Show MARTIAL LAW LA W DECLARED IN IN 1 MINNEAPOLIS National Guardsmen on Duty to M Maintain i Order Or er LONGSHOREMEN LONGSH REMEN ADAMANT Mediators Mediators Seek Solutions to Labor Difficulties By Bi Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS July Military 26 Military rule rule was declared at 1220 p. p m. m here J. J today by Governor G Vernor Floyd B. B Olson n acting he said to maintain law and order i in the Minneapolis truck drivers drivers' drivers drivers' t ers' ers strike Four Pour thousand national guardsmen established the military rule after warring factions in the truck drivers drivers' I strike failed to agree on final peace I plans lans sub submitted by federal media media- S 1 t tors tars L The m martial rUal rule decree followed i. i 1 by about an an hour the acceptance of ofF the peace plan by the Drivers' Drivers union F from the employers employ employ- I No and a reply rom ers advisory committee accepting Continued on o Pace Two TROOPERS RULE IN MINNEAPOLIS National Guardsmen on Duty to Maintain Order Continued from rate Pae One some ome terms with reservations but bu rejecting the wage scale suggested by the Rev Francis Haas Hans and E. E H H. Dunnigan mediators SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO July 26 20 P pA P p- PA PA A member of or President Roosevelt's mediation board said today day Pacific coast waterfront nt employers had agreed to d discharge nonunion longshoremen longshoremen long as s a prerequisite to the return re rc I turn tun to Work of ot striking union stevedores stevedores steve steve- dores pending arbitration of oC issues sues in the walkout The board member asking that hi hh name iame not be used said also alco 0 the federal fed eral cral mediators had suggested that pending final settlement by arbitration tion Hon the union longshoremen will iU return return re turn to work through the old em em- controlled hiring halls but that these should be under federal supervision PORTLAND Or Ore July uly 26 UP UP- UP Union longshoremen today refused to return to work through a state stale hiring hall halt set up b by Governor J J. J L. L Meier Meter Matt Meehan Mcchan a n spokesman for the longshoremen said they would not return to work until they received orders from William J. J Lewis president dent of ot the Pacific COAst const I. I L. L A. A and that men in all Pacific port will return re i-c. turn to work work- simultaneously CHICAGO J JUl July b 26 UP UJ T The H worlds world's greatest livestock market was paralyzed completely today when BOO striking handlers forced abandonment of f direct shipments The strike which brou brought ht a rein forced or ed police cordon to prevent threatened violence was the worst since 1920 when a railroad strike clo closed ed the Union stockyards The retail the Shell She Oil company in ia the Chic Chicago go area faced picketing toda today by the thc striking members o of the International Association of or Oil Field Gas Gas' Well and Refinery Workers This announcement an an- was made by union officials oW- oW daIs after the men walked out on strike at the company plant at Hammond Hammond Ham Ham- mond Ind yesterday A conference with representatives tives of ot th board was called today oday at Hopewell Va where the Tubize corporation announced an close its rayon yarn producing plant third largest in m in the nation because of ot a strike The threatened strike of or aluminum workers at Pittsburgh was forestalled as negotiations between workers and the Aluminum Company of America were put over to August Au gust 3 At Hammond Ind md building t trades rades ades workers abandoned their heir jobs jobson on the largest current construction project in the midwest on tao new plant of or the Union Carbon and Carbide Car- Car Carbide bide jide company The walkout of hosiery workers work work- ers ers at the tho H Holston Hoiston Manufacturing company compan plant in Knoxville Tenn brought the estimated total of strikers sink ers era in the south to |