Show HOPE DIMMER k IN DOCK TOP W WASHINGTON Dec Dee 22 UP- UP Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins today pledged her department department depart depart- ment would exert all its effort to prevent nt outbreak of strikes In the steel teel and automobile industries 13 By Associated Press Press' Indications that culmination of a projected settlement would be deferred deferred deferred de de- de- de Indefinitely threatened today to return a Pacific coast coast maritime walkout to the deadlocked status of two other othet major strikes involving involving Involving ing 26 automobile and glass workers Hints of an extension of the maritime maritime maritime mar mar- unions' unions united front to include in- in include in in- clude cude Atlantic and gulf port strikers ers era dimmed prospects of any Immediate immediate immediate im im- Im- Im mediate break in the Pacific coast ship blockade At San Francisco Harry Lundeberg Lundeberg Lunde Lunde- berg head of the Sailors' Sailors Union of the the- Pacific indicated a membership membershIp mem- mem vote on a tentative agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment with may maybe be deferred deferred deferred de de- de- de indefinitely Lundeberg came from a membership membership member member- ship meeting to announce the voting voting voting vot vot- ing will be coastwise on printed ballots instead of at meetings of port locals No Vote Date Set The The- sailors' sailors leader who has Indorsed indorsed indorsed in In- the proposed settlement said he may visit the various ports and explain its terms No date for forthe forthe forthe the coastwise vote has bas been set Harry Bridges west coast president president president dent of the longshoremen also addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed the sailors and resumed his place on the police committee representing representing representing rep rep- resenting seven striking unions after after after af af- ter a flying tour of eastern ports Observers considered significant a statement at Seattle from the northwest joint maritime strike committee committee which said The strike committee is not being being being be be- ing fooled by the sudden willingness willingness willing willing- ness of the to negotiate while Harry Bridges is is' in the east mobilizing support of the east co coast st longshoremen me George Geqrge- Chariot Charlot of the San FranCisco Fran Francisco cisco local of the Masters Mates and Pilots' Pilots union told a New York meeting that only signing of of or similar similar similar sim- sim sim sim- ilar agreements with employers on both east and west coasts could co d end the strike United Front Urged During his eastern tour Bridges also urged a united front with striking rank and file seamen a at and gulf ports He clashed daShed with Joseph P. P Ryan national long longshoremen's president in efforts to gain strike support rt from Atlantic dock workers Sailors coming from the meeting in jn San Francisco reported the membership membership membership mem mem- appeared in favor of the I tentative agreement reached by Lundeberg and Thomas G. G Plant representing Plant meanwhile announced approval approval approval ap ap- ap- ap by the committee committee committee com com- of a tentative agreement with another union union the the Marine Firemen and Wipers He expressed hope speedy agreement with the other five striking striking striking ing unions President Glen W. W McCabe of the fiat flat glass workers announced at Columbus Columbus Co Co- lumbus Ohio that negotiations to settle their strike were at a standstill standstill stand still adding the next move is up to the employers or the department of labor The strike halted operations operations operations op op- op- op of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Gass company and the Ow Libbey-Ow- Ford ens-Ford Glass company with 14 workers idle Silence Meets Offer Officials of the United Automobile Automobile Automobile Automo Automo- bile Workers of America claiming America claiming to have members striking in plants which supply automobile bodies wheels and other parts said parts said their offer to negotiate with the General Motors corporation had met with silence Some Brooklyn bus drivers who had called a strike in demand for higher wages and other adjustments adjustments adjustments adjust adjust- ments stayed on their jobs pending an investigation by the national labor labor la- la bor jor relations board In Rochester N. N Y waitresses waiters waiters' and cooks struck for higher high high- er wages and union recognition Five clerical in the Akron Ohio office of the Goodrich Goodrich Goodrich Good Good- rich local United Rubber Workers of America staged a brief demonstration They returned to work four hours later when of officials officials of- of of the local tendered a settlement settlement set- set lement of wage and hour demands This strike pitted union against union since the office belonged belonged belonged be be- longed to the Stenographers Bookkeepers Bookkeepers Book- Book keepers Typists and Assistants' Assistants or or- |