The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-16
ALT WATER STRIKE.
Nearly All Big Steamers Tied
Up by Pilots.
M'ALPiNE RUNS THE SEHOME.
He Has son-Union Engineers - Nom
Union Pilots at work-Premier and
Kingston May Be Tied Up.

charge OF Captain hcAIplne ana n crew OF non
union engineers and fremen. The only other
boats that yesterday with both association
engineers aad pilots were the City OF Kingston
and w. X Nsrwin. All the other boats run
ming had pon-union engineers or else the pilot
happened not to be q member OF tho
brotherhood. Those that went ont with
non-union engineers were the State OF Washing
top, Sarah n Renton, sehoIne, Detroit, Delta
and Glide. Those running in charge Of cap
tsins who do not belong TO the Pilots Associa-
ton were the Premier, Aultnomah, HerTnosa,
Edith, tug Wandsrer and some smaller tugs.
There was q general feeling that the captains
would return TO their posts when y non union
crew was found to take the sehome out, but
they still insisted that the engineers must raise
the boycott on IeAiphine before they would
take oct their boats with union engineers.
The pilots held meeting last night, but just
what was done could not be learned In re-
Spouse 10 the questions OF a PosT-iSTELLIGEs-
CIR reporter several OF the pilots who attended
the meeting said that there was no disposition
On the part OF the members TO break the tie-up,
but on the contrary movement was ON foot 10
get the Premier and City Of Kingston 10 tie up
when they come In.
The boats tied mp the Victorian Idaho,
George r. Starr, Greyhound, City of Seattle City
OF Quincy. Flyer, L. ]. Perry, Buckeye, Angeles
WAsco and Henry Bailey, besides the tugs
Hornet aud Wasp.
therefore not affected, but Captain Nibbe said
that, If she had not been laid UP, he
would not run her with union en-
gineer. The A. il. Robinson is man
ned in both departments by men interested
in the boat VINO do not belong to the associa-
tons. and she therefore msde her run When
the State OF Washington arrived in seattle from
Tacoma IN the morning II. w. Baker had two
non-uniOu engineers ia waiting and called Chief
Engineer Bergman and his assistant ashore and
Gent the boas out with the non union men. The
company has not discharged the union men, but
Is keeping them under pay pending the
outcome. The union engineers along the front
were making considerable protest, claiming that
only one engineer sent out on the boat,
while her license calls for two. The manager OF
the Waseo the only one Us far as reported
who looked AT the matter from business point
or view snd paid lIs crew or They all receive
their board on tie boat, but none OF them will
receive wages while it is tied up
ia the afternoon ii was reported that the City
OF Seattle WIS OF the way back from Wha;com,
where she had been tied up, aRd this created
considerable uneaSiness among the pilots but
TIE report proved TO be unfoundad. C. D.
Stevens, Captain ID. b. Jacksons private secre-
tary, declared however that she would come in
today.
IL was almost O'Clock this morning before
the Edith went out in command Of Captain Do
Wolie with Captain Coffin pilot. Captain
Coffin is the pilot who came around with Cap
tain Nichols on the City of Seattle, and was re-
jected when his name was proposed as q MEM
Der of the brotherhood
The Sshome took the Victoria mail out In the
Victorian's place and, as the Delta and Edith
are running, this leaves all the mail routes in
operation.
The Sarah NJ. Renton had union engineer,
but he was sent ashore and William Campbell.
one OF the owners. went aboard of her rs
engineer himself, and he not belonging to the
association the captain took the boat out
Claude Troup, of the steamer Greyhound has
made arrangements with a nom union captain
TO take the Greyhound out this morning on her
first run 10 Port Gardner.
About 30 men in ali are employed on the
boats which are hung up, but very few of this
number have quit or been discharged so the
expense al falls on the companies Speaking
of this matter yesterday, c. u. Stevens of the
Puget Sound x Alaska Steamship Company,
said:
1t is an outrage for the pilots to tie up the
boats OF this company without moments
warning The city Of Seattle came in here
the captain ami pilot simply get of and
say, "Your boat is tied upr' There is
no company on the sound that treats
its men any better than this company, and il
certainly 10 not right for the pilots % do "a they
have done Here was tho Edith carrying mail,
which had 10 go under quite u penalty, but they
fact that Captain Jackson happened 10 hold a IL
cense himself she could not have gone out I
Ike all the boys on the bosts, but they certainly
cannot expect 10 have such conduct tolerated
by the company.
Port Captain Rsthbone wss not very well
pleased with the refusal of the pilots TO take the
boats ont after the Sehome had succeeded in
getting out He thought that if the pilots re-
turned to their posts il would practically settle
the matter. the engineers had agreed TO be
lax NJ
spector when il comes from san Francisco He
Gld not think they would strike on any OF the
other boats because the Schome ent out with
non-union crew. lie attended the meeting of
pilots and tried to persuade them TO return TO
work, but they would not consent To do So.
the crew in the engineers department of the
schome consists of eight men-:wo engineers,
two hrsmen, two oilers aud two coal passers-
aud theY all walked out at Tacoma and their
places were filed by the nom union men sent
over from Seattle.
The Seattle < Montana trains were more
heavily loaded than usual yesterday, indicating
that tho passenger trafic has gone over To the
railroads since the tying up of the boats.
Captain Morley yesterday CoutEsdicted the
statement made in The Posi- NrELGIGESCER that
he was black b&llei by the local Harbor OF the
brotherhood of steamboat Pilots. He saws he
beongcsi 70 the Masters ana Mates Association
Of san Francisco, but never made application TO
Join the pilots organization here and therefore
could not have been black balled. he said
] know that IL ! tad applied that CAPTAIN
Crow AMI others az his friends would black bali
uae, Is had spoken openly GA points regarding
the association ! have been q master mariner
Tor a number Of years, aud have had command
ot steam aud sailing yeSses Ga the Atlantic and
Pacific, sad nave bvcn all around the world, IN
tscL Hayc been ~ sea for TWENTY-FIVE years
and ought - know che rules and regulations
eRn handle any SIud 81 hosf-siJewh heel
SteFnwheel or propeller-aad hold good pilot
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