Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-12 | Page 1 | Coast Shipping Tieup Feared

CO COAST ST SHIPPING FEARED Strike of Oil Tanker Sailors Spreads SAN FRANCISCO March 12 A Fears of another Pacific coast sh shipping shipping ship ship- p- p ping blockade were expressed ed in appeals appeaL appealS ap ap- peals peaL for lor federal intervention toda today as a strike of oil tanker sailors spread from port to port The Seattle chamber o 0 commerce declaring a gener general shipping of-shipping was sas threatened urged S Secretary of I Labor Perkins at Washington to tot take kc action S Longshoremen whose revolt last ast summer led to the c coast ast maritime walkout that culminated in general labor drik strikes s in in San Francisco ri pay bay ay cities added to the tension in Seattle when they refused to load cargo on three ships at flour company docks John C C. executive of ot the marine department nt o of the Standard Oil on Company of ot California announced an an- flounced the United States department depart depart- ment of labor had been requested request d to dire direct t the sailors' sailors union of the Pacific to submit to arbitration in the tanker dispute With a dozen oil tank tankers rs already tied up at major Pacific coast ports sailors sailors' union officials at San P idro dro declared a move was wag being consIder considered considered consid er ered d. d to jo extend the walkout to general Jeneral cargo vessels engaged in coastwise and service