The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-19
STATEN FERRY MEN
STRIKE SUDDENLY
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mands were met. The two organization
leaders stated that the majority OF the
ferry employees were non-union men.
and offered to fnd crews for the boats
unless the strike was called off.
Commissioner Delaney finally took the
ferry, which was manned by a police
crew, to Staten Island for a further con-
ference. and after talking for an hour
and fifteen minutes to a group Of men
at st. George, issued a statement to the
effect that the men had agreed to go
back to work.
The men. however. qualified their
capitulation. They agreed to work until
Monday, when a delegation Of Staten
Island business men will go to the City
Hall and present their demands to the
Mayor, and II they are refused by him
the men will again strike and fight to a
finish
The Board of Estimate at its meeting
late yesterday afternoon approved the
recommendation of the Committee on
Salaries and Grades increasing the SAL
aries of the marine workers in the en-
ploy OF the city to meet the scale tixed
by the United States Wage Adjustment
Board of March Z. This will make the
pay OF these employees the same as that
of other marine employees in the harbor
and includes not only those on the ferry
boats, but also those on the boats of the
Charities Department, the Department
of Correction and the Health Depart
ment. The increase amounts to a total
OF about $4,000 year.
The first serious disorder which has
characterized the marine workers strike
took place yesterday. when seventy-fve
strikers or their sympathizers stormed
the employment agency of Harry Morn-
stein at 347 Bowery, drove $50 applicants
for Jobs into the street and wrecked the
premises.
Police Guard Withdrawn.
Mornstein. who conducts an employ
ment agency at the Bowery address. had
let the place for the day to Bergoff
Brothers and Waddell, who let 1t be
known that they were placing strike
breakers on some of the ships lying In
the harbor patrolman had been sta
toned on the sidewalk during the morn
ing, but shortly before noon he was sent
to investigate a reported burglary In ST
Marks placs Almost Immediately after
his departure the attack took place.
Policemen on nearby posts rushed 70
the scene of the disturbance. but so well
had the attacking party carried out their
plans that the melee was over and the
participants on both sides out or sight
before the police arrived. So far as
could be learned there were no injuries
sufficiently serious to require hospital
treatment, but number Of men ap'
reared later in the day at the head
quarters of the Seaman's Union. D.
south street, with bandaged heads and
arms.
II was learned yesterday also that the
Department of Justice Is taxing IN
active interest in the local strike STU
alton and that n number OF agents VINO
sneak SPANISH have been mingltng WIFE
the strikers along South street for sew
eral days in the hope of picking up
clue TO the whereabouts OF certain
leaders In the I. w. w. shipping strike al
Buenos Ayres last month.
Several Of the Buenos Ayres l. w. w
leaders have disappeared and are be.
lIeyed to have come to the Uniteo
states. The Department OF Justice In
tends to prevent their using the disturb
ances here as a means of carrying or
their propaganda among the less intelii-
gent classes OF labor.
Union leaders strongly resent the sug-
gestion that I. w. w. influences nave
ANYTHING to do with their organization
y.hich is afiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, and one OF them
said Yesterday that they would De giao
10 testify before the Lusk committee to
their knowledge of l. w. w. methods
among seafaring men. So far no SUD
ronas have been served on them.
Embargo on CoastWise Freight.
Despite guarded assertions made by
members of the American Steamship
Association that many coastwise steam
ships have not been interfered with Que
| to their crews never having been union
lied, the United States Railroad Ad
ministration yesterday placed an EN-
barge on freight destined to the ports
| OF New York Boston, Norfolk, New Or
leans and Galveston, where the bills Of
lading show that any part of the route
IN by SEN According to the statement
of an official OF the Railroad Admins
tration the action was taken at the re-
quest Of the stea mship interests. in or
| der TO protect them from loss occasionet
by the strike. The embargo at present
| does not include transatlantic shipments
According to union officials the daily
loss to the shipping interests OF this
port is in excess OF 100000 a day
with an additional loss OF 100000 al
! otherI Atlantic ports. They declared
, their estimate was based on the amount
which the ships now idle would earn y
they were In operation.
All the factions concerned in the
strike declare that the next move is VI
| to the United States Shipping Board
( The American Steamship Association
! which blames the Shipping Board fo'
! the trouble. has gone on record al
I agreeing to the terms which the board
| has offered the men. while the strikerI
are awaiting new overtures from the
Coy eminent organization.
! There is no truth In the reports thai
the strike may spread to the Grea'
! Lakes or the Pacific coast, the unior
| leaders say. but they threaten that u
! concessions are not speedily made they
will call out the longshoremen ant
other harbor workers. They assert tha
| 1000, 900 of these workers are WILLING
&c come TO the assistance of the striking
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