The sun., 1919-07-15

SHIP BOARD CRAFT
HALTED BY STRIKE
Many Boats Tied Up as Union
~ Launches Take Crews
Ashore.
ENGINEERS MAY GO OUT
Congestion at Bush Terminal
! While 500 Pickets Watch
4 Vessels at Dock.
ENGINEERS MAY GO OUT


Shipping Board at this and other At
iantic and Gulf ports began to be af-
fectsd yesterday by the etfike which
was declared several days ago against
the privately operated lines. Follow
ing the refusal OF the ofiicials at Wash
ington to grant in full. the demands
made by the men. both deck and en-
gineroom crews were called out here
and at other points.
Tho board offered a fiat increase Of
so q month to seamen and firemen of
all grades and agreed to the eight hour
day in port They refused to grant
the seafnen's demand for three watches
Of eight hours each at sea, and likewise
refused, the demand for preference 10
union members
Oscar Carlson. secretary OF the fire.
mems union, estima tod the number OF
men out in this port yesterday as 5000.
AZ the seaman's union headquarters. 81
South street, definite statement of the
number Of men on strike was refused.
of1ciais Of the union said. however,
nat the organisations launch had been
, bury all day carrying ashore the crews
~ vessels anchored in the stream. and
that they had found many non-union
men who were willing to 20 out with
Pickets Patrol Docks.
Five hundred pickets patrolIed the
docks and piers In both Manhattan and
Brooklyn and at their solicitation n
number Of ships locked on both sides Of
the river were deserted by their crews
At Pier 8. Bush Terminal, the crews OF
the New Windsor of the French Canada
Line and the Duquene of the Lucken-
bach Line Joined the strikers. The crew
Of the Edna. another vessel lying at the
same pier, struck on Saturday. Conges-
ton OF freight at the Bush Terminal IL
already apparent as a result Of the
walhout.
AZ the Kerr Steamship Company's
pier. Fifty-ninth street. Brooklyn, Of
ncials Of the line said that the crews of
three or four steamships had gone out
but that they expected the men back
within a short time. At the Ward Line
docks the freighter osabaw. scheduled
TO sail last Saturday, was still in her
siip yesterday.
AZ the New York and Porto Rico Line
piers 1t was said that their ships were
sailing on time and that there had been
no trouble. The Lamport and Holt Line
admitted some Of their mon had gone
out but insisted that men had been Sc
cured to take their places.
Other ships scheduled to leave which
arc still In port are the Creole and Ell
Monte OF the Southern Pacific Line. the
Ocean Steamship Company's City Of St
Louis. the Panama Steamship Com
panys steamship Panama and the Olinda
Of the Munson Line.
The executive committee Of the Amer
lean Steamship Association. the mem
bership of which embraces sixty whine
steamship lines controlling about 10 pei
cent. of the business not Government
operated. held q meeting at the associa
tion's office, II Battery place. at moor
yesterday. Franklin d. Mooney. chair
man of the executive committee ant
president of the New York and Porte
Rico Steamship Company, refused to dis
cuss the situation after tho meeting anc
referred all inquirers to formal state
ment issued by the association, which
proved to be nothing more than a copy
of the correspondence between the or
EaniEation and the Shipping Board.
Mems Terms Protested.
The association protested against tn,
terms offered to the men by the Gov
eminent organization. but indicated tina
IN view of the large percentage OF ship
Ding under the control Of the board thu
Yetvate owners would agree to the Sam
tons The terms are those which tn
men refused to accept.
Opinion at the strikers headquarter
seemed to be general that the boat own
ers were beginning to feel the strik
severely and the reluctance Of steamship
oficials TO discuss the matter served t
confirm that impression. C. Thorson
chairman of the seamen's union strik
committee, announced that the Easter
Steamship Company, one OF the mem
bers Of the American Steamship AS
ISOLATION. had agreed TO the union term
and that their men had been ordere'
back to work. Inquiry at the offices o
the association was met with the state
ment that nothing was known there o
the Easterns action.
Another company which was said a
union headquarters to have capitulate'
was the Cuban Distillers Corporation
and II was intimated that n number O
other lines were seeking settlements ant
that negotiations were actually in prog
fess with more than one.
So far as could DO learned yesterda!
the only river steamboat which has beel
threatened with a tieup by the strik
is the Mandalay. which makes excursion
trips from the Battery to Atlantis
Highlands. Just as she was about u
leave her pier on Sunday. loaded witt
excursionists. an agent of the uniol
appeared and threatened TO call out tn
men unless the union scale was agree
TO. The owners of the vessels agreed L
the demands at once and she proceeds
with only a few minutes delay.
The marine engineers are likely to b
the next organization to be precipitate,
into the strike. The members of thi
. organization have already received In
structions not TO take out any shi,
manned by non-union seamen or fire
men. but they are awaiting the arriva
Of their president, William s. Brown
before taking further action. He ha
been attending a series of conference
to-day, where he is scheduled TO atten,
q conference with representatives OF tn
Shipping Board at IL o'clock.
Besides an increase in wages, the en-
gineers demand equalization of the pa
of captains and chief engineers. tn
Shipping Boards offer OF Saturday pro
vided for 10 per cent. increase and
d.nerential Of S25 between captains an
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