New-York tribune., 1920-05-07

organizations Of the city would en-
deavor 20 use their influence with The
raiiroad companies to end their nettv
sSuabbies with their employees. so tha.
transportation could get back to it's
normal condition.
Ihe opinion prevailing among men
IN TINS city IN the transportation line
seems to be that the reason for NOT
Worrying IN full operation is to arouse
sympathy IN the hearts of the members
OF the Interstate Commerce Commiss
sion and the Shipping Board. so that
rates may be increased, permittiny mo
railroads to meet the additional ex-
pense which they claim they are unable
to earn" N''''e
J; J. Reardon, president of the United
states trucking Corporation, the
largest in the city. said the employment
of strike-breakers would Ieaa eis ~
violence and the need OF police pro.
tection and so bring about can un-
desirable situation"
Mr. Mariing stated yesterday that tho
merchants have been assured of tha
fullest police protection in the carrv;no 9,
out of their plans. He was still bonn
tui that the drivers would be willing
to consider some way to break tho
deadlock, ''o
In any event." he declared, "if the
tfucKmen are not prepared to accept
our program that the people should be
served 'mpartially without regard to
union affiliations, then the trucking
business viii have to be deunionized },
what little freight could be got from
the piers, 1T was stated by shippers yes
terday, was moved only under the most
trying circumstances. Some comnlainea
that system of graft has sprung up
among the master stevedores, who de-
mand an extra So for every truck of
goods moved, in addition to their regu-
lar charge and the pay of the long
shorehen VINO are willing to handle it.
Railroads Given Blame
Another phase Of the crippled trans
portatlon facilities was gone into lcst
night by A. II. Smith. president of the
New York Central Railroad Comment
ing on the statement of Western grain
dealers and farmers before the House
~, Interstate commerce Committee a:
washington that shortage of FREIGHT
cars was largely responsible for the hipn
cost OF tooo, he said that every person
IN New York is compelled to help make
up Sl3,0o0,000 wasted every year be-
cause of the lack of warehouses and
cars.
Freight for New York City" he said,
lis hauled by rail ten or twelve miles
downtown at one cent a ton mile and
back again by trucks at 8 cost of so
cents mile. No city in the country
would stand for that except New York.
Railroad facilities generally are a great
factor in the cost of necessities.
They are short at the lowest esti-
mate 100000 freight cars, 5000 locomo-
tive and 1000 passenger cars. At pres
ent prices these would cost 500 900, 600.
About 100000 additional freight cars
VIII be retired this year because they
are worn beyond repair.
During the recent strike the west
side tracks were called the life of the
city Then 1,640 carloads Of food, about
64.000,000 pounds. were unloaded. but
this was not sufficient for the popula-
ton. The west side should be built up
with warehouses.
"Irucking would be relieved and
haulage restricted 1t costs more to
handle 4 barrel of -four in New York in
Its first hauling by motor truck than it
does to transport it from Chicago to
New York. Harlem. with a population
OF 100000, has railroad facilities for
town of only 10000"
Rail Strikers Parade
Two thousand insurgent railroad
strikers paraded through streets Of
New York last night before holding a
mass meeting in the Yorkville Casino.
Eighty sixth Street and Second Avenue.
About two hundred cx-service men
headed the column of paraders, who
carried p!acards and banners with in
scriptions to the effect that the strikers
were ''full-blooded Americans, entitled
to living wage Large flags were
carried outstretched by groups Of
those in the line, into which money
was thrown by onlookers.
The Daraders formed at Twenty third
Street and the North River and pro
ceeded through Eighth Avenue, Fifty
seventh Street, First Avenue and
Eighty sixth Street. At First Avenue
and Seventy-eighth Street hundreds Of
radical pamphlets signed by the Cen
tral Revolution Council of America
made their appearance in the crowds.
Some of the strikers brought these to
the attention of Charles Ellis, who
presided at the meeting. He notified
the police. Detective Corelli, OF the
bomb squad, after conference with
Ellis, went to the place where the
pamphlets first appeared.
Ellis said the affair was staged by
radicals to confuse the issues of the
strike. Among the speakers who went
over the causes of the strike were W.
J. Rosenkranz, a lawyer, who became a
rail man "to make living; Edward
McHugh, leader of the strikers, and
e. J. Armstrong;