The evening world., 1904-05-24
10000 MEN MAY co
OUT IN DOCK STRIKE
Conference Between Railroad Men and
Freight Handlers Ends in a Row and
Prospect of an Amicable Settlement
Is Now Remote,

As the result Of the failure to reach an anlcablc agreement at az
conference between the New Haven Railroad management and its EN-
ployees this afternoon 10000 men are likely to go on strike.
Just as the conference which might have settled the strike broke up
in a row it was announced hat 400 locomotive engineers and frernen
mad been laid off in the Mott Haven yards because of the inability to
move the freight on the transfer boats to Jersey City for points to the
South
This was because the ninety or more hremen and oilers o the transfer
boats struck and refused to work on any boat which carried freight They
are running the passenger train boats a usual but the company abandoned
any effort 1t running the freight trains on boats.
AS a result several hundred carloads of perhshabc freight, largely fish
"s1 Ts. r omnon ia mas,nr emort.t % rn h c Ar n ts ans,.rh ostss M
then have the boats drawn to Jersey City by tugs of the independent lines
This may involve the union crews of the independent tugmen,
POW-WOW BECAME
After General Manager J. w. Miller, OF the Marine Division OF the N
Y, n. H. & H. RRo had dined and wlned the labor representatives during n
conference in his office this afternoon, the pow-wow became dscordant, the
labor leaders could not agree among themselves with the company and
when they left all were mad.
r "They can do as they please now" said MIR. Miller. "They gave me
their ultimatum aud 1 gave them mine. Foreman Mccarthy will not be
discharged. The company will stand by him. We will not take back any
employee as a member Of any union. When they left they said we
would have o discharge Mccarthy and rdnstate all the strikers. We shall
SEQ now who is running this company"
That Organizer Gould, of the Transfers. wa opposed to a strike is
shown by his statement before he entered the conference:
1--WE are o. going to huunt a red flag in his face We are going ami
,cablya and If he will reinstate the striking fretght-handhrs Think everything
will be all right We may insist that he discharge the foreman. I don't
know. But we are going peaceably.
"Umess the New Haven officials consent to see us this is probably. the Inst
step to be taken. l do not look for any immediate action to-day We viii
"f they do not do o then am authorized to call ou every teamser In
the city who handles freight from the New Haven frehght-houses and piers
There will be about 5000 of them. By the end of this week can raise s7o-
600 t. carry o. u part of the strike
President Curran, OF the national body OF freight handlers, al seen at
the Clarendon Hotel to-day and asked regarding his plans. He said:
1--WE shall use every effort to avoid a general strike II possible, but the
demands of the men are just and the company must comply with them. Al
general strike will be ordered only as a last resort. At present about 14Oo
men are affected. but II the general strike is ordered 10000 lei will be
affected all over the New Haven system"
THE POSITION.
I NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 24-In a statement given ut this afternoon
by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, President Menen,
after saying the company would not deal with the strikers, continues:
There is N opposition to unions o n the part OF The management and
the only objection to dealing with the particular men comprising the unions
TO which these strikers belong is that they have shown utter disregard for
their honor, and the inability to control either themselves Dr. their mem
bers, and the company cal n o longer do bushes. subject to the hazard Of
their whims for it cannot rely upon any statements made by them or agree
ments made with them. Besides it owes to the men who have recently en-
tered its employ a obligation regarding steady employment 1t cannot re-
pudiate
Undoubtedly employees will be called out in other cities upon our line
TO bring further pressure 10 bear. We anticipate SUCH action and are pre-
pared for the emergency when it arrives"