Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-08-02
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Traffic at a Standstill as Result
Of Transfers Fight,

CITY FRONT FEDERATION OUT
Twelve Thousand Men Join Original
Strikers Ranks-They Claim It Is
a Fight For General Recognition Of
the Labor Unions.
San Francisco, July 31.-The labor
trouble in this city reached a crisis
yesterday Maratime traffic and labor
along shore are nearly at a standstill,
and industries are almost totally par
alyzed.
The order for a general walkout of
the City Front Federation, which COM
prises IA unions and organizations, with /
a full membership of about 5000, was
made effective yesterday morning.
Three thousand of these men are
employed at sea or in other cities, and
the strike order does not apply to them
until they return to San Francisco.
Twelve thousand men Obeyed the or
der yesterday.
The City Front Federation is COM
posed of the following organizations:
Sailors Union of the Pacific, four local
unions of lOngshoremen, marine fire.
men, brotherhood of teamsters, ship
and steamboat joiners, porters, pack
ers, warehousemen, ship clerks, pile
drivers and bridge builders, hosting
engineers, steam and hot water filters,
and coal teamsters.
When the order to walkout went into
effect all the big shipping companies,
with one exception, were left without
a union man. By a special agreement,
entered into some time ago between
the Pacific Coast Steamship company
and the Firemen's union, firemen re-
manned on the vessels of that company.
1t is claimed by the officers Of all
the organizations involved that the
strike is not purely an expression OF
sympathy with the union OF teamsters
or any other body Of workers who are
in dispute with their employers, but
is a taking up OF the gauntlet thrown
down by the employers association
In other words, the City Front Fedora
ton is determined to defend the prin
ciple Of unionism, which the assOciat
ed employers have announced their in
tention to crash out. Both sides seen
determined to carry the fight on. an,
all efforts on the part OF the mayo
= and others to bring about cOncilia
y tory settlement have this far prove
s unavailing. 1t is reported, unauthori
tatively, that several Of the large
e wholesale houses will close down unit
the strike is settled. Walter Gof
. 10 oil sol :
d day:
d This is the greatest strike in tn
s. history of the state. It's effects wi
r. be far reaching; the city and state wi
suffer untold damages, but the respoI
j sibility for it is all with the emplO!
! ers They have discharged men rigl
n and left for adhering to union prime
le pies and in taking up the battle, IL
ct affiliated trades are merely fighting Il
ut their rights"
Id There is every prospect that MAJ
Us other unions will be drawn into Il
fight, in which case the business of Il
-, city will be completely tied up. tt
Iv coal handlers may refuse to handle t
a fuel supply Of the city, or the drive
ell of oil wagons to deliver oil to man
facturers who use that product for flu
10 The coal supply of the city will Ia
p but two weeks with ordinary consum
~ ton, bat with economy it may be ma
he to last a few weeks longer Shou
he the coal and oil supply be cut off, t
We lighting company will be compelled
nd close down and the city will be i
in darkness after night fall.
vi vi Several disturbances occurred y,
IL terday, and the first really serious fig
Tic since the trouble commenced took pls
between a party of strikers and t
colOred drivers imported from the
terror. The cOlored men state IL
Ike were attacked and fired into the str
Ter ers in self defense One man, a str
en- er who happened to be crossing
per street near the scene of the trou
ba was slightly injured. The non-un
the men were arrested but were releal
mr. on bail.