Pacific Coast Hard Hit in Disputes San Francisco. Apr. 17.
Two of the nation's big corporations, Ford Motors and Safeway Stores, were involved tonight in two of the many disputes which disturbed capital-labour relations or brought rival unions into jurisdictional di: putes on the Pacific Coast.
The action of the Retail Food Clerks "Union in calling a general strike against Safeway's 250 stores in southern California and the United Automobile Workers Union strike at the Ford Company plant at Long Beach, Calif, came at the end of a week duríng which one big dispute was settled and a new jurisdictional battle arose.
"The most favourable development was. the agreement of Alaska salmon industry workers to so to work pending arbitration of their wage differences.
A new source of trouble erose in the refusal of the Committee for Industrial Organization's International Longshoremens Union to respect the picket lines of the Independent Sailors Union of the Pacific round Shepard. Line ships. The ships, owned by an East coast firm, dre manned by C.LO. National Maritime Union sailors.—
United Press.
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