Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break the strike, employers fortnight ago "opened the waterfront" by moving freight under guard. The strikers heaved bricks, police used gas and guns, and 48 hours later National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should...
...their operating costs, the restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten statement made public by the Association at the close of the meeting did not confirm this in so many words, but it emphasized that the "railroads have no sources of income other than money received for services performed for the public, and they are faced with...
...Francisco's Industrial Association had warned that it would open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads...
...following day was July 4 and there was comparative peace. The Matson Line had ordered 14 freight cars from the Belt Line to move perishable freight. Strikers announced that they would not let the cars be moved. That brought the power and prestige of California into the conflict. Governor Merriam, who had kept neutral in spite of his Southern California nonUnionism, spoke: "I accept the defy offered by those in charge of the strike. ... I will call upon the National Guard, the citizens of San Francisco and every citizen of the Commonwealth to support the Government...
...cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line cut its through New York-to-Key West sleepers down to two a week. Seatrains from New Orleans killed the Cuban freight business. The resort crowd drifted elsewhere...