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Show 4000 STEVEDORES END STRIKE HOUSTON, Texas. Nov. 4 (UP) About 4000 men returned to work today after settlement of a three-. three-. day strike of stevedores on coastwise coast-wise vessels at all Texas ports and at Lake Charles, La. The settlement here, reached a few hours after shipping companies granted wage increases to the strikers, strik-ers, will have no effect on the strike of 8000 coastwise stevedores In the east gulf states and the south Atlantic. At-lantic. The new wage scales provide for 85 cents an hour (a 10-cent Increase) for straight time and f 1.20 an hour (a 20-cent increase) for overtime work by stevedores and cargo checkers. |