The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-06
SEA STRIKE TRUCE
SEEMS TO Be NEAR
Continued from First raoe.

that i can be controlled with ordinary
resources. we are finding substantial
and Increasing number OF officers and
men ready and willing TO sail."
The board said also that the Po-
tomac was delayed for twenty-four
hours because of the late arrival OF 400
passengers in the city. The fact is that
the Potomac. scheduled to sail Tuesday.
was, according 10 the statement then
made by the chairman OF the COM
pany. held up until Wednesday by The
belated passengers. did not sail on
Wednesday. did leave her pier at the
foot Of West Thirty-fourth street yes
telday. but late last night had not been
reported as putting out to sea.
Before she quit the dock her officers
said she might stop Off Quarantine to
have the crew checked up and looked
over According to the officers, the crew
numbered 2S5 men, which is more than
the required number. The Potomac is
a mail carrier is bound for Danzig has
500 passengers. is controlled by the
Shipping Board and operated BY the
United States Mail Steamship Com
pany. The unions had said she would
not leave her pier.
Another big passenger ship, the Nun
son liner Callao, bound for South Amer
lea. after being held for a day at Ho-
boken. left her berth at $3.50 yesterday
morning, but anchored off the Statue OF
Llberty-to complete repairs, il was OK
planned, Her crew was obtained from
the Sea Service Bureau of the Shipping
Board. She was short two engineers.
ships That sailed Yesterday.
Ships which actually sailed yesterday.
showing their heels to the strike. were
the Ward liner Esperanza. for Havana .
the army transport Cambria, bound for
Antwerp. and manned. it was said. by a
civilian crew which made no attempt to
quit; the freighter X. |. Luckenbach, for
Boston the Polish American liner
Gdansk, for Danzig; the tanker Reaper
OF the Texas Oil Company. for Port
Lobos. Mexico; the Munson liner Walter
ID. Munson. for Matanzas: the Shipping
Board vessel Lake Beacon, which merely
called at New York on the way from
Boston to Norfolk: the Iowan of the
United American Line, bound for Boston,
then California; the Lilmae OF the Uni
versal Transportation Company. and the
Hog Island of the Export Steamship
Company, n Shipping Board boat bound
for the Black Sea.
are operated by companies which. ac-
cordng 10 the unions. have made their
peace by signing up for year at the old
wage scale. All the companies thus
signing are outside the American Steam
ship Owners Association. They are the
Polish-American Navigation, the Uni
verSal Transportation, the United States
Transport, Old Dominion and the United
States and Mexican Petroleum com
panies. Together these have twenty -one
ships
The unions assert that all sailings
since the strike started have been made
possible only by the companies agreeing
to pay the old scale for a round trip
at least. Most OF the companies say
that they are paying the reduced scale
No proof is offered on either side
Although the owners are confident or
moving most OF their craft, given a
little ti,ne, the strike has Knocked their
schedules askew. Yesterdays bulletin
from the Southern Pacific Company.
which has a large fleet. did not specify
any future sailing times. The Motang.
a Shipping Board vessel operated by
A. II. Bull x Co. has been withdrawn
from cne Constantnople run, according
to the lists of the post office Saiings
of the Red ID lines mail steamship
Philadelphia have been cancelled and
the Norwegian steamship Grove char
tered as n substitute.
Winthrop L. Marvin. vice-president
and general manager or the American
steamship Owners Association, char
acterized as 400 per cent humbug'' the
assertions OF President Andrew F'uru-
seth OF the International Seaman's
Union and other labor leaders that the
Shipping Board provoked the strike In
order 10 drive Americans from the seas.
''Theso international unions. with
studied emphasis on the international.
are themselves the chief reasons why
American lads have been driven off
American ships and kept Off Mr.. Mar
vim said Not one In ten Of the walk
ing delegates OF these organizations is
American born. They are perfectly
well aware that their official life de-
Ponds upon their keeping their union
halls wen packed with fellow foreign
ere. and an union policies are shaped
10 that end.
Thousands Of American boys vino
came out OF the navy or army nj the
end OF the war and tried TO 20 10 sea
In merchant ships can testify from their
own experience how much these inter
national unions love the men who first
saw light under the Stars and Stripes.
These boys ran up against n provision
of tho La Toilette seaman's law re-
quiring three years OF apprenticeship
on deck as a prerequisite for the rating
Of able seamen. This requirement was
smuggled into the American statutes IN
1915 by an organization composed al
most wholly or aliens. as its own records
show"