New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-07
HOW FREIGHT IS HANDLED.
LARGER AMOUNT OFFERED YESTERDAY.

A LARGER AMOUNT OFFERED YESTERDAY.
The resumption of business yesterday by shipping
houses suggested IN many places along the water
front renewal of the embarrassment from which
the railroads and merchants have suffered since the
beginning Of the freight-handlers strike " lille
the situation remained practically unchanged, the
increase in the amount OF freight offered and re-
ceived caHsed the companies 20 use all their re-
sources. and had Il not been for the gradual lu
provement in the skill of the men and the sab
sttutlon OF many Germans and lTishmen IN the
places of Italians, serious block would have been
the result As 1t was some OF the companies were
unable to all the frei ght which offered
4 long line of loaded trucks stretched from Pier No.
3s North River Of the star Mon transportation
Company, through Hubert-st. halt way to St
Johns Park. The East-bOund fire. ght which
rived also bel ped 10 choke up the piers and retard
the handling of goods to be shipped.
While the green hands may be able to handle
the freight il Is said that il will be impossible for
them TO relic We the stOrehOusei and piers OF the
cumulatiOu of goods which have been piled up there
since the beginning OF the trouble large number
OF the strikers have found employment elsewhere
and some of them at better wages than they were
receiving on the piers. The meu still remain con-
fdcnt OF being able TO force concession from the
railroads. and they assert that, despite the STATE
meuts of the agents 90 the contrary there IS No
present an immense blockade OF freight, both in
the warerOoms OF the shippers aid IN the store
houses of the railroads II We were taken back
said freight-handler Yesterday, " we would have
to work extra time Tor weeks 10 dispose OF all the
goods now IN the depots.
sixty of the strikers who were formerly employed
on Pier No. IS NORTH River went 30 the company
Office yesterday and were pad the three weeks
v-ages due them. Ia the -. Johns Park Depot
about 100 Of the Italians have been discharged and
their places have been filed by Germans. II Is
noticeable that many large pieces OF machinery,
which were ready 10 be loaded mt the beginning Of
the strike remain untouched on account OF the IN
ability OF the new men to handle them.
meeting OF the Executive Council OF the Freight
Handlers Union was held last night 81 No. 475
Pear-st. jeremiah Murphy, of Jersey City, pre-
sided. When questioned IN regard to the feeling Of
the men he said that they were firm, and that al
though seven tally-men Jersey CITY had returned
T. work az the old rate of wages the strikers pro-
posed IL boycott them, and TO show TIA m how
hte their action affected general feeling Of con-
fdence when the striker now have OF success Be
fore the meeting was called 10 order two Russian
refugee presenting seventeen Others of their own
class who had stopped work at the SIXty-hfth-st.
ward of the Hudson River Company, asked TO be adj
United into the Union. They were told To 90 10
Branch No. :, which is composed o. men employed
az Sixy-Gfth-st. thousand copies Of tae cOnstItu-
ton aud bylaws ordered % De printed IN ltal-
Ian for the benefit of those who had lett work u
iOiu the strikers.