Chicago, Aug, 31.
A conference of maritime 1¢ad-ers, representing 68,000 workers, who are launching a drive to unite all maritime organizations into one union under the Committee for Industrial Organization, to-day forwarded to President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, a resolution conveying "sympathy to the Chinese people and their defense against illegal and unjustified invasion."
Apparently authorizing the recent threat of sit-down strikes unless each seaman entering the China war zone receives a $250 bonus, the conference leaders urged all maritime unions to do their utmost to assist the Chinese and "to adopt such measures as they see fit'
The conference also stated that American vessels should not be re~ stricted from calling on Chinese ports unless they are also restricted from Japanese ports "while Japan is the aggressor." It was also said that the United States should place an economic embargo upon Japan "until all Japanese troops have been withdrawn from—China."—United Press,
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