The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-09
STEAMER LINES FIGHT STRIKE
GET SHIPS AWAY on TIME, BUT
ONLY PARTLY LOADED.
0rewd Beats Man II MIstook for James
Farley-SeyeraI Other Rows Police
Army OF 5000 Kept In Readiness
STRIKERS Have Armed Guards Arrested.

n Deacs oi the tfanSatlantlc Steamship
companies involved in the strike decided
Yesterday that they would not pay the
wages demanded and that they will fight the
strike to a finish.
The efforts OF the companies will be IN
get ort the ships on schedule time oven II
1he cargo has beer cniy partly loaded
This subjects the companies to fines under
The Federal laws, but it is said that with
the present large business in carrying
passengers it would pay better TO do this
rather than pay the wages demanded. In
view Of the present low freight rates.
The Baltic Ct the White Star Lire sailed
on schedule time at 3 =. NJ, yesterday, but
with only part Of her cargo aboard.
j. II. Thomrs. operating manage Of the
International Mercantile Marine Company,
10 = statement yesterday in behalf OF all the
transatlantic lines involved il the strike
said:
THE heads Of all the lines involved met
and thoroughly discussed the situation.
We concluded that the demands we're uR-
reasonable and the companies ARE a unit
In the determination not to yield TO them.
We could not afford to pay the wage de-
manded and will go on filling the places
OF the strikers"
Regarding the lines represented in his
company he said;
All the vessels will sail on time, ! ex-
poet. The Baltic sailed on time to-day.
The New York of the American Line, the
Faderland of the Red Star Line and the
Minneapolis Of the Atlantic Transport Line,
J expect. will sail on time on Saturday.
There are plenty of men available and
We do not expect any Of our ships tc be
delayed seriously.
The ships are not as fully loaded as
we would like. We have to do with green
men who are learning fast, and some OF
the cargo may be left, but not a great deal.
We look for inconvenience Of this kind
at the first"
The checkers or tally clerks of the White
Star and Cunard lines TO the number OF
fifty or seventy-fve went on strike in sym
pathy with the longshoremen, but now that
they are out they say they will demand the
same wages as the longshoremen ask. The
Cunard oompany's checkers went out at
noon and the White Star checkers quit at 8
O'Clock in the afternoon.
Supt. Watson of the Cunard Line said that
the checkers could be easily replaced. Most
Of the men who quit, he said, we're dis
1lLI k0Q. Dt SdEpdlIId u rtDlb HIS ar
rived yesterday afternoon.
The Bluecher OF the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Line sailed yesterday on time. Out Of
! 1000 longshoremen who struck against the
neutrality-suspicious. only 200 had been re-
placed by new men yesterday.
Az the North German Lloyd piers it was
isaid that the Grosser Kurfuerst will sail at
10 4. NJ. to-day. The Kaiser Wilhelm ii.
arrived yesterday and will sail or Tuesday.
Three hundred strike breakers we're en-
pIoyed at the docks Of this line. In nearly
ell cases the crews we're assisting the green
ia loading and unloading.
A man who was mistaken for James
Farley. the strike breaker, was mobbed
and beaten yesterday by a crowd Of strik-
ing longshoremen, who had heard hat
Farley was in town and was supplying
90 the steamship lines. The reserves
Of the Charles street station had to be called
out to save the man.
The man, who is said to resem BILE the DOES
strike breaker verv closely, is Carl Bartsaed. ,
q theatre usher of $50 West Seventeenth
street.. He was on board a West street
car. One OF the strikers saw him and
There's jim Farley the strike breaker!'
A crowd OF strikers gathered and Bart
naed was pulled from the car and kicked
and Quilted. SOM Of the persons on the
car were bound for the docks Of the White
Star line to take passage on the Baltic
and they were wedged in so that they could
get out, Those who could not reach
the man threw missiles, some OF which
bit other passengers oil the car. Before
was taken from the car the crowd
tried TO overturn it.
Four policemen held the crowd back
while Bartsaed was taken into the station
house. When IL became known that a mis-
lake had been made the crowd dispersed.
Another disturbance took place when
big floats carrying about two hundred
strikebreakers each left Pier for the Brook
Ign docks. As they passed one OF the piers
lbout twenty-five strikers collected and
8ent q shower Of bricks and other missiles
the strikebreakers.
Three hundred strike breakers who were
from the Italian section in Williams
burg were attacked last night upon their
return home from Manhattan by about
hundred ersons Said to have come
New. York for that purpose. The
men were landed by a tug which brought
them from the Savannah Line pie r, and
we're making their way up Metropolitan
venue when bricks and stones were thrown
q them from the housetops. Several
lhots were exchanged.
Police Captain Dreamer Of the Bathgate
station. with the few men not on
iuty at the Havemeyer strike, got around
time 10 make twelve arrests. Fourteen
,ersons suffering from Commissions of the
read and body had their injuries dressed
u thepolioe station by ambulance surgeons
rom the Eastern District and Williams
hospitals.
Tony Caruso, % years old, Of % Lorimer
treet, Brooklyn, and Salvatore Limegro.
8 years old, OF Is Lorimer street. Brooklyn.
trikebreakere, were set upon and beaten
" strikers at Canal and Greenwich streets
horfly after s O'Clock last night. Michel
Holly, ~ years old, Of III Christopher street,
nd William Soofield, 20 years old, Of III
Vest Tenth street were arrested and locked
- IN the Aiacdougal street police station,
harged with the assault.
Caruso and Limegro worked yesterday
4 the White Star pier at the foot Of West
'enth street. They boarded a West street
At after finishing their work, but were
orce OF by a crowd Of strikebreakere. ]
he poi , escorted them back 70 the pier Z
nd advised them to wait an hour or 90
starting again. They leit a short {
line later and were walking along Canal |
treet when three men attacked them. The {
Ipics got Holly and Scoield after a chase I
4 several blocks up Greenwich street. I
Cerueo and Limegro sustained Commissions {
4 the head and body n were removed J
B st. Vincent's Hospital.
Two men, who said they were doing police
,nrk IN the strike. were held yesterday 9
In the jefferson Market court in .
700 bail for trial on the charge Of carrying {
Qncealed weapons. Sergt. Rheinish OF the {