In Portland, two crews of gang bosses stood by for emergencies. Otherwise, longshoremen -- estimated at from 1,100 to 1,500 -- stayed off the docks. A newspaper told the men that, unless they reported for work by 8:00 A.M. the following morning, they would be fired. The employers counted heavily on unemployed workers to move the port's cargo. Teamsters were refusing to cross the longshoremen's picket lines; sailors, bargemen refused to work cargo and members of the United Licensed Officers balked at furnishing steam, tending hatches for strikebreakers, or assisting in moving scabs. By the end of the first day, thirty-one ships were tied up at Portland docks. The Portland City Council wired President Roosevelt, asking him to intervene personally in the dispute which, it said, would affect all classes of the population unless settled immediately.