Police Reported Taking Elaborate Precautions To Deal with Incidents San Francisco, May 12, Five-hundred policemen today prepared to deal with any eventualities that might arise as picketing started at eleven San Francisco Bay shipyards at 6.30 a.m, after 1,700 machinists at midnight on Friday went on strike, The police will be "on call" stations in the industrial area during the first crucial hours of the picketing and an undetermined number of special police will be assigned to shipyards, The Chief of Police, Charles Dullea, said that men on the midnight shi would remain at their post today "until excused,"
The strike resulted when autonomous American Federation of Labour unions exercised their asserted right not to enter a coastal no-strike agreement, 'The Secretary of Navy, Col, Frank Knox, and the chairman of the Maritime' Commission,—Rear-Admiral Emory Land. and others all sought, to defer the walkout, but the AF.O.L. machinists, joined by Congress of Industrial Organizations' machinists, started picketing the ship ya
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