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Show STEnllER-HOIIUS STARTS ON TRIP . NEW YORK. June 1 After delay of thirty-six hoars because of th tri( " of ths International Bsamen'a Union, th' ; Morgan line ataa3r Xomua, itisnnsi by mora than .100 strikebreakers, left her t o'clock last night for Tfew Orlean. .: The vessel weighed anchor early In- tha morning, after lying all night In mid-it mid-it ream, but halted again, an hour later, within hailing distance of the statue of liberty, when fourteen recruit iunuwd -from her, declt to a Dlcketlng tug, leaving leav-ing her without eufflclent men. bhortly after the Momu got under way In th early morning, her engines began to whees snd mschlnists discovered send In her bearing. They worked all day removing re-moving It. while orrirfsls of the line ran-aacged ran-aacged Brooklyn and New Tor for avail- . able seamen. Sixty veteran of th tea, ' th round-up of twerv hours, marched under police protect!' to the company's hed at noon and from the wr selected se-lected thirty to complete th crew of tha Momu. ' ' Th other slept last night ta - th sheds guarded by th polios. . - Th . second day of th strike was msrked by a contlnuanc of th lack -of disorder. A crowd -of 1000 union men snd sympathisers hooted the strlkebreaksra ' when they filed Into ths company's aheSs. -' but dispersed peacefully. C. " W. Junger. general manager -of th Morgan line, said tonight that ha thought the backbone of th strike had been broken. He said the Antilles, due to sail Wedneeday for New Orleans, snd El Norta-and Norta-and El Rio, freighters, scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, for Oarvsaton, would leave on scbedul rim ' with full crows. The Creole from New. Orleans, and a freighter from Oalvaatoa. which are due her tomorrow, he said, -would also return south oa schadul time next Saturday. 4 Officials of the union dev-lsr there has been no weakening in their ranks "and r that they are confident of winning- tha " as fight within a few days. M. c Griffen. vie president of th In ternatlonal Seamen's union, said tonight' that when the Creole and the OeJvsston freighter El Sol arrive at this port th men on them will be called out. At atrlk headquarters It seamed to be- th - -general belief that arrangements satis-' factory to theatteamen would b . mad " with several or th coastwise line. In- -eluding probably the Old Dominion, th Clyde and tha Mallory Mnes Step preliminary to th formation f a --"water --"water front federation." to Include both - th longshoreman and seamen, wer taken -late today at a meeting largely attended bv strikers and. their eympatblser. .Another .An-other meeting will be held Wednesday.--with th probability. It wsg announced. - that ths proposed federation would then ' be formally organised. |