New-York tribune., 1921-05-17
US. BoardC Gets
100 Ships Past
Sea Blockade
Calls Sailings Normal for
2 Weeks Despite Strike;
Unions Say 1t IL Result
of Huge Bonuses to Mem
Tugboat Farley To-day
Courts in Southern Ports
Enjoin Pickets and 800
Are Reported i'm Jails

The United States Shipping Board
announced yesterday that between
ninety and 100 steamers owned by the
board had sailed during the first two
weeks of the nationwide marine strike
that WAS called May l in protest to the
Is per cent reduction in wages of
marine forkers. The announcement
declared that during this period sail
ings were practically normal, com
pared with the eighty-nine sailincs
during the first two weeks OF April.
AS against this statement, William
S. Brown, president of the Marine En-
glneers' Beneficial Association, de-
panies were giving extras" which
brought up the pay Of engineers to an
amount that was acceptable to them.
He also stated that chief engineers
who are members of the association
were in some cases being given as high
as $4,000 for ten months, despite the
ruling of Admiral William s. Benson,
chairman Of the Shipping Board.
4s6 Sail. 142 Tied Up
Ofaciai reports issued by the Depart
ment Of Commerce in Washington show
that during the two weeks of the
strike 496 American vessels sailed from
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports as
against 142 that were held in port
through lack Of crews. A tabulation
of these reports shows that the Pacific
coast ports were the hardest hit by
the strike, and that the port Of San
Francisco was the worst affected har-
Dor in the country. At the latter city
ffty-fve ships were held through lack
of crews, and forty-three sailed
The meeting between representatives
of engineers employed on harbor tug
boats and the New York Towboat Ex-
change was postponed until to-day. C.
E. Mason. manager Of the exchange at
II Moore Street, said the Harbor Arbi-
tration Committee would meet to dis
cuss the question raised by the en-
gineers. This question has to do with
the tugboat men handling steam ships
on which strikebreaking crews have
been placed.
During the twentyfour hours ending
at o'clock last night, three Amer
lean tank steamships sailed from this
port for harbors on the Gulf coast.
They were the Dochet, Gulf of Mex
leo and GlenpooI.
A meeting of the executive com
mittee Of the American Steamship
Owners Association was held at II
Broadway yesterday, at which the
question Of seeking a nationwide Fed
eral injunction restraining the strik-
ers from interfering with the recruit
ing was discussed. 1t was, however.
agreed that such a step
was unnecessary.
Reports from Norfolk stated the
Federal court there had issued an in
junction against the strikers in such
manner they could not even congregate
along the waterfront. In Washing
ton, Andrew Furuseth, president of the
international Seamen's Union, stated
that such injunctions had been issued
at the instance Of the Shipping Board
in Baltimore and n sw Orleans as we'll
as Norfolk. He said that 800 strikers
were already in prison for picketing,
or on charges of disturbing the peace.
and ali Of them refused to pay fines,
imposed upon them.
Situation Said To Be in Hand
Winthrop L. Marvin, vice-pres esideut
of the American Steamship Owners As
sociation, said yesterday, after the
executive meeting, that while the strike
had not yet been entirely beaten, sue
cessful progress had been made by the
ship owners, and that the situation was
now we'll in hand.
There was an executive meeting of
the engineers representatives here yes
terday in the Hotel Continental, but
the result was not ascertained. 1t was
said in the official statement of the
marine engineers last night that Give
efficiency engineers, technical men,
holding engineers licenses, were or
dered by the United States Shipping
Board TO go to Baltimore to man the
engine room of the S. S. Buckeye State,
bound for San Francisco. All of them,
as union men, resigned sooner than
serve as Strike hreakers