The Archive · 1934

Washington' Pressure

Washington, July 19.

Pressure to compel acceptance of arbitration of the Pacific Coast shipping strike will be brought to bet by the Government upon shipping companies sharing in the juicy subsidies awarded by the Post Oftce Department for ocean mail _transportation, it was reported to-day.

One of the companies drawing a substantial mail subsidy is the Dollar Line, which receives $1,684,000 an-unally for providing a. service from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai and Hongkong—United Press. teamsters not to handle any of the strike-breakers' cargo.

On behalf of the Maritime Unions, Mr. Harry Bridges, leader of the militant "faction, ' declared, "We realize that we will have 'a long! partie before we can obtain the Jelosed shop but we are going to Aight it out Boilermakers and machinists have returned to work but have voted not to work on non-union vessels.

Commerce and industry resumed Jan aspect nearly normal as another 150,000 workers, half of whom are tunfon mombers\ and the remainder those made jobless by the general strike, returned to their labours.

'The' general strike in the cast bay regions ended at 8 a.m. to-day when [general trades workers went back to their jobs and ferry and inter-urban service was resumed.

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