New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-10
MEETINGS OF HANDLERS.
PROMISES OF HELP FOR THE MEN

The Central Labor Union of this city and ITS
vicinity has been organized about year.
1t is claimed that its delegates. who meet
on Sundays at Science Hall, represent
$4,000 workingmen. Yesterday the union
passed resolutions to support the freght-handlers
in their strike. If this is successful. the will
lie urged to make another strike. for % cents an
hour 1t was decided TO exert all the power OF the
union TO "rase money enough. if necessary to pay
the strikers the full amount of their wages while
they are idle" Some extreme measures
were proposed by which the corporations were
to be forced into speedy bankruptcy.
1t was decided however that the for the pres
ent should coufne itself to furnishing money which
sis to be collected by canvassng every house. shop
and place of business IN this city, and by ordering
special meeting of every of the fOrtyye trades
unions which send delegates TO The central body,
for the purpose of raising money"
The fIelght-handers held three meetings yester-
day Branch No. i. which is composed of the men
a the ; Johns Park Depot ami on Pier No 20,
North RIVER, assembled i'll the afternoon at Berri-
CAMS Hall, in HudSOnst. Little business was done,
except to receive the reports of the various commit
tees. The i'll charge of the subscrlpt stated
that SlS3 had been gwen III llu isOn-st. alone.
The men were anxious to have the German societies
i'll this city take some action i'll regard TO the Ger
mans who working with the Italians and Rus
sian Jews IN the places of the strike The report
that the Germans IN ~. Johns Park had refused to
ia the places of the strikers any longer proved TO
be unfonnded. While not as many of them were at
work as on weekdays, there is no indication that
they will not Ietur.I TO work In full force this
morning.
The meeting of Branch No 8 was held at No. AS
Pear-s the headquarters OF the Erie men, ); j. Nc
MahOn presided. The situation was reviewed III the
speeches winch were made, and the men seemed de-
termined to remain firm IN the attitude that they
had taken. The and promised them from tne Cen
trail Labor Union and the confidence Ill the result
of their petitions for help, have infused new life
into the men. They now beneve that 1t will not be
so hard for them 10 continue the strike. Statements
were made that seven barges OF beef, oyst:rs
and fresh and sailed meats have lam at jersey CITY
since the beginning OF The strike and that beyond
Bergen Tunnel one cOuld hold pans under the cars
aud fill them with butter. number of other
statements which are hard to believe were
made at the meetings IN regard to the
count of the Incapacity OF the green" men.
A committee of twenty men was appointed to So
lIct subscriptions, and circulars were ordered to be
sent among the Germans to-day asking them To stop
work.
In The evening Branch No. 2 held meeting at st
Peters Hail. in New Church-st No business of I'M
portance was transacted, but the time was devoted
to speech-naking by the leaders of the strike, and
Robert Blissert and George Blair, OF the Central
Labor Union, repeated the promises of help which
they had made before, Mr. Bhssert SAID
mat the strike would teach the men
the necessity of thorough organization. and
that IL would also teach them 10 depend upon Jneu-
selves ana no one else. .
The German bakers held meeting at Concordia
Hall to discuss the asDihty of making IA demand
upon yet
THE BLACK LIST nor DISTRIBUTED.
Yes erday was the most quiet and uneventful day
among the freght-handers in jersey City since the
strike began. Very little work done at the
railroad depots and freight piers, and the strikers
did nothing except TO gather III groups IN and
around Hamilton Park and discuss the situation.
Announcement was made ON Saturday that
"a blacklist containing the of
the strikers who had abandoned their
fellows and gone back to work won be distributed
al he doors the churches yesterday morning, but
the project was not carried out. ~ was said that
some OF the clergy VINO had been apprsed OF the IN
teutlon OF the strikers had advised against 1t, and
that their counSels had prevailed. he strikers
were TO hold meeting last night III ST. AllchaePs In
stitute but did not. Some freight handled dur
ING the day NJ the Erie piers, and little at the
PENNSYLVANIA, but nothing was done at the Cen
tral.
IT was rumored last night that gangs of trackmen
and swift chmen are 10 be brought Tomorrow from
other stations along the road to Jersey City and
than ever III their ultimate success They say
tnat it COSTS the companies fully five
times as much to handle Their
freight as it dId before the strike.
h. railroad officials equally positive IN their
sser ions that the men caunOt mold out, anu IN TACT
they say that it is matter Ot indifference wLe her
the strikers yield not, they are having
all their iTci ht moved TO their entire satisfaction
4 man prominent III the councils of the strikers
Informed a lRIBUNE reporter mat II the companies
should consent 10 give the men 70 cents an nOur
ney would SIN refuse to resume work. unless some
Oh The " bosses" who have made themselves OBJ
noxIous were discharged.