Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-26
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Disastrous Results OF the Freight
Hsndlerk, Strike.

NEW YORK, June "a "A member OF a
prominent business house said to day to a
Post reporter: "This delay to shipping In
terests is causing loss of from S5O,O0O to
$4,000 every day to the business men Of
this city, and the railroad managers are not
making any effort to stop it, because they
know that on every piece of goods which
they can delay until the first of next month
they will be able to charge an advance on
the rates of from 40 to 60 per cent. The
merchants OF this city have certainly sus-
tanned loss of 81, ,250 900 since the strike
began, besides a permanent loss of custo-
mers, due to the transfer of trade to other
cities,n
PHILADELPHIA, June 24.-It is announced
here to-dsy that owing to the labor troubles
in Jersey City, the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
Company will transfer freight shipments to
South Amboy by the old route Railroad
officials say that at this time, when retrench-
ment has been the rule, the demands of
the strikers will certainly not be acceded to.
JERSEY CITY, n. j., June 4-At one time
to-day the situation looked very serious for
the railroad companies. The strikers were
evidently bent on mischief. About one
thousand laborers started to march to Ho-
boken, but on learning that the entire police
protect the Erie and Delaware and Lacka-
wanna Railroad depots, with orders to ar
rest as trespasseTs any of the strikers who
appeared, they turned aside to the
Pennsylvania Company's yards. There all
the labOrers Joined the ranks OF the strik-
ers, including the freight hrakemen. The
police were called for, but when they
reached the spot the strikers had left for
the New Jersey Central depot, where they
IL
A large body of police, however, soon ar
rived, and the strikers marched to the
sugar refineries near by, and stopped
the loading OF cars. They committed no
violence and kept out of the way of the
police, abandoning each position upon
learning Of the approach of the off.
GERS. The Pennsylvania Company en-
ployed one hundred special policemen
to-day. The Erie Company put their
stations at work again to-day at Hoboken.
The only places in New York having the sp-
pearance of business are the freight houses
of the New Jersey Central, Delaware and
Lackawauna and Starin's River and Harbor
Transportation Line The st. Johns Park
warehouse of the New York Central Com
pany is practically closed. The same can be
said of the warehouses of all other trans
portation lines except those named, the few
men at work not being able TO accomplish
anything, The streets in the neighborhood
of shipping points are not uncomfOrtably
crowded with trucks to-day, the merchants
having apparently abandoned the idea of
shipping until the strike is over Incoming
freight is being delivered with comparative
promptness, as the consignees send their
own employees for it. The New York Cen
trail has granted an advance of five dollars
per month to their switchmen.
The Board OF Trade to-day had a meeting
to devise measures for relief. They ex-
pressed sympathy for the strikers, and for
mulated protest against the approaching
increase in outward freight rates.
BALTIMORE, June 4-The grain handlers
struck this morning for an advance of 25
per cent. for unloading grain. They have
been receiving eighty cents per 100 bushels.
The receivers of grain refuse the demand.