New-York tribune., 1920-06-28
Longshoremen
Fail to Extend
Scope of Strike
Efforts to Call Out Dock
Workers for the Deep-Sca
Steamers Fail and Men
Will Use Own Judgment
$5OO,OOO To Be Raised
Nationwide Plea for Funds
Planned; Blockade Here
Broken. Merchants Assert

ternational Longshoremen's Assoc1a-
ton to extend the strike Of the long
shoremen and the teamsters by calling
sympathetic strike of dock workers
for deep sea steamers were defeated at
meeting of the association yesterday
at 1854 Eleventh Avenue. The assocla-
tion. however, decided on form Of
guerilla warfare.
All deep sea longshoremen were In
structed to use their own judgment as
to whether they would handle freight
Tor trucks of the Cltlzens IranSporta-
ton Committee.
John F. Riley, business agent OF the
longshoremen's council. said the mem
bers had agreed to raise fund OF
$500 600 "to fight the Merchants Asso-
ciation." He said coast-to-coast
canvass of the unions of the country
would soon begin with view eventu-
allv of raising sb,000,000. which was
the amount raised by the CITIZENS
Transportation Committee.
Many Individual Strikes
"A strike of the deep sea longshore-
men was considered inadvisable at TINS
time" said Mr.. Riley. Our position
now, we think, Is particularly strong;
upon to handle freight from the deep
sea docks may use his own Judgment
about quitting Instead of SYM
pathetic strike there will be lnnumer-
able Individual strikes.
zone hundred and fifty more
pickets will be put out tomorrow. Inc
Merchants Association has been telling
about the great amount OF 4relgnt tne
Citizens Transportation Committee IS
moving, but if you will follow tnelr
trucks you will find that they fire.
icrhf tn
from whence they hauled it,"
Practically all the freight which had
accumulated on the piers of the coast
wise steamers since the strike began
last March has been cleared, according
to an announcement made yesterday
by the Merchants Association.
cat the end of the first complete week
of operation the Citizens Committee
has broken the blockade which has been
tying up the coastwise steamship com
panies and congesting the New York
terminals with undelivered freight"
said the announcement.
New Experience in City
"This operation sets a mark in the
industrial history of New York City
from which reckoning will be made in
the future. 1t establishes new prin-
ciple-the principle that the business
of the city cannot be made the sport of
controversies between employers and
employees. and that the public will
hereafter define and maintain it's right
to the uninterrupted transportation of
its merchandise.
No such fight was ever before made
IN New York City. That it has not
developed into a serious struggle be-
tween the unions and the public is due
to the wisdom of the union leaders who
saw the hopelessness of entering upon
such a struggle.
"The committee has been sending
truck loads of cotton from the Morgan
lower Manhattan to the Mott Haven
yards of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad to ship to consig-
nees in Hartford, Fall River, New Bed
ford, Lawrence and other New Eng
land cotton centers.
"The removal of this cotton from
the Morgan Line to the New Haven
road b. truck was an unusual step
and it was taken only because the
situation required an unusual remedy.'
Hundreds of New Workers who visit
ed Atlantic Highlands, Red Bank
keansburg, Matawan, Keyport ant
Middletown were compelled to wall
long distances yesterday because of I
otAihc VI oIuuCtoiS anu 1hotOTAHcu vi
the Jersey Central Traction Company
whica connects those towns.
The twenty-five cars of the line
which usually provides for heavy Sun
day traffic, we're put out of commissio,
by the refusal of the men to worl
when the company declined to sign
contract recognizing the union. TIL,
men ran the cars into the barns a
midnight Saturday after vacationist
were we'll distributed among the Jer
sey resorts