The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-09
DOCKERS WALK OUT;
PIERS ARE PICKETED;
SHIPPING HALLS SHUT
Complete Tie-UpDue by
Wednesday, Says
Strike Leader

~ - - ~ 1AAAAN ~ 49, A'S'
York harbor and longshore-
men from Pier 2 at Erie Basin
walked out on strike yester-
day in answer to the general
maritime strike call issued
by the Joint Atlantic Sea-
mems Strike Committee.
Pickets were dispatched to all
piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
where the struck ships were tied UP,
and squads of seamen were visit
ing seventeen ships that arrived in
the harbor yesterday urging the
men to take a strike vote. Addi-
ticnal chips crews we're expected to
join the strike momentarily.
The first crew to answer the strike
call was the crew Of the s. S. Texas
Ranger, steam freighter of the
New-Tex Line which was struck on
Saturday at Pier 30, North River.
The Teas Ranger is now riding at
anchor without crew, off the
Statue Of Liberty.
Forty seamen Of the Steel Mariner,
An Isthmian liner, struck at Pier 20
IN Brooklyn and immediately set up
a picket line in front of the dock.
The s. S. Lammot Dupont, a
powder ship, was lying idle at Pier
2 at Erie Basin after 38 members
Of the crew went out on strike.
Fifty longshoremen, members of
Local 8o8 Of the International Long
shoremen's Association, downed their
tools and struck in sympathy with
the sailors of the Lammot Dupont.
More Ships Struck
Other ships on strike are S. S.
Havana, Ward Liner, which is
lied up at Pier IA, East River; the
Olympic, an oil tanker belonging to
the Dollar Line, at Warren, N. j.;
the Ardmore, a Mallory Liner at
Cranes dockyard in Brooklyn; the
S. S. Haiti, a large fruit ship docked
at Pier 8 on South ST.; the Wind
ing Gulf, of the Mystic Steamship
Line, and the Diamond Cement.
A telegram arrived at the strike
headquarters, 140 Broad ST., yester-
day morning stating that the strike
was partially effective in Baltimore,
where crews of five ships walked
out in answer to the call of the
Joint Strike Committee.
Harold Baxter, secretary of the
strike committee, announced that
he expected the strike to be fully
effective in the port of New York
BY Wednesday, when 5000 seamen
who are still at sea expected to
leave the ships.
There are $1,000 longshoremen
In the port of New York." Baxter
said, and we are appealing to them
to Join with the seamen in their
fight for better conditions and hir-
ing halls controlled by the rank and
file. We expect many longshore-
men to join the strike within the
next few days"
The major lines that will be at
fected by the strike, according to
a statement issued by the strike
committee, will be the Isthmian,
Munson, Ward, United Fruit, Bull
Line, the United States Line and
number of oil tank steamship
companies.
Pickets Mass At Piers
Every pier where the struck ships
are tied up was blocked off by large
numbers of pickets. Squads Of
seamen were being dispatched from
the Broad Street strike headquar-
tiers throughout the day to visit
newly arrived ships and to take a
strike vote. Ten of these squadrons
were active along the waterfront.
Considerable attention was de-
voted by the strikers to the ques-
ton of keeping the shipping Of
fees closed. Committees were set up
for the purpose of visiting these CT
fees. Roy Hudson, chairman of the
strike committee said that the ma
jority of the shipping halls in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Norfolk were closed.
The shipping agency OF the Sea-
mems Church Institute, Is Broad
Street, the largest agency in the
city, was declared closed by the
strike committee yesterday. Wesley
Westerman, business manager of the
institute, told reporters that "it is
not closed and will not be closed
Westerman let it be '-noNn in
no uncertain terms that the In
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