The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
BRITISH SHIPS IN NEW YORK HARBOR ARE ALL TED UP Dock Workers Plan Spread of Walkout Till Mac Sweeney Released and
 Mannix Enters
 Ireland
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| New York August 7-~Elated by their
 tteup of virtually every British ship in
 New York, the 2,000 or more longshore-
 men suddenly quit work today expect to spread their walkout to every port In
 the United States in the hope Of fore
 ing Great Britian to release from JAii
 Terrence MacSweney. the Lord mayor of Cork, and permit Archbishop Mannix to land on Irish Soil The women pickets who inspired the unexpected walkout ! of longshoremen and the marine firemen, water tenders and oilers who Joined them, feel the same way about it. They are not going back to work on British ships, they said, until Great Britian meets their wishes
 Irish sympathizers working on Ameri- can, French and Belgin steamships also quit work during the whirwind cam paign the strikers waged along the North River this afternoon. Although not en masse, longshoremen of various nationalities rushed from the holds of vessels at the command of their Irish comrades More than 260 negroes who were unloading the cargo of Conard liner fell into line with the speed of the historic minute men" and received big ovation from the other strikers. INSPIRED BY WOMEN A little band of women pckets in- spred the strike during the noon hour They stationed themselves outside the White Star line pier in the morning to await the arrival of the Baltic. from which Archbishop Mannix was removed by a British naval vessel on that ships last voyage to Ireland and England.
 The archbishop was not permitted to land in Ireland but was token 10 Eng land and longshoremen said they re- scented this
 When the Baltic docked the women held up a placard reading when Man nix goes t1 Ireland let the Baltic leave New York; and also displayed other signs and banners referring to Mannix, Lloyd George and Terrence MacSweney. During the lunch hour the long , shoremen. who had started work on
 the Baltic, decided not to go back and
 accompanied by the women pelSets they went into the holds of the other near by liners. Canopc Olympic and Celtic; where they quickly induced hundreds of other longshoremen and allied vorkass tos join their walkout. -NSrnfne7 outside the wnite Star line pcs, inside of whis were officials ealing foE potice reserves the stfik-
 CTS began a parade that swept up
 West street engulflng hundreds, of
 longshoremen at the docks of theCun-
 ard, Anchor and other British lines, ana lcdNlnB III us WAke more than dozen steamships with loading sched-
 ules badly disrupted
 SURPRISE ATTACK
 It was all in the nature of a surprise attack, but persuasion was not neces- sary to lure the men away from work
 as the growing parade flowed into piers where the longshoremen knew nothing of what had been going on further down the river. With cries of Get out of there" and "Let-c goN the strikers would race into the piers. holds of 8 steamship. Tn a moment or two they would return followed by fresh endorsements many of whom knew not whither they were going nor why.
 Stunned by the appearance of the paraders as they hurried into the piers and out again with crew strikers trail- ing behind them steamship officials were unable to state what they will do to maintain their schedules in tho unexpected situation Nor were long, shoremen union leaders who declared the strike unauthorized, though stat ing that most of their men were in favor of Irish freedom" The walk out came so suddenly and defeotlons from working crews varied so between unenmity in the British steamships to only a few in the holds of other ves- sels that neither longshoremen chiefs nor steamship officials could estimate tonight the number of men who quit work.