San Francisco, Dec. 17.
More than a thousand persons joined the picket lines around the Greek ship INS Spyros here this afternoon, The vessel, chartered by the Mitsui interests, was loading serapiron for Japan when 600 Chinese school children marched to the pier and formed a picket line.
Congress for Industrial Organization stevedores refused to" pass through this picket-line and all load ing stopped, Soon the children were joined by. their American school-mates and other sympathizers. Lieutenant-Governor-elect of California, Mfr. Ellis E, Patterson, made a" brief speech to the pickets. "We are here," hho told them, "to make sure the industrialists do not profit from the blood of the Chinese."
The pickets and onlookers cheered this afternoon as three Chinese members of the crew of the Spyros quit the ship and marched down the gangplank.
Meanwhile, 98 leading Chinatown, organizations held a special meeting Jin the "Six Companies" headquarters and passed a resolution thanking the Jongshoremen and stevedores for re-they would have the best chance to/ fusing to load the ship. They also endure the heat of the new island cabled General Chiang Kai-shek news [of the tie-up and advised him that people even|a sum of U.S$100,000 was en route: to China to swell the country's war chest—United Press.
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