Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 7 | Shortage of Food Caused by Strike

SHORTAGE OF F000 CAUSfflBY STRIKE Business Men and Employees Em-ployees of San Francisco Call Mass Meeting. SAN FRAXC1SCO, July 6. San Francisco is facing a short aj;e in salt, supar and other necessities of life because be-cause of the closing of freight channels here ami at other Pacific coast points, due to the general strike of longshoremen, longshore-men, which ha,s congested transportation since June 1, according to the ban Francisco Fran-cisco (.'hamber of Commerce, which issued is-sued a call today to business men and employers to attend a mass meeting on next- Monday to discuss measures to break the strike and to move great piles of freight which are accumulating all along the coast. The possibility of settling the strike through mediation seemed remote tonight to-night when both the striking longshoremen longshore-men and the waterfront employers ' union took determined stands apainst making any concessions. Henry M. White of Seattle, who was appointed mediator by the department of labor, was informed todav by the officers of the Pacific coast district of the International Inter-national Longshoremen s association that their attendance at further peace meetings was unlikely. Many non-union stevedores were at work along the coast today and a score of trucks of produce were driven to the wharves here by commission men and merchants through lanes of mounted mount-ed police. Several arrests were made here of union and non-union men for carrying concealed weapons and somo arrests wore made in Seattle but no serious se-rious disorders were reported. At northern and southern coast ports employers continued operations today with strikebreakers, under police guard.