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Show NEW PIER LABOR RIFT DEVELOPS BAN PEDRO, CaL. Feb. 18 (UP) President Roosevelt today was labor dispute in Los Angelas harbor, whsre the International Teamsters' union picketed the waterfront. D. M. G ruber, executive officer of the San Pedro and Wilmington central cen-tral labor council, protested to the president against action of the Merchants Mer-chants and Manufacturers' association associa-tion of Los Angeles in hiring nonunion non-union workers to handle cargo on the harbor docks. The teamsters' action threatened the brief interval of peace since the end of the recent Pacific coast shipping ship-ping tieup. Longshoremen continued to work on the Matson liner Manoa, but It was not known how long they would defy the teamstsrs' pickets. The Merchants and Manufacturers' Manufactur-ers' association, in defending opening open-ing of its hiring hall, said labor rack-steers rack-steers were trying to force all men to join the unions. j |