Four to One

With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business--settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes.

For the Pacific coast as a whole the vote was 6,378 for arbitration, 1,471 against. In San Francisco where the vote was closer than in any other big port, arbitration won 2,014 to 722. With a more than 4-to-1 mandate from the stevedores, the Archbishop and his confreres settled down to decide who should control the hiring halls, the union or the shipowners. For the time being the hiring halls were left in the shipowners' hands under government supervision and the longshoremen voted to go back to work.

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