The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-16
PAY DAY FOR THE STRIKERS
A DISTRIBUTION or MONEY TO ALL
WHO APPLIED FOR III.
Setting mp n Csmmissary Dopartmont-ger-
nsns Ready to strike-A Gall on Western
HandIers-A Petition from Erie Brak emen

nans hondy 70 btrtke-A Gall on western
Handiers-A Petition from Erie Brakemen
There was great trouble In tho 81. Johns
Park freight depot yesterday. new lot Of
thirty or forty Italians was secured. max
ing Dinety-one altogether. which. counting
forty Germans. made the entire force at work
but 1871 mon. where $50 are required. Ten
Germans refused to go to work yesterday
morning. The German foreman went to Agent
Stevenson and demanded twenty cents an hour
for the men. and twenty five cents an hour for
the best OF them He said afterward that Mr..
Stevenson had consented to consider tho mat
tor. II the demand Is refused. all the Germans.
the foreman said. will leave. The Italians are
expected to come out tomorrow.
number Of merchants we're making savage
inquiries at the depots about their freight. A.
7. Stewart q Co. have had two car loads OF
carpets on the road from Fishkill for two weeks.
They have not arrived yet. Kngsford Co..
the starch manufacturers. complain that goods
shipped By them on juno 8 have not been de-
lvered The Ledgerwood Manufacturing
Company Of 90 Liberty street had men at tho
depot loading heavy machinery that they we're
unwilling to intrust to the green hands.
work upon west bound freight the aim being
to take all the freight offered. SO that the com
S Soans al anna rn
ceedings instituted by the merchants will
come up for hearing tomorrow.
The force OF $50 mon that struck at the Six
ty.ifth street yard refused to return to work
President German OF the Board OF Fire Com
missioners SAID Yesterday that bir. Vanderbilt
tailed to the Thirty third street depot. and that
none had been stationed there: The freight
Erie Piers 20 and 81 were still blockaded with
goods Yesterday; superintendent Thomas
Italians gathered in Baxter street during the
night. and took them across to Jersey.
oAS9 m a S WAS
of Branch o.. under the management Of the
Freight Handlers Executive Committee and
WAS stamped the seal Of the committee were
given to the members of tho union, and at I
provisions was begun, each mans ticket being
as he received his ration Seven
trlbuted. The Italian strikers gathered in the
rear Of the building and were admitted in
from a billiard table. badge OF red, white
and green was given to each man. The next
humber fed we're ten destitute Germans from e
Erie Piers 20 and 81.
The Finance Committee OF the union paid IS
each yesterday to large number of the orig
began. Ali Who asked Tor assistance got t.
The Officers Of the sV Union are confident that
they will be able to pay the idle men for at least
OUTSIDE 'e % So that there are oo@par
atiyely small number to assist;
Yesterday. being a Jewish holiday. nothing in
Branch No. s will receive, rations and money.
the officers OF, this branch. All Jews arriving
at Castle Garden will DO taken away. fed and
be- M1n by the an WI"
Many Of the Italians who struck in the sixty.
fifth street yards were at the meeting OF Branch
6. at Fifty fifth street and Ninth avenue. last
evening. President Murphy and others spoke:
The strikers wore promised weekly stipend
until the companies should surrender.
Among tho larger contributions received by
the strikers, union yesterday we're 500 from
hS nHn and ro% the .nG reSh
handlers Of the Old Dominion line at Pier 81;
The Amalgamated Steel Workers promised
AT the meeting Of the Jersey City strikers in
st. MichaeIs Institute Yesterday morning
at work on Pier Of the Erie have struck for
:, Mr. Murphy. President Of the Executive
ties will be with them. He said that prominent
citizens had proposed arbitration, between
them and the railroad companies. and that he
had answered that they were lighting for prin
eiple, and would make no compromiSo, The
even il any one of the companies agreed to pay
the advance 1t would not be accepted until all
III nsm 3
tiary S' for for it. to have them distributed Of the
church doors this morning. il he could find
men with courage enough to do il.
:, Mr.. simmons, Secretary of the National Labor
resolutions were offered by President McNa-
mara and adopted:
wn,rcgs We the member. Of Freight Handler. Union
gagged in great struggle against the most cor
Whereas, Our success in this great struggle is of vital
and breadth Of this land i6sreiors Be i '"S'
rs W S a. state. 10 , H hST ou In
;TSss Tie And Of those
Buffalo, Salamanca, and other Western elite. on the
striking for an advanced pay
committee Of twenty,fye Vas Apprentices, to
k IN aid ID Of the strikers contributions Of Stools
The report that $50 Italians had struck on
Pier 8 was contradcted by Superintendent HILL
It probably arose from the fact that over 200
Russian Jews were paid yesterday, and that
bath. A large number Of them volunteered to
work to-day; The SUPERINTENDENT says the riot
IN jersey City little but that work is now go
~ I he he braks@eh and aagmsn on the Eastern
to President Jewett and Supcrintendents Hill
and Bowen n petition asking that their pay
full pay again. They remind the officers that
the bulletins announcing the reduction prom
ised that full pay should be restored when
business revived. They point, out that bust
ness revived long ago that the price Of the
necessaries of life has risen, and that they can
not pay their bills: In conclusion they say
"Pense grant or refuse our petition on or be-
fore the 2Oth inst. and employ the same means
| to inform us as you did when tho reduction
was made. viz. by orders posted onlthe bulletin
boards"
francisco Isola an Italian 80 years old, OF
| Elizabeth street was struck on the head with a
| club ut the Battery on Saturday. the 8th inst,
| by fellow countryman who had endeavored
| to prevent him from going to work at freight
| till Wednesday last when he became uncon-
scious and was taken to st, Nincents Hospital;
He was transferred to BELLEVUE Hospital. and
mr. han