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Show 4000 DOCK WORKERS JOIN STRIKE RANKS JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nor. 2 (UP)-egoUatlon to settle a strik of 8000 longshoremen In nine South Atlantic and east gulf ports reached an impasse today as 4000 additional dock workers struck In Texas and Louisiana ports and hundreds hun-dreds of others threatened to walk out at other points. ' -1 . - The International Longshoremen's association rejected an offer by five coastwise shippers for an Increase of S cents an hour regular and 10 cents an hour overtime, on an eight-hour eight-hour basis. O. W. Bartlett, negotiating negotiat-ing for the shippers, said the terms constituted a 25 per cent nay increaseall in-creaseall the companies could stand. - |