New-York tribune., 1918-11-23
transport Men
Demand
8-Hour Day
$4,000 Freight Handlers
Say They Will Quit Dec. /
if They Do Not Get 1t

The Marine Afflation, the central
organization of transport workers in
New York, has served notice upon the
railroad administration, private boat
owners and local wage adjustment
board of the United States Shipping
Board that, beginning December /,
eight hours will constitute days work
for all engaged in moving freight by
land or water in this port.
If this is agreed to by the railroad
administration and the boat owners,
the afiiliation st@tes, the freight hand
lers and other transport workers will
put in as many additional hours as NAV
be required at overtime rates. Other.
wise after working eight hours on that
day they will quit.
The notice directly affects 1890
freight handlers employed on roads
having terminals in New York and
New Jersey, and, exclusive of the A5,-
eco longshoremen who obtained the
eieht-hour day on October ] and who
are not directly affected. 10000 in
these trades: masters. mates and pilots,
engineers and assistant engineers,
deckhands, firemen, oilers, cooks, float
men, porters and water tenders. all en-
ployed on tugs and other type of har-
Dor boats, bridge masters and bridge
nlo1ormen who operate railroad bridges.
Want Wage Scale Revised
with the notice the several trades
request q revision in the existing wage
sca.e. This, the notice signed by
ihomas Delahunty, president, and
stephen j. Condor, secretary Of the
Marine Affilation, states, may be ar
bltrated. The matter Of eight hours,
they explicitly state, will not be ar.
bitrated
BY this move the affiliation expects
to have all who handle freight, either
by rail or water equipment in this port
on an actual eight-hour basis. This
has already been obtained by the long
shoremen, hoisting engineers, lighter
captains and mates and tidewater boat
men when in port.
The notice of intention to take the
6 eight-hour day, according to Paul a
Vaccarelli, international vice -president
OF the Longshore Association
follows Intellectual efforts to GET if in
any other way and-is~ the result of 3
determination to obtain the basic
eght-hour day for all transport work.
ers.
Some Of the trades" said he, "havt
peeH unap!e TO get even promise OF
an eight hour day. Nominallv the
freight handlers have it. Actual,
they have a ten-hour day. 1t work:
THIS way: The scale as put out by the
railroads gives the eight t-hour day, bu'
requires men to work two additiona
hours for the eight-hour rate. viii
overtime for all time over ten hours
That is q ten-hour day.
Want Time and Holr % N;SLt
"They now insist that eight contin
uous hours shall constitute a dav'
work, with all night work to be paid a
time and one half, that rate to be pait
for all work over eight hours at an,
time.
December 1 the men who have no
been given the eight-hour day will re
port for work as usual. They will
work eight hours and then quit. I
they are discharged that makes it
lockout Automatically that throws tn
longshoremen and other trades out o
work. These will not work with me,
who may be put in the places of tn
men discharged"
Though no answer had been receive
yesterday from William G.. McAdoc
Director General of Railroads, A. II
! Smith, regional director, or Maio
William B. Baker, chairman of tn
local wage board Of the United State
Shipping Board, Messrs. Vaccare1li. Del
ahunty and Condor were hopeful tina
friction may be avoided