New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
D0CKMEN GAIN
RECRUITS; OTHER
PORTS MENACED
One Thousand More Out
$4,000 Will Join Them
Soon, Says Union.

The strike of the longshoremen en-
ployed by the Clyde and Mallory
steamship companies gained impetus
yesterday when a thousand Joined the
ranks of the strikers. Sympathetic
strikes are said to be brewing among
other dock workers. and it was said
that the international Longshoremen's
Union is trying to foment strikes in
Philadelphia. Baltimore and Boston.
That all shipping from the port of
New York will be completely tied up
within the next few days was the as
sertion made yesterday by Jack Walsh.
the |. W. W. leader, who has been ac-
at Pier 81. North River, last evening
Jack" told several hundred dock
workers that "the greedy capitalists
will have to come to terms" if they did
not want fifteen thousand sailors and
dock workers in New York to walk out
within the next few days. He also de-
clarcd that Sufficiently firm measures
would be adopted by the strikers to
prevent one single scab from doing q
days work"
The thousand men who joined the
ranks of the dissatisfied Clyde and
Mallory Line dock workers came from
Piers. Al. AZ, "A and AS, North River,
and from the new 100000 Municipal
Pier at the river front between Forty
sixth and Forty-seventh streets.
The trouble at the new Municipal
Pier started some time ago, Blu. did not
become serious until the longshoremen
went on strike. The ostensible cause
ba 4 ficf
Is the employment of non-union labor
by Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins. the con-
tractors. Most of the men who went
on strike are members of the Inter-
national Dock Builders Union, af-
filiated with the international Fedora
zion of Labor. The work at the Mu-
nicipal Pier is at a standstill.
In the meantime c. D. Mallory, secre-
tary OF re Clyde and Mallory Steam
ship Company, has thrown down the
gauntlet to the 1900 dock workers who
went on strike because his company
refused to accede to their demands for
the payment Of union wages. Despite
the warning Of the strikers that there
would be trouble if "scabs" were en-
ployed, he secured several hundred
dock workers and put them TO work un-
loading the Medina, tied up at Pier 81
since Tuesday night, unable TO dis
charge her cargo from Galveston.
Mr.. Mallory stated yesterday that he
would not pay union wages to the
striking dock work IS. There is a diff
ference of from to Is cents per hour
in the wage scale paid by the Clyde
and Mallory lines and that demanded
/ by the international Longshoremen's
Union. According to Mr.. Mallory, the
strikers will not be able to hold out
very long and he predicted last night
that they would return 10 their Jobs
within few days.
As proof that the strikers mean bust
ness, they yesterday rented a vacant
store at the corner of Charlton and
Washington streets for their head
quarters. The first meeting was held
there yesterday afternoon, at which il
was decided to join the Industrial
Union Of Maritime Transport W rk-
ers, an |. W. W. organization. A print
ing press was installed in the store
and Jack" and his assistants set to
work turning out strike literature
Handbills addressed especially ITO the
Longshoremen and Truckmen in the
Maritime Transport Industry in Greater
/ New York and Vicinity" were scattered
broadcast along West Street yester-
7 day evening.
Walsh and his heutenants became
very excited last evening when they
said they had discovered that a move
ment had been started to tie up the
| shipping industries OF Philadelphil,
Baltimore and Boston by a sympathetic
strike among the longshoremen. What