Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-28
PLENTY or MEN
To Handle Freight at New York and
Other Strike Points.

New York, May 27.-At the Sound
piers along the North and East rivers
where the freight handlers temporarily
tied up traffic week ago by going out
on strike, work was proceeding in an
orderly and systematic way. today, and
there was practically nothing to indi-
cate that strike was in progress.
Non union men who We're engaged to
take the places Of the strikers have so
far familiariZed themselves with the
work that there is now little or no de-
lay in caring for cargoes and for the
various boats and the congestion re
sulting from the temporary tie-up IL
being gradually cleared away. At the
Mott Haven yards Of the N. ", N. H.
& III. Railroad, however, where nearly
all of the freight carried by rail by that
system between New England and
points south of New York IS handled,
conditions are entirely different. AL
though n full crew of nOn-union men
has been at work in the yards for sew
eral days, they have made almost no
progress in relieving the congestion and
the yards are as nearly filled with load
ell freight cars as it would be possible
the transfer boats by means Of which
the cars ordinarily are ferricd between
the New York and New Jersey side has
contributed largely to this condition.
Ordinarily n number of tug boats are
kept moving with lows of loaded floats
between the two shores. Now. however.
only one of the tugs is available for use
The express transfers Maryland ana En-
press have been manned by non-union
crews and have been steadily at work
since yesterday making frequent trips
across the river. All the boats here, how
ever, are tied up at the docks, the com
pany thus far not having succeeded in
filing the places Of the striking iiremen.
"A feature of the strike at the Mott
Haven yards is the stand the saloon
keepers in the neiShborhoOd have taken
against the Italian strike breakers. Ii
has been the custom of the freight
handlers in the yards to purchase a pint
| of beer with their MONDAY luncheon This
usually cost 10 cents. Now the saloon
keepers have put ban on the serving Of
pnts to the Italians unless they pay S.
| for it. This price was fixed by all the sa-
| loon keepers in the neighborhood and is
| necessarily prohibitive.
General Supt Shepherd of the n. r.. n
II. & II. r. r.. issued a statement. today
| in which he says that SO far as his com
pany is concerned the strike is over. He
says that conditions are practically NOM
| inal in all quarters which are affected
| by the strike: that the freight embar go
at all the yards and docks has been raised
and that the company probaht-- will be-
gin to handle perishable freight. The
statement concludes:
| IAN of our boats, excepting one. are IL
service. That makes II 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. today
and. more than that. all the cars tina;
come in. We expect to be able to handle
.0.OD cars. today. Tomorrow. we viii
probably begin to handle perishablt
stuff again.
The claim that large number oi
| clerks employed on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad We're out in
sympathy with the freight handlers was
| denied in a statement issued. today. hS
| Michael Lynch, an officer of the Order ui
Railway Clerks. The statement says very
few of the clerks went out, and thost
who did were checkers on the piers. The
clerks in general says the statement