Coast Strike Threat
Gets Cool-off Order
Until September 2
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to bargain in good faith.
The order prohibiting a strike
or lockout was directed against
182 unions and employer groups,
who had been complying with
the temporary restrainer.
Main obstacle barring a settle
ment of contract negotiations is
the hiring hall. Unions want to
continue the hall with a union dis
patcher, as formerly. Employers
contend this violates the Taft
Hartley Act.
His order noted dependence of
the Hawaiian Islands and the Phil
I
ippines on shipping; this country’s
“vital and immediate obligations’”
in foreign countries; and the re
quirements of its military and
civilian personnel overseas.
“No doubt through the medium
of the National Labor Relations
FLAMES SWEEP i
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SWEDISH STEAM
SHIP AT SEA !
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NEW YORK, — </P) —Raging
flames swept the 5,000-ton Swed
ish steamship Dagmar Salen, 10
miles off the Delaware coast Sat
urday but all members of the
crew were saved after abandon
ing the vessel.
The fire, breaking out in the
ship’s engnie room, spread quickly
to the superstructure. The crew
took to the lifeboats.
One crew member was injured.
The master of the S.S. Perla,
Board a prompt decision may be
obtained from a reviewing court
on this or any reconcilable legal
issue.” he commented.
He said the Federal Conciliation
Service was able to report “con
structive results” in its efforts to
reach a settlement during the
time the temporary order called
a halt to strike.
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Electrical Appliances Washing Machines
Wiring Material
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>ry Cleaners
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PAUL A. MANDEVILLE
“Modern Laundry and Cleaning
Is Clothes Insurance”
POLICEMAN IS 1st
4th CASUALTY
NEW YORK, — (A3) —The po
lice department, which has warned
the populace about holiday fire-!
works, Saturday reported the citys’
first fireworks casualty—a police
man.
Patrolman Emilio Antonelli, 47, i
suffered leg burns when a prank
s‘er tossed a lighted firecracker
through a station house window.
which reached the scene shortly
after the Dagmar Salen sent out
its distress message, said he had
picked up half of the crew. Later,
along with the other crewmen
still in lifeboats, the rescued sea
men were transferred to the Coast
Guard cutter Gentian.
The Dagmar Salen arrived in
Baltimore June 16, with a cargo
that included such items as fire
crackers, bamboo splits, hog bris
tles and perfumed joss from the
Orient.
The bridge of the Dagmar Salen
was damaged last September 29,
when it collided with the stream
lined Black Ball ferry, M/V Chin
ook, in a dense fog midway be
tween Victoria, B.C., and Seattle,
Wash.
For Good Printing Call Main 125
Former Alaska
Gov. Geo. Parks
Retires This Week
WASHINGTON, — (JP) —George
A. Parks, regional cadastral en
gineer, (land) of the Bureau of
Land Management and twice gov
ernor of Alaska, retired this week
after almost 40 years of service
in the Territory.
The oldest officer of the U.S.
Government in point of service
in Alaska, Parks began his ser
vice with the Interior Department
there May 8, 1909.
President Calvin Coolidge ap
pointed Parks governor of Alaska
in 1925. President Herbert Hoover
reappointed him for another four
years in 1929.
A native of Denver and a grad
uate of the Colorado School of
Mines, Parks plans to spend the
summers in the United States
but return each winter to his home
Teamsters To Get
SlOO-a-nio. Pension
BELLINGHAM, — (JP) —The
western conference of teamsters
adopted a $100-a-month pension
plan for its elected employes and
those of affiliated local unions
at the final session Friday night.
San Jose was named for next
year’s conference.
The pensions will apply to about
500 business representatives, sec
retaries and other full-time of
ficials, but not to clerical help.
in Juneau.
Interior Secretary Krug des
cribed Parks as an authority on
land survey, administration and
economic problems of Alaska, and
said in a news statement:
“His contributions to the ad
ministration of Alaska’s public
lands and the development of
the Territory have been so out
standing as to merit the highest
' commendation.”
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and see the
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