The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-17
LONGSHORE STRIKE
ONLY PARTLY ENDED
Many Men Return to Work,
but Biggest Local May Up
set Peace To-day.
I. W. w. PROVOKE RI0TING
Bullets Fly in Clashes on Piers
and Casualties Are Report
ed on Both Sides

Union leaders admitted last night that
which yesterday was marked by
the wounding of dozen men and con-
siderable disorder at various piers,
hinges on the vote to-day or Local No.
1911. This local has 300 members, en-
ployed chiefly at the Chelsea piers. and,
being the largest local of the port, IL
dominant in influence over others of the
fifty-three locals. Its president, John b.
Riley, who also is president of the New
York District Council, l. l.. A, and
chairman of the strike committee. ex-
pressed the opinion last night that the
poll would show a decision to return to
work.
Riley was one of the chief speakers at
n meeting of the local in st. Veronica's
Hall, Barrow and Washington streets,
yesterday afternoon. The hall was filled
for four hours with strikers of divided
, sentiment, while hundreds stood about
the streets outside. When Il. V. O'Con-
nor entered at o'clock he was greeted
by Kisses, which, from the outside, ap-
peared unanimous. AS soon as the pres
| ident of the I. L. A. got the floor, how
ever, 1t is commended he subdued an
| tagonism and made a much better i'm
preston on the strikers than upon his
| audience at Cooper Union Monday night.
Efforts to poll verdict of the men
\ by a rising vote at the meeting. as many
members insisted, were found impracu-
cable because of the lack of space and
the fact that many in the assemblage
/ already were standing. Longshoremen
| who maintain that their leaders have
| misstated facts in their optimistic view
that the strike virtually is settled
pointed out that little, II any work. work
by members of the organization was
done on North River docys Yesterday
| that one big local. S66. which operates
mostly north OF Thirty-fourth street or
the North River, voted yesterday to re-
main out, and that thousands OF the
men actually have expressed themselves
as being opposed to return under th'
scale provided in the award OF the Ma
tional Adjustment Commission.
Leader Riley Called Lucky.
They say. and without the contradic
ton of their leaders, that IL the "cri
terion'' local, 791, votes mo" to-day tn
strike will be anything but settled. TIL
doorman at the meeting at st. Veron
ica's Hall yesterday. refusing to let an!
one but members Of the local enter tn
meeting, stated that RileX rs luck!
himself to be here"
headquarters. 164 Eleventh avenue. b!
the constitution and bylaws OF tn
l. L. A balloting must be carried oil
| beginning with the lowest registered
number on the books and in sequenc
thereafter until the affirmative or mega
tive vote of each member is recorded. o
his absence noted. The task, 1t 1
thought, will require from A. NJ. unit
p. NJ.
George Speed, member of the genera
executive board of the l. w. W., yester
. day declared that as a result OF tn
: longshoremen's strike the l. w. w. ha
gained many hundreds of members.
I'VE have actually been unable t
issue red cards fast enough" he said
in two days We enrolled 400 to so
men. We could get more. but we haven
, men to speak to Italians, Russians an
Hungarlans in their own language"
Members of the Red organization ar
; charged with responsibility in yester
days disorder, which occurred chief
in Brooklyn and on Staten Island. A
least 100 men were involved in tn
fight at Clifton, s. l., which was tn
most serious disturbance of the day
The trouble began at o'clock when
band of Italians from Brooklyn dis
! covered twenty-five longshoremen
| Pier Il, PouchS terminal, ready 10 uIi
load three japanese steamships, in &C
cordance with Staten Island locals vot
on Wednesday night. The Italians at
tackled the longshoremen. Japanes
sailors assisted the longshoremen unit
police reserves drove the Italians away
Lee Anderson OF SO Van Duzer street
Stapleton, was taken to a hospital wit
his abdomen torn by a bale hook
Benjamin Britain. 205 East Thirty
ninth street, Manhattan, and Nicolo Car
, curico, 6S Sixteenth street, Brooklyn
each was shot in the abdomen and lie
by man said to be George Jacobs
business agent OF a longshoremen'
union, near the foot of Greenpoint ave
nue., Greenpoint. in the morning. TIL
men had Just left the ferry and. it
said, had gone there to talk with unto
members who were returning to work.
Joseph Magliulo. "a Carroll street an
, carrying a membership card In tn
III. w. w, was arrested charged wit
firing three shots at Reginald Evan
, 272 Forty-third street. a checker eir
| nIouad af IA R1IQh