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Show COAST HARBORS TIEUP AVERTED LOS ANGELES. Nov. ( lff A threatened tieup of San Pedro and other Pacific coast harbors because of labor difficulties aboard the Danish motorship Marchen Maersk had been averted today by agreement agree-ment of Scandinavian seamen to cease picketing the ahip. Three thousand longshoremen and other maritime workers, who quit their jobs to hold a mass meeting at the harbor yesterday, urged the Scandinavian Seamen's club not to jeopardize jobs of 40.000 maritime workers on the Pacific coast." The Waterfront Employers' asso-ciation asso-ciation had threatened to cancel Its International Longshoremen's association asso-ciation contract if the longshoremen longshore-men refused to handle the ship's cargo, and the latter countered with a threatto tie up all Pacific coast porta if the contract was scrapped. With the Scandinavians' agreement agree-ment to cease picketing, the motor-ship motor-ship was ready to load 10.000 drums of aviation gasoline for Japan today. |