Nearly ten thousand persons lined the precinets of Pier $2 in San Franisco.when the Matson-Oceanic liner Monterey arrived from Australia and polis, carrying a passenger list totally Ing 619, including 447 stranded globe. trotters, "Many of them were British, and all had had 9 harrowing experi ence in Honolulu for a period of 24 days, They had been involuntary s0- journers in the Hawaiian Islands on account of the maritime strike which paralysed shipping on the Pacific Coast, and which brought consider-fable hardship and inconvenience to the tourists making their way across the world, Although the passengers breathed prayers of thankfulness on seeing the mainland, they were, in fact, running Tight into the vortex of ie. All the waterfront was heavily patrolled by pickets from the striking unions (representing $7,000 men), and policemen carrying fire-arms were Posted at every vantage point to quell any possible outbreaks of violence, The atmosphere, therefore, was tense as the liner was warped Into its dock by longshoreman end officials who wore directing operations on an otherwise dead bay. Some 60 vessels were deadlocked in the harbour. Great dim culty was experienced by visitors wishing to board the ship after it had tied up, but when the passengers reached the landing stage with their baggage the reporters were able to get some accurate details of the Honolulu interlude, when hundreds of world travellers with rapidly-dwindling purses were stranded for nearly a month in a city where food~ stuffs were fast disappearing, with+ Ultle prospect of any fresh supplies, and prices were soaring to famine
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