San Francisco, July 19.
general strike in the San Francisco bay region was drawing to an ignoble close to-day and the situation in the metropolitan areas was quickly returning to normal, though Portland reports that the situation there is ominous because the Governor of Oregon has mobilized the National Guard and ordered them to stand ready for action.
So far, eight persons have been killed in labour disorders on the Pat Coa!.__In San Francisco alone, 297 were injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment, 638 were arrested, and damage and losses were conservatively estimated at $150,000,000.
'The Governor of California, Mr. Frank Merriam. informed the' strikers to-day that Gen. Hugh S, Johnson, National Recovery Administrator, had urged withdrawal of the militia ut said that no formal request had yet been received and the troops! Will not be withdrawn until he was certain that here would be no fur ther. trouble Omclal announcement that the general strike was at an end war made by Mr, George Kidwell, secre. tary of the General Strike' Committee, "that the committee had passed a resolution ending all strikes declared in sympathy with the striking longshoreman and maritime workers.
The action of the committee was taken, Mr, Kidwell said, "on the promise of the President's mediation board that the marine unions will get full consideration in arbitration, fof their disputes with the shipping companies.
Abandonment of the general strike Jeaves the longshoreman and maritime unionists to carry on their fight alone and was regarded as the worst defeat suffered by Inbour in recent years, Mr. Harry Bridges, Austratianborn leader of the longshoreman, was quite positive in his assertion that the dock workers and seamen would not return to work. "We can run our own strike—and will!" Bridges said.
'The 'Teamsters' Union and the American Federation of Labour union of the Market Street Railways also remained on strike, but the: Market Street cars were operating at nearly normal, manned by mem= ders of the company union.
The vote on the resolution to call of the general strike was closed, with 191 favouring a return to work and 174 opposed, giving the conservatives a majority of only seventeen votes.
Hours before the unionists voted on their surrender, the city was swiftly returning to normal, Many union restaurants re-opened at dawn ~and butcher shops also threw open their doors. Gasoline deliveries went Briskly this morning and last nigh*, with no Interruption from the strik: ers, while convoys of food laden, trucks rumbled into the city regu 'AIL streets cars were packed and) jammed with clerical workers, worn out from three days of tramping to and from their widely separated otices and homes, and no effort was made by the union pickets to Interfere with operatic Laundries, tailor shops, barber shops and' other small" business establishments also failed to open this morning, but began to come to Ife again after the noon announce ment of the General Strike Com: mittee—United Press,
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