The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-11
RADIO MEN
VOTE TO JOIN
IN WALKOUT
Sh ipping Agents Try
To Place Scabs
Aboard Ships
PICkETING SPREADS
300 Telegraphists Will
Be Affected By
Strike Vote

The maritime strike remained
firm yesterday, with gains being
reported in several ports along the
Atlantic seaboard 1t was reported
by the strike committee that
twenty-six seagoing ships and tug
boats are affected either fully or
partially by the strike,
Adding strength to the walkout
the American Radio TelegraphistS
Association, % Whitehall Street,
announced that the New York local
organization had voted late Tues
day night to join the strike. The
walkout of the radio men, Willard
Bliss, secretary of the organization
said will perhaps affect 300 opera
tors on the East coast.
viii Push Own Demands
The radio men, who have elected
delegates to the Atlantic Seamen's
United Front Strike Committee say
that they will strike in sympathy
with the seamen and for their own
demands From one to three OPP
orators striking on a ship is sufh-
cient to halt the sailing of the
vessel.
Picket lines and flying squadrons
were strengthened considerably
throughout the day Whereas on
Tuesday there were 500 men on
picket duty on both day and night
shifts at strategic piers on the New
York waterfront, yesterday the
number of pickets at the piers at
all times numbered more than 600
Besides this, hundreds of other sea-
men and officers from the ships and
the beach were enlisted in the fly
ing squadrons which operated in
Manhattan, Brooklyn and New
Jersey.
Three Halls Guide Pickets
Pickets and flying squads operated
from three halls in Manhattan and
Brooklyn: $40 Broad Street, sos
West Nineteenth Street, and IS
Union Street, Brooklyn.
The Ward Liner Havana, which
was partially struck during the first
day of the strike, sailed with a scab
crew which was said to have been
supplied by leaders of the Interna-
tional Seamens Union. Longshore-
men in Cuba, to which port the ship
is bound, will be asked to take &C
ton against the vessel when she ar
rives there.
New Ships Struck
Shipping agents were reported to
be attempting to put a crew OF
strikebreakers aboard the Olympic
Dollar Line tanker docked in
Newark, N, j. Pickets say that the
ship is still deserted.
Additional ships reported affected
by the strike yesterday were: the
SIS. Tidewater, Bayonne, N. j., the
Wheeler in Boston and three coal
boats at Newport News.
Other ships which are either fully
or partially struck are: the Lammot
dupont, a dupont powder ship; the
Steel Mariner, an Isthmian liner;
the Ardmore, Mallory Line freight
er; the Winding Gulf; the Diamond
Cement; the Santa Elena; the City
Service Missouri, tanker; the
Peten, United Fruit ship. These
ships are all in the New York Har-
Dor.
8oston Boats Idle
m addition to this the Dorothy
Luckenbach and the Thomas p.
Beale are struck in Boston, making
it q complete tie-up in that porr.
Five ships axe partially struck in
Baltimore and five tugboat crews
are out in Norfolk, Va, The crew of
the Scan York are out in Chester,
Pennsylvania.
D. Drummond, captain of the
pickets in New York harbor, an
nounced that the following piers are
being picketed Ward Line, at the
foot of Wall Street; Lucken-
bach Line, Pier AZ, North River;
Dollar Line Piers, Newark, N. j.;
United Fruit, Pier 9, North River;
International Mercantile Marine,
Piers 40 to 81, North River; Mum
son Line, Pier Is, Brooklyn; Erie
Basin docks and the Tidewater
docks at Bayonne, N. j.
Seamen from the S. S. Tidewater,