The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-29
LABOR ITEMS.
Arrival of Seven NOn-UniOn
holders From the East.
New Uniforms for the Coast seamen-Ear,y
Closing for Shoe Clerks-Another Box
Factory Unionizsd.

Every union molder in San Francisco
wore troubled countenance last night,
and they were all as dumb as oysters.
What the matter could be no one guessed,
and the facts never dawned up on anybody
until few mysterious movements at the
ferry landing late in the evening had been
explained. 1t all turns out to be an anus
ing joke on the union moders.
1t seems that the molders have had some
suspicion for several days that more of the
pon-union workmen were to be imported
from the East, and they have sharpened
their vigilance by every conceivable means
to head off the newcomers. Even the dele
gates that were returning home from the
National Convention were cautioned to
canvass the trains carefully, and this they
did. over both Southern and Central routes,
but totally without avail.
The spies and pickets, all along the lines
from here to the East, were completely out
witted, and last night when the Southern
overland reached the ferry at $40 o'clock,
seven uolders, shipped here 10 take places
in the Union Iron Works, were escorted
off the ferry-boat, quietly hustled into
closed coupes, and driven away in the dark.
The fact that the looked-for mOlderS did
not arrive on Sunday night made the city
pickets more than ever watchful last night,
so lllaI ABOUT the ltlne IOI tiIo UNtllduu W
arrive the city picketS began to cOngregate
about the landing Before the boat entered
the slip there could be seen, scattered here
and there among the crowd, upward OF
thirty. all keeping dark" and on yiSllant
lookout.
From another direction there hove on the
scene two carriages, quite as mysterious III
their movements as the moldeTS plcketS,
and out of them, when they drove up under
the shed, stepped Harry Morse and Captain
Callundan, accompanied by small corps
of Operatives" They did not make them
selves conspicuous. but went in by the
back way TO the ferry-Slip and there waited
for the boat.
Pretty soon the boat came. The molders
were all on the outside OF the sheds and
did not see what had taken place. Among
the first to leave the boat were seven men,
each escorted by another, who might have
been and probably was an officer. One of
them was the conductor of the train
on which the men had arrived. These
carefully guarded men were the seven
new molders. They did not go out with the
crowd bnt were led off to the baggage-shed,
hurried into the carriages that stood in
waiting, and, accompanied by the contln-
gent, were driven rapidly away.
Now. the amusing part of this whole per-
Torrance was this: These seven were
recruits drummed up by one of the APP
parently converted molderS that had been
persuaded oY the union 10 leave Tue
Union Works, and whose expenses to the
East had been paid by the union. The
Union Iron Works, seeing that its force of
new men was thinning out some, induced
this man to act the part of a convert 50 as
to have his expenses paid East. and as soon
as he arrived there he made arrangements
to have these men sent back.
The Union Iron Works people used every
care that their first experience taught them
in evading the pickets, and the seven i'm
portations arrived at the works about mid
night without any interference and having
completely eyaded the union mOlders.
The Morse contingent remained with them
until they were safely landed in their new
place Of employment.