The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-14
NO DISTURBANCE IN STRIKE.
Police Force Has Easier Time Than
on Ordinary working Day.

on Ordinary Working Day.
BOSTON, March 1S.-The day along the
waterfront and in the wholesale district
was fully as quiet as yesterday. Thou
sands of strikers, dressed in Sunday at
tire, lined the sidewalks or promenaded
the roadways, but there was no disorder
An official estimate, based upon reports
of individual unions, showed that 10, 1876
men had struck, yet the police force had
an easier time than on an ordinary
working day.
Until late yesterday, the Brine Trans
portation company, non union, did prac-
tlcally all the teaming of the city This
was because the master teamsters in
conference had decided to await develop
ments. Today the situation became SO
acute that most of them personally took
out teams, doing manual labor with aid
of foremen and clerks.
All the railroad companies reported
trafnc moving to their satisfaction today,
yet tonight the freight houses are block
eo with goods, which gangs of Italians,
Drought from many places by the New
10TH New Haven & Hartford and Bos-
ton d Albany roads, and strapping young
countrymen gathered in by the Boston G.
maine road' were unable to dispose Of
Docks in Bad Condition.
The railroads had solved the through
around the city over their own tracks.
The steamship companies docks are in
worse condition than the freight sheds
of the railroad companies on account of
the congested traffic. The great freight
er, SaXonia, of the Cunard line, made
her dock during the day, but the East
| Boston 'longshoremen were not working.
The crew was then set at work getting
out the passengers baggage. The steam
ers Roman and Cestrian also came in
the latter with the largest cargo ever
brought here, and the matches were not
opened. Steamers Parthian, of the Phil
adelphia line, and Kershaw, of the Mer-
chants and Miners line, which were
scheduled to sail today for Philadelphia
and Baltimore, respectively, were unable
to leave. The Parthian's inward cargo
has not yet been discharged. All the
coastWlse steamers have been subjected
to more or less delay III leaving here
The British steamer Tampico, which ar
rived yesterday from Antwerp has not
unloaded pound Of freight The steam
er Toronto is due here from Hull, and
had the strike continued she would have
unloaded at New York
Serious Scarcity of Coal.
The flour situation has not become Sc
rious, as reserve stocks were large and
all big concerns had their own delivery
wagons.
The serious feature of the day was the
growing scarcity of coal. The manager
of one of the largest coal companies said
that only 100 of the 1,50O coal handlers
were at work, and they only cared for
$50 tons of the usual $500 tons daily
transported by wagon through the city
streets. The strike leaders did not stop
coal supplies to hospitals, newspapers and
city institutions.
The wholesale WOOL cotton and drv
goods trade was at a standstill. The
American Hide and Leather company this
morning secured four drays and ten
draught horses, and with it's employees
began hauling its own freight
1t is now known that both the Boston
& Maine road and the steamship com
panies were preparing to feed and house
men brought in to fill strikers places
on their premises. The docks of the Will
son and Furness-Leyland and Warren
and Dominion lines, which are adjacent
to the Boston & Maine roads tidewater
freight terminals, are enclosed by high
fences, the gates in which are guarded
by policemen. Behind the fences the
non-union men would have been safe
from interference. Today about 500 Ital-
lans had been engaged to do 'longshore-
mems work. Italians were rushed to the
city from all directions and set at work
TO the railroad sheds An Italian paper
published in the North eha came out
with story of the strike and a scath-
ing rebuke by the editor to his country
men, who, he said, were thwarting the
strikers.