Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-27

steamer piers along North and East
 rlVer, where the freight handlers tenn
 porar1y tied up traffic a week ago by i going out on strike. work was proceed
 Ing 1n an orderly and systematic way 1 to-day, and there was practically noth- Ing to indicate that a strike was in <; progress. Non-union men who were j! engaged to take the places of the strihr l CTS nave so far tamiliarized themselves
 With the work that there is now little 1 or no delay in caring for the cargoes !! for the various boats and the conges- ton resulting from the temporary tie 1 up is being gradually cleared away. 1 Al the Mott Haven yards Of the New l York, New Haven and Hartford rail- 1 road, however, where nearly all freight carried by rail by that system between New England and points south of New I fork is handled, conditions are entire ! ly different. Although a full crew of non-uniOn men has been at work in the ] yards for several days they ave
 made almostnop in relieving the congestion and the yards are as nearly 1 filled with loaded freight cars as it would be possible to get them. The l strike of firemen on the transfer boats i by means of which the cars ordinarily 1 are ferried between the New York and
 New Jersey shores, has contributed largely to this condition Ordinarily a
 number of tug boats are kept moving with tows of loaded floats between the i two shores. Now however, only one of the tugs is available for use. A feature of the strike at the Mott
 haven yards is the stand the saloon keepers in the neighborhood have taken. against the Italian strike-break- CTS. It has been the custom of the freight handlers In the yards to pur- hcase pint of beer with their noon- day luncheon. This usually costs 10
 cents. Now the saloon Keepers have
 put ban on the serving of pints to the Italians unless they pay $2 for it. This price was fixed by all the saloon keep CTS in the neighborhood and is neces- sarily prohibitive
 General Superintendent Shepard of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad issued a statement to- day in which he says that, so far as his company is concerned, the strike is over. He says that conditions are practically norma, in all quarters which were affected by the strike. that the freight embargo at all the yards
 and docks has been raised and that the
 company tomorrow probably will be- gin to handle perishable freight. The statement concludes;
 "All of our boats, excepting one, are in service That makes seventeen of our own, three outside tugs and two
 large steamers.
 "The embargo has been raised at
 Jersey City and the Harlem river and
 we will move nearly every car at those
 places to-day, and. more than that. all
 the cars that come in. We expect to
 be able to handle 2,OO0 cars today.
 Tomorrow we will probably begin to handle perishable stuff again"
 The claim that large number of clerks employed on the various piers controlled by the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad were out OH strike in sympathy with the freight handlers was denied in a statement issued to-day by Michael Lynch, an off
 cer of the Order of Railway Clerks. The statement says very few of the clerks went out. and those who did were checkers on the piers. The clerks in general, says the statement, do not recognize that the freight handlers have a grievance.
 At a meeting of the freight hand lers this afternoon President Curran made an address in which he promised that by tomorrow afternoon there
 would not be a freight truck moving in the city. He said he would take
 that action over the heads of the
 truckmens' union.
 New Haven, May 27-All the freight handlers employed at the local yards and docks of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad continued at work this morning. inspite Of the announcement that they have been or dered out by President Curran of their international union. At the Water street yards and at Belle dock, the landing places of the New York steam boats. work was going on as usual, and Colonel William E Morgan, superiD- tendent of freight here had received no notice from the men of an intention to strike MT Morgan said he looked upon the question of strike among the men in his employ as a dead issue. In order to determine the sentiment of the men, meetings of both the New Haven locals have been held within a day or two, and Colonel Morgan was afterward notified that the men had decided to remain at work, believing that the New York situation did not justify a sympathetic strike. Four hundred men are employed at the Water street yards and about 150 at Belle dock.
 VOTED NOT TO STRIKE.
 Bridgeport. May 27.-Agent L. B.
 Nickerman of the N. Y, N. H. X H. railroad here, says that the local freight handlers have voted not to strike. He says that all are working as usual to-day and the company is handling freight both ways on the Bridgeport line of steamships without any trouble at all.
 New Haven, May 27.-The officers of the local freight handlers were sur prised this morning by the receipt of a telegram saying that Mir Curran, president of the International Freight [ Handlers would come here to-day. U ! was said also to-day that E. F. Car roll. business agent of the New York | local. came here twenty y-four hours ago rrri4i, i,nc+rr1n4fn1nc fn thn Nnur Haunn |