Out of San Francisco one day last week churned the Panama Pacific Liner California, bound for Manhattan. Next day, when the ship put in at San Pedro, her 374 seamen refused to take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
