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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1912
Page
12
Strikes by 2000 seamen and additional coastwise workers ripple across ports as unions demand a union delegate on every ship, hiring limits, overtime pay, and a fixed daily menu. Employers reject the new terms and prepare emergency crews. select lines sign new pacts while others resist.
In Philadelphia the 700 strong seamen strike kept most ships in port yet two Clyde line steamers the Delaware bound for York and the Mohican bound for Norwalk remained in harbor. Pickets lined the riverfront while Shawmut of the Southern Steamship Co sailed. Union leaders arranged representatives at Chester Marcus Hook and Lewes as a tactic to pressure aboard crews at breakwater ports.
In Boston on June 29 the Marine Firemen's Union met amid the rumor of a coastwise strike, but officials said a strike was unlikely. Atlantic Coast Seamen's Union officials declined to discuss a strike. All steamship lines reported no trouble except Clyde Line, whose Katahdin was called out due to sail for Southern ports.
Seamen's Union members on six Mallory and Southern Pacific Lines ships in Galveston stop work per New York orders. The Lampassas nearly sailed before a hastily gathered crew departed late. Southern Pacific ships El Mundo El Paso El Monte and El Rio tied up. two may resume tomorrow. No other ships in port amid quiet yet determined action. further coastwise disruption possible.
Philadelphia June 23 A union committee accepts an arbitration proposal and company concession avoiding a strike on lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie. The plan creates a four four board with judge Neill as ninth member to settle whether brakemen in Monongahela yard receive road or yard wages and to set rules for electrical line workers. The agreement aims to reinstate displaced steam workers by July 1 with equivalent wages and caps wage changes under a one year rule tied to tunnel system contracts.
Norfolk reports show many stokers of steamship lines at the harbor joining a strike. News riders and ships are responding with replacement workers today as labor action disrupts port activity.
The Juvenile League of the Street Cleaning Department will gather 20,000 New York children from Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn at Ulmer Park in Brooklyn for a parade and celebration led by Reuben S. Simon the blind foreman. Mayor Gaynor is expected to attend with Board of Estimate members.
Battery F of the First Regiment New York National Guard under Capt Herbert Paul marched from 56 West 66th Street to Van Cortlandt Park. The unit pitched tents, rested, and held a parade. Capt Paul, recently trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, leads field drill assisted by Lieuts Hamilton Strong Ferguson.
T S Affleck of 1 045 Jefferson Avenue Brooklyn issues How to See New York in a Day a descriptive city history and directory of railways subways and steamships plus a tour of outdoor sights. The volume appeals to locals and visitors with a list of notable buildings a street guide and a baseball schedule with many pictures of old New York.
Beverly Mass prepares for President Taft arrival on the Fourth with a Dolphin salute and blue jacket parade. The Mayflower yacht and Taft household staff are slated to arrive, and Depot Square will be closed for the reception by local Taft Club and Republican groups.
A small woman, Mrs. J. S. Flannery, president of the Federated Market in Labor, arrives by limousine at the Monongahela River wharf at dawn and drives off a group of threatening hucksters. She warns they may face City Council action on excluding them from the wharf and market house, and offers to market for Pittsburgh women unable to reach market by taking orders a day before market day.
Brookyn Navy Yard resumes operations as an order from Washington prevents suspension of work tomorrow. Employed workers had waited anxiously for hours, relief spreading across the yard. The provisional order from Acting Secretary Winthrop had scheduled indefinite suspension at midnight pending appropriation bills.
The Manhattan and Jamaica Railway Company, reorganized as the South Shore Railway, asked the Public Service Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to build a double track railroad from Third Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street Manhattan to the eastern Queens County boundary via the Queensboro Bridge. A public hearing was set for July 8 at 11 A.M. before Commissioners Maltbie and Williams.
Mrs. Sophie Marejka, 22, of Hastings, was killed by a shot from First Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Norrister near the National Cable and Conduit Company plant amid a strike. Two other women were wounded. Norrister was arrested but later paroled after evidence showed no blame. The strike, tied to a five cent daily wage increase, concluded with 1,500 strikers returning Monday and the company recognizing the AFL without a closed shop.
During a thunderstorm near Greycourt in Middletown New York farm hand M Antivov sio was instantly killed when a lightning bolt struck his head and stripped his clothing, authorities said.
A young man arrested early yesterday in Flatbush is accused of two house attacks and multiple burglaries in the area. He gave a false name, lived at the Parker Hotel Bowery, and pawn tickets totaling thousands were found in his room. He was held by Magistrate Reynolds on burglary charges. A fiancee begged leniency, claiming innocence.
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