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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. [one paragraph not transcribed] ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-12-20