The sun., 1919-10-23
LONGSHOREMENP FAIL
TO RETURN TO WORK.
Only Few Hundred of 1000
Strikers Respond to O'Con-
. nor's Orders.
TWO FACTIONS ORGANIZED
Vaccarelli and New Committee
Claim Support of Forty
eight Locals.

eight Locals.
Only few hundred of the $4,000
striking longshorernen returned to work
yesterday in response to orders from
the strike committee and the promise
Of T. V. O'Connor, their national presi-
dent. Instead. the men allied them
selves with two factions. ona headed by
O'Connor, Joseph Ryan. vice-president
of the l. L. A and the strike committee
headed by John f. Riley. the other
headed by F. Paul A. Vaccarelli, Dick
Butler. business agent of Local se6. and
a new strike committee composed OF
delegates. II was claimed OF forty-eight
OF the ffty-three locals.
Supporting O'Connor Is the organiza-
ton Of shipping interests and the Ma
tional Adjustment Commission. The
shipping men said yesterday that though,
the situation yesterday remained prac-
tically unchanged, ships would be moved
to-day.
At the Office of the United States Ship
ping Board 1t was said that one of three
plans. perfected at a meeting in the af-
ternoon for moving the $50 vessels under
control of that body, would be announced
this morning. What plans were dis
cussed was not divulged. but from other
sources II is understood that they are
TO employ troops as longshoremen, To
employ those longshoremen who can be
prevailed upon TO work with protection
of troops and police. and to employ
stevedores to have the work done.
It was said that this solution might
prove a sidestepping OF the unwieldy
award of the wage commission, of 20
cents an hour.
Under the third plan the steamship
men would pay the stevedore companies
sufficient to enable them to- pay the
longshoremen more than the amount
actually set as a maximum by the wage
commission.
Demand Dollar an Hour.
Representatives of twenty locals,
headed by Butler met the committee OF
conciliat'c1 appointed Saturday by Sec
retary of Labor Wilson at City Hail
'sst night. Butler explained that the
men had been duly appointed by theii
locals and that many othe:. repre-
sertstives who had wanted attend
had been sent back to their 7rgan'za-
tions for credentials. In all 'crty-fou-
to forty-eight locals had pleiged him
their support. he said
The committee presented {. list oi
grievances, drawn up In the afternoon
at the new strike headquarters, Thir.
teenth avenue and Twenty-fourth street
The demand is for 81 an hour. 81 fol-
overtime. fortyfour hour week and
''the same conditions for Brooklyn a.
Tor Manhattan" having to do, it Is
understood. with the number of mer
employed in a gang.
The meeting resolved to empower
Mayor Hylan to open negotiations witt
the steamship interests. with view tC
another wage conference. which will en-.
tirely supp'nnt the award of the Ma
tional Ad ,ustment Commission. 1t was
at the Mayors suggestion that the reso-
luton was adopted. Mayor Hylan said
he understood certain members of the
wage conference did not have the con-
fidence of the men and wanted the
strikers to agree to return to work pend
ing a conference he thought he could
have with. the steamship interests
When the men objected to returning
to work. fearing they said, the steam.
ship people would not listen to further
arbitration. Mayor Hylan declared thai
IL this proved to be the case the blame
for further trouble would rest WITH
them. He promised. for the Cancellation
commission. including besides himself
Vaocarelli and Commissioner Hughes OF
Philadelphia, both of whom were at the
meeting. that 1t would open negotiation,
to-day with the shipping interests.
Meantime the delegates are to return
20 their several locals for ratification OF
shs agreement They will return with a
statement Of this tonight or tomorrow
ard II the other side has agreed the
Mayors Cancellation Committee will pro.
ceed to open a hearing and nullify the
entire award of the commission which
represented the Federal Government
Two Factions Bitter.
The two factions of strikers have be.
come exceedingly bitter against each
other, 1t was freely charged last nigh,
that O'Connor had employed gunmen n
his efforts Tuesday night to browbeat
the Hoboken iongshoremen to return tc
work. One speaker. Pat McNichol. OF
Local No. sos. Hoboken. arraigning the
national president, said he was the "big
gest barefaced liar on the face of the
earth.'
Earlier in the day the new strike
committee passed resolutions demanding
OConnors removal from Office. Thi.
motion was presented by Thomas Wei
don Of Local No. 33S. and seconded by
John Disalvo. 7S3. 1t was said the
tive council at Buffalo.
On the other hand O'Connor's factor
claims Vaccarelli started the strike, /.
employing henchmen to keep the men ou
and az the same time employing str!k,
BREAKERS to take their places. Senator
Sherman (Rep.) of Illinois yesterday
read into the Congregational Record &
letter from William Hall Allen, II!
Broadway, protesting against the ap
pointment of Vaccarelli on the commits
sion. The letter said that Vaccarelli
under the name OF Paul Kelley. had fo
several years been known as '1eader oi
q notorious gang of thieves and thugs
''VaccarellI was the adviser and con
hdant of his gang. sharing In their plum
der and aiding them to get out OF theil
scrapes by giving bail and securing th'
services of plant attorneys" says thu
letter. Later he became connected will
the Longshoremen's Union. which EN-
braced the Toustabouts and freigh
handlers OF the water front. He be
came an officer of this union and al
such politically useful to Tammany Hal
oven more than before"
While strikers and shipping mel
claimed that less than 1000 striking
longshoremen had returned to work yes
terday and that most of the work dom
wns by strike breakers and men EN-
ployed at a premium by stevedore com
panies T. V. O'Connor declared tha
5000 actually had returned, as follows
Munson Line, 1900: United Fruit Line
1900: Ward Line. 900; Spanish Ameri
can Line, 400: Funch-Edye Line. 400
Staten Island. 325; Army Base II