New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

announced that as the result Of his
conferences with the strikers. three
thousand longshoremen ordinarily en-
Eloyed along the docks in the Chelsea
district, he was informed. were GO
Ing. back to work to-day. Oilers,
scalers and others in shlpyards. he
added, had also promised him to re-
turn to work pending the settlement
of their grievances.
The committee of the strikers.
headed by John F. Riley, adopted res
olutions similar to those of some Of
the individual locals. protesting
against the appointment OF Vaccarelli
to the conciliation commission. and a
telegram to this effect was sent to
vSecretary Wilson.
Delegates Quit Meeting
Half. the delegates of the fifty-three
locals of the longshoremen's associa-
ton who attended the Mayors meeting
with the longshoremen in City Hall
last night abruptly left the room be-
cause of the presence of Vaccarelli,
Ten minutes after the meeting had
got under way Riley Informed the
Mayor that as the committee and a
majority of the locals had gone on rec
0tN oSoiHoI ucCtiHS tdCCaTelIl as q
member of the commission, they would
have to leave the room. Riley was the
first to go.
When he was not followed imme
diately by any one else the Mayor re-
marked: ~ see that the others are
keeping their seats pretty stanch w.
Whereupon about half of the $50 dele
gates present got up and went out
The Mayor told those that elected to
stay that he would address all the long
shoremen in Tammany Hall at oclock
this afternoon. John Di salvo, of
Local 338, assured the Mayor that rep
resentatives Of the 1900 men in
Brooklyn would be there, while Patrick
Men cholas, vice-president of the At
lantic Coast District. said the same for
5000 men in that division.
Major-General David c. Shanks, com
manding general at the Port of EN-
barkation, said an entirely erroneous
impression has been gained in con-
nection with the arrival of The troops
ut is an absurdity to suggest" he
said, that these men are here with
machine guns for the purpose of over
awing the strikers. They are here
on purely government work. We have
500 tons of mail to be moved, vessel.
are waiting for coal, ships taken over
from private owners must be fittet
up for return, and these men will be
used to do this work. They will no
be, used at the Chelsea piers or at an!
other commercial pier. 1t will be i'm
possible for the men to carry rifle
and work at the same time. If it il
necessary. an armed guard will b,
placed with them"
At the Offices Of the United State
Shipping Board it was said that abou
1900 longshoremen returned to th
army base in Brooklyn yesterday. Th'
loading of vessel at Pier Is by th
United Fruit Company. which has al
ways kept an open shop, was the onl.
other activity in the harbor yesterday
$4,000 Sacks of Mail Held Up
1t developed that $4,000 sacks of for
eign mail have piled up in the post
offices here as result Of the tw
weeks tie-up. Z. c. Walters, super
intendent of the foreign mail division
says two three story buildings ar
packed to roof with the delayed mai
The last two Transatlantic consiQn
ments, he said, we're sent from this cit
to Montreal on October Is. from whcr
they were shipped overseas.
Last Wednesday 800 sacks Of mai
for foreign shipment were placed on tn
vessel has been unable to get ava
because Of the strike. Mail to Sout1
America is being sent by rail to
Southern port, thence by boat TIL
United Fruit Company is also takin
some mail to South America
Agents Of the radical elements ar
continuing to spread "red" leaflet
among the strikers. Frederick Anton
ehik. Of 20 Henry Street; Samuc
Blowski, Of 10 Rutgers Street, an
John schister, Of 1876 Madison Stree,
were arrested for redistributng circu
lara calling on the longshoremen t.
get rid Of the bosses of governmen
and establish a workers government
Ike the soviet republic Of Russia.