Evening star., 1953-10-07
Dockers Move Tons
OF Piled Up Cargo
After 5-Ddy Strike
by The Assoeiatsd Press


NEW YORK, Oct. IA pile
up of tons of cargo melted today
as longshoremen set North At
lantic ports humming once
again after a f1ve-day strike.
Work resumption started
yesterday after the Government
obtained a Today Taft-Hartley
labor law injunction in the wage
dispute.
Many of the estimated $4,000
to 10000 striking members of
the International Lpngshore-
mems Association QLA) an
swered work calls on piers from
Portland. Me-, to Hampton
Roads. Va.
The LILA previously had said
it would take at least until this
morning to get all its men back
on the job.
New Union Pushes Efforts.
In New York, the work return
was quiet and generally without
serious incident although a new
AFL union-the international
Longshoremen's Association, AFL
(ILA-AFD-pushed its battle
to win control of waterfront
labor from the now independent
LILA.
Longshoremen in Baltimore
Philadelphia and other big East
Coast ports also were reported
streaming back to their jobs.
Some piers remained idle yes
terday, apparently due to techni-
Cal difficulties in getting work
started again. They were in
Brooklyn and Staten Island and
along the New Jersey side of
the Hudson.
A number of companies last
night ordered overtime work in
an effort to clean up the back
log of cargo. Meanwhile, a rail-
road embargo on freight ship
mentS into New York and New
ark, N. j., was lifted.
First Use by Eisenhower.
The strike, which tied up more
than 100 vessels at it's height,
was ended under court
order obtained Monday night.
The Eisenhower administration
sought the injunction in it's first
use of the national emergency
provisions of the Taft-Hartley
law.
Federal Judge Edward Vein
field is expected to extend the
injunction to Christmas Eve, al
lowing it to run the full 80 days
permitted by the law. An agree
ment by the employers to make
any work contract retroactive to
October presumably minimizes
the chance of any LILA opposition
at a court hearing scheduled
next Tuesday.
The LILA is seeking a 13-cent-
an-hour wage and welfare pack
age boost. The New York Ship
ping Association, grouping ITO
shipping and stevedoring firms,
has offered an 812-cent pack
age. The dockers now earn q
basic $227 an hour.
1LA's fight with the AFL was
not directly involved in the
wage dispute but added the pos
sibllity of bloody labor warfare
to the waterfront picture. The
inter-union struggle also COM
plicated the wage talks, spur
ring the LILA in it's efforts to
reach pact and giving the AFL
a chance to claim it represents
the dockerS.
Washington sources indicated
yesterday that the new AFL
union is ready to file a formal
petition with the National La
Dor Relations Board in New
York for recognition as water
front bargaining agent.
OttlclalS of the lila have said
their men would not work beside
former members who have bolted
to the AFL.
Boat Trains Arrive.
The Grand Central Railroad
Terminal took on a maritime
tinge as boat trains" arrived
with passengers from the
British liner Queen Mary, which
Scotia, during the strike here.
Scotia. during the striking here.
Two Of the special trains ar
rived last night and four were
scheduled to arrive today.
Three boat trains" left
Grand Central last night for Hal
flax with passengers for the
Queen Mary, which will sail
back to Europe tomorrow.