APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
?o Respite In Shipping Strike Press Association —Copyi ight. Oaklands, California, Dec. 8. The city' council has voted an appeal to Mr. Roosevelt to intervene in the shipping strike and bring about a settlement. The. resolution cited the great injury done to business and industry by' the strike. Mr. Hairy Bridges, leader of the Pacific coast waterfront workers, in the course of a radio address, said he would submit any normal issue to arbitration, but, he added, "1 cannot sign a blank paper empowering somebody to write our death warrant.” He condemned subsidies,, saying they were put in the shipowners pockets in the form of extravagant salaries and bonuses, without benefiting the workers. Mr. Bridges in an address to 20,000 at a mass meeting .'aid: “Australian lines pay better wages than American. They give stewards an eighthour day and other groups the cash overtime which we are demanding. ’
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 6
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151APPEAL TO PRESIDENT Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 6
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