The sun., 1912-07-04
STRIKERS TERROR|zE:
FOLK ON THE FARMS"
Hold Up Pedestrians and Battle
With the Police Near
West street Piers.
BOATS SAIL on SCHEDULE
Oilers Quit the Union and viii
Return to Work To-day
-COOks to strike.

LOT q! troiiDlr 'o" "" pO'lr" along tnt
farms" of West street early last night
and caused pcd"striln. who hapi'nnad
along con siderable annpy!n". Tho
strikers and svmp.'hi2rrs got into the
habit of stopping all concrs for an ex-
planation of jhrir presence. aud inaliuu"h
as almost non. of III" strikers CoUld speak
Ensl.Sh some -! those thus hrld up had
trouble cvp,niuiHg.
Fiv. Italians huti.d a",oss W"-i street
irst after = O'Clock too ~" to Zach aboa'
for Albany hun .rHd ,triN"rs sIr
rounded them The Italian. were citing
the worst OF an uncomir"hrDdrd attack
for the flli,ns. thong nIt spanking
English. coulil't ~pcali spanish cith"r
when Policemen S'Aubrr' and R"ith
wadcd through ,Hr 'To"I vita night
stic i;s ard r. So,ird ih"ir
The crowd @. stiik'". attacked them
again and on" mar W Gius"prp Siggc
under the sy'. giving him bad cI,. The
Policemen ran IN" italians int, "a store
and hy that time Lieut. N'nn"ssv and
Dctct ives pu'lr and tompbrll caur up
The thrc" Elcn IN il4!n c'otl'r- jumped
into tn. (. .'Ii with th,i lilies, and go; tn"
iingleader Of .hc group OF strikers and
also PICKED up a ua' with brick These
two prisoners were rcl,pd NJ on charges
oi disordcrlv conduct.
Alter an ambI1nce surgeon had srwcd
IN the cat Oh the face OF thr Italian and
the Two prisoners wr"r locked up the
detectives Went back 20 the farms. They
found Policeman ShcvIn in fight with
ano her good sized crowd. The detectives
got ont their bi!'irs again and made two
prisoners. Reserves then .amr and
cleaned Up the farms. only to find the
scattered strikers going mp one street.
around a block and back 10y another
to make more disturbance.
y split came in the ranks of the
transportation strikers last night when
the delegates from the Oilers and Water
Tenders Union decided to break away
from the National Transportation Work
crs Of America anu form a separate or
ganiZation Of their own. They said las;
night that they would go back to work
to-day.
oilers and tenders said they will app
pear in the Centre street court this
morning to swear out a warrant against
James Vidal. secretary for the National
Transportation Workers of America.
who. they say. threatened their lives
when told they were going to return. 10
work. They said too that Chester Rowe.
chief engineer of the FL Dorado. Nor
gan Line, was found urconslio ious in West
street, near Charles. last evening. lie
had been assaulted by members OF the
strikers union. they said. and most ol
his clothing had been torn off and he
was badly beaten.
The Panama of the Panama Line sailed
arI Go nit Co. LI,
jackets from the North Dakota in the
crew under the same arrangements a.
attended the sailing Of the Cristobal on
Tuesday. The boats of this line will be
regarded as United States transports
Secretary Rosebottom of the Panama
Railroad and Steamship Company said
that the line was very little inonyenionccd
by the strike. II was said that most of
the longshorernen who struck at the pier
Of the Ocean Steamship Company had
returned.
II. Il. Raymond. e-presidcnt and
general manager of the Clyde Steamship
Company and chairman Of the committee
Of tie seven lines which declared for the
oIen shop. said that every vesso! that was
scheduled to sal yesterday sailed with
full crew. in spite of the efforts of the
strike leaders to delay them. The two
steamships of the Ward Line which were to
sail were fully manned, The Esperanga, a,
which sailed an hour or 50 late in the
afternoon for Havana. Progreso and
Vera Cruz. was delayed. it was said. not
on account Of the strike but because of an
unusually heavy freight Tn" Moinus
Of the Southern Pacific Railroad line sailed
promptly on tire for New Orleans and
the Sabine of the Mallory Line sailed on
schedule time. The Old Dominion boat
scheduled for sailing yesterday also got
off at the regular time.
The longshoremen employed at Piers
II and Is, North River. were reported
to be on strike Yesterday to the number
of about coo. Several Of theS4 strikers
held meetin at the strike headquarters
in West street where they were addressed
by Richard Sa-sen. organizer Of the union.
and others.
Mark jackson. a labor agtator of
Baltir!cre. who during the recent strike
Of longshoremen in Baltimore was for
b'iden by the police from mingllng with
the disafected people there and obtained
temporary Injunction against this
order, had conference with Strike Leader
Vidal yesterday. The situation here
and IN other ports was gone into. but
no statement WAS made as to what was
decided on at the conference Vidal
said that word was received that tiftv-
one boats had been tied up by strikers
at Galveston. Norfolk. Newport News
and New Orleans. Six hundred long
shoremen he said, quit work at the piers
of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg
American lines. He also said hat before
the city of Savannah sailed on Tuesday
eighty-fye strike breakers ouit work
and reported yesterday to the strik..
lea'lcrs.
II was said that a committee Of the
strikers was appointed 10 call at the city
Hall 10 complain 10 Mayor Ga aynor of the
alleged clubbing Of strike pickets at var-
o,s piers by th" police. During "A mass
meeting OF th" strikers James Vidal
said that the placing of marines on the
Panama Line boats IN place of strikers
might result in the union men refusing
to work on Tia" Government vessels
They could fight th" Government a
rreakcr said, ~ they were fighting the
other ship owners,
The strike leaders admitted that the
strike was slow, They SAID, however.
that such "A strike as this took time TO
bring 10 IA head.
T.. Kelly, business agent of the Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union said that
this union. which had decided first not
TO strike, IL now taking Il referendum
vote on the quest ion Of a strike. This
vote will take u week. he said, and the
ktrikp If "A : IilIp h. InrIIul an xn,lt