The Labor enquirer., 1886-08-14

: WrlghtS refused TO repair tnose neeulni
repairs; the boiler-makers and machin
. lists did the same, an the coasting sea
men came off to man from their trad
! ing sailing ships and schooners.
! The situation was critical. Tht
|. Spreckles firm secured the town fol
whites of any kind to take the vacan
places and send their vessels out or
, time, this being necessary in order tt
keep the contract for carryins the Aus
tralian mails. Pimps, thieves and
drunken bummers were taken from Bar
barv Coast and put in as walters and
cooks. The characters of these men
were brought to the attention of Johr
D. Spreckies, and it was then that hi
made the reply that "the character O.
the men was no bar to his employins
them"
1 BLOOD MONEY AGAIN d.
A few rascally boarding masters or
the waterfront were also engaged te
hunt for men, and we have a letter from
Captain Douglass, Spreckles' agent, be-
coming security for the expense of catch
ing them. The blood-money infamy is
again revived They were stolen from
English ships, brought in from the coun-
try and imported from the east, hurried
on board the vessels under guard of po'
lice, and sent at once to sea. But even
among the criminal classes there was too
much honor, too much decency to per-
NIT the slave-drivers to accomplish their
whole purpose. Net even enough OF
these criminals could be found to man
all of the ships. They were compelled
to call upon Chinese to, 90 both into the
fre-room and the pantry! And when
the "Mariposa" reached Honolulu, they
were compelled to engage additional
coolies to enable the vessel to proceed.
Against these few boarding masters we
shall soon make an effective move.
They must and shall be taught lesson.
Of them, more anon.
Sent to sea with incompetent crews,
with vicious walters. with ignorant
cooks, with unskilled, careless fremen,
and with cowardly engineers, is 1t any
wonder that many passengers refused to
90 on the vessels, and is it not time that
the general public interfered in protest
against the further perpetration of such
outrages.
WORD TO CERTAIN MERCHANTS.
But the Spreckles. frm are vindictive.
If nothing else. They threaten the iron
works of this town with punishment If
they do not compel their workers to re-
pair the leaking boilers of their ships.
They have organized some of the other
owners of shipping for the ayowed pur-
pose of breaking up the Coast Seamen's
union, because they took up the cause OF
the firemen. These owners we do not
now name. We prefer to give them a
chance to withdraw from associations
and bargains, which, when fully exposed,
will cover them with obloquy and public
contempt.
THE DUNGEON.
In addition to this the SpreckIes have
induced the United States shipping COM
missioner to 60 on board some of their
schooners and resign the sailors on
bo .rd for the next trip while they were
in ignorance of the fight. Aud then,
when becoming acquainted with the
facts, the sailors have refused to go, they
have had them arrested, and through
the machinery of the United States
courts have sent them to Jail. Six mem
bers of the Coast Seamen's union b ave
already been put behind the bars have
served their terms brav ely and Loyalty,
and were released. Three others are un
der arrest to be treated in the same way,
if possible, by the same court:
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES.
We appeal from the courts, from the
Judges, from the slave drivers, from the
would-be-titled aristocrats, from the
boarding masters, from the slavish, cow
ardIY press to the public of SAu Fra n
cisco, of the United States, of England
and the colonies. We print of this cir
cular 100000 copies They shall be dis
tributed broadcast to the people; thou
sands have already gone to Australia, to
England, to every newspaper in the
land. We, on our part, shall make the
world ring with this story of human
avarice and outrage. I'VE ask the pub
lie also to mail the copies to all of their
friends east aud abroad, to urge them
not TO travel by his line of steamers, to
urge their friends in England and the
Colonies to implore the government to
cancel the mail contract which it has
with these harpies, and to bankrupt and
drive these modern slave-owners out Of
the business of brutalizlng their miser-
able wage slaves.
LET THE WORLD RING WITH THIS TALE OF
OUTRAGE
We ask every citizen of the United
States as well, without delay, to write
personal letter to the senator represent
Ing his state in congress, and TO send
with 1t a copy of this manifesto, de-
manding that the bill now pending for
renewal of the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty be defeated. Act at once
Remember, that to be silent now is to
give your approval of deeds more savage
than barbarism, more corrupt than cor
ruption, more Infamous than infamy it.
SELF
There is no principle involved on the
Spreckles' side, but only the greed of
galn-and gain to be- got, though men be
| worked to death, ships be lost, passen-