New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-19
STRIKERS RECRUITED.
LONGSHOREMEN GAINING
More Desert than Return to Com
panies on Pan Ddy.

Far from the break occurring yesterday in the
longshoremens strike which some Of othe COM
panies predicted would result from the reaza-
ton that it was pay day at the piers with no
money coming in, the ranks Of the strikers were
recruite by deserters from the strike breakers.
The strikers, at Greenwich Hall, their regular
headquarters, appeared 20 be as cheerful as
ever and when twenty-seven ont of eghty-one
strike breakers employed at the French Line
pier decided to quit work and TO take their SAIL
ing orders from the strike leaders. there was
general hilarity at strike headquarters.
The desertion Of the strike breakers at the
French Line piers followed by the quitting
Of a number Of strike breakers employed by the
Wilson Line Later about two hundred strike
breakers employed at the Atlantic Transport
Line docks decided, when they knocked off for
the day, not go back, and so reported at the
strike headquarters.
When the twenty-seven men quit at the French
Line pier they went In a body TO Pier Super
intendent Manis and demanded that he pay them
off The superintendent told them they should
have come earlier. as the banks were closed and
he did not carry the money for payroll about
in his pockets. He told them to come on Mon
day but they demurred, Then he offered them
checks, but this did not satisfy them. and they
finally went off with a tale Of to Patrick
Connors president of the Longshoremen's Pro-
tective Union.
Connors said. when seen afterward, that he
took them 10 the Charles street police station
and asked for a nights lodging for them. but
was invited 10 leave. Il VIII bring the affair to
the attention of his honor the Mayor on Mon
day he remarked TO the reporters.
Pier Superintendent MANS of the French
Line said last evening that a number Of the
deserving strike breakers were paid yesterday
the regular payday for work which they had
Done up 10 men. The remaining strike breakers
We're at work loading La GasCOgne, which was
TO have sailed yesterday but whose sailing was
DELAYED until o'clock this afternoon.
1t was pay day generally at the other piers
and the strike breakers who quit work at the
White Star Line on Friday were paid off when
those who remained paid It was also
German Lloyd Hamburg American and IIol-
fundamental lines. There were plenty of po-
hcemen around, but there appeared TO be no
need for them.
The companies say that they are gradually
but surely filling the places of the strikers with
competent men A representative Of all the
companies said: Many misstatementS have
been made by the strike leaders which delude
the strikers and place the situation in a false
light before them. On a conservative estimate
II can be said that at least six thousand strike
breakers are at work. and they are arriving
here at the rate OF four hundred and five hum
dred a day. They come from districts where
wages are much lower than in New York.
In regard to a report that the officials Of the
companies had decided to spend 100000 in
breaking the strike he said The report is
ridiculous. They breaking the strike easily
1t was announced on behalf Of the steamship
companies that Vincent, the detective or guard,
who is accused of fatally shooting Marshall. the
fruit pedler, during the disturbance in Hoboken
Friday, not now an emplOye Of the Hol-
fundamental Line, nor was he at the time OF
the shooting.
In reply TO the assertions Of the strikers that
they not able to a decent living. Gus
tav II. Schwab, general agent of the North Ger
man Lloyd Line, said last evening: Under the
present schedule Of wages paid to longshOrenen
the minimum rate Of pay is SIS a week, and
many of them by working overtime and on Sun
days make as much as $50 a week The North
German Lloyd Line unsolicited has twice adj
vanced the wages Of the longshoremen, the last
advance being made three weeks before the
strike"
The ST. Louis, Of the American Line: the Fin
land. of the Red Star Line. and the Campania,
OF the Cunard Line sailed time yesterday
with full cargOes. Operating Manager J. II.
Thomas, Of the international Mercantile Ma
rine Company, said: The White Star liner
Adratic will sail Wednesday fully loaded.
There are still three hundred strike breakers at
the White Star Line piers AZ and 40 North
River"
For some time the strike leaders have been
reporting almost daily that Patrick Twomey,
employing steVedOre had settled with the
union. but the reports could not he verified.
Twomey actually appeared yesterday afternoon.
however at the strike headquarters in Green
witch Hall and signed an agreement to pay the
vessels which loaded unloaded by
union men.