New-York tribune., 1919-10-09
10000 Are Now Out, and
Union -, Officials Admit
That They Have Lost Con.
troll of Their Membership
Promise Broken, Say Men
Told They Would Get More
Than Was Awarded by
Adjustment Commission

Approximately $4,000 more pier work.
ers Joined the striking longshoremen
yesterday, bringing the total of idle
workers up to $4,000. The walk-out has
practically paralyzed the business Of
the port. Piers in the North and East
rivers, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey
City were deserted, sailings Of trans
atlantic and 'coastwise vessels delayed
and incoming and outgoing freight be-
gan piling up at the docks.
The Cunard Liner Carmania. sched-
uled to sail at noon Tuesday. finally
got away at p. nj. yesterday. The
Baltic, of the White Star Line, got
away at p. M, after delay of four
hours. Executives and clerks loaded
of the French Line,-was unable to dock
upon it's arrival last night for lack
Of workers, and will make an effort to
get into it's berth to-day. (, 49,. .5s s
!. '. O'Conner, president of the In
ternational gshoremens Associa-
ton, reiterated his assertion that the
strike was unauthorized and con-
demned by regular officials of the or
ganization, and declared it in direct
violation of the agreement of the Long
shoremen to abide by the decision of
the National Adjustment Commission
Of the United States Shipping Board
He said he was doing all he could to
get the men back to their jobs, but
admitted that for the present the cf
fcers of the organization have lost
control Of the workers.
The workers say they went out be,
cause officials of the union had prora,
lsed TO obtain for them a greater in
crease than the award Of the commits
sion. The commission, of which Will
the men a raise from 65 to 70 cents
an hour and from 81 to s110 for over
time. eight hours to constitute days
work. The men demanded 81 an hour
and double pay Tor overtime.
The walkout started on luesda :
afternoon, when 5000 men left sew
eral piers in the Chelsea section while
a report of the award was being cir
cuIated among them by union officials
Early yesterday 500 checkcrs. joinec
the strikers, and by the end Of the day
practically all the docks in the por1
were deserted.
1t was intimated by certain unior
men that the trouble was an outgrowtl
VI Luc COHtAONCISy IhdC cAiSCeu De
tween the present head Of the interna-
tional body and F. Paul A. Vaccarelli
q former president, who withdrew
from the organization following the
convention Of the association in July
at Galveston. Vaccarelli has since
formed d new Organiza ton not affili-
uted with the longshoremen and known
as the international Union Of River
Front, Harbor and Interior Workers
which he saysi is about $4,000 strong.
1t had been stated that it was the in
fuence Of this body that brought about
the present unauthorized walkout. This
however, Viccarelli emphatically denied
yesterday, saying that since September
II there have been no longshoremen
or general cargo handlers affiliated
with his union.
O'Connor said no officials of the
'lougshoremen's union. had. ever made
any promises to the men. Regarding
the intimation that Naccarelli influence
was responsible for rhe walkout. he
said he. didn't believe "he had that
much influence with the 'longshore-
men since he was repudisted at the
Galveston convention"
Representatives of forty steamship
lines met in the Offices Of the trans
Atlantic Conferences, at SO Pearl
Street, yesterday afternoon and form
ally indorsed the National Adjustmen Mt
Commissions award.