National Affairs: I. W. W. Strike

The only interesting thing about the " nationwide" strike called by the Marine Transport Workers' Union to tie up shipping on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast ports, is that it is being run by the I. W. W. From all reports the strike itself is a failure: San Francisco, Seattle, San Pedro, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other big shipping centers assert that their vessels are hardly affected at all.

But it has been a long time since the I. W. W. have engineered any strike of more than local magnitude. Crippled during...

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