New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-24
STRIKERS AND RAILROADS.

BY THE COMPANIES.
Another day of the strike Of the railroad freight
handlers closed last night with the strikers still do
termined to persist in their demands. with the rail-
road managers rcsolute in their refusal 10 grant
the advance demanded, and with the blockade
of freight in the city more formidable than ever.
The same orderly demeanor is preserved by the
men in New-York that has marked their attitude
since the trouble began. With the spread of the
injury to general business caused By the delay in
shipping aud delivering freight. the irritation OF
merchants toward the roads increases and their ex
pressions of sympathy with the strikers become
more emphatic. No signs of surrender are shown
by the railroads, and their managers persist in de-
carng that they able TO cope successfully with
the strike.
The address of the merchants, urging that some
action be taken by the railroads to end the present
controversy with the frcight-handers, has not come
officially before the railroad managers The
impression prevails that its only effect will be
possibly to influence public sentiment in favor OF
the men, 1t has received the signatures Of about
200 firms, including the most prominent ones in
nearly all the departments of trade. Super
ntendent f. 5. Bowen, of the New-Y0rk, Lake Erie
and Western Railroad Company, when askedregard-
ing the address replied that the answer of the Erie
to it would be that the company receiving all
the freight that offered. No general conference
of the different roads has been held to consider the
situation and none is likely to be called unless tho
strikers should resort to violence Some uneas-
ness felt by Erie officers at the conduct
of the jersey City strikers yesterday. Mr..
Bowen said that the new men at
the Long Dock had been driven away
from their work, but he had not heard of any in
jury having been done to anyone. He supposed that
the strikers had begun to drink and therefore
n ne fO hp M A loss
say what steps would be taken by the company
with regard to the situation on the OF her side of the
river. At Pier No. p North River the tugboat Su-
san lay yesterday afternoon with the Italian labor
board who had been brought over TO this side
as a measure OF prudence.
TIE SITUATION GROWING GRAvER.
Almost as one man the agents at the piers of tho
railroads affected by the strike declare that every
thing moving smoothly. and all the freight that is
offered taken" On the other hand, shippers of all
sortsof goods said that yesterday was, the whole,
the worst day since the strike became general Orders
were not being filled because of the difficulty ex-
perienced IN shipment, and trade was suffering be-
cause of the Inability of the roads to deliver east
bound freight promptly. The same sort of testi-
mony as to the increased delay in the handling Of
goods was given by the drivers of the trucks wait
ing at the piers. slight Improvement at a few Of
the piers was more than cOunterbalauced BY worse
phase of affairs at others, The st. Johns Park Sta
tion of the New-York Central Railroad Company
and the Erie piers Nos; 20 and II may
only about twenty-five Italians were at work
yesterday, when on Thursday the number working
was more than l0O The men who failed to report
are said to have been alarmed lest harm shoud be-
fall them at the hands of the strikers Many OF
them. however. have voluntarily refused to work
when the situation of the strikers was made clear
to them.
This complication has robbed the working forces
at other places of some of their number, and COM
llaI hu
de>ertions. The magnificent distances" " in st.
Johns Park depot served to show clearly the small
ness of the number of the labOrers. Practi-
cally no freight was received here Several
cars were unlOaded, OF them by tho
cOnsignees of the goods they contained. A cOnslgn-
ment of cheese to large house came III late in the
afternoon which had been expected TO be gotten
out of the way early on Thursday morning. Other
shipments were still more behlndhand.
LITTLE ACTIVITY AT TIE FREIGHT PIERS
The bulkhead of Erie Pier No. u was kept closed
until nearly p. m. The small force OF workmen
inside clearing away the accumulated merchandise
were jealousy guarded by Agent Hoffman from the
inquisItive of reporters. Trucks were allowed
to 90 INTO the shed of Pier No. 20 only the slow
working "grccnp hands were able to un-
load them. The shipper of Austin, Nichols
t& Co.. wholesale grocery dealers. said
that the delivery of goods at the Erie piers
slower yesterday than at any time since the regular
treight-handlers quit work.
Railroad Company had secured about half a dozen
new men IN addition TO those who were at work
Thursday, making about eighty IN all, many Of
whom were hardly more than children. The
patience of the checkers and weghcrs was
greatly tried by the stupidity and inability of tho
Immigrants. Little freight was being received. On
PEE No. ., of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, twelve
Hngarians at work. The agent sat o
large box of goods francally swearing nj the light
wasted foreigners, but they were ignorant of the
tenor of his remarks, and kept putting
freight in wrong places and Ielardilng the work
almost as much as they accelerated II. The mer-'
chants having goods at this pier were asked To take
them ont with thelr OWE men. The work at this
pier is twenty hours behndhand. About sixty
men were at work Pier No. 4, of the
PennSy ylvauia Railroad Company, some of whom
were Germans On Pier No. , of the same company
fifty Italians we're trying to do the work of the $50
old men. Ihe face OF the superintendent filed
with disgust. lie cut short the inquiry OF the re-
porter regarding the efficiency of the immigrants by
saying: They are not worth -" At neither
of these two piers was any freight received, the
work done being toclear up the east-bouud freight.
One shipper tod ~ tins pier that if he had
carload Oi freight II would bc received Ii he would
send men to load It, Forty men were at work on
Pier No 5 OF the ew-Jersey Soui hern Railroad
there has been no trouble on tins pier since the be
ginning of the strike. The Ncw-Jersey Central
Railroad Company had ll5 men at work on its
North River Piers, Nos. ~, l3 and II, at
l7I2 cents hour. Forty OF these men
are brought from PlainGeld \. j., every
morning by the foreman. some OF the
sand that they lad been assaulted on their way
home. The agent said that the work was now so
well under way that re would nOt rake any OF the
strikers back under any consideration. IL was
stated that ninety ears had been loaded aud that
eighty had been unIoaded during the day.
AT the local freight pier OF the Pcnnsyva
Railroad Company No. l0 North River, thirty men
were at work al 20 cents an hour. superintendent
LOoms, Of the New-lOrk Central and Hudson River
KALI Cad Company, at Pier No. 20, had eighty
at work aud claimed that 100 cars
had been loaded IN the last twenty four
hours. Ii was noticed, however that many trucks
were Obliged 10 turn away without unloading after
having waited for hours. At Piers Nos. :}S and 80
OF the Star Union Transportation Company little
more work was uOne yesterday than on Thursday.
About seyenty five men were employed on tie Two
piers which were opened at Z a. IN. aud closed at
D. M. after many carts had been turned away
Matters Wcrc not materially chan. .cd at the rhir-
finl h-st Narn OF The NrM \ nrk lruiTnl CnmnnI-v