The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-15
B AGITATION.
AFFAIRS AT NEW YORK AND JRRsEI
CITY.
Placards Posted Announcing that the Penn
sylvania Railroad Has all the Freight
Handlers il Desires.


sylvania Railroad Has all the Freight
Handlers il Desires.
NEW YoRK.-The freight handlers
strike remains in the same condition
neither party showing any signs OF
yielding. The strikers remain peace
ful and quiet. The g reefs in the
neightorhood of the various depots
are blocked up with trucks laden with
freigt t.
At Pier so, Pennsylvania Railroad,
fifty Italians are at work. One of the
officials here said they had received
all the freight that came, and expected
to do the same thing again.
A few Italians were at work in the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad depot in st. Johns Park.
No freight was being received there,
but an effort was being made to handle
that already taken in. Thousands of
dollars worth of perishable goods are
waiting there to be removed.
A communication was received
from the agent of the Erie Railroad
by the Superintendent of the Produce
Exchange in reference to the freight
handlers strike, and stating that the
railroad will receive freight from
patrons in Jerse City to the extent of
its ability, and promising to adopt
necessary %precaution for the protec-
ton of property, etc.
The Jersey City striking freight
handlers had atother large meeting.
The committee of five strikers APP
pointed by the morning meeting to
visit the yard of the Central Railroad
at Communipaw and induce the men
there to quit work came into the
meeting and made Its report 1t
stated that the members of the conf
mittse had been met by the police and
ordered off the premises of the COM
pany under penalty of arrest.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted refusing to have any further
dealings with the firm Of grocers
charged with having furnished the
provisions to the Erie Railroad Com
pany that were gratuitously distribu-
ted to the italian workmen in the
docks of the Erie Company.
1t las unanimously voted to 'boy-
colt" the Jersey City EueninQ Journal
on account of articles which have APP
peared in recent issues of the paper
i'm reference tn the strike.
The officers of the Pennsylvania
Company now claim to be able to for
ward freight without any great delay.
The company has bad large posters
~placarded upon the various docks and
freight houses stating hat no men are
required in any capacity.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
is now working with a full force of
new hands and is rapidly handling
the freight intrusted to its care.
The New York, Lake Erie and Wes-
tern Railroad Company has had $50
Russian and Hungarian Jews and 100
Italian laborers working OIL its dock
at Jersey City and 1870 Italians on the
dock at the foot of Duane street, New
York. About wenty Irishmen have
remained at work at the latter point
during the entire strike.
The new men are taken back TO
Castle Garden by a steamer from the
md of the dock each night, and re-
ceive the money for their days work
before they leave.
JERSEY CITY, n. 1.-THE striking
'longshoreu en- and freight handlers
held another meeting. Speeches were
made recommending moderation and
giving assurance that their present
prudent course would insure success.
Vice President Murphy stated that
the committees appointed to visit
Newburg, N. Y, and South Amboy
and Elizabethport, N. j., to induce
the men there to refrain from hand
ling freight sent to these points by the
railroad companies, have met with
great encouragement. The commit
tees, however, are 80 embarrassing
of two delegates only from Jersey
City in each instance-that the work
is necessarily very slow. He was, he
said, prepared to ssy that if the com
panies refuse to accede to the mems
demands in a very short time a general
strike will be inaugurated at these
points. Resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted denouncing any interior
ence with trains or other property of
the railroads, and denying that the
body of strikers approved or took any
part in the uncoupling of a freight
| train on the Erie Road.
The situation at the freight yards of
the various companies remains I'M
changed. The Delaware, Lackawan'
ma and Western Railroad Company
has a few men at work and is moving
a few trains.
The Jersey City Police Commission
ers continue to swear all corners as
special police. The Commissioners
have a written guarantee, signed by
the officers of the railroad companies,
in which the latter assume all the ex-
pense incurred by the special police.
PITTsBURa.-The proprietors of the
Leesburg Mills, Armstrong county,
have signed the scale. They will
make sheet-iron and tin-plate.
Clearfeld Miners Decide to strike.-New
York Freight Handlers.
HoUTzDALE, Pa.-The miners meet
ing was well attended, and it was de
cided almost unanimously to strike.
The men will go into the mines in