The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-21
DEEP SEA- UNIONS
. STAND BY DEMANDS
Sailors, at Meeting, Vote to
Reject All Compromise
Offers.
ALL VESSELS ARE TIED UP
Owners Will Not Attempt to
Defeat Tieup With Strike
Breakers.

International officials OF the deep sea"
unions decided yesterday afternoon at
a conference in the Hotel Continental
that there would be no compromise with
the American Steamship Association as
TO the SiS a month wage increase and
eight hours watch at sea they demand.
This decision served warning on the
ship owners, who meet to-day at II
Battery Place, to draw up net set
of proposals which It is hoped Will end
the tieup Of all ships in the port u
New York.
Ships that entered New York Harbor
Yesterday locked and were tied up for
an indefinite period. the crews quitting
Immediately. Ships scheduled to leave
port days ago remained at their piers
loaded with cargo. Freight houses were
piled high with merchandise ready TO
be loaded on ships that could not reach
this port from other harbors along the
Atlantic coast. More than 1000 seamen
patrolled the docks along the New York
and Brooklyn waterfront, making sure
no strikebreakers manned the boats.
The American Steamship Association
will not attempt to hire strikebreakers.
The experience so far In the strike has
been such that employment agencies are
threw bricks through the windows of a
couple OF agencies Saturday night and
made 1t uncomfortable for several work
ers who sought employment. This may
have had something to dc with the an
nouncement from the ship corporations
At mass meeting OF the seamen this
week resolutions will be drawn UP and
sent to President Wilson asking his in
tercession In behalf of the strikers. This
was one OF the plans decided upon yes
terday by the strike committee. 1t was
pointed out that the action of the ship
ping board which precipitated the strike
Is multiplying the endeavor OF the Gov
eminent to induce young Americans to
man our merchant marine.
The new proposal of the American
Steamship Association. which is pur-
posed to circumvent the CLOSED shop
demand Of the union, declares that the
ship owners are willing to give prefer
entail employment to union seamen af-
ter first giving the chance to men Of
American citizenship.
It will not be difficult to agree upon
this point, because, II is held by
the union leaders, all Americans are
members of the union anyway. The OBJ
stacle. however. exists In the status Of
British seamen who might be affected
Wherever there Is a union crew."
said a leader yesterday, the conditions
on the boat are good. We de-
mand that a union representative have
access to the ship and inspect the quar-
tiers so that the aocommoda tions for
the crew will be satisfactory. No Amer
lean would stay in the dirty quarters OF
the ships that employ only alien crews
When non-union men entered the en-
CINE room OF the Clyde liner Huron last
night the engineers quit under instruc-
ton from National President William s
Brown prohibiting engineers belonging
70 the International Engineers Union
from working with strikebreakers The
steamship plies between New York and
Florida. and Is now lying at Pier So
Secretary Brown of the International
Seamen's Union will consult counsel to-
day relative to the rioting along the
water front.
Many OF our men have been attacked
shot and slugged by strikebreakers" he
said last night, land We are comforting
with lawyers for the purpose OF stopping
these outrages. We will stop this in
timidation OF the men"