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Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 December 1936Vol. VII, No. 5

American Strike

p. 52 · Read in the full issue

Dislocation in Pacific

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Dec. 2.

r ''HE strike in the United States is caus ing a lot of inconvenience to the resi dents of Western Samoa owing to the dislocation of mails and freight traffic.

The M.S. Noumea, which was due to leave ’Frisco for Samoa with a large cargo of goods and lumber, is held up indefinitely owing to the strike, as also are the Matson liners Mariposa and Monterey.

There is also at the present time no communication with Pago Pago (American Samoa) and American goods for Apia are now held up in Pago.