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Show thrown out of work; shipping schedules were disrupted and some of the damage in shipping schedules from that disruption will never be repaired; San Francisco business suffered untold un-told losses in Interference with normal supply of goods and merchandise; Industries were forced to close down because of Inability either to get raw materials or to ship finished products. prod-ucts. All that trouble and loss and for what? For nothing! A disagreement involving 650 men ties up the whole San Francisco waterfront for 53 days, disrupts commerce and business and Industry In-dustry In the second largest city In the west, , and extends Its paralyzing Influence over a large territory to cause varying degrees of loss and Inconvenience to hundreds of thousands of people. And after causing all that trouble, the 650 men go back to work without accomplishing anything which they could not have accomplished accom-plished without a strike. It doesn't make sense. And if those responsible respon-sible for such tleups which needlessly paralyze commerce, or the government, don't do something some-thing about it, the public wIlL All That Trouble for Nothing! rTHE 53-day tleup of San Francisco shipping i caused by the strike of C I O ship clerks has ended, with return of some 650 striking waterfront water-front employes to work. The net result of the 53-day strike, as far ' as gains for the ship clerks is concerned, was ' practically nil. ' I Work Is resumed under the same conditions I as to wages, hours and dispatching rules which 1 existed prior to the strike. The two chief points ' demanded originally by the strikers preferen-i preferen-i tlal hiring and registration of monthly clerks I were abandoned by the union In the agree-! agree-! roent ending the strike. All other points at issue ! (and they were not important) will be settled l by negotiation, or, that falling, by arbitration I while work continues. I In other words, after a 53-day strike the ' union accomplished not one thing which they ' could not have accomplished without a strike. ' The employers had absolutely refused to grant i preferential hiring and registration of monthly t clerks, claiming these men were representatives f of the employer and could not be handed over to I domination of the unions. They won that ar- guraent hands down. The employers were al-j al-j ways willing to negotiate any of the other i points at issue, and probably would have agreed, ! In the event of a deadlock over those points, to arbitrate without a strike. What a deplorable waste of time and money that strike was! , For 53 days San Francisco's commerce was . partial; paralyzed; thousands of men were . ; .. . 3 |