The sun., 1919-10-16
TO
BIZ AT POSTS SOON
Work Resumed on Bush Ter
minal With 81 Crews of
85 Each on the Job.
OTHERS TIRE OF STRIKE
Many Locals Vote to End
Tieup; $4,000 to Be Back
Saturday.

Striking longshoremen stood outside
most Of the piers of the. waterfront
yesterday and indicated, in the estima-
that they are on the point of returning
to work and were waiting only for
some one to give the word. Work ac-
tually was resumed yesterday at the
Bush Terminal and at various other
points in Brooklyn and at a few Of the
docks in Manhattan T.. " o'Connor
and John f. Riley estimated that los
gangs in all were employed and that
virtually all of the $4,000 men on strike
viii have returned by Saturday, possi-
bly, tomorrow.
The men, disgruntled at the unsuc-
csssful outcome of their demand for 81
an hour, voted Tuesday night and yes
terday in twelve locals to return to
work. Three locals, Influenced, II is said
by. Dick Butler, who maintains he is
paid up and in good standing until De-
cember l. have taken a stand to arbi-
trate and II possible effect COM
promise before returning. Jack Riley
said yesterday that locals in Brooklyn
having at least $4,000 members. mostly
Italians, had voted mo" on the refer
endum. but that all would change their
minds when they realized that the work
or relieving the city's congestion of per-
ishable food was actually being done by
members Of the l. l.. A.
.p Says Men VIII Return.
Riley supports his contention that all
the strikers will have returned to work
py Saturday at the latest by the fact
mat the local of which he is president
viii vote affirmatively to-day, as he
claims. This Is Local No. 791, with $500
members, the largest of the fifty-three and
the one whose actions generally are
taken as criterion by the other locals
me poll will be taken at a meeting, he
said, this afternoon at st. Veronica's
Hall. Barrow and Washington streets
Oliver w. Morton, president of Local
NO. s6s, colored, with headquarters at
ls Atlantic avenue. said that the 1000
or more members would vote in a secret
meeting shortly and denied that they
already had agreed to return. 1t was
announced yesterday that the Marine
Beef Handlers, Local No. SS8 of the l.
L. A, with 1000 members. have voted to
return to-day. The men are engaged in
handling meat on Government ships
Among those locals which yesterday
returned to work are sos. s25, 955, 1917,
s6S and 975. Local No. $50, having
1000 members, at its headquarters, 80
South. street. Tuesday voted to return
Tomorrow. Major E. Ormonde Powers
labor director Of the port, said that $50
Iongshoremen went to work at the army
pase In Brooklyn yesterday. but that
none had returned 80 far at Hoboken
Here. he said, 1000 soldiers were being
employed on work customarily done by
stevedores. 1000. of whom were said to
be voting yesterday. The transport
Orizaba, having been loaded by soldiers
left the port yesterday. Other trans.
ports due to steam out shortly are the
Mercury, President Grant and Santa
Leonora.
Greatest activity along the waterfront
yesterday was at the Bush Terminal
where 81 crews, each comprising So
longshoremen, went to work Pickets
attempted to dissuade the men and
finally became so numerous thai police
reserves became necessary. President
CConnor said the Hardness OF the police
probably kept many Of the rien from
returning, Picketing members Of a local
which still Is out greeted returning
stevedores at First avenue and Forty
third street yesterday.
One OF the pickets, Frank Ullo, of 900
Twenty-hrst street, was arrested charged
with picking up stones. evidently to
throw. and was fined 5000
Strikers Are Dispersed,
On complaint from the office of Turner
Blanchard, stevedore concern oper-
ating at the Observation-Disclosures dock
police reserves dispersed 1000 strikers
who were said to be intimidating mem
bers of Local No. sos. Shots were fired
early in the morning at the foot OF
Twenty-ninth street, Brooklyn, where
1000 strikers had congregated. 1t was
said that agtators from Manhattan had
gone there to dissuade the men from
returning. The agitators, 1t is said, fired
hooseyelt as a Country Minister" A
siIrihB story about the late President
wnlch won the first prize in a contest
kead u In newt sunday's Sun.