PACIFIC STRIKE ENDS
Referendum Gives Large Majority 40,000 MEN GLAD (Received 5, 8.45 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. The shipping strike was officially ended this afternoon by the joittb etrilfe committee and the men were ordex'ed to return to work at 8 a.m. to-dior-row. The referendum Overwhelmingly aiithorised the return. Representatives of the seven maritime uniona are expdcted to call membership meetingB immediately formally to mform the men that the strike is ended. Shipping lines are contxnuing booking in prospect of early sailings, although the situation may be complicated by the new longshoremen's strike at British Columbia ports. Forty thoixsand men and 239 ships are affected. Mr * Harry Bridges, leader Of the .ongshoremen, said: "Forty thousand men are grateful and t am only one of them." Une of the 6even unions, the marine bremen, iejected the tentative accord, but its membex-s voted in favour of arbitration on its dilferences witb Ihe amployers. Cheors sounded along the raindrenched waterfront when ihe decision to Return was announced.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 5
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