The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-02
Win HFH CENTS IN NOUN
Isnxshoremen Enforce Their
scale On the WharveS-


The shsp Henry Wizard. IaasseY siib
railroad iron. nsesed np 70 the Dan
dx~k yesterday morning 10 ssssehargs
cargo. 4 fofcs of uni0n EongslaoTe'
fsen under stevessores Brown 4 Nc
saEs~, OF Tseosas, we're PCT stssas1 tns
ship 60 unsosa tise iron. and sist
sDrexon Improvement To- sent Captain
I.oyenxo II. Garrison TO Essfe the rails
etc., on Ballast Island. between tsss
Ocean and City docks. Garrison =
nax On goof terms with the Seattle
sseve4ores fsong.horesnien and Zig
gers Union and employs non-union
men as the coal dock OF the oregon
improvement Company. He oroagh'
slosn some sweEssv OF his employees
who are paid bat 80 CENTS ST hour, shf
nvsIos1 scale Esesng 81 cents Aboat
o'clock the first iron from the vessel
was raisea u the wharf by the union
men.
rHs rsfox F9Hstps weEg-
The dock committee Of The unioH
was en- hand. and the n0EA-arisoa fsseE
we're ordered 10 stop work unless they
we're paid 80 cents an holr. A crowd
of asJ men soon gathered ON the wharf
Not nearly all OF them were long
shorensera. but ali were trne-Aus
anionisfs. and very little argument
induced the non-uLloa men 20 gun
work aud leave the dock One or twe
al the wofknen we're hustled, as q
'.ongshoren.an happily put it, b 4 moi
severely hurt. Then the police we're
summoned. and Chief Mitchell and q
sauad went down. The chief asked
the croad 10 preserve order, telling
them they might demand a dollar an
hour il they pleased. but they could
hot stop other men who were willing
q, work for less. The men assented to
this.
HEEsK Is THE RANKS.
With the police around him Captain
Garrison called for crew OF s0-eeni
an hour volunteers. and one little man
with cowboy hat stepped forth Teso-
insesy. The police cleared way TO
the ship, and the little man and bis
employer walked over toward the
ship. The crowd was very demon
strative. hooting Garrison and prom
isiag 10 run him out OF town. Chief
Mitchell guaranteed protection, and
Garrison and The little man went OH
in search oil a crew of men, while the
crowd remained ard discussed the
situation.
Garrison claims that he has 8 per
feet RICH; to empty whom he pleases,
al what price he pleases, and refuses
to pay the union scale.
THE rSioS's POSITION.
A member of the dock committee
Of the Iongshoremen's Union made
the following statement to a Posr-Ia.
rHIeEScER reporter: The union
6as $50 members, and we do ali the
work on the wharyes except at the
coal dock. where We load only the Pa
eific Coast Steamship Com
pany = boats. Garrison doing all the
rest with non-union men, under con-
tract with the Oregon improvement,
Company. Oar scale Is 70 cents an
hour, or 10 cents with board. and
when men are scarce we work with
people not members of the union
insisting That they get the scale.
We had trouble with Garrison
three years ago last July, but com
promised with bina and agreed 90 le
him work on the coal dock with a
cent men provided he would keep of
the other wharyes. He promised
faithfully, and kept bis word until to
day.
This IS no boycott or grudg,
against Mr.. Garrison. and all he ha.
TO do is to pay 20 cents an hour anS
he can get all the men he wants. re
gardless of unionizing the coal bunk
eEs. His men came down toda,
under Misunderstanding and wer'
easily persuaded tn leave This crows
here isn't all made up eff lcngshore
men, but OF men who happened 10 b
around.
We haven't refused 10 unload tn
yes ell, bat the iron can't he pat on TIA
wharf when there Is no one Ia carr,
70 away. However, we won't land j
II Decent men are going 10 handle i
alfevwari, and Garrison will have (,
give in. It's an extra dangerous iol
handling this iron, and there will b.
at least five men burt during the job.