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Show A LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE r October 1, 1019, 40,000 metal workers went on strike In the San Francisco Bay ship yards. Tne'Btrlkc was extended from San IMeaVto Seattle and has become a HTe and death struggle' for the closed shop. Tbe metal' workers strike 'has lost out aa against American or1 open-shop open-shop methods In San Dfegb; Los Angeles, An-geles, Portland and Tacoma. ' In Seattle opch shdp 'rules prevail except In the ship yards and even there., the end ot union rule. IS In alght. The metal workers strike Is losing los-ing out In San Francisco nnd Oakland Oak-land and with, it, the closed shop rute. Other unions aro called upon to Bend money to the metal workers engaged In their life and death struggle far closed shop. Revolutionary methods adopted by radical labor leaders 'have lost tho union's public sympathy nnd have shown the unsoundness of the closed shop Idea. |