The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-30
DOCK MEN OFFER TO
RETURN AT 50 CENTS
Compromise Terms by Butler
Faction STIMULATES S1.25
Overtime.
STRIKERS DRIFTING BACK
Fifty of 200 Shipping Board
Vessels Now Are Being
Worked.

The Butler faction Of striking long
shoremen have offered to compromise
with the steamship interests at 20 cents
an hour and s1.25 for overtime Inc
proposal IL made in a telegram sent iast
night to Mayor Hylan after an AFTER
noon meeting Of the strike committee IN
its headquarters, Twenty-fourth street
and Thirteenth avenue. In the message
The Mayor Is asked to arrange CONFER
ence with representatives OF inc s'e"
ship companies to-day.
The shipping interests. with the excep-
tion Of a few small lines which have OF
fered the longshoremen as high as 81
an hour. are committed to the award OF
the National Adjustment Commission
and will not meet the strikers again,
representatives say. 1t Is said on gooo
authority they are importing negro IA
borers from northern Virginia, one ship
load already having arrived. reports
that the Clyde and Mallory lines were
Transporting strikebreakers on the Ot-
sego which will dock shortly, could not
be verified. The report is that the ex-
pense will be borne jointly by members
Of the steamship conference
T. " O'Connor, president OF the IN
ternational Longshoremen's Association,
soon will end and reports from various
points along the waterfront show that
the men gradually are drifting back to
work. Despite this fact shipping records
compiled at noon disclosed that 62S yes
sells, OF which $40 are steamships. are
tied up at piers in Manhattan. Brooklyn
or Staten Island, or at anchor IN the
harbor This is said by shipping men TO
be the largest number OF vessels ever
recorded as being In the port in single
day. Fifty-three OF these are passenger
vessels, some of them being the largest
liners afloat.
Demand End of Deadlock.
Two letters demanding that the dead
lock be broken at once were sent out by
representative business men yesterday,
one being from the Chamber of Com
nnerce to Mayor Hylan. The other, from
the Merchants Association, was ad-
dressed to Frederick Toppin. represent
ing the steamship companies. In their
appeal the Merchants Association COM
plain of futile negotiations which have
not resulted in inducing the longshore-
men to return TO work" and urgently
request. therefore. that you take
whatever steps are possible promptly
TO secure a force Of workmen suffi-
to enable the interrupted commerce Of
thit port at once to be resumed"
Shipping records show that every
available dock is occupied. Idle ships
made fast to piers, are costing owners
Sa00 to $1,000 day in dock rental
The daily cost of the tie UP. estimated
by shipping authorities, based on the
Shipping Boards demurrage rate of 81
q net ton a day, is more than 81. 500. 900
Insurance brokers report that loss OF
business in maritime policies is made
up for to considerable extent by de-
n.ands for strike and riot insurance
and for policies covering loss by fire
FIFTY vessels Being worked.
Fifty of the 200 vessels controlled by
thn Shipping Board now are being
worked, as against twenty-five on Mon
day3 One of these Is in the Chelsea sec
ti6H where workmen are being housed
and fed on the Artemis,
Work was resumed on the Ward Line
piers for the first time. In the morning
longshoremen returned to the Munsor
Line, but knocked off after dinner. About
$500 men worked In South Brooklyn
yesterday. The strike there is virtually
ended, according to reports, and the onl,
pier entirely closed Is No. Bush Ter.
minal. although piers and 6 were with.
out their full quotas The army base al
Fifty-eighth street was turning ava,
men. Longshoremen returned to worl
in Staten Island.
Paul A. Vaccarelll said he would ask
the strikers to attend a meeting, where
he would acquaint them with the de.
clsion of the strike committee. This wa.
taken by the O'Connor faction to indi
cate that Vaccarelli, who is a member Of
the Mayors commission OF Cancellation
purposes to inspire those who are about
to return or who have returned TO hoo
out for the new compromise wage Of 81
cents