The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08

unanimously to begin the mari
time strike This morning in New
York under the lsadership CT the
Joint Strike Preparations Com
nittce.
Mass meetings of seamen
and licensed officers in all
important seaports along the
Atlantic Coast voted yester-
day afternoon to strike all
ships in the Atlantic and Gulf
ports today under the leader
ship of the Joint Strike Prepara-
ions Committee.
One crew, the crew of the S. S.
Texas Ranger, which docked at Per
%, North River, New York, on Sat-
urday, is already on strike. When
the ship locked, delegate Eric Bell
Of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, boarded her and issued the
strike call. The entire crew. includ-
ing three engineers and the. third
mate, packed UP and walked off.
Picket Line Established
A picket line was established in
front Of the pier, but police came
and said picketing was Illegal. Nine
policemen escorted Bell from the
ship. Despite the denial by police
of the workers right to picket,
pickets in squads of five continued
to patrol the area around Pier %
keeping a sharp lookout for scabs.
Delegate Bozo of the Interna-
t.onal Seamen's Union, came to the
ship with a bodyguard and shipped
one scab, an ordinary seaman. Bozo
later went to the Seamen's Church
Institute looking for a boatswain
and three able seamen, but was
driven out Of the building by en-
ragged seamen, who denounced him
as a strikebreaker. The S. S. Texas
Ranger is now anchored off the
Statue of Liberty without crew.
Shipping Halls Closed
The drive to close down the ship
ping halls was successful on the
New York waterfront. The Park
hurst Agency on Broad St. and
United Fruit shipping crimp at 81
West ST., were closed down by COM
mittees of seamen on Saturday
morning. When Parkhurst heard
the committee was on its way 70 his
establishment he Immediately
closed his Office.
Another committee visited the
U. S. Shipping Board, govern
ment agency, and advised the off,
Gals not to ship any men, telling
them that all men applying for
berthS on ships should be referred
to the Rank and File Centralized
Shipping Bureau Committee at i40
Broad st.
Towboatmmen Urge Strike
A group of New York Towboat-
men issued a call yesterday to all
members of the Associated Ma
rine Workers to demand that the
organization go on record for the
strike. The call urged that the rank
and file towboatmen force Captain
Maher, head OF the organization, to
call meeting of all towocatmen
in New York ha-5or to unite the
towboatmen with the seaman and
lon~shoremen along the entire At
lantic Coast for united strike ac-
ton today.
During the weekend a heavy
guard of police, detectives and radio
car officers milled around the Sea-
mems Church Institute where a
large shipping agency is in opera
ton. A committee of seamen who
went to the Institute on Saturday
to urge the sailors to boycott the
hiring hall were not permitted by
the officers to enter the building.
Delegations visited numsred Us
regsaurcnts and bars on the water
fro2s and demanded the proprietc-
tear down placards put up by lead
ers Of the International Seamen'
Union, which stated that tbs str. :
is called off. Seamen daclared t :
they would boycott all establish
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