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Show 'DOCK DISPUTE 1 FLARES IN S. F. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10 l Pacific coast waterfront employ-era employ-era gather here tor an emergency session tomorrow, while charges flared between their association snd the powerful CIO Longshoremen's Longshore-men's union, following the sbrupt resignation yesterday of Dean Wayne L. Morse ss federal coast maritime arbitrator. Marshall Dili, president of the San. Francisco chamber of commerce, com-merce, telegraphed President Roosevelt a plea for Intervention in the new trouble which threatened threat-ened to shatter a carefully nurtured nur-tured maritime peace. "The resignation of . . . Dean Morse . . . again place shipping In this and other Pacific coast ports In extremely precarious condition," con-dition," wired DUX Bullng Dis retarded Dean Mors resigned because for th first time since he has scted ss arbitrator, ruling sometimes for employers, sometime for th unions, an award he handed down was disregarded. Longshoremen continued to refuse "ss individuals" individ-uals" to pass a ship clerks' picket line at the Panama picket pier, though Morse had ruled this was "collusive picketing." P.-rV-Fswis, pesatdsnt sf ths San Francisco Waterfront Employers' Employ-ers' association, quickly charged that Harry Bridges, CIO longshore leader, and the union inner circle "fat In their own power, refuse to accept the principle of arbitration, arbitra-tion, . . . refused to heed the pub-lie pub-lie Interest" laioa Piles Answer Said a counter statement, from union headquarters: "Dean Morse's decision . . . simply sim-ply states that San Francisco longshoremen long-shoremen ere bound by their sgreement to act as strikebreakers against a sister local of their International union. . . . Arbitrators Arbitra-tors cannot settle th problems of the waterfront and this Is becoming becom-ing mors spparent every day." Meanwhile, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins sought by longdistance long-distance telephone to- persuade Dean Moras to delay his resignation resigna-tion at least temporarily, but was Informed that only if the union should abide by the decision promptly and admit Its error In falling to comply would the resignation resig-nation be withdrawn. "Judicial system cannot survive whenever the party litigants refuse to carry out the mandates of that system," the arbitrator stated. |