The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-20
roNGsnoRK STRIKE PETERS OUT
Demands Agreed To in Some Cases-New
Men ut Work in Others-Freicht Moving.

Demands Agreed To in Some Cases-New
Men mt Work in Others-FreiGht Moving.
The strikes among the freight handlers on
the East and North River fronts practically
petered out yesterday. although the number
OF men who we're ont was even a little larger
than it had been the day before being aug
monted by n score or of receiving clerks.
delivery clerks and checking clerks who went
out in sympathy with the laborcrs. The
difficulty for the strikers lay in the fact that
there was no unity of action among the long
shoremcn and that the companies Who had
the largest number OF men out were able to
FIJI their places and DO business withC ut tile
strikers. The strikes had been all sporadic
and not the result OF a union movement. and
when,an attcm TT was made Yesterday to &c. he
men from the Erie and Baltimore and Ohio
wharves to go out in sympathy with those OF
the PennSYvana and Lehigh Valley it failed.
In fact it would have been remarkable had
this been otherwise. for at these piers the men
are mostly Italians and the new men who are
being hired by the Pennsylvania and Lehivh
Valley are Of that nationality
Nominnlly the strikes were still on at Piers
]. 4 and } and -. ~ and ~ OF the Pennsyl-
yanin Railroad and at the lehiGh Valley rie!s;
men who went out on strike. hut that 81 of his
old men stay ed and that Yesterday morning he
had l20 new men and to-day would have 40
more. We are not only receiving and for
warding all freight each way TO-DAY. he said.
but cleaned out all that which had aGcumn.
lated while we we're short handed: We are
TAXI ing care ut the new men and shall continue
TO do so. and every capable man who comes to
us now viii have PERMANENT lob. The men
the Pennyslvan Railroad service. I've stood
their friend for twenty years and seen hem
through two or three strikes. but I've done
:, A the hehgh VALLEY Piers the agent SAID he
the place CT his old force Of seventy men. and
was getting along all right, ,,,,
AZ piers ~ y and 2, the Pennsylvapia Rail-
ceiyins and forwarding freight since ! T; NJ.
and had 425 men at work. seventy Of whom
lo2en OF the receiving and checking clerks had
quit without notice hut he WIS having no trcu-
on the Eust River there was only one strike
alive yesterday, This was at the New York.
NsT H1De1 and HartErf rers AID NAY bs
settled with its men ON TUESDAY night, giving
them 30 cents an hour for day, work and 80
trial also met the demands Of it's men.
At the New York, Neg Haven and Hartford
his mon back to work yesterday morning. prom-
Using them that their demands were TO ne con-
s sh t3-ay by the EXecn,ye Committee OF
men would not accept his offer, Instead, they
induced his clerks and checkers 10 Join them.
and Nh. Morehouse did not rut much onpos-
tiCn in the way of this AS he had 70 work for
the clerks and will not have until the men
came back and the handling of freight is re-
sumed
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
freight handlers in Jersey city DID not go on a
strike yesterday morning. and ii is not likely
that they will. A delegation of strikers from
mis- city talked with n number of the men on
tuesday,, and tried to influence them to en-
gage in sympathetic strike to aid the long
shoremen who are on strike in this city. When
the delegation was leaving the yards under
police pressure some of them declared that the
Pennsylvania mon would refuse to go tn work
at O'Clock yesterday morning. Surerinten-
dent Elisha Butler made a little speech to tho
men which counteractcd the effect OF the visit
of the agitators. He said:
Il believe that many of YOU have had your
minds upset byt the talk of the men who struck
in New York. They want you to strike in
sympathy with them. hut what would you gain
by doing 50? The experience OF former
years should teach you that the man who
strikes against tho PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
Company and loses can never return 20 the en-
rloy Of the company. The company cndeavors
at all times to treat its employees with fairness
and consideration and so far as | am aware
YOU men have nothing to complain q. Your
wages average So day and YOU are all able TO
support your families in comfort. Should YOU
strike you will lose all you are now getting"