New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
STRIKERS WILT IN PARADE
Seamen Show Little Energy, and
Cannot Hold Out Much Longer.
SMALL RIOT WITHOUT SHOTS
Companies Guard Against Rep
etititon of Disorder-Pollce
Lay Heads Open.

| Striking Spanish oilers and water tenders
from the steamships and strike breakers ana
police mixed II UP yesterday afternoon at
South and Roosevelt streets After some
strong arm work the reserves from the OAK
street and Old Slip stations restored peace,
arrested some Of the rioters and had am
bulance surgeons attend those whose heads
they had laid open with nightsticks. Not a
shot was fired.
The rest Of the striking seamen provided
parade for themselves yesterday as an
outlet for their energies, and a very salts
factory outlet it proved in the heat. which.
together with the lack Of money and conse-
quent fasting. had left little energy among
most Of them to seek an outlet. Most Of
| the members of the Marine Firemen. oilers
and Water Tenders Union come from other
ports. have no home here and have eX-
hausted their scanty stores of cash. Some
! Of these unfortunate rebels, suffering Sc
verely from lack of sleep and food, tainted
yesterday in the intense heat. Saloon
keepers along the waterfront looked after
them.
! SO no one expressed surprise when the
parade passed off without disorder. Police
Commissioner Waldo after issuing the pa
rade permit to NJ. II. Woolman, secretary
of the Transport Workers Federation, sent
| Inspector Daily with a detail Of men TO
take charge OF the demonstration. An Of
| fetal Of the Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany had called on Commissioner Waldo
TO protest against the issuance Of a permit.
but the Commissioner had told him tho
strikers were entitled 10 one if they behaved
themselves
| The strike leaders Immediately formed
their men in lire and shortly after noon
led them up West street, from the strike
| headquarters at No. 90 West street They
marched up the east side of the street TO
Jane street. more than a mile. and then
turned and marched back 10 their head
| quarters
The strike leaders had intended that the
parade should wean a large number or
| longshoremen from their employment In
a sympathetic strike Thousands OF the
lonEshoremen. who have all along refused
TO strike. silently watched the parade from
the street, but not one Of them budged or
displayed any marked sympathy. In front
Of the Southern Pacific piers. where eight
! hundred longshoremen were employed.
many OF them did not turn from their
dinner pals TO watch the demonstration.
|
| In view Of the disorder and rioting Of the
! night before, Inspector DAILY took the pre-
caution TO spread policemen all along West
street in front OF the steamship piers. He
had q hundred men under Captain RohriG
cover the TANKS Of the marchers. while still
other policemen marched along the side
walks in groups OF two and three with the
procession But the poor. half-starved and
IL. l,, lgt,a IaI no
| desperate as they were, TO riot
| Close observers said that unless the long
shoremen Joined the strike neither the
sailors nor the engine room employees conld
hold out much longer But the longsh"re-
men, with the memory Of the litter expert
cnce had In their own ytrike still fresh,
do not want to enter another sTuSEI" OF
| the sort involving nifty thousand men, LOT
| the sake Of a thousand seamen ana hre-
men Some Of the longshoremen SAID they
were earning from $l0o 10 $3.50 month ho"'
Twenty-three of them, however. from
| the piers OF the Lehigh Valley railroad
| Company. did join the strike TINS was
the only addition in strength the strikers
gained and II came In the morning before
the parade The parade disbanded at 40
o'clock. most Of the men dispensing I'M
mediately, while a few went into the head
quarters.
| To add 20 their troubles, the Griscom-
Spencer estate which owns the building
| housing the strikers headquarters. IN
structed the superintendent to warn James
Vidal. secretary Of the Firemens ana
! Oilers Union that further disorder would
result in the eviction Of the union. Inc
! landlord also strongly objects to the men
lettering in the Railways
The American fremen, who withdre"
from the union of which Vidal the Span
| lard is secretary to form an organization
| Of their own called the American Marine
Tiremen's Association. could not conceal
the satisfaction they felt over the straits
| of tho parent union. Their leader said
| their own ranks had been swelled by the
addition of strikers from the Southern Pa
| ci6c steamships FL Rio and FL Mundo and
the Ward liners MORO Castle, seguranca
| and Saratoga