The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
PICKET SQUADS PATROL.
DOCKS IN NEW YORK.
DESPITE POLICE GUARD.
Roy Hudson Predicts
Walkout Will Spread
In Next Few DAYS

Twenty-t hree steamships
and tugboats were lying idle
at their piers yesterday in the
North Atlantic ports on the
second day of the East Coast
maritime strike.
The Seamen's United Front
Strike Committee, at its headquar-
tiers at 140 Broad Street, announced
that the following ships were on
strike:
In New York harbor, the La Mott
Dupont, freighter of the Dupont
Lines; the Steel Mariner. an 18th
mian Line freighter, Pier 20, Brook
lyn; the Ardmore, freighter of the
Mallory Line, Cranes Drydock; the
Winding Gulf and the Diamond
Cement, There is a partial strike
on the S. S. Havana, Ward liner.
Boston Crews Strike
In Boston crews of the Thomas P.
Beale and the Dorothy Luckenback
are striking. The crew of the Scan
York is striking at Chester, Pa,
five ships are tied up in the port
of Baltimore and five tugboat crews
are out in Norfolk, Va.
The Texas Ranger, New-Tex
freighter, which struck in New York
harbor on Saturday, sailed with
scab crew shipped aboard by lead
ers of the International Seamen's
Union. call was issued by the
United Front Strike Committee to
strike the Texas Ranger at the next
port of call.
Picket Squads Active
Throughout the day yesterday
thirteen squads of picketS were
patrolling important docks in Man
haitian and Brooklyn where the
struck ships were tied up.
There were pickets at piers go and
81 on the North River, where ships
of the International Mercantile
Marine dock The Ward Line Piers
of the Porto Rican Line and the
Colombian Line were picketed on
South Street. In Brooklyn the sea-
men and licensed officers picketed
docks in the Erie Basin and num-
Der of shipping halls on Union
Street and Hamilton Ave.
Heavy Police Guards
All OF the docks on the New York
waterfront were guarded by ex-
trenely heavy detachments of foot,
mounted and radio car police. Es-
pecially heavy was the police
mobiliza ion around the Seamen's
Church Institute at 25 South Street,
which is being used as the main
scab-herding agency for the ship
owners.
At the Standard Oil shipping Of
flee, q Pearl Street, police and
private thugs guarded the entrance
to the building. Fifteen private
thugs were visible in front of the
shipping office.
Thugs Protect Scabs
Special buttons are being issued
by this Rockefeller shipping COM
pany to strikebreakers. They must
show these buttons when they sign
up for jobs. Four private thugs are
sent to escort every scab sent to the
ships.
Meanwhile the boycott on the
United States Shipping Board Bu-
reau is complete. No capacity can
be noted around this agency and
no men are reported to have
shipped out of it since the strike
wes declared.
/, S. u. Officials Herd Scabs
Chief among the scab-herders are
the officials of the international
Seamen's Union, who called off the
strike last week without getting a
single demand for the seamen.
At regular business meeting of
the I. S. u, at 10 South st. on
Monday night, Gus Brown, local
I. S. U. leader, attempted to defend
his strikebreaking activities by stat
ing that sit is the duty of every
union man to protect the union
against radicals and take any job
on any ship" The meeting was
closed hurriedly and no discussion
was allowed.
Strike Growth Predicted
Roy Hudson, chairman of the
United Front Strike Committee,
said yesterday that the results of
the first day of the strike exceeded
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