The sun., 1919-03-05
HARBOR TIED Up:
STRIKERS SPLIT
ON FERRY BOATS
Army, Navy, Municipal and
Lackawanna Craft Are
Only Ones Operated.
HUDSON TUBES JAMMED
Longshoremen Indiffereatand
OBJECTIONS Are Expected;
Both Sides Defiant.

Except for military and naval craft
poking lonesomely about here and
there and an occasional ferryboat bust
ling Importantly back and forth across
the harbor. the port of New York was
silent yesterday. With the dawn hun
dreds of the noisy little harbor boats
had started scurrying for their docks
like SO many wharf rats for their
nests, and by 6 o'clock. the hour set
for the renewal of the general strike
OF marine workers, their screeching
had died away almost completely and
they were hugging their berths,
abandoned by their crews.
At the same time thousands Of Jer-
seyites and Staten Islanders. cut of
from their places Of employment in
Manhattan by the sharp curtailment
Of the ferry service. were either jam
ming into the Hudson tubes. fighting
their way onto such ferries as were
running, or, with more or less good
nature. took advantage Of the holiday
circumstances offered them and re-
turned to their homes. They were not
inconvenienced to the extent they
were In the January strike. however.
A further curtailment of the ferry
service was decided upon late last night
when the strike committee voted to or
der out at 8 o'clock this morning the
crews of union ferries running from
South Ferry. the Atlantic avenue. the
Hamilton avenue and the Fulton street
ferries. 1t was also announced that the
case of the Staten Island ferries would
be taken up at a meeting to be held
this morning.
The first day of the strike was full
OF action. The strike leaders made good
on their threat to tie up the harbor as
tightly as they wished, and 10000 of
their 5000 members quit work at the
time specified. BY nightfall almost all
the others also were out, except the
crews Of the municipal ferries, who re-
manned at work for fear OF criminal
prosecution II they struck, and such
operatives as had been exempted from
the strike order.
Serious Split Over Ferries.
however. when a serious split developed
in the union ranks. +. Paul Vaccarelli
business agent OF the Harbor Boatmen
an organization of $500 members. an
nounced the withdrawal of that union
from the affilation after row said to
have been over the question Of exempt
ing ferries. Vaccarelli Is reported tc
have insisted that the ferries be per-
mitted to run and to have declared thai
the whole attitude OF the affiliation man
ayers was calculated to lower the unions
in public estimation. He said that the
members of his union would remain out
but would not be responsible for the act
Of the affiliation.
No definite progress toward a settle
ment Of the strike was made during thu
day, although Federal medlators were oI
the Job early and conferred at length
with all the parties interested. Jamei
L. Hughes and William z. Kilby, repre-
senting the Department of Labor, ac
companied by representatives Of th'
Railroad Administration, the War De
partment and the Navy Department. ha'
a long talk with Paul Bonynge, counse
for the private owners, and committe
representing the Boat Owners Associa
lion In the offices of the Erie Railroad
80 Church street
Later they visited the offices of tn
Marine Affillation and had a talk wit
its President. Thomas L. Delahunty an
other members of the strike committed
Then they went back again to the boa
owners for another talk. Neither Nj
Hughes nor DR.. Kllby would say wha
proposals, II any, had been made, 1t
believed they got no further than to in
form themselves of the issues. Nj
Hughes, who Is Assistant Immgratio
Commissioner. arranged the settlemer
Of the 1917 strike.
'sBoIshevIsru'' Hint stirs Anger.
Mr. Delahunty and Mr.. Bonynge sal
last night that there had been no chang
in the situation. AS a result Of Nj
Bonynge's Characterization OF the strik
as "the produce OF red eyed and unres
sonng Bolshevism." Mr.. -Delahunty d.
manded the elimination of Mr.. Bonyns
as a condition precedent to any futur
negotiations between the boat owners an
the Marine Affiliation.
. Mr.. Bonynge countered with the hiI
that Mr.. Delahunty himself might
eliminated before the strike is over. an
by his own men. The Federal represer
tstlves-A. j. Stone. for tho Railroa
Administration Capt. II. II. Robinso
for the army. and Capt. b. r. Hutchisol
4 for the navy-refused to discuss tf
strike in any way.
s No serious disorder marked sue di
location of the harbor transportation sy
tenn The Hudson tubes were crowded a