The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-24
PIER STRIKERS GET
"a HOURS TO RETURN
Ship Owners Will Seek "High-
or Authority" With Troops
Intimated.
REJECT HYLAN's TENDERS
No Arbitration Is Reply
Mayor Blamed for Contin-
ued Port Tieup.

steamship interests 10 RECONSIDER the
grievances Of $1,000 striking longsnore-
men was answered yesterday in state
ment from los steamship companies and
employing stevedores that no further
arbitration was possible, and by an APP
peal later from the same committee and
the United States Shipping Board for
police protection at some docks where
men, will return, II Is believed, u safe
guarded. 1t was said at the offices OF the
Shipping Board that the steamship Ar
tennis had oeen locked at the Chelsea
piers to provide shelter and other sc-
commodations for all longshoremen who
will work there.
limitations that the Shipping Board
had issued an ultimatum to the strikers
warning that drastic efforts would be
made to replace them In twenty-four
hours were denied by an official, VINO
said. however,:
we intend to walt twenty-four hours
longer II work on our ships IL not
resumed by that time we may appeal to
higher authority. rs they did In the other
strike"
1t Is believed that the board intends
to ask for soldiers to do longshore work,
at least enough to move the 1b0 vessels
under it's control. and some or the tons
Of United States NAH and pertshable
foodstuffs sccumulating on the piers.
Darragh Delaney of the labor ADJUST
ment committee and Capt. Ryland
Drennen of the Division of Operations OF
the United States Shipping Board ar
rived here from Washington yesterday to
ace In the situation
Mayor Hylan in this letter, addressed
to Frederick p. Toppin and Oakley
Wood, who represent the steamship IN
a mt
mission said he was calling a meeting
for 8 o'clock this. afternoon at City Hall
at which no one viii be present except
myself and your committee, together
with the stevedores and ship owners II
they care to attend
HyIan skeptical OF Persuasion.
"The men feel" says the letter. that
IL they can deal with the members OF
your organization or a committee inde-
pendent of the National Adjustment
Commission they may be able to come to
some understanding. and return to work.
They seem to have no confidence in their
duly elected representatives on the COM
missipn and from what ] have been
able to learn there Ia little chance Of
accomplishing much with the men by
persuasion II their representatives. whom
they distrust. have anything to do with
the conference"
Mr. Toppin said 1t would be impossible
for him or Mr.. Wood to attend the meet
Ing as members of the wage commission.
whether they could attend as represent
tatives of the steamship companies, he
said, would have to be decided at a
meeting to-day.
r. ". O'Connor, president of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Association,
said several hundred more men had res
turned, and that all are drifting back
gradually" The 5000 employed at the
chelsea piers who have voted to return
will do so. he said, as soon as they can.
They are being held by 200 riggers. The
rigeers local started voting last night
on the proposition to return or continue
the strike.
Mr.. OConnor blamed Mayor Hylan
with prolonging the strike, and declared
that IL he had not addressed the men
at Tammany Hall on Tuesday afternoon
the tie-up would be ended. Others in
the faction opposed to the Vaccarelli-
Butler element, who had announced or
Tuesday that the strike was on. ex'
pressed the belief that the Mayor. wher
he assured the strikers of his interest In
them, gave them to believe that he could
actually obtain higher wages for then
II they would lay their case In his hands
az ne phrased 1t. Although he besough
the men to return to work pending hi
good efforts, Mayor Hylan did not make
this condition imperative.
In consequence, 1t was said, tn,
strikers, believing Mayor Hylan woult
intercede for them. influenced others L
believe the same way. and all decided
to remain out land give the Mayor q
chance" The opinion among man,
shipping men and union leaders yester
day was that the sooner Mayor Hylar
ceases negotiating the sooner the strtk'
will be ended.
Steamship Owners Statement.
In announcing its determination u
stand by the award of the National Ad
justment Commission the statement o
the steamship interests, which was In
dorsed later by the United States Ship
ping Board, says, in part:
They desire it to be clearly under
stood that while they entertain tn
highest respect and regard for the Mayo
Of the city OF New York and while the,
recognize that his motives in enterin
this controversy were OF the highest an
entitled to every consideration the
have definitely decided and bound them
selves in agreement to observe strictl
and maintain the award of the Nations
Adjustment Commission In its entiret
ana tnat unuef no circumstances 'Wndt
ever will they be influenced to var
from that position.
1.-THE agreement to place the case I
the hands OF the National Adjustmen
Commission was arrived at mutual
between the members Of your associa
tons and the steamship interests. TIL
members OF the commission wer
nominated as agreed by both sides an
the chairman was appointed by tn
United States Government.
Both sides in the controversy boun
themselves IN open session before tn
commission to abide by the award Q
the commission, this award was rendere
after long and most patient hearing an
mature de1iberatioh by the commission
and II has been officialiy confirmed an
approved by the Secretary of War an
the United States Shipping Board.
1T must be apparent to every ma
that II the steamship interests or IN
longshoremen refuse TO abide by III
award in any particular the whole syI
TEN OF arbitration In any disputes Q
controversies becomes imperative an
useless" ''
The statement was made after NEE
ing OF the standing committee OF tn
steamship lines representatives Of III
Shipping Board and the United State
Army Transport Service. at So Pea
street
Hobo King Oner. to End strike.
Jeff Davis, king OF the hoboes," calie
r. Paul A. Vaccarelli by Telephone q
the Mayors chambers in the afternoo
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