SHIPPING STRIKE
Carrying Food To Hawaii and Alaska. Press Association —'Copyright. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Mr. 11. Bridges, addressing the. Labour Council, challenged the shipowners to present their side* at a mass meeting next week. “We can show that four big companies are holding up the settlement of the whole strike,” he said. The Hawaiian delegate to the United States Congress, Mr. Samuel King, has arrived and revealed his plan to obtain a “truce ship” to carry food to Hawaii. Union circles deprecated the plan and gavo instances of the army and navy’s capacity to relieve any' civilian food shortage. Mr./ Hv ■L. Ickes announces from Washington that the first boatload of foodstuffs for Alaska will depart from Seattle on Monday. The Board of Trade at New York has telegraphed Miss Frances Perkins to recognise the existence of a state of national emergency. It' is the end of the first (month of the strike in the east and two months in the west, without hope of settlement.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 297, 30 November 1936, Page 5
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167SHIPPING STRIKE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 297, 30 November 1936, Page 5
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