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Show their products. It was rsLiniat ed anolln-r l.'i.UOO will hv loj c-d to quit work by Thursday. Sympathy strikes were mushrooming mush-rooming throughout the west, south and east. Shipyard and dry-dock dry-dock workers in Washington wre on st rike. A warehousemen's ; strike in San Francisco tied up the j wholewa le grocery and U-vA business. busi-ness. The union police committee tightened . lines of the strike by issuing orders to all union men working ships to "strike rega rd-less rd-less of your port." Heretofore sailors under strike orders had been instructed to return the ships to their home ports before walking walk-ing off. 75,000 MEN IDLE THROUGH COASTSTRIKE Other Industries Affected As Maritims Strike Gathers Force ' i The maritime strike situation situa-tion today : San Francisco Staggering Stagger-ing economic losses mount as fourth day of strike threatens 1 employment of 100,000 pcr-: pcr-: ons. j New York International Seamen's Union to start putting strike-breaking crews on all ships Wednesday; clash with insurgent seamen threatened. jN'cw Orleans Seventeen men arrested in free-for-all on docks. Charleston, S. C. Shipping piirulysi.s reaches flout h A tin n tic porls. Houston, Tt'x;w Strikers vote to continue, walkout until i'acific count dispute is settled; police restrict re-strict pickets. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 Enforced unemployment of work-j ers in industries dependent upon shipping t'.?alt new large-scale economic loss to the Pacific coast today as a maritime strike spread labor halts to valleys and timber-land. timber-land. About 75,000 men were idle today. The breach between shipowners and striking unionists widened. A new dispute developed over manning man-ning idle ships. The operators demanded de-manded "safety" crews be placed ! a board-the vessels. The unions at ' first rejected this proposal, then promised reconsideration as the navy department in Washington informed employers it would place sailor guards on the ships if authorized auth-orized by President Roosevelt. It was anticipated the labor troubles which have stagnated shipping along 4,000 miles of coastline coast-line und brought danger of food shortages to some sections of the west would make 100,000 workers idle by the end of the week. Eight thousand were forced to leave their jobs in Washington and Oregon lumber camps yesterday when mills were unable to ship |