New-York tribune., 1899-07-18
MORE LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. DIsCONT1Ns
UEs NIGHT WORK ON IT'S PIERS

As a result OF the strike Of 375 freight handlers
the piers OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany at Hubert-st. North River. on Sunday night
the companys officials announce that there will
be no more night work the piers
I'VE have contemplated doing away with the
night force for some time" said Malcolm Towns
end an agent OF the company, yesterday. and
the strike has forced matters We are going TO
inaugurate a system, and In future the
will be unloaded Jersey City by the consignees"
Only seventy men of the day force reported for
duty at the Pennsylvania companys piers yester-
day morning. More than one hundred and fifty
men were ready to take the strikers places. but
as many OF the day force had been with the COM
pany a long time the officials said they wanted 10
give them a chance TO work before they put
new hands. 1t decided that as many OF the
old hands reported for duty before o'clock
yesterday afternoon should be reinstated. At that
hour the situation was reported TO be unchanged.
and Of the old hands only the seventy who re-
ported in the morning were at work
The strikers caused trouble at the piers. and
the sixty policemen in the neighborhood had noth-
SThe night force which struck never OF much
account" said Mr. Townsend, when speaking OF
the situation yesterday. "and when the men went
out they went for good. so far as the railroad
price of lodgings and drink and then knock on.
This is shown by the payr9s We have been been h;r,
day force II Is different The men are all good
men. and we don't want them to so. They are
Of them will refuse work. have had
a number of them in to see me- They all say the
something cannot be done 10 help the situation"
At o'clock last evening much or the space OF
the Pennsylvania piers was cleared OF freight.
Many policemen were on hand TO remain on duty
until o'clock this morning II was said that no
outgoing freight had been received at Piers Nos. q.
% and % during the day.
shoremen employed by the Pennsylvania Comapny
at Piers Nos. |, and 5, North River, where tho
bulk OF the company's freight which Is not Of q
perishable nature is received Several or the men
returned TO work later in the day. The agent at
these piers Mr.. Bowden. said last evening that ho
had forty men at work on Pier No. and seventy
freight out Of the way fast possible. There
no demonstration about the piers last evening.
and only two policemen were detailed d at at easn pier
TO work nor had they signihed any desire 10 DO so.
The strike is OF series that has taken
men ask higher pay for handling freight. The
longshoremen at the Pennsylvania piers demanded
20 cents an hour instead OF II cents. Their de-
mand was refused
II was rumored along the river front yesterday
morning that the men employed by the Erie Rail-
road would be the next strike. At the Erie
Railroad pier It was said that the company had
The strikers at the CLYDE Line pier. at Roose-
velt-st are still out, and the officers OF the line
work Of handling the freight is crippled, the COM
pany officials think they can pull through.
Another strike reported yesterday was al the
pier OF the Central Vermont Railroad. The day,
five cents an hour. They have been paid at the
rate OF q cents an hour. At the pier II was said
that nothing could be done until word was received
from the main office OF the line. at St Adams. VI
The work Mt the pier pretty well tied up yester-
day. and for time the moving OF freight was
practically AT standstl. About one hundred and
fifty men went out In ALL and the officials say that
no committee had waited upon them nor had they
received previous intmation Of the strike.