New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-20
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OPEN-AIR MEETING OF THE STRIKERS.
SMALL ATTENDANCE IN UNION soUARE-THE PRO
CfssIoN NOT A sUCCEss-TIIE MEN URGED TO
HOLD OUT.
The feature of the freight handlers strike yester-
day the polyglot mass-netlng held ID the even
ING at the plaza north of Union square. Inc
meeting was held under the auspices OF the Cen
trail Labor Union of Science Hail. lts success as
an auxiliary to aid the strikers may be inferred
from remark made by one OF the DeS'-hhoWn
freght-handlers Oh strike. He said: 1ou needn
Law such a failure TO us we didn't have any mig
to do with it," Many of the more lntell-
gent freight-handlers seemed to De as
gusted with themselves for accepting so readily the
unsought aid OF organization as liat oil the
Central Labor Union. While 1t has been the means
of securing to themselves considerable amount OF
money, it has alienated i'll q measure the sympathy
of those who dish Ike to the strikers made victims
to the methods of professional labor agltatorS ana
those who call themselves Socialists.
At 5 o'clock there were less than 1000 persons III
the square. The most OF them were not freight-
handlers. A stand had been erected on the south
side of the square, and two trucks were lmprovlsed
for stands either side, at which speeches were
made in Russian, Italian and German. >. Schlmko-
WITT introduced August Ernst, OF the Clothing Cut
ters' Union as the chairman OF the meeting MI.
Ernst said:
We have called this meeting to express sympathy
with the striking reighanders, organized against
themselves the families II cents an hour, and
it is strike against starvation The railroads do DOT
No, they wish TO grind the men into system OF
slavery, II is such corporations as the rail
country. Why the United states to-day are more mon
arcnici than any country III Europe iano worknenen
ii Is all your fault You have the remedy IL your
hands-the ballot There are only two classes In TINS
country tle middle class Is fast being suppressed
and only the Oppressors and the oppressed But
you have the means of lettering your c0ndtlon organ,
lie tie trade and labor unions into one great political
party labor 1t the only way i'll which your condl
ton can be improved -
r j. Mcguire spoke after the chairman. He told
the men that the time will come when no corpora
ton monopoly confiscate the products OF an
others labor without compensation"
Matthew Mcguire then moved series of resolu-
tons, asking the people of the city to make com
mon cause with the treight-handleTs" and to fight
the grinding monopohsts and corporations'"
Freight Handlers Executive Council; Hugh Green
man, of the CoOpers' Union; Edward King ana
George A. Mckay followed with brief speeches.
AT the German wing of the meeting George Block,
T. F. CunO and ;. SchimkOwItz addressed the men,
repeating much that had already been SAID TO them
The strikers urged to continue the strike untl
they were successful. ;. SchlmkowltZ spoke 10 the
Jews In Hebrew. H. Di Rosllla presided at the
Italian part of the meeting. His speech was fol-
lowed by one from Dr.. Ratlaello Guidone.
The parade almost a total failure, not over
500 men participating III it, The line was formed
at Battery place and the start was made at $50 p.
H., with the purpose OF trying 10 induce the men
The procession composed OF Branch No. of the
Freight-H Handlers Union, about 300 Russian Jews
from East Broadway and a small contingent OF
stragglers The march was through West, Lalght,
Canal-sts and Broadway.
A number of Italians returned to work yesterday
from MulDeIry-St.
THE PRESENT PHASE OF THE TROUBLE.
The sensational stories circulated by the strikers
as 10 the condition of the work on the piers are
wholly without foundation. The assertions which
they make that the railroads are unable TO handle
the &c DDS baseless. The force now employed is
composed largely of Germans. and the men are
doing the work well On Pier No. 3S, of the Star
Union Transportation Company, thirty men
were discharged yesterday morning there being
sufficient force without them; On the Ere piers
rna tlv arr
easily. The downtown station OF the New-iork
Central and Hudson River Railway, at Pier No. 70,
was entirely free from any accumulation OF goods,
and not the slightest evidence was seen that
strike is III progress.
Some of the new men on Pier No. /, North River.
did not return TO work yesterday morning, but
their places were Immediately filled by Others.
The Jersey City freight handlers who are on
strike held meeting yesterday afternoon Those OF
the collecting committees that reported turned In
$40. seven committees were again appointed 10
see checkers and fOremen and ask them to stop
working 1t decided not to attend the mass
meeting III New-YoTk in body, as it would not he
convenient to get all the men together. large
days work done at the Erie piers. About 600
men were at work and about 200 Jews and Italians
driven of the piers by the police because there
no work for them. 1t was said by freight
brakeman that the request for advance OF 10 per
the company was asked to answer by to- day, was
originated by two or three discontented ,nen In
Port Jervis. A TRIBUNE reporter talked with two
gangs of freight bTakemen, who said they knew
nothing about the request excepting what they had
read in the newspapers They receive al so for
trip from Jersey City to Port Jervs and as some of
them make two trips day they said to do well
as .brakemen any other road. The men talked
if they would gladly receive the 10 per cent
winch was taken from their wages in 1876, bat
they did not say they would strike for it.
Between half-past aud O'Clock yesterday
committee of about fifteen OF the strikers marched
down to the tobacco inspection at Thirteenth and
Provost-sts, and induced about twenty of Jarvis
O. Co.'s men, who were handling tobacco there,
TO quit work and join, them. The whole body
then proceeded TO the local freight depot of The
New-York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad depot
at Grove aud Tenth-sts., and some OF them entered
the building. When the Russian Jews who were
working there saw them, they fled in terror To the
OF the building, and it looked for time if
there would be trouble. The twelve or
fourteen special policemen on duty there
much terrified the Jews and offered no opposition
to the entrance of the committee. Chief of Police
Murphy was telegaphed TO at Police Headquarters
and he was at the scene quickly possible with
about fifty OF the reserve OF regulars In the mean
time the strikers had retired in good order and not
one of them was to be seen around the neighbor-
hood.
Some of the extra 'longshorenen on the Monarch
steamship pier struck for 40 cents hour. Some
striking freight handlers were asked to take their