U.S. Union Threatens Strikes To Prevent Shipments Washington, -Aug. 29, Leaders of the National Maritime Union threatened to-day to call sit-down strikes on ships manned by their members to prevent implements of war reaching Japan or China.
Seamien were averse td carrying shipments of arms to China or Japan, Union leaders said, because they "violated. the spirit of the Neutrality Act."
it. Ralph Emerson, representative of the Union in Washington, declared:
"The State Department tells us there is no war in China, but Maritime Commission officials say there is a whale ofa war."
He predicted that the Commis would halt the freighter Wichita, which sailed' a couple of days ago with planes for the Far East, before it reached its destination. Oth&wise, he said, the Union' would probably order the crew to' start a sit-down strike—Reuter
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