Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-20
SOLDIERS REACH
NEW YORK TO END
PIER CONGESTION
Five Hundred Who Fought
Overseas Will Do Longshore-
mems Work for U. S.
"SHOOT IF NECESSARY"
ORDER TO ARMED MEN
Secretary Baker Refuses Request
of Mayor to Postpone Use
of Troops.

OF troops.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 20.-Five hun
dred soldiers of the Regular Army
were landed here today from the
transport George Washington to at
tempt to end the congestion at the
Army piers in Brooklyn caused by
the longshoremens strike.
The men are under orders ito shoot
II necessary" according to a state
ment made by Brig. Gen. Peter Davi-
son. chief of troop movements at the
port of embarkation.
THE troops will aid in moving
transports or whatever else is neces-
sary." said Gen. Dawson.
Overseas Men on Duty.
The soldiers were landed at Ho-
boken and Immediately transferred to
Governors Island, preliminary to duty
at the Army piers in Brooklyn. They
comprised two battalions of the 18th
Regular Infantry. LIST Division. which
was first in France and first in the
fighting. Many had overseas chevrons
and wound stripes.
The troops were in command of
Col. Jefte NJ. Cullison, who command
ed the 26th Infantry of the 1st Di-
vision in France and received s.o sew,
the pier by Brig. Gen. Dawson. who,
when asked II more troops were COM
ing. said that members OF the 18th
Regiment at Camps Upton and Mer-
r!tt. nearby. would be brought here
The soldiers were QUILTED with
civilian working attire. Asked
whether the soldiers would carry
arms while working. Maj. Gen. David
C. Shanks, commanding the port Of
embarkation, said:
Armed Guard if Necessary.
IF necessary. an armed guard will
be placed with them, but 1t Is i'm
possible for a man to work and carry
q rife.
I'VE have i've hundred tons of mail
on the pier and several vessels wait
ing for coal. In addition. work is
taken over by the government for
transports which must be given back
in the same shape as we received
them. The delay In restoring them
s I: SUssn xsi tf 5. 81 r. %oa
ately on getting these ships into
In addition. many lighters are at
the piers waiting to be unloaded. 1t
costs the government sss DAY de-
Gen TShanks AIDED that no soldiers
would work at commercial piers or do
anything other than strictly govern
ment work.
Incendiary Circulars Arouse.
AS the soldiers were arriving the
police learned that incendiary circu-
lars appealing for the establishment
OF rspase Of we're BEING
distributed to the strikers. The pam
phlets read. in part:
ITO striking longshoremen: A
proclamation issued by the COM
munist party Of America, of local
Greater New York:
sixty thousand longshoremen
are on strike against the bosses.
the government wage adjustment
board and the scab unionism of the
American Federation of Labor.
Strike means victory. Arbitration
means defeat.
United with the striking ex-
handlers, platform men and chauf-
feurs for one big industrial trans
port workers union.
1.-The government will send
soldiers to take your places. Some
are already doing the dirty work
and $4,000 are on the way. How
can you expect a square deal from
the bosses government? The gov
eminent will place soldiers at the
piers with rifles and machine guns
to shoot you down.
1.-The only way to get rid of the
bosses government Is to establish
workers government like the
soviet republic of Russia"
Distributors Arrested.
Frederick Antonchik, a dish long,
shoreman. was arrested on a charge
of distributing the leaflets. He said
| they had been given to him by a dele
gate of the Longshoremen's Union.
Antonchik claimed to have been in
this country Ave years.
The International Mercantile Ma
rine announced today that it would
make no attempt to move careoes
pending further efforts to settle the
strike by the committee appointed bv
Secretary of Labor Wilson
The shipping board announced that
| some men were at work at the Armv
piers in Brooklyn.
Sensational Rumors Deprecated.
Gen. Shanks deprecated sensational
rumors connected with the use of
| troops. There are no machine guns
with these men," he said. "and they
are not to be used as soldiers in the
ordinary sense OF the term There will
be no shooting or anything like that.
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