The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-26
T. BIRMINGHAM, Vicar General.
Charleston, S. G., February 10, 1868.

The STRIKE OF the colored laborers on the
wharves continued yesterday, and all day long
motley and discontented crowd OF idlers
throngcd the sidewalks of East Bay.
We have been at some pains to ascertain the
points involved in the strike, and find them to
be as follows: The stevedores have been in
the habit of paying their laboTers two dollars
per dav, with fifty cents additional per day
to the foreman, as the leader of each gang
Of five laborers is termed. Under this scale
of rates the stcvedores have been enabled to
load vessels at the uniform rate of forty cents
per bale. The strikers demand an increase OF
fifty cents on the daily wages OF foremen and
laborers, so that tie former should get three
dollars per day and the latter two dollars and
fifty cents. They contend that the stevedores
can afford the proposed advance by increasing
their own ch rrge per bale for loading vessels.
The stevedores, however, have set their
faces against the movement, and declare that
they consider forty cents per bale q sufficiently
high rate and that any increase OF the same
could not fail to work to the disadvantage of
the cotton trade of our city. This, We be-
Iieye. is about fair statement Of tho difficulty
as ii stands.
The strike last year, to which reference has
been made, was for very similar oLject-the
effort of tie laborcrs in that case being to in
crease the stevedorcs' charges from forty to
forty-tive cents per bale.
The white stevedores, we understand, ex-
press themselves as resolved not to yield; but
two colored stevedores resumed work yester-
day afternoon, allowing the foremen and labor
ers the advance demanded, and charging the
ships forty-six cents per bale, with the under
standing that the captains should contribute
portion of the labor.
HOTEL ARRIVALS HouSe.-Wm. Multi
gan. New York; A. G. Sineath, Ohio; @. Du-
Bos, Blufftcn; F. E. Wilder, Jas. F. Simpson
and wife, Hilton Head; E. :. Barrows and wife,
Wisconsin; Robert Klein, Augusta, Ga; 4. Z.
Shiver Columbia, S. c.; 81. Schemerhorn, Jno.
R. Stevens, New York; C. A. Petit, wife and
child, Philadelphia; Geo. L. Norton, New YORK;
Captain Crowcu, steamer Saragossa; R. G.
Howard, Marion; C. J. Stolbrand, Beaufort,
S. C.
Charleston Hotei.-J. L. Lake, New York; j.
j. Ryan, South Carolina Railroad; w. J. Good
ing, S. c.; VIM. Nichols, Boston; G. W. Glenn,
Newberry; ]. NJ A. Tottle, Baltimore; F. Hol-
ton, Massachusetts,; Lieut.. VIM. Hoffman, U.
S. A; R. B. Gary, Augusta, Ga; Capt. Peck,
steamer Fannie; Capt. Frisbie, brig Cyclone;
Geo. +. Price, U. s. A.; ]. II. Keller, Orange
| burg; j. S. Bowman, Orangeburg; w. F. Boy
kin and A. H. Boykin and servant, Camden,
S. C.
Paoiton Hotei.-E. LeDeane and D. Delt-
mar, United States revenue service; Paul L.
Lockwood, Graniteville, s. c.; J. +. Cressey,
New Hampshire; A. Wcathersby, Mississippi;
L. G. Blair, Virginia; George T. velter, New
York; ]. L. Bradley, Kingstree; John Nettles,
Williamsburg; Thomas B. Pohl and lady,
Branchville; D. Jones, Williamsburg; H. G.
Chinis, South Carolina; A. ]. Pierce, Darling
ton; J. s. Bauknlght, Florida; Thomas Smith,
Westphalia, New York.