The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-21
PIERMEN BALK
AT VACCARELLI;
MAYOR ANGRY
Hylan's First Effort Fails
to Settle Strike; Will Try
New Plan To-day.
TROOPS NOT WITHDRAWN
/. w. w. Agitators Arrested
for Fomenting Antagonist
to Government.

Of the longshoremeu yesterday. but the
strikers made another distinct breach In
their own ranks when John +. Riley,
head of the strike committee, and about
40 per cent OF a group of longshoremen'
who had gathered for a conference win
the Mayor and his Cancellation board
walked out Of the meeting with the NAT
declaration that they did not want r
Paul A. Vaccarelli to have hand IN Ell
forts to end the strike This further DIS
sension among the strikers themselves IN
dictated that there Is a possibility OF
such a gradual breaking up OF the strike
as the steamship men have predicted.
A session of the Mayors conciliation
committee yesterday morning and q
conference with the National Wage Ad-
justment Commission later in the DAY
was followed last night by meeting AT
City Hall between Mayor Hylan. the
strike committee OF Nthe longshoremen
and delegates from the union locals. Inc
strike committee had met PREVIOUSLY
and John f. Riley had telegrapned a
protest to Secretary of Labor wilson
erainst the Inclusion OF Paul Vac
carelli's name in the Cancellation COM
mittee appointed by the Secretary at the
request of the Mayor.
Last nights meeting hardly mad
opened before Riley said pointedly tha'
the men were willing to meet the Mayor
at any time. but that they oo1ecteo 10
meeting certain people" Mayor Ryan
tried to dodge the question and SAID ne
represented the city and could not De
bothered with the chickering's of various
organizations over individuals. Riley,
however, was firm and maintained that
the strike committee had gone on record
against Vaccarelli and that they did not
want him. 1t was at this point that
Dick Butler head OF Local $50, de-
clared that Riley did not represent the
views Of all of the strikers, and after
another Intellectual protest Riley ana
some 40 per cert. of the longshoremen
LETT the room. The remaining delegates
agreed TO meet the Mayor and his con-
citation committee in Tammany Han
this afternoon. At that time the Mayor
will present A plan which he is confident
will end the strike.
The arrest yesterday morning of three
men found distributing revolutionary
pamphlets in the streets was cited by
t V. O'Connor. president of the Inter-
national Longshoremen's Association, as
evidence that he had not been mistaken
when he said in the early stages Of the
trouble that l. W. W. influences were
responsible for the walkout
All three of the men arrested were
born In Russia, they told the police
They were Frederick Antonchik. 20
years old, % Henry street. arrested at
West and Christopher streets by Pa
trolman Joseph Hughes, and Samuel
Blowski, 2s, OF 10 Rutgers street and
John Schister 20. of 1855 Madison street
Blowski and Schister werS arrested at
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plant of David ]. Liken, a member Of
local 7s1, who said that the tenor Of
the circulars had enraged the union
men gathered in front of the headquar-
tsrs building at 1874 Eleventh avenue.
Antonchik and Schister were disrib-
uting a circular in the form OF a procia-
nation addressed to the strikers by the
Communist Party OF America, Local
Greater New York" calling upon the
strikers to get rid Of the present Gov
eriment and establish in its place a
workers. government like the Soviet re-
public OF Russia"
Antonchik asserted that the leaflets
had been given to him by a member OF
the longshoremen's organization and
that as he was unable to read English
he was ignorant OF the contents. The
third man OF the trio was giving out a
pamphlet In italian even more infam-
nnatory In its terms. All three we're
held In s., 900 bail by Magistrate Morris
Koenig In Jefferson Market Court for
examination on Thursday.
Interest in Troops Arrival.
Apart from the negotiations begun by
Shs Mayor interest in the pier strike
situation yesterday centred in the az
rival OF the transport George Washing
ton with 500 members of the Twelfth
United States Infantry. These men
were ordered to this port from Newport
News by the War Department. and prior
to the docking OF the George Washing
ton at Hoboken yesterday morning II
was generally believed that the action of
the national Government in ordering
them here was the first move in the
adoption of a policy of intervention and
that an attempt would be made to break
the strike by throwing the resources OF
the Government into the fight
Developments yesterday, however,
failed to bear out this theory, and Ma
jor-Gen. David H. Shanks, commanding
the Port of Embarkation at Hoboken
and hence ranking officer of all forces
stationed along the various water fronts
was emphatic in his declaration that the
newly arrived men would be utilized
only on the Government piers and that
their efforts would be confined to keep
ing the army transports moving. He
deplored the reports which have been
circulated that the men ,rcre equipped
with machine guns and " ere to be scat
tered along the various piers. The mer
were put to work in dungarees on the
Hoboken piers,
Secretary OF War Baker in a tele-
gram to Mayor Hylan refusing the re-
quest Of the latter to postpone the des-
patch of troops to this city stated that
the men had been sent for the purpose OF
maintaining the esrvice Of the trans
port service. He said:
1.-THE vessels which the War Depart
ment is operating are public vessels and
their operation Is essential to provide
needed supplies for our forces abroad
and for the return of emergency men
still to be brought back from France
The port authorities have been directed
TO maintain this service and to take
whatever steps may be required to con-
tinue the necessary operations at the
port. l will cooperate with you in any
possible way about an adjustment OF
she strike difficulty.
THE War Departments policy has
always been and will be to deal fairly
with labor, but the maintenance OF the
transport service upon which our over
seas army depends and which Is bring
ing home soldiers returning from France
rs a part OF the war operations Of the
Government and intend to continue
their operation"
Government Is Losing Money.
Gen. Shanks said: TT is an absur
dlty SuRRcgf that thaaa man "a bar.