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Show States Position JOSEPH P. KENNEDY Situation Can t Be Tolerated THREAT BREAKS STRIKEON SHIP WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UP) The United States maritime commission com-mission today forcefully demonstrated demon-strated the government's stand agalnat labor union tactics by its smployss with drastic action which smashed a atrlka aboard tha & S. Algle at Montevideo, Uruguay. Chairman Joaeph P. Kennedy ordered or-dered Captain Joaeph Calnard of the government-owned vessel to put leaders in Irons and hire a new crew If the atrlka continued, provoking the possibility of new complication! In the critical maritime union warfare. war-fare. Incidental Affront The action was Interpreted also aa an Incidental affront fb the National Na-tional Maritime union of the Committee Com-mittee for Industrial Organisation, whoae chairman, John L. Lewis, hss been reported reliably at odds with President Roosevelt over the administration's ad-ministration's attitude toward the C 1 O. It waa reported that some of the Algic'a crew were N. M. U. members. All returned to work after Kennedy's Ken-nedy's threat "The maritime commission takes ths position that the action of the crew la unlawful," Kennedy aald. "It also takes the position that In thia particular case such an act constitute! a strike against ths government gov-ernment Neither aituation can be tolerated." Preaident Roosevelt has made clear the attitude of tha administration adminis-tration toward demonstrations and strikea by Its employee. This week he said in a massage to the Federation Federa-tion of Federal Employee, in convention con-vention at Springfield, 111., that a strike would be "unthinkable." ' Challenge to Group American Federation of Labor and C L O. maritime unions, whose Jurisdictional warfare In the east and wast have frequently disrupted ahlpping. were expected to find the commission's action a challenge to their mutual purpose of forcing wage demand!, protection and improved im-proved working conditions into all American ihipping. N. M. U. official! In New York described ths action aa "pretty high handed." Kennedy said he waa advised by the captain that the strike was called in sympathy with Urugusysn longshoremen, whose own itrike prevented the Algic from sailing. The Algic la one of 37 government-owned government-owned ahipa operated by the maritime mari-time commission. |