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Negotiations To 'Start from Scratch'

HONOLULU (AP)—Longshoremen and waterfront employers met across a peace table today in a new effort to end Hawaii's 109-day CIO dock strike.

The agreement to resume direct negotiations developed with dramatic suddenness during a conference Gov. Ingram H. Stainback arranged in his office yesterday.

Almost immediately officials of Hawaii's seven struck stevedoring firms and leaders of the ILWU began meeting.

The first session lasted two hours.

Resumption of negotiations, made at the suggestion of ILWU president Harry Bridges, was on the basis of starting "from scratch."

The stevedores struck May 1 for a 32 cents hike in their $1.40 hourly pay.

The talks came on top of these maneuvers in court and on the waterfronts of Hawaii and the mainland.

1. Circuit judge Edward A. Towse ordered a contempt action

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Bridges Personally Defies Hawaiian Picket Injunction

HONOLULU (AP)—Harry Bridges shoved Hawaii's 108-day CIO dock strike into a decisive phase yesterday. The Territorial government obtained an anti-picketing injunction. He defied it personally.

The next step was up to Walter J. Ackerman, Jr., Hawaii's attorney general. His office said Bridges, president of the CIO international longshoremen's and warehousemen's union, might be arrested for contempt. Ackerman said he would determine what to do.

Ackerman went into circuit court yesterday to obtain the injunction. He acted under an emergency law of the Territorial legislature. Under this act the government has seized Hawaii's struck stevedoring firms. It plans to operate the docks, tied up since the ILWU struck May 1 for a 32 cents hike in the $1.40 hourly basic longshore wage.

The Territory resorted to the

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injunction as it tried to unload the Matson Line freighter Hawaiian Merchant at pier Nine. ILWU pickets were on duty there. CIO marine cooks and stewards and independent marine firemen said they would walk off the ship if government stevedores worked behind the picket line.

Judge Edward A. Towse granted the injunction. It restrains the ILWU from picketing pier nine. It also restrains the ILWU, its officers and 100 John Does from "inciting or directing" anyone else to picket the pier and thus halt work on the ship.

Taking a picket post on pier Nine, Bridges moved swiftly toward the ILWU's long-threatened test of the seizure law's constitutionality.

Authorities served him with an injunction notice. He stuffed it in his pocket. For a half hour he marched on the picket line. Police did not try to stop him.

He told reporters: "This is the start, this law. It's going to the Supreme Court. This is where it starts and that is where it will end. What these islands need is a cool breeze, legislatively speaking."

The ILWU has called the seizure law all along an attempt to break the strike.

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"or other appropriate action" against Bridges for personally defying an anti-picketing injunction obtained by the Territory under its new dock seizure law. Towse ordered the Territorial attorney general to start the action by noon today.

2. The ILWU asked in federal court for an injunction against the dock seizure law which provides for government stevedoring operations. The union seeks also $3,000,000 damages from the Territory and the seven struck firms.

3. The government began its test to see whether it could unload ships with its own stevedores. It sent a 40-man gang aboard the Matson Line freighter Hawaiian Merchant. CIO cooks and stewards and independent marine firemen walked off in support of the ILWU. With the ship's power off, no cargo could be worked.

4. Two ships sailed with their CIO marine engineers defying orders of their union's executive board not to work behind the ILWU's picket lines. The Isthmian Line's Steel Architect sailed from Honolulu to the outer islands. The William H. Allen of the same line left for the Gulf Coast with a cargo of pineapple.

5. Matson announced in San Francisco it would call stevedores today for work on the Hawaiian Refiner. The ship is picketed by ILWU longshoremen who flew there from Honolulu.