"Are you willing to work under present conditions?" a printed ballot asked some fifteen hundred teamsters who jammed Dreamland Auditorium Sunday. The wording was somewhat vague and indirect but the intent was plain. They voted no, 1220 to 271. They also decided they would no longer work under those conditions starting Thursday morning Ouly 12) unless the strike was definitely settled or was on the way to a settlement. They would meet again Wednesday evening to confirm their strike vote.

You have no grievances of your own, Mike Casey had told the teamsters. Your contract with your employers runs to next May, and you will probably lose the $10 a week strike benefits usually paid by the international union. Afterward, Casey said, "the men feel very strongly about the final demands of the marine strikers, for the control of hiring halls and the recognition of certain of the unions, and also about strikebreaking truck drivers being used to break the deadlock." He added: "In all my thirty years of leading these men, I have never seen them so worked up, so determined to walk out. I don't believe any power on earth can prevent their going on strike unless the marine strike is settled by Thursday."