Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25

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a Criminology Club, in their assumed
pzcity Of dock hands, heard with irri-
ming frequency the announcement of
Ae strike meeting called for that night.
ne sudden change of attitude of the
6ipowners toward the longshoremen
~ y4E startling and pu7zling, Harrison
x fAnt confessed his hewilderment TO
l!neelf even as he tried to dispel 1t by
3/riping the small groups that gathered
4ere and there, listening for the mcager
tSu{crmation their conversation con
H4Ined. The talk was mostly OF an
ETKumentative nature, discussion rising
tmagically over the soaring cost of liv-
ma, their long hours, and the wrongs.
I4ncied or otherwise. heaped upon them
~ the shipowners. In each little group,
&ranf noticed, when excitement Jagged
br one more cool-headed than the rest
qounseled less haste and more caution.
less hot-headed talk and more cool
fhought that at least one of the group
nent again. But in these troublesome
Axitators, neither Grant nor his con-
Ierees could recognize any of the paid
Agents of the German Government
&nown to them.
Il The sinking of the lighter had become
fl1e main topic of conversation. During
1he noon hour excitement and agitation
ran high The longshoremen resented
being accused of sinking the lighter.
Fehemently group after group dis
claimed any such guilt. And while one
10 believe that the shipowners would
listen to their denials of guilt, time and
again Grant heard references to the
sinking of the lighter as II it had been
1he work of the longshoremen, and as
such was commendable act in view of
{he wrongs done them. These agitators
ne knew were a foreign element.
81 The air was permeated with the strike
fsver, and the fever was fed by remarks.
actions, hints. constantly passing among
the workrnen, but none of them trace
~ - 80 I,afN tnrr-
Passing Billy Cavanaugh, Grant sig
nailed TO him to stop a moment, and,
while he mopped his persprng fore
head, confided his doubts to him.
tonight, and they
Calling don't know the real
i the Strike sfTfEe seaS9n AZ Ana + ws'9e Sss!e
= got to find out for
sem and put stop to it today"
g Billy stared at him hopelessly. What
This, but she is hiding so tight we cant
and her" The Crimnology Club could
ace hidden in this wild maze of misunder-
standing the hands of Won Rintelen.
snd Won LertS as the longshoremen could
not. They could see the hands. but
fculd not shackle them.
# The German dock foreman upon whom
Won Rintelen had called the night before
was rushing his inexperienced crew The
FORK of loading the Arsuus had gone
40IHdIu VILE ~ rush, pNilN ldD'ltt
1knorant of the crime in which they were
Being used as tools loaded crates and
BOXES of produce into the hold of the
Arsulus. Re-enforCed here and there by
hen with whom the foreman was famil-
AR and who were well aware of their
snare in the crime, driven and roared
htd cursed at by the foreman, the labor
ers bent to their task And the cargo
of the Arsulus piled high against the
hold on the water side of the vessel. Her
bAwsers were pulling at their mourings.
She creaked and ratified with the wash of
The current and listed slightly in her slip
but In the seething ma maelstrom of aCtiV-
dty these things passed unnoticed.
X Toward the end of the afternoon Grant
Dioked up the word that the men at
Uuicn headquarters had taken up the
1uesfion of a strike with the shipowners
ol1ce more That they were seeking to
convfnce them that there should be one
more conference before the strike was
called. And at last the word came that
the shipowners had consented to their
pleas and would confer with them that
there should be one more conference be-