END OF STRIKE IN VIEW

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 348, 1 February 1937, Page 6

END OF STRIKE IN VIEW

U.S.A. SHIPPING. MEMBERS TO VOTE. Approval Of Unions Is Now Expected. Press Association —Copyright. San Francisco, January 30. The joint strike policy committee to-day passed a resolution recommending the unions to conduct a membership referendum immediately on the question of ending the maritime strike. Mr Melnikow estimated that it would take three or four days to conduct the voting by 40,000 strikers. “They would return to work under agreements and understandings reached by their negotiating committees with the employers,” he added. The approval of the majority is re-

garded as a foregone conclusion, since with few exceptions the unions have won their major demands, particularly the right to control hiring hal’,s. an eight-hour day or less, cash pay instead of time off for overtime. The employees, however, have retained full freedom to select ships’ officers, engineers, masters, mates, pilots and marine egineers. The unions accepted the wage increases and other concessions and gave the shipowners the right to hire such men outside union ranks.