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Show WAGE DISPUTE TIES UPJARBOR LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 LTV A paralysing wage dispute halted ear-fa ear-fa operation at Loa Angalea harbor har-bor for tha second day today aa workers and employers flung coun-tsr-eharf aa of contract violations. Nineteen fanarai cargo shlpa wars tied up, only tankers and lumber oarriara being exempt from tha disagreement dis-agreement One thousand longshoremen yes-tarday yes-tarday refused to load cargo whan the Marina Clerks' association, a subdivision of tha C I O's Long-shorstnsn'a Long-shorstnsn'a union, threw up picket lines at tha docks. Bpokssraen for tha clerks said tha waterfront employers bad locked them out by refusing to aocspt man on aa hourly, rotating basis through hiring hall. They claimed clerks paid by the month shoukl have their wages raise it from I ISA to f 160 and hours reduced from 12 to 180 so they would be on a par with clerks employed em-ployed on an hourly basis. Negotiations for new contract have been under way sines last spring, with clerks abiding until this weak by terms of the old pact. Employers announced they could not meet tha wage demand and needed cargo checkers . working steadily at tha aama jobs. |