The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-06
U. S. BOATS TIED UP,
FOREIGN SHIPS WIN
Good Share of Freight and Pas
senger Business Taken
From Americans.

| While American ship owners and the
unions are fighting out their differences
1 foreign companies are stepping in and
getting a good share of the business.
both freight and passenger. which Amer
| lean companies have been compelled TO
cancel This Is Indicated by dispatches
to THE NEW York HERALD telling of
strike conditions
| In San Francisco Japanese. Dutch and
British are yying with one another to
divert the American traffic to their boats
| The first American vessel to sail on
shore from San francisco with crew
signed since the strike began. five days
ago. was the army transport Thomas,
which sailed on schedule yesterday for
Honolulu. Guam and Manila. The only
other American deep sea vessel leaving
| San Francisco in the strike period was
| the Oceanic liner Ventura. whose crew
| sogned before the strike The Shipping
| signed before the strike. The Shipping
TO start for England to-day with a nom
union crew shipped at the reduced wage.
Two intercoastal steamships now in
San Francisco, the Bantu of the 18th
uian Line and the Edward L.uckenbach
present. as their crews shipped at New
York. The Standard oil tanker Sylvan
Arrow. from Shanghai. has followed
four other tankers into idleness in San
Francisco Bay. The Matheson liner
Maui has cancelled its sailing
At Galveston two hundred tugboat
employees. on orders from union head
quarters in New York, refused yester-
cay to move any American or foreign
vessel which did not pay the old wage.
Shipping men expect no great difficulty
in handling the harbor traffic. however.
Six Shipping Board boats are due to sail
between May 10 and Is. Two tankers,
tile +. d. Ashe and the Mexicano. oper-
oted by the Humble and Pierce oil com
panies. were released from strike orders
yesterday by signing agreements.
At New Orleans the refusal OF tug
boat engineers to handle ships having
non-union crews Is expected to cause a
tieup to-day, but the United Fruit boats
Farismana and Ellis sailed yesterday
with such crews The Bluefields Fruit
and Steamship Company. operating one
American vessel. signed a years agree
ment at the old wage.
At Mobile the steamship Lackawanna
signed a crew under the 1920 agreement
with a rider making any change gener-
ally agreed upon retroactive to May j
ana sailed for Houston, Texas. The
Shipping Board IN all ports has refused
to make any contracts of this kind
Because of alleged intimidation BY
pickets on Wednesday the Mobile police
stopped all picketing near loading ves-
sells yesterday The Shipping Board
steamship Phoenix Bridge left Mobile on
schedule.
At Baltimore strike leaders contended
uFaI a IF nj
agreeing to continue the 1920 wage
scale. The Shipping Board and the Bal
tlrnore Steamship Company continued
recruiting men under police guard for
the cattle boat Western King. which was
reported as sailing last night
a crew of forty men from New York
were put aboard the Standard Oil chip
James MCGEE In spite Of the efforts OF
three boatloads or strikers. The Marine
Engineers Union says the Northern
Transportation Company of Baltimore
has agreed to pay the old wages Ship
ping Commissioner Kirwan said ne
would prosecute any strikers that try
10 make other workers desert after sign
ing articles
At Boston the unions said they had
signed an agreement with the Eastern
Steamship Company at the old scale and
that most of the men on four boats Of
other lines docking yesterday had agreed
to strike. The four are the Shickshinny
from Copenhagen tho Brush from the
Pacific coast. the United Fruit boat
Esparta from Santa Maria, and the
Newton Of the New England Fuel and
Transportation Company.
Regarding the rumor. published yes
terday. that the United States Mail
Steamship Company was about to break
with the owners association and sign
a contract with the unions. Francis r.
Mayer. president Of the company. said
This IL another piece OF union propa-
ganda and Is in line with stories pre-
viously circulated by the union that the
crew OF the companys steamship
Potomac was held In peonage and that
the Old North State had to give up her
voyage and return 70 the lower bay
AS few sailings ever take place ON
Friday. the ship operators win make this
a day of preparation for tomorrow.
when sixteen liners are scheduled to
leave this port.
Only four American chips were able
to leave Norfolk yesterday. while eleven
vessels Tying the British flag cleared
with cargoes and full crews Although
British seamen get considerably less
than American seamen under the old
rate OF wages. they work with apparent
enthusiasm TO load their vessels and get
out OF port ahead OF American ships