SHIPPING STRIKE ENDED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 6

SHIPPING STRIKE ENDED

DECISION CHEERED. AMERICAN UNIONS. £10,000,000 Worth of Cargo Waiting Shipment. Press Association-Copyright. San Francisco, Feb. 4. 'The shipping strike Was officially ended this afternoon by the joint strilie committee, and the men were ordered to return to Work at eight o'clock morlultig., A, .(referendum that was taken overwhelmingly authorised the return to work. Representatives of the seven maritime unions called meetings of iiiembers immediately and formally informed the meh that the strike had eiicted. Cheers sounded, aibiig the r'aih-drenched waterfront When the decision to return to work was announced.

“Forty thousand men and 239 ships were affected," Mr. Bridges said. “The forty thousand are grateful, and I am only one of them." One of the seven unions, marine, and firemen, rejected the tentative accord, but the members voted in favour of arbitration upon the differences with the employers. Business' interests estimated that the coSt of the strike was £137,000,000 and considered its end rescued from slow stagnation 1000 compan, ies and 900 exporting offices. It. is estimated that £10,000,000 worth of cargo is waiting movjenrenjt across the piers. Los Angeles reported 234,000 tons of cargo and 80 ships' waiting for the end of the strike. The shipping companies continued booking in prospect of early sailings, although the situation may be complicated by a new longshoremen’s strike at British Columbia ports.