Evening star., 1951-10-23
Docks

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Itrict into the most paralyzing tie.
1up here in years.
1t also spread to some docks ir
Boston yesterday and brought
threats of work stoppages in Phil
adelphia and Baltimore.
Army Installations Hit.
| Army installations at Brooklyn
Staten Island and Jersey City,
N. j., were strike bound and mil
iitary officials reported they would
start diverting vital cargoes
through other ports.
More than a dozen military
Ifreighters and transports have
been hit by the dispute. They
carry troops and supplies To Korea
and other American military out
posts.
The Association of American
Railroads ordered the rail en-
barge yesterday with an estimated
$4.2 million pile of merchandise
accommodating throughout the New
York-New Jersey port area.
The dispute had been free of
violence until yesterday. when fist
fights between strikers and other
LILA members led to several ar
rests in Brooklyn.
Special Detail Assigned.
Police prepared for new out
breaks today as non-strikers in
sisted they would unload the in
coming French Liner lie de France
even if there will be trouble"
New York's Mayor and Mrs. Vim
cent R. Impellitteri, returning
from Italy. arrived in the midst
of the tieup.
The Mayor said he would begin
work Immediately on the strike
problem.
The Impellitteries had only nine
pieces of hand luggage, which
were carried ashore from the liner
Vulcania by especially assigned
shipping company men.
Some 81 vessels have been i'm
modified by the strike, and sew
eral others have had to start re-
turn voyages with their original
cargoes still in the holds. About
100 ships normally use the harbor
daily
Strikers are demanding a 25-
cent-an-hour wage increase in
stead of the l0-cent boost the en-
ployers granted in the new con-
tract. This pact, ratified recently
by a majority Of $1,000 LILA men,
bers from Maine to Virginia.
raised the average pay to $2.lO an
hour.
u. S. Mediat0rs Active.
Federal mediators worked fever
ishly last night to settle the costly
dispute. They met twice with
Ryan and Gene Sampson. dele
gated leader OF the rebel strikers.
Sampson insisted that the
unions contract must be reopened
before the wildcatters 60 back to
work. Ryan has insisted that this
is impossible.
The three-man Federal panel
then brought about the agreement
for this mornings status quo
pending the outcome Of the lila
meeting.
Queen Mary to Sail.
British Cunard line officials
planned to sail the giant liner,
Queen Mary, On schedule today.
using company personnel for Ste
yedore duty.
Some l80 stevedores went out
in Boston yesterday. tying up
nine ships. Strikers said their
walkout was intended to block the
diversion of cargoes from New
York and to protest "mobsters" in
control of the LILA.
In Baltimore. August c. Idzik,
LILA vice president, has warned
that longshoremen will not touch
ships, including Army vessels, di-
verted to Baltimore from New
York.
At Philadelphia leaders of IA
LILA locals said there might be
sporadic walkouts along the Della
ware River water front, but there
would be no general tieup.
Ships Clog Hamburg
And Bremen in Strike
HAMBURG, Germany. Oct. %
P).-Dockers and police clashed
in Bremen today as a wildcat
strike OF stevedores gained impetus