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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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CIO maritime unions order work stoppage in Pacific coast ports on June 12 to enable workers to attend mass meetings in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and San Pedro, ahead of a nationwide shipping strike starting midnight Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 12.- A work stoppage aboard all ships in major Pacific coast ports at 6 p. m. Thursday was called today by the joint strike committee of the CIO's committee for maritime unity to permit maritime workers to attend mass meetings in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and San Pedro.
Meetings at Portland, Seattle and San Francisco will be held in the evening, that at San Pedro in the afternoon.
The meetings were called a little more than 2½ hours before the scheduled start of a nationwide shipping strike by CIO maritime unions beginning midnight Friday.
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San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, San Pedro, Major Pacific Coast Ports
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June 12
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Joint strike committee of CIO's committee for maritime unity calls work stoppage aboard all ships in major Pacific coast ports at 6 p.m. Thursday to allow maritime workers to attend mass meetings in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and San Pedro. Meetings scheduled for evenings in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and afternoon in San Pedro, called just over 2.5 hours before nationwide shipping strike starting midnight Friday.