Evening star., 1914-08-08
UNEMPLOYED ARMY
RESULT OF WAR
Total of 100000 Said to Be
Thrown Out of Work in
United States.
.lF ENGLAND CONTROLS SEA
COMMERCE WILL RESUME
Export Industries, Such as Steel and
Oil. Are Being Temporarily
Held Back.

NEW YORK, August S.-Fifty thousand
men are idle in this city today as the di-
rect result of the war in Europe, and
labor union officials declared that at
least 10000 more have been thrown out
of work elsewhere in the United States
from the same cause.
Overseas commerce is at a standstll
Twelve thousand sailors, fremen. cooks
and stewards from freight and passenger
vessels are waiting here without employ
ment Fifteen thousand longshoremen
have no wages because no freight is being
handled on the docks. An equal number
of teamsters is affected. Similar mis-
fortune has come upon other thousands
in all the small industries connected with
shipping.
The action OF certain companies in pay
ing off their crews here, and leaving their
sailors on shore without a chance to get
away, has been taken up with Commits
sioner General of immigration Camlnetu
at Washington. George Fl. Brown. busi-
ness agent of the Sailors Eastern and
Gulf Association. stated yesterday that
the men discharged had hope of securing
a decision that they must be returned to
their homes.
Lack Oh SQlpS.
Meanwhile lack of American merchant
marine prevents the resumption of com
m.rce which would relieve a situation
that is rapidly becoming critical. Coast
wise vessels with cargoes intended TO
be transshipped here for Europe are ar
riving from gulf and southern ports.
and for lack of work they also are com
PEELED TO release their men. How Tar
tr.,.a Of thnf ant I'M o
the blight will spread depends upon the
length of time that must pass before
the Atlantic is safe for commerce
Big industries. such as steel and OIL.
duced, see no chance of keeping up
their full production if exports are
damned back for weeks
We are now storing our product, but
the future is uncertain, said 6. b. Gift
ford. general manager of the Bayonne
plant of the Standard Oil Company. en-
ploying from 5000 to 5000 men. We
are concerned chiefly with keeping our
ing that they suffer no distress. We
cannot foretell the result of long
blockade of export commerce.
Il thought it best to stop extension
tied condition of the money market.
we are not reducing our force employed
in manufacture
No Railroad Slump.
The executive officers of both the Penn
sylvania and the New York Central rail-
road systems denied today any prospect
of immediate dismissal of men. The
PENNSYLVANIA which recently took back
1000 shop employees on full time, after a
shortening of work, will keep them all
The freight business to the eastern sea
hoard is greatly reduced as a consequence
of the stoppage of exports. but no freight
terminal employees have been dismissed.
The New York Central officials declared
that the loss of export business had peer
partly made up by increased local busl-
ness and that the road had not yet SUI
fered appreciably Should the sea pt
cleared within few days or weeks COM
merce would go forward with so great al
impetus that the stoppage would be made
up.
Cotton. iron oil and other raw materials
make up the bulk Of American exports
10 Germany which alone would be held
back in case the German feet were driv-
| en- out Of the Atlantic Big shippers said
| TODAY that in such an event the Amerl-
| can trade TO the rest of Europe would
quickly grow beyond its previous total,
! and that America would have revival
! Of manufacture TO supply the markets
I from which Germany nad eAciuoeu hei-
/ self by the war.
| In spite of these rosy possibilities, how
eyer. American industries dependent upon
export are today so crippled, particularly
| along the Atlantic seaboard. that uneh-
! nIoyment in manufacturing cehters
| threatens to become more general thah
| at any time in years