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Notes: Article: THE SUN AND THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923, page 2, column 1
Hoboken Dock Strike at End;
Men Locked Out at Three Piers
Red Flag Flying Over I. W. W. Headquarters
Angers American Legion and Civic
Bodies, Which Plan Protests.
The strike of longshoremen on the Hoboken waterfront
came to an end to-day when the men who had walked out
for higher pay and shorter hours returned to their jobs. At
piers 2, 3 and 1, however, where Shipping Board vessels dock,
the longshoremen who went on strike were still locked out,
their places having been taken by gangs from New York,
among whom were many negro longshoremen.
A meeting of disgruntled members
of the International Longahorerasn'a
Association and of the Marine Transport
Workers' Local 510, the latter of
which is an I. W. W. organization,
will be held in the Hoboken City Hall
tonight to discuss the situation In
this city.
A flag with a red background, on
which the name of the Marine Transport
Workers' local appears, floated in
the breeze above that organization's
headquarters on River street, Hoboken.
to-day. Reports that the American
Legion, the Lions Club and other civic
aud patriotic bodies would protest to
the city officials and police about thus
flag, had not materialized at noon.
Millard F. Jackson, head of the Hoboken
Post of the American Legion, said : "We have no right to tell any organization to lower its flag, no matter what the color of that flag may be.
Until this red flag over the longshoremen's headquarters begins to stand for
violence, we will take no action." Charges that the Hoboken city officials and police are "aiding and abetting''the radicals was made by the steamship men.
"Refused to Take Notice."
"The whole recent trouble of the outlaw
strike of longshoremen is to be attributed directly to the I. W. W," said
an official of a steamship company.
"The city that permits any element of its'
citizens to fly an individual flag without
the courtesy of hanging the American
flag by its side has not one ounce of civic
pride. The attention of the city authorities
has been called to this insult, and
thev have persistently refused to take
any notice of the protests made.
"They talk about the United States
Shipping Board not giving the Leviathan
berth at a Hoboken pier ; a nice pickle
we would have been in if we had, and
moreover you can take it from me, Hoboken is going
find herself without as many boats as she has now if something
isn't done about this. The police of New York and Brooklyn have handled the
situation over there and there is now reason under the sun why this town can't do likewise.
D e n i e s Any C o m p l a i n t.
Commissioner McFeeley of the Bureau
of Public Safety denied that his department
had received complaints about the
flag or about the disturbances caused
by the radicals. Asked if the city authorities
would take any action In the
matter, the Commissioner said he knew
nothing "about any I. W. W.'s being
here, and I'm not going to enter Into
any controversy on the subject."
Another steamship official
that he personally had protested against
the red flag, and also had forwarded to
the Commissioner copies of pamphlets
distributed on the piers by the I. W, W.
which cause disturbance and agitation.
"The men in our pier live In Hoboken
and they want to work, but these out of
town agitators who come here won't let them.
They are intimidated and aroused
by all this propaganda and we can't do
a thing because the police wont' back us
up," he said.
Attacks Police Policy.
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