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When the members of San Francisco's Association of Distributors last month began locking out union warehousemen who refused to handle a "hot" freight car loaded in a struck Woolworth warehouse, they started something. All told, 121 warehouses were closed, 3,000 of Harry Bridges' 8,000 warehousemen were out of work. More important, the Distributors Association had given a demonstration of employer solidarity more convincing than any that turbulent San Francisco had seen since the 1934 General Strike. So bucked up was Roger Dearborn Lapham, board chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. and new chairman...
...Woolworth car, having finished its travels and peacefully retired to a siding, the Association of Distributors offered the Warehousemen's Union a "master contract" to end the lockout. Main feature of the contract, designed to replace the union's existing or expired contracts with individual warehousemen: compulsory arbitration, no strikes or lockouts until 1940, to prevent quickie stoppages during the Golden Gate International Exposition next year. This offer the warehousemen refused, on the ground that having all the contracts expire at once would precipitate another general crisis...
When members of Harry Bridges' C.I.O. Warehousemen's Union refused to unload a freight car which had been packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area...
Since the car was sent to grocery and liquor warehouses with no interest in Woolworth paper & pencils, the union accused the Association of San Francisco Distributors of fomenting trouble. The Association retorted that it was seeking a showdown on "quickie" and sympathetic strikes before renewing a number of expired union contracts, had adopted the hot car to see how union-members would behave. Exulted a Distributors' spokesman: "We are now in a position to enforce our right of collective bargaining and we don't intend to give...
...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...