New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-18
Morgan Line Workers Ex-
pect Company to Grant
Their Demands.
DENY KELLY WAS
HIRED AS LEADER
lie Acted Simply as Officer of
Association, Says Head. Here
TO Meet Officials.

The strike OF 1850 workers on the
Morgan Line piers. which resulted
Tuesday in the Southern Pacific Rail.
roads embargo on ell marine freigh.
from Galvo 5ton and New Orleans. NAV
be settled by tonight. Officials Of the
line at . o'clock this afternoon will
meet representatives Of the Interna-
tionsl Longshoremen's Association,
Colonel VI. J. Regain and John j. Bealin.
state mediators, and Deputy State
Labor Commissioner Thorne at Pier
20. North River An agreement is cx-
pectel.
Labor leaders yesterday declared III 20
strike was all but won. They pointed
TO the fact that forty-fve shipping ana
stevedore companies had ALREADY
granted their longshoremen 40 cents
an hour for day work. 90 cents for
night work ard so cents for Sunday
work. The Morgan Line. they asserted
was the only important company refus
ing to pay this wage.
Denies Strikers Hired Kelly.
T. V. O'Connor. president Of the In
terrationsl Longshoremen's Association,
with which the strikers are affiliated.
arrived yesterday morning 10 take per
sonal charge. He Indignantly denied
the company's charge that the strikers
had hired Paul Vaccarelli known A.
Paul Kelly. to lead them, and character
lied the imputation as an attempt on
the part Of the Morgan Line to dis
credit the strike.
"Vaccarelli is a e-presdent Of the
international Longshoremen's Associa-
lion. and is an accredited organizer in
New York. O'Connor said "He has
no more power in strike than the
local union itself. and assumed no more
power. The strikers are not subjected
to his commands. They are responsible
only to the officers of their national or
ganization."
Vaccarelli himself denied that his
connection with the strike had been
anything other than that Of an officer
Of the Longshoremen's Association.
81 have no dreams Of forming an en-
pire OF longshoremen. with myself as
its car" he declared. The Morgan
Line officials have intmated that !
have been called into the struggle to
direct strong arm work. and that !
am trying 10 make a 'shake-down' out
OF IT,
1T is cowardly for them 70 make
such accusations. ! have been con-
nected with the international Long
shoremen's Association for ten years,
and in this strike, "a in others, simply
acted as an agent The strikers formu-
lated their own demands; then they
asked me TO present them 10 the Nor
gan Line. This / did. Tire demands
were refused. The men voted a strike
end called me on the phone after their
decision had been made. My leader
ship was temporary, ending when Mr..
O'Connor arrived to-day"
Speaking of the embargo laid Tues
day on marine freight by the Southern
Pacific. which controls the Morgan
Line, Ralph s. Stubs. general freight
agent OF the railroad said last night:
THE embargo was not laid with the
idea OF forcing the strikers back to
work. We sre short something like 700
work. We are short something like 700 or
800 men a. our piers in New York. and
simply cannot handle marine freight
from the Pacific. The embargo will
have TO continue until the strike is
broken or until the places of the
strikers are all filled"