The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-12
THE STRIKE STILL ON.
THE LONGSAOREMENS' LOCKOUT
YET UNBROKEN.

Capt Sealey's Conference With the
Executive Council OF the Longshore-
mems Union-The Council Makes a
Proposition Which the Vessel De
clines-Powers s. McGehee's Con-
ference With Wilder 81 Goa Set
tlement Looked for To-Day.
The strike Of the longshoremen is still on.
There are about 400 men in the lockout.
Capt. Sealey, Of the British steamship
Thalia, was before the executive council of
the Workingmen's Benevolent Association
yesterday. At the conference the council
made proposition to him looking to a
smoothing over Of the difficulty in re-
gard to his vessel and that of all
the other foreign vessels loading cotton
cargoes. The council proposed to Capt.
Sealey that it is ready to furnish him all
the labor he wants to finish loading his
ship, provided, first, that all the cotton
which was put in by nOn-union labor be
taken out, and second, that he give the
contract TO stevedore who is licensed to
do the work, or TO place his vessel in the
hands of some shipping firm or agents here
who will appoint a stevedore.
Capt Sealey was willing TO comply with
the terms proposed, except the part in rela-
ton to placing his vessel in an agents
hands, which he refused positively to do,
and there the matter rests
PRESIDENT KEENAN, TALKS.
President Thomas keenan, of the benevo-
lent association said last night that the
association has nothing whatever to do
with the disagreement between the
shipping merchant and the captain, and no
matter what the trouble was, 1T was none of
L.
principle involved, and it is the determine
ton of the association to uphold it. The
action OF the captain in employing nom
union men, he said, was in direct violation
of the rules of thu association, as well
as of the city ordinances. The longshore-
mon said that they were perfectly
willing to aid commerce instead of OBJ
STRUGGLING it, as they had already shown
once before this season. As to the work
being offered to them, Mr.. Keenan, had no
knowl dge Of the offer, and, if It had been
offered. the association was unable TO take the
contract, as there are none of its members
who are licensed TO do it; and, il they were,
it cannot be done without the tools which
are always furnished by the boss steve
dores.
NO FEAR OF TROUBLE.
As to there being any violence among
the workingmen, Mr.. Keenan, said that is
altogether wrong. The captain, he said.
could have continued loading his vessel as
he had started II he had chosen to, but the
workingmen would not work on a single
cotton ship while the ITALIA was in
port, and, further, the association
would refuse labor should the
captain or his ship ever return to this port,
and he was so put on notice. This, Mr..
Keenan, said, sums up the amount of
violence contemplated, and under the cir
cumstances no police protection was neces-
sary.
Mr.. Keenan, said that the rule is alb
solutely necessary for the protection of
the ia oring men in the association, who
are men living here and identified with the
city, and any violation of it would
bring alien labor, from the competition
with which, in seasons past, the members
have suffered.
Mr.. Keenan, expressed the hope that the
stevedores, the agents and the captain will
settle their difficulty among themselves
satisfactorily and without drawing the
workingmen into it any further. Steve
dore Powers and Mr.. Wilder were to have
| had consultation last night in regard to
| the matter, to try and fix up some arrange
ment by which the lockout can be broken.
| The result of the conference will be made
| known to-day.
AN INCIDENT OF THE STRIKE.
An amusing incident of the flight
Of the "black Sheep after
they were escorted up town
under police protection, is thus far the only
humorous feature of the lockout.
There were sixteen negroes on the Thalia
who had been at work until they got
frightened and declined to turn hand, and
yet they were afraid to come ashore. Sergt.
Killourhy, with two policemen on foot,
started up town with the men, and
as Bay street was crowded with angry
longshoremen, Sergt. Killourhy conclu led
that trouble could be avoided by taking the
men ont Randolph street. 1t was COM
paratively deserted and when the Lamar
mill had been passed the men scurried off
in every direction, and in moment or so
no two of them were together. They said be-
fore stampeding that ii they once got home
they wouldn't come out again that night,
and they wouldn't come down town for the
money due them until the trouble is well
over, and they certainly kept their word, as
the Thalia, with the exception of her crew,
was deserted yesterday. A detail OF police
was sent down, but after waiting long and
patiently and no one coming to work, the
6atail was withdrawn.