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Show MARINE UHIOIIS AWAITING CALL BACH TO JOBS Vote on Peace Plan Nearly Completed by Workers 8AN FRANCISCO. Feb. 4 LTV-The LTV-The maritime strike committee today announced overwhelming union membership Approval of agreements to end their walkout, but it tabled temporarily motion mo-tion to call for a return to work tomorrow. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 'Jf) Maritime workers were ordered to "stand by" today for immediate return to work when the long shipping tieup ends officially. There was a possibility that work might be resumed late today after the Joint strike committee make publio the vote from the 40,000 members of the seven unions. Longshoremen, cooks and stewards, stew-ards, firsmsn and sailors ware ordered or-dered to prepare for immsdiate resumption re-sumption of work, while the licensed li-censed personnel was ready to board the long-idle vessels. Fireboxes Stoked Many ships were getting up steam to operate winches in unloading cargoes and others wers prepared to get awsy at the first opportunity. John Hogan, chief dispatcher at the International Longshoremen's association hiring hall, said he had orders for 160 gangs of 16 men each to move the great accumulation of cargo. Fred M. Kelley, secretary of the Maritime federation, announced that all ballots had been received except scattered returns from I. L. A. locals lo-cals in ths Pacific northwest. The Vancouver, Wash., longshoremen longshore-men voted 77 to 1 In favor of ending the maritime striks, and returns from other points were believed to show similar large majorities. Questions Remain Several matters remained to be adjusted before shipping returned to normal, including the tugboat-men's tugboat-men's striks here and at San Pedro, and the longshore situation in Hawaii. Ha-waii. Maritime men said the tugboats were necessary to dock big ships, which could depart without their assistance, however. The strikers asked wage and hour adjustments, ad-justments, but it was believed the controversy could bs settled. Harry Bridges, district president of the LLA, said his group had no authority over the longshoremen in Honolulu, where the men were reported ready to continue their striks when ships arrive. There was activity aboard many of the 239 strikebound vessels, tieup of which by the 8-day conflict caused a loss to coast business estimated esti-mated as high as $686,000,000 7,-000.000 7,-000.000 a day. Emergency crews checked boilers long cold. Cargo holds were Inspected. In-spected. Smoke belched from stacks of soms ships preparing to move into docks from anchorage. Rehiring Arranged Licensed officers snd their assistants assist-ants will be the first to report back for duty, followed by firemen and (Continued on Pare Eleven) (Column Four I MARINE WORK CALLAWAITED (Column One) sailors. Steam must be raised In ths long unused boilers and winches made ready before longshoremen can work the vessels. Employers and union leadera agreed that so far aa possible crews would be returned to the vessels on which they were employed at the time the strike waa called. This, It waa pointed out, would assure men being assigned to ships with which thsy were familiar. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4 (ft. Five of the seven striking maritime unions voted either "yes" or "no" on the question of accepting agreements agree-ments aa negotiated and a return to work immediately, i The Cooks and Stewards and the . Marine Firemen voted on the pro-, pro-, posal to return to work and submit unsettled questions to arbitration. 1 Under the tentative agreements,' - the seven unions in general retain awards won in the 83-day strike of r 1A34, bloody forerunner to the present pres-ent comparatively peaceful walk-out walk-out ! All but the longshoremen gain 1 : pay Increases. Ths longshoremen, ; given prestrike pay of 96 tents an hour and $1.40 overtime for a "practical" "prac-tical" six-hour day, also obtain full ' control of hiring halls bitter Issue of the 1M4 strike. Other unions also obtained hiring control, with the exceptions of ths Masters, Matea and Pilots and Engineers. En-gineers. Employers agreed to union recognition, but refused to surrender surren-der freedom of right to pick their deck and engine room officers. i The tentative accorda provide "port committees" for settling disputes. |