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.PRO-|R|SH DUCK
 WORKERS TIE UP
 BRITISH VESSELS
Longshoremen Quit Work And Demand Release of
 Cork Mayor; Strike Af-
 fleets Nearly Every Eng fish Ship in N. Y. Harbor
LRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire]

NEW. YORK, Aug. 27. = Elated by their ue-up of virtually every. British ship in New York, the 2,000 longshore- men who suddenly quit work today expect to spread their waIkout to every port in the United States in the hope of forcing Great Britain to re- lease from jail Terence MacSweney, lord mayor of Cork, and permit Arch bishop Mannix to land on Irish soil. The women pickets who inspired the unexpected walkout, 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 Britain meets their wishes.
 Irish sympathizers working on American, French and Belgian steam ships also quit work during the whirl wind campaign the strikers waged along the North River
 A little band of women pickets in- spired the strike during the noon lunch hour. They stationed themselves outside the White Star line pier, to await the arrival of the Baltic, from which Archbishop Mannix was re- moved by a British naval vessel. The archbishop was not permitted to land in Ireland and was taken to England, and 1ongshoremen said they resented this
 When the Baltic docked the women held up a placard reading: When Mannix goes to Ireland 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 longshore- men to join their walkout.
 Strike "Unauthorized"
 Forming outside the White Star line pier, inside of which officials were calling for police reserves, the strikers began a parade, engulfing hundreds of Iongshoremen at the docks of the Cunard, Anchor and other British lines and leaving in it's wake more than a dozen steamships with loading sched- ules disrupted. Steamship officials were unable to state what they will do to maintain their schedules.
 Longshoremen union leaders 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 defections from working crews varied so that neither 1onsshorerpsn chiefs nor steam ship officials could estimate the mum Der. of men who quit.
 The White Star liner Olympic will sail on scheduled time for Southamp- ton tomorrow, officials said tonight. At the Cunard line office there was confidence that the Aquitania also would leave tomorrow for the same port The Cunard line has five steam ships affected by the walkout and the I. M. M. companys line has four, these two companies being the heaviest suf- ferers.
 Several British ships are scheduled 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.
 HOLD MASS MEETING
 A five minute ovation greeted 100 striking members of the Battles crew when they marched into a theater to- night where a mass meeting protest ing MacSweney's imprisonment was in progress. The gathering, which numbered nearly 4o00, was addressed by Frank F. Walsh. chairman of the American commission on Irish inde pendence," and EamCNn de Valera, president of the Irish republic."
 Walsh said that 5000 more men would quit work on British shipping here in the fight for Ireland"
 With the cold blooded assassina- about the downfall of England" said Walsh. George will be directly re- sponsibIe for this assassination"
 "MacSweney does not want to die" said De Valera, but he knows that on his fortitude and detention more de- pends for Ireland than the fate of an army corps. If he dies it will not be suicide as the British contend, but he will die as a soldier in battle and his death will be on the hands of the enemy"
 a A resolution, which was adopted, congratulated MacSweney "on his op- portunity to win a moral victory that would be heard around the world"