The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-05
Secretary Davis Fails to
Make Progress Toward Set
tlement-Meets Workers
Delegates To-day.
THREE COMPANIES SIGN
Four COastwise Vessels Get
Away of the 13 Ships in
This Port Scheduled
to Sail.
LOO PASSENGERS HELD
Benson for Shipping Board
and Big Steamship Companies
Still Insist on Is Per Cent.
Wage Cut.
LOO PASSENGERS HELD

SO little progress was made toward
settling the marine strike in series
Of conferences in Washington yester-
day that Secretary Of Labor Davis
and other Government officers who are
trying to effect conciliation were pessi-
mistic last night
Steamship companies and Admiral
Benson for the Shipping Board are
standing pat for the Is per cent wage
cut. They are willing to change to
some extent the working rules, but
their insistence on a recession from
the war time rate OF payment Is so
determined that Bert l.. Todd of New
York, representing the deep sea en-
gineers, said after seeing Secretary
Davis:
There are no hopes for a settle
ment. The owners have refused to
consider proposals made by Secretaries
Davis and Hoover
The Secretary of Labor will meet
again to-day the spolSesmen for the
seamen, engineers and radio operators
but he refused to say last night that
there was any prospect Of peace
Meanwhile the battle on the actual
front-the ships themselves and the
council rooms of the owners and the
unions-reached yesterday stage of
considerable tensity. The unions have
the apparent advantage thus far. or the
thirteen ships scheduled to sail from
New York yesterday only four. all coast
wise boats. actually got away. A Few OF
the others were delayed by normal
causes, but the majority were tied up
for lack of crews.
shin for Danxig Fails to Sail.
The first class passenger ship Potomac.
a Shipping Board vessel operated by the
United States Mail Steamship Company.
due TO sail for Danzig. was hold at her
pier. foot of West Thirty-fourth street.
with LOO passengers and 1900 bags of
mail. The Philadelphia Of the Red d
Line. bound for Curacao and South
America, whose scheduled departure was
put over from yesterday to to-day. was
not in last nights Post Office Depart
ment list indicating that the sailing had
been cancelled.
Three companies signed agreements
with the unions, retaining the old wage
scale and conditions. These are the
Polish American Navigation Company.
whose liner, the Gdens<. held up yes
terday. will start for Danzig to-day
the United States Transportation Com
pany. controlled BY G. w. Morse, and
the United States Mexican Petroleum
and Transportation Company. which re-
Gently has organized and has five ships.
None OF these is member OF the
American Steamship Owners Associa-
tion, which Is fighting the strike on a
no quarter basis.
The Callao of the Munson Line. first
OF the big South American steamships
ready 10 leave the harbor since the be-
ginning of the strike, was prevented
from getting away from Hoboken yes
terday The officers said she would
Gail at 60 o'clock this morning and
ordered all the passengers aboard at 10
o'clock last night. II was reported In
Hoboken that the missing members of
the crew were being recruited In Man
haitian and were to be taken over In tugs
under cover Of night Union pickets
lined up on shore and ranging the rivtr
In launches, were out to stop reinforce
ments and peg the Callao to her pier.
A real lockout rule against union men
who will not accept the new scale was
adopted by the Shipping Board at
meeting OF representatives OF eighty
operating lines in tho boards New York
office, IS Broadway. II is In short
Sign on or get off" The result OF the
conference. presided over by Charles
Hines. assistant manager OF the operat-
Ing department OF the board at Wash
fynr IL Il. -
instructions 10 all managing agents,
signed by George w. Stirling district
director.
Drastic Orders Are Issued.
These instructions apply first to All
vessels In operation, whether dischargInp
cargoes, loading or loaded. about to sail
in ballast or awaiting orders They are
in brief: Every man on the crews OF
the ships must sign articles at once or
leave the ships The men are to be
signed In this order: Engineers. fire.
men. sailors. stewards wireless opera
tors. On vessels not In actual operation
no engineers. wireless operators or un-
licensed members OF the crew are to be
employed In any capacity. All men
signing articles under the foregoing con-
ditionE and Mt the reduced scale and
modified working conditions will receive
fair treatment and every consideration
by board and managing agents in
structed to consider this loyalty In con-
nection with preferential future employ
mcnt.
The last two rules In the list are.
mo union delegates OF the striking
organizations to be allowed on piers or
ships at any time.
Men who break articles OF agreements
TO be placed on deferred employment list
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