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Show SHIPPMIGHT W BY UNIONS Exporters at Buenos Aires Must Pay to Maintain Laborers' Boycott BUENOB AIRES, sejt. 4. -Unions! of laborers connected with port nc-I nc-I tlvitic8 In Buenos Aires and other ports of AgrciUlnu haw imposed upon exporters "their own private export I tax" as a means of maintain? exten-i exten-i slve boycotts now In force uguln.it ex- porters and shipping companies, according ac-cording to a complaint made by pack-I pack-I ing house establishments here to Min-' Min-' Ister of Finance Salabcrry. At the present time more than lun exporting firms ure under boycott, in uddltlon to the powerful BilhanOVleh company, I owner of most of the river and coast- wlse -hipping of the country. I A committee reprejcntlng meat and hide exporters told the finance mln-i mln-i Ister i hat the dock laborers were re-I re-I fusing to load their overseas shlp-! shlp-! ments unless the shippers mude a contribution con-tribution toward the support of the union of $7 for each :'U0 bales of wool land $3.&0 for euch 100 casks of tallow und like products. 'I he delegation pointed out that these contributions could be called I "eztraoffldial export duties," und that SOmi Of them have been demanded since last .May It was stuted that before am rthlOinent can he made, an- J plication must be made to the lubor j union Officials and tb it several days often elapse before the rutjuisitc "authority" "au-thority" Is allowed for embarking The minister was told that in some i ases the unions have demanded to see the exporter's books In order to make sure that none of the produce to be exported came from any firm Under hoycott. A list of loij exporters under boy-cotl boy-cotl v. i a submitted to lift government and I. was pulnu d out thut while there are more than 810,000,000 pounds of unsold wool In the country end more Hum l.ltiMl.OOU hides, mos'l or tho leading exporters of Hies,, products, pro-ducts, wh.e servlcss are needed in relieving the congestion, are not allowed al-lowed to do business on account of boycotts. Tin boycott of the Mlhanovich company com-pany has held over 200 vessels in port lor six months Of forts of the government gov-ernment to settle the differences be- tweeit the company and the workmen ! have not met with success. Meantime the losses to domestic commerce have hecn enormous. Bpi aklng in the chamber of depu-j depu-j ties. representative from the pro- i vince of Entre uios larg. i dependent upon river transportation, declared ! that the apparent object of the murlt-tlme murlt-tlme workers was to obtain control of the country's water transport. "They publicly announce." ho said, 'that the boycott is not a strike 'over wages or hours of labor. They talk about the I social movement, especially that In Germany and applaud the on.- that I has taken place In Russia, declaring I that the maritime strike has nothing less for its object than the soclallsa- ! tlon of tho transport services." During the months of the boycott the Mlhanovich company has been able to return to service u few of Its boats by transferring them to the Uruguayan Uruguay-an or Paraguayan flags. Several cases of violence against the members Of the crews of tbe Vessels so changed have been reported. It Is said that among the damages Incurred has been the loss of a large part of the orange crop from the region along the Parana river. |