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Grey River Argus, 7 October 1948, Page 4
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