The Empress of Australia left here to-day for the Orient, on its first trip since the earthquake, after being loaded by strikebreakers, office workers and others of the white collar brigade.' These were pushing trucks and filling the Australia's holds with food, freight and baggage while striking longshoreman!ooked angrily on from a distance in groups, with pickets and plain clothes police not far away. The Shipping Federation is fighting the strike to a finish, and om the eve of the sailing of the Empress liner declared an ''open waterfront.' This means that any man, union or otherwise, will be given a job if he will do an honest day's work. The strikers are demanding increased pay for regular work and for overtime, with a five cents an hour bonus for loading lumber.
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