The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-13
DOCK STRIKERS ARE
REPLACED BY TROOPS
Move Said to Have Brought
End OF Walkout by 40
600 in Sight.
LEADERS NOW FOR TRUCE
Proposition to Return Until
Dee. 1 May Be Endorsed
by Men Tonight.
LEADERS NOW FOR TRUCE

Two DEVELOPMENTS IN the longshore-
r1sn's strike yesterday will have mate
rial effect In fastening It to an end. in
To belief OF r. V. O'Connor, president,
End other officials OF the International
Iongshoromen's Association. who are In
iorcsted in having the 10000 port labor
o~l abide by the decision of the National
adjustment Commission. These were the
calling out of troops to do the work of
striking stevedores at the Government
docks at Hoboken. and the favorable at
titude inspired in leaders OF the fifty
three local unions of the association by
President O'Connor after four hours Of
arguing yesterday afternoon.
AS a result of Mr.. O'Connor's talk n
ioass meeting win be held tonight. when
~. O'ConfeT, who claims he converted
feeling OF hostility to his project of re-
turning 10 work until December / to a
feeling of friendliness, viii cndeavor To
create the same spirit among the men
themselves. John +. Riley, chairman of
the strike committee, and other leaders
were seeking a place for the meeting
late last night They announced II
would be Cooper Union. Madison Square
Garden or perhaps Carnegie Hall
The meeting at which Mr.. O'Connor
claims to have overcome opposition to
is plan Of returning to work was OF
the district council of the port of New
York. 1t was held In the union head
quarters, l6i Eleventh avenue. Dele
gates from each OF the locals attended
and promised, II is said, TO persuade
i1cir constituents to give up the strike.
arrangements having been made Satur-
DAY to poll vote of the various locals
on the subject, it was announced yester-
Gag that the voting would go forward
unless the meeting tonight makes it
unnecessary.
Men Fast Going broke.
7. is understood that some Of the
locals already have voted, but II so the
Issults are being carefully kept secret.
one delegate from Local No. 96S Brook
. lrn. said that though the men had cast
70 votes to date they had expressed the
belief that they would be better off on
some salary than on none. and that they
probably would be back within a. day or
two. OF the 5000 men in the local. he
aid, many already had exhausted their
scanty resources and some actually we're
'panhandling.''
II was announced from Washington
that sufficient soldiers had been ordered
rom Camp Merritt, Tenaly, n. j., TO
load and unload all the army transports
row at the Government piers a Hoboken
or due to arrive there this week. These
include the Northern Pacific, which
locked yesterday and aboard which was
Col. K NJ. House and the foreign delega-
tons to the Chamber OF Commerce con-
ference. Five ober transports are due
within the next few days.
Further discouragirg news TO the
strikers came sin telegram yesterday
TO President O'Connor from Baltimore
The message. from union officials there.
ssid thst no strike In Baltimore was
conceive BILE, 40 the men all had agreed
TO abide by the award of the National
Adjustment Commission. II was stated
furthermore that delegates from Hamp
ton Roads and other Atlantic ports who
had promised to arrive here by yester-
day to complete plans for a tieup of the
eastern SIDE OF the continent had not
a?neared
Many OF the striking lonGshorenen
stood about the army piers and watched
the soldiers take their places, On the
Manhattan side John F. Riley voicing.
es he said the sentiment of the rank and
file, declared that though the men IN uni
form could be Used to some extent on
Government work. the plan could not BIO
carried out much further.
ut takes seven soldiers to do one long.
ehoremans work." he said. THE SOL
fiers are not experienced in the work
and. moreover. nine out of every ten OF
the soldiers who might be assigned still
hold union card of some kind from the
time when they were in civilian life.
They might make a bluff at doing the
work II they are ordered. They would
be bound suppose, to obey orders while
members of the army. but they will do L
with bleeding hearts. When a mans
feart is not In his work how can it be
succeseful?"
At the meeting in Eleventh avenue
Yesterday. President O'Connor repeated
lis charges that he strike had been
etarted by I. W. w. agitators and de-
fed tho men TO disprove his statements.
lie repeated his assertions made pre-
viously at various times that he and
Joseph Ryan, the labor representatives
Oh the National Adjustment Commission.
Lad done everything in their power to
set the men more money. that they were
outvoted but not bought out" as some
% the members indicated
He repeated his injunction to the lead
ere 70 get the men back at the docks and
ave the food now perishing. The whole
honor OF the association was at stake, he
said for IT had pledged TO abide by the
COMMISSIONS report, and II the men con-
unued in their refusal now they never
would be able to meet their employers in
another agreement on hours or wages.