The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-01
STRIKE OF TUGBOAT PILOTS
rom RAILROADS AND THE an
Bg'CkLE COWPlNY AFFEGTED.

Others settled with the Mea Demand
MaA Tsr q - . MOnth lnrreAse AMI
naaorter laS@rw Nea SAY TheS Have
A. SIsIrsl CSnalrt with Federal law.
A strike Of tho pilots and masters on
the fowboafs % the l,-high Valley. Hal
timOTe and Ohio. Delaware. I.ackawanna
and Western railroads. the Central Rail
road oG New Jersey and the boai- OF tho
Arb'Ickl" COmpany'- wharf IN BROOKLYN
went into effect AZ midnight last night.
Tn. strike may iia up a large amount
% peri~hablo freight aud will caI-s CON
siderable DELAY 10 shipping generally
Tn" ofiicer- og tho Masters and Pilots
Association. which called III" strike. sa'd
last night that 'hs men would max"
every effort To preserve p..r i~hable freight
and to prrv"u' loS- and injury Ia property
Th"rs was a m..s,ing ~ SO deckhand-
and cooks On ia. ugbnaf- last night
az - South street To consider the question
OF q svmpathetir strike No decision was
reached and another meeting will he held
to -tay
The original demands Of III" Masters
and Pilots Association were for q straight
etEtN uhfNN WI halaV NtE lihh''a "" hN'
railway towbOats. They say that they
hnv" l-aen working twelve hours a day
except ing alternate Sundays. Several
confsrences wsr, held bsiws Ire rep
re-rutatives Of tn" companies and 20 the
Masters aud piluis Association ln watch
concrssions wsr., made IN Isrhalf If tn
pilots The final conc-ssIon which they
made was announced early this week
They offered compromiss. oC twelve
hour workslav with every SUNDAY on.
weeks vnca'iun with nav every year and
an advance ia wages uf g. a month
The demands affected the following
pilots on the boatz nf III" following com
panieS New York Central Railroad Com
panv. ca: Bush Terminal Company. .:
New Work New Haven AMI Hartford. a;
Is.hiRh Valley. -: Baltimore and OHIO. ":
delaware. l.a"kawannn and Western. 81;
Central Railroad of New Jersey, -, FIRE.
Railroad. -: BROOKLYN Eastern Terminal
Company. ~ and tho Arpuckle Company
Of RrOuklVn. a Tn" Pennsylvania Rail
road Company Of "rsh an adVanC' al tor
Cs.nt ~ present wages IA lien 80 the lie
maOdS Sofn~ wsAel<- alyu. which was agreed
90 and % settlement ~s- r.ach"d a. FAR a-
that Rad was con~-rn~d Yesterday
morning u was rspori-st that The fTi~ men
hal mad" a ~IH'iiaT compromise AMI that
IN" New York Central. th, RIah Terminal
I'otupany ard th., Br,Hbklvn Eastern Ter
nIinai ComIanv had a greed Ia 10 demands
and that the New York New Haven and.
Hartford nfiicial- had asked for a confer
-nc,'. Later u was announced thar this
company had al-n agreed To- IN" den ansi-
| and was out &c the strike
/ Meantime all arrangements had been
] made so that the strikers could not he
caught ia the tangls- ~ the law 10y lsav
ing work and 50 forfeit their hc-n~e-
capt Dow said that III. men all -ent
in their designations individually Ia 90
into effect any time after midnight On
March ~ IL terms suitable "a the pilots
had not been made 10y the companies IA
the meantime This WOuld not apply
To the cOmpanie- which had not mad.
a Ssttlem~nt up To midnight IL last night
Assistant General Manager u II COwan
of the association Said that arrange
/ Inent- had also been made by which the
strike would be productive u a. little lOs-
a. possible to the cOnsig ne,'- Of the goods.
conveyed On the railroad floats
In PROCLAMATION Tor a strike BargoH
BEuS.. Inc. Who have 'een for some
years simplifying strike brsaker~. have
been adN -rt'SIng Tor pllOi- with hr-.n-s--
dscRhandr and master. aud oI,~ns-d a
temporary employment bureau Yesterday
IN the lsSs-ins-nr 20 a tenement AZ Hi West
ThIrty-thIri street There were a large
number IT applicants. - certain DrOI'ortion
81 whom ~rre Engaged Professionally.
he ThiifOau tDtnlAhulsae Nt'HterttAN Az
pointed a COMMITTEES of which II L.. Joyce.
manager IT the marine department ~
hs tent raj abroad of New Jersey. ~
chairman amt which InclIcl.-S J. VI
Emery of the I-lckA~annA Walter Ancker
Of the Baltimore and Ohio ami "
Abbott ~ the tshigh Valley
When asked nbout the stand the railroad
companies are taking Chairman Joyce
replied
The railroads during rac~nt n.go-
t.ations. he SAID ON h..han Of the com
mittee offered tuglboAt captains total
90 fifty nine DAYS vacation h. year under
paw. but the offer was rejected 10y hath
captains aud pilots Then following
the offeT 81 the Pennsylvania 20 it- men
the roads offered n fiat advance Of q T-r
OneT accepted by the P~nusyly anias
pilots and captains. This advance -
ia addition To thirty-threr DAYS vacation
under full paw
the COmgluv's committee yesterday
sent a long Telegram abOu the general
conditions to Secretary Nag"l IL the
IieIarifuent ~ commerce and Labor and
wired the same message fo Supervising
inspectuT 4 seneral I'hssT g ihr lDcal
Inspectors at Charleston. 4 The wire
stated that all the ing aud proIs''l-r zap
tains Ot the ruatS concerned had rendered
re~ignatiOn-. elective ~ midnight. and
then IL told uf the per cent inCTsa@.. la
"A ~ ofsrst Nv IN" comJbMnIsr and which
was reris.a NV all the captains "y"ept
thp<e employed by the Ere The i.le-
gram read N paTt
The situation commencing ~ midnight
tonight viii therefore 10 - very serious
one and the puhlic j. hound 20 suffer 7,
The general manager ~ the Masters Mates |
and Pilots Association ~ an OFFICIAL con
ference held between m" Officials ~ tho J
Central Railroad Of New Jersey and him !
self on b-half Of the association openly !
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