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Show t WOMEN STIR STRIFE IN GOTHAM HARBOR m JU J- JC -SL. TIE UP BRITISH SHIPS,' CRY OF ! SYMPATHIZERS Water Front Scene of Wild Confusion With Irish Motif f NEW YORK. Aug. 37. Longshoremen Longshore-men stopped work on four big While Star liners here today in protest against the action of the Baltic crew in allowing British authorities to take Archbishop Mannix, pro Irish prelate from the ship on her last trip to Eng land This report was telephoned to police headquarters by officails of th-line th-line who asked 1b.1t reserves be rushed to the piers. From the White Star line Irish Bym patbizera marched t 'he Cunard line piers where they claimed they had pulled out other longshoremen. Then In 1 asrted for the piers of the Anchor line. CARRY BANNERS. When the Baltic docked here todnv on her arrival from England hex crew found women at the piers carrying banners denouncing England's attitude toward Ireland and taunting the Brit isb, sailors for allowing a passenger to bo taken from their decks The women, who claimed to be members mem-bers of the "American Women's Tic kets," called on crews of the ships as well as longshoremen to quit work in protest against the action of the British Brit-ish authorities in the Mannix case. A demonstration was staged by long shoremen, whose number was estimated estimat-ed at several hundred, when they stop ped the work of loading and unload inn the White Star liners, which Included In-cluded the Baltic, Celtic. Olympic ami tanopic Th Irish sympathizers then turned tr ir attention to the American transport trans-port liner Minnekahda and claimed to have stopped work there. Then the pickets und their cohorts ;.rt-d out to He up every British ship in port, but announced they would not attempt to hamper work on any cratt flying the American flag. It was a scene of wild confusion i'bng the waterfront Hundreds of excited men and women ran along West street gathering recruits as they dashed from pier to pier. Entering each pier and swarming up the gangways gang-ways of the ships, the throng cried; All off." WOMEN CARRY sli.Ns. The throng of Irish sympathizers led bv the women carried signs reading V. hen Mannix goes to Ireland let the Baltic leave Now York." ther signs l ead: ' The Baltic cleared with Mannix aboard, sing yo-ho-ho for the stokoia won." ' And they dropped him down to a pirate horde and their day's work was done." "British body snatchers are carrying carry-ing off by force dying and unconscious Irish patriots to British jails. They say; Let them die.' Are ou with us to stop thasi buicher8T" The Irish sympathizers claimed also to have met with success when they called out workers on the Nnw York CltJ of the Bristol line, another Brit lsh craft. They encountered no opposition oppo-sition us they swept along the water front. At 3 o'clock 11 was estimated thiLt about a thousand persons were going fi 010 pier to ;ier. At the Cunard line piers the Irish sympathizers were Joined by 200 negro ne-gro longshoremen, who were working on the steamship Norman Monarch. Officials of the International Longshoremen's Long-shoremen's association denied that the Organisation had any official connection connec-tion with the strike or with threats heard In the crowd that British ships Crcm Maine to Florida would be tied Up. |