Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-28
STRIKE Of DOCK
MEN MAY AFFECT
EVERY PORT IN
UNITED STATES
LongShoremen Quit to Force
England to Release Lord
Mayor of Cork and to Per-
nit ManntX to Land.
BRITISH VESSELS IN g.
N. Y. ARE TIED UP
Steamship Employees Also
Walk Out; Won't Return
TO Work Until Their Wish
eS Are Complied With,


New York, Aug. 2T (bg the AS
sociated Press) .-Elated by their
tie-up of virtually every British
ship in New York. the 1000 long
shoremen who suddenly quit work
today expect to spread their walk
out to every port in the United
states in the hope of forcing Great
Britain to release from jail Terence
and permit Archbishop ManniX to
land on Irish soil. The women
pickets who inspired the uneXpect-
ed walkout and the marine fire
men, 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 Britain meets their
wishes.
Irish sympathizers working on
American, French and Belgian
steamships also quit work during
the whirlwind campaign the strik.
ers waged along the North river.
Women Inspire Strike.
A little band of women pickets
inspired the strike during the noon
lunch hour They stationed them
selves outside the White Star line
pier, to await the arrival of the
Raltic. from which Archbishop
Mannix was removed by a British
naval vessel
The archbishop was not per-
mitted to land in Ireland but was
taken to England and longshore-
men said they resented this.
When the Baltic docked the
women held up a placard read
ing: when Mannix goes to Ire
land let the Baltic leave New
York" and also displayed other
signs. During the lunch hour the
| longshoremen who had started
work on the Baltic decided not to
go back and accompanied by the
women pickets, they went into the
holds of the other nearby liners,
Olympic, Canopic and Celtic, where
they quickly induced hundreds Of
other ongshoremen to join their
walkout.
Strikers Stage Parade.
Forming outside the White Star
line pier, inside of which officials
were calling for police reserves,
/ the strikers began a parade. en-
quilting hundreds Of longshoremen
at the docks of the Cunard, Anchor
and other British lines and leaving
| in Its wake more than dozen
stea mships with loading schedules
! disrupted. Steamship officials were
unable to state what they will do
| to maintain their schedules.
Longshoremen union leaders de-
clared the strike unauthorized,
though stating that most of their
men were in favor of Irish free
| dom" The walkout came so sud-
denly and defections from working
crews varied so that neither long
shoremen chiefs nor steamship Of
ficials could estimate the number
, of men who quit.
Olympic VIII Sail Today.
The White Star liner Olympic
will sail on scheduled time for
/ Southampton tomorrow, officials
said tonight. At the Cunard line
office there was confidence that
the Aquitania also would leave to-
morrow for the same port. The
Cunard line has five steamships
affected by the walkout and the
l. M. NJ. company's line has four,
these two companies being the
| heaviest sufferers.
Several British ships are sched-
uled to arrive tomorrow and early
next week. and the longshoremen
declare they will not unload them
except for mail until Macsweney
Is freed and Archbishop Mannix Is
allowed to go to Ireland.
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