Hope for StrikeSettlement RisesIn ConferencesFederal Probe of Anti-Trust Hints Now Under WaySAN FRANCISCO, WP.)—Hopes for settlement of the 4 51-day strike of the C. I. O. dock clerks rose Friday.The strike committee of iho Clerks association met with Harry Bridges, California C. I. O. diver I nr, tn consider a proposal for1 end hi? I lie lieup. Waterfront.employers conferred separately.There was m; Intimation of I he nature of she Plan before I lie two groups.. II was considered likely it was a variation oT proposals made by Gov. Colbert Olson for iui medial* return to work, renewal of sill on ill rants, and a afinly uf Hie strikers' demands for control nl' monthly clerks, a condition employers have refused to grant.Federal Investigation of nosert-ed anli-trusl law violations In the waterfront Heap appeared to 'lie under way. The indication ranio Thursday when Bridges and other union leaders were summoned before United States attorney general’s deputies who have been Investigating alleged anti-trust law violations.Bridges said his group tokl As-fttalaiU Attorneys General Morris Clark and James Hayes that a “huge conspiracy/' exialed among waterfront employers in Hie diversion of ships from San-Francisco and Oaklaiul In the strike.lt;w.(I