San Francisco, Dec. 17.
More than a thousand persons joined the picket lines around the Gieek ship INS Spyros here this afternoon. The vessel, chartered' by the Mitsui interests, was loading scrap iron 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 loading stopped. Soon the children were joined by their American school-mates and other sympathizers. Lieutenant-Governor-elect of California, Mr.
Ellis E. Patterson, made a brief speech to the pickets. "We are here," he 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, 96 leading Chinatown organizations held a special meeting in the "Six Companies" headquarters and passed a resolution thanking the longshoreman and stevedores for refusing to load the ship. They also cabled General Chiang Kai-shek news of the tie-up and advised him that a sum of U.S$100000 was en route to China to swell the country's war chest.—United Press.
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