Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-11

take UP the Presidents request at
once, but he was not sure a quorum
could be mustered for action before
Monday.
The board also was requested by
the President to use all means within
its powers to stabilize conditions
generally during the present period
of industrial transition arising from
the war. The Presidents cablegram
follows:
'I have been informed by the
Secretary of Labor as to the serious
situation which has developed in
the port of New York and the strike
of marine workers which seriously
crippled the movements of troops
and supplies. Consider this a very
grave emergency and understand
that it has arisen because the parties
to the controversy failed to take
joint submission to the National War
Labor Board.
"I earnestly request that you take
up this case again and proceed to
make a finding. 1 appreciate the
honesty and sincerity of the board is
announcing on Wednesday that it
could not promise a final decision in
the controversy without a formal
submission from all parties, but am
sure that the War and Navy Depart
ments, the Shipping Board and Rail-
road Administration and any other
governmental agencies interested in
the controversy will use all the pow
er which they possess to make your
finding effective, and 1 also believe
that private. boat owners will feel
constrained by every consideration of
patriotism in the present emergency
- llAa Ill
your board may make. Although the
National War Labor Board, up to the
signing of the armistice, was con-
cerned solely with the prevention of
stoppage of war work and the main
tenance of production of materials
! essential to the conduct of the war,
take this opportunity also of saying
that 1t is my earnest hope that in
the present period of industrial tran
sition arising from the war the board
should use all means within it's pow
er to stabilize conditions and to pre-
vent industrial dislocation and war;
fare"
New York, Jan. 11.-Oficers of
the Marine Workers Affiliation an
nounced to-day that they stood ready
| to abide by any ruling of the War
| Board made in response to President
Wilson's cabled request for action
to terminate the harbor strike.
Mayor Hylan to-day notified lead
ers of the harbor strike that if any
| attempt was made to tie up the
ferryboats plying between the city
and the isalnds in the East river on
which some of the city's charitable
institutions are situated, the leaders
would be prosecuted.
| I'VE have been ready at all times
TO submit our case to arbitration" !"
said President Delahaunty, of the
union. If the War Labor Board is
INSTRUCTED to make q finding and if
the government will endorse it, 1
feel that I am voicing the senti-
ments of all the men when 1 saw
that they will be willing to accept
whatever decision the War Labor
Board makes.
Delahunty said to-day all union
men employed on the craft operat-
ing between the islands were ordered
last night to remain at work and
| did so, and thus there had been no
| shortage of supplies intended for
the charitable institutions. Della
hunty added that the leaders real
| lied they made q mistake.
An intimation that the Boat Own
ers' Association would adhere to it's
refusal to submit to the War La
| Dor Board it's dispute with the strik-
ing harbor workers was contained
in statement to-day by it's coun-
sci commenting on the cabled in
structions of President Wilson.
| Object to Manly's Decision
Paul Bonynge, the employers at
torney, said that if the authorities
at Washington had failed to advice
the President that Basil M. Manly,
joint chairman of the War Labor
Board. had already committed him.
self on the issues involved" that
omission would seriously undermine
the value of DR.. Wilson's sugges-
| ton.
"At this moment" said Mr.. Bony-
nge, II can do no more than indulge
in a shrewd guess that the boat
owners will not consent to arbitra-
| ton of any matter before a board
numbering Mr.. Manly among its
members"
Mr.. Manly's first step was to ask
| the War and Navy Departments, the
| Shipping Board and the Railroad Ad-
ministration what would be their at
titude toward any decisions made by
the board in accordance with the
| Presidents request. He was in
formed promptly that all four of the
Governments agencies woald abide