New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-04
FREIGHTHANDLING IN TWO CITIES
PHASES OF THE STRIKE IN JERSEY CITY.

PHASES OF THE STRIKE IN JERSEY CITY.
| EVERYTHING is going on quietly and satisfac-
toriy," said Superintendent Jackson, OF ine cum,
| sylvania Railroad Company IN Jersey City. ana
| there ia no change in our attitude toward tne
strikers" A superintendent at the Ere YARD. when
asked whether there was any propaptiy or poSs
| blity Oft the cOmpany's accedIng TO tne uemahus
of the strikers replied that it was not even Thought
of ms plenty of good laborers could be had for the
wages offered and the company did not propose 70
let the strike succeed, beginning as " mad WIN MN
| out warning. Tho freight handlers hold up their
| heads cheerfully and say the companies WIN grow
| tired, sooner or later, OF paving three or TOUR
| men to do i'm an unsatisfactory way the work OF
one Why" SAID one >. 1t took 2O4 men the other
day to load 100 cars of freight. Ii the Ola nand5
could not have loaded car each in day they would
have been discharged. Then they had twenty-elght
lighters with west-bound freight left nnloaded on
Saturday night but the old hands didn't leave the
ward until every thing was cleared up. inere are
fifteen miles of outside the tunnel waiting 10 DC
unloaded. and 700 cars at Salamanca waning 20 DE
transferred Now the company let the Italians
smoke on their piers in violation OF their own rules
a. well as of the insurance companys sn3uld n9'
think the merchants would like TO have those ieI-
lows lying around their treght either 10 they "Io
The freight-handlers held a meeting yesterday
morning and received 1886 more to swell their re-
lief fund The Erie Railroad freight-handiers at
Buffalo, Elmra and Salamanca have written 10
the president of the union asking about me nature
of the strike. Committees were appointed 10 see
| the 'longshoremen on the Red Star and Hamburg
aud Bremen steamer piers and induce them to stop
work. A committee was sent to inform the drivers
for Fuller's Paterson Express that they must not
handle freight for the railroad company, but SIM
| ply drive their teams. contribution OF 20 tor
| the widow of Daniel Buckley was received from
| some Broad-st., New York. Boys" The committee
| appointed to visit South Amooy Reported that no
| freight was being handled there; large number
of the strikers will accompany the excursion OF the
| Workingmen's Benevolent Union, No. l, to Mount
| Pleasant Grove to-day. . e.
Work SAL goes on in an ineffective sort OF way AT
the Pennsvlvana yards excepting at the local STA,
ton and the elevator, where there are aDe-Dodisu
| men and work does not lag. number OF the
| 'checkersu have returned to work at uarsinus
| Cove But they sigh for the old times when they
had brawny quick witted men under them, lnstead
of the Italians, who move IN llnP ana Iang''u a'.i
| tudes about the piers, aud spend as niuch Ile do
| possible in drinking water. The Pennsylvania
| Railroad will be in the hands =, OF
receiver in the month Fenart o{ you l coOOsT
as score of the Italians managed 70 TIP h0gSheau
of tobacco over and let it fall so hard as TO break
actually large accumulation of freight and that 10
took two or three Italians to equal one OF the Ola
employees No work was uoiS on 'n I1t1 no api1.
ersn who repair cars at IA cents al hoir, anu nIAty
car-washers, who receive Is cents an hOnr, sent
request with their signatures to the COMPANY last
week asking for an advance IN wages lhey are
still AT work but have received no answer.
About $50 Russians and Italians worked during
the day on the piers of the Erie Railroad An
ofciai said that 800 cars of east-bOund 300 cars
of west=bound freight and 100 cars OF gram woud
be handled. lie added that the accumulation pi
freight was about !, 500 cars, but that II would
probably have been 200 cars had there been no
strike as there was always an accumulation ana IL
sometimes reached 5000 cars There was no very
Iorge accumulation anywhere along TIE
line The company will employ about 800
men to-day III handling east-Oound freight
About 100 russian Jews refused to WORK YESTERDAY
morning because the company Wou!u hot potIu
them for nothing When they were pald last week
I5 cents per day was deducted for food FURNISHED
as well as mattresses and lodging. inns, II Is sau'
was the agreement made through the Interpreter.
The discontinued Jews made such hubbub about
the matter that they were driven aboard barge by
.I,o mi aLenb a Garden.
officials say they have men enough without them,
and are giad that they went away; one stated that
a number of the old freight-bandlers i0llereu
wonId like TO resume work. i. MallIey. the Italian
laborer who fired several Intellectual shots on the
Monarch Line pier on saturday, was fined go by
Justice Stilsing yesterday for carrying revolver,
and was committed i'll default OF 500 bail Tor eX-
animation tomorrow.