The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-24
BROUGHT MORE COTTON.
Ten Steamships Loaded With Non
Union LOngShOTemen.

Forty-five Thousand Bales Shipped
Through Savannah That Would
Have Gone by Some Other Route
Had the Vessels Not Been Brought
Here by the Reduction in Cost of
Loading - Result of the Labor
Trouble.
Three steamers are now loading cotton
with non-union lasor. Mr.. r. f. Harmon
had five steamers on hand last week, two
of which have already sailed Two more
are now on their way to Savannah to load
cotton. With the three steamers pre-
viogsly loaded this will make ten steam
ers, besides several barlzs, loaded by Mr..
Harmon for the ship brokers with non
union labor.
The ship brokers are pleased with the
result of their fight with the longshOre-
mems unions. They are now getting all
the labor they want for less than half
what they formerly paid, and it is doing
more work, and it is claimed better
work than was done by the union men.
The non union labor has averaged four
bales to the ton in loading, and in some
instances has exceeded this, which has
always been considered very good work.
THE RESULT OF THE FIGHT.
One OF the best informed snip brokers
in the business said yesterday: las a
result of the great decrease in the cost of
trading vessels we are now able to make
an ocean rate of to cents per hundred
less than formerly, and sDy doing so we
have obtained considerable cotton that
would have gone elsewhere. By the
reduction in the cost of load
ing we have been enabled
fp 81, y~ta Cfa ms binc CinPn this
duction was made, of which nine never
would have been chartered otherwise.
BY this means we have already been ena-
bled to ship out about As, 900 bales of cot
ton, which would, for the most part, have
been shipped by some other route. This
has enabled Us to give regular employ
ment for the last two months to seventy
five men at fair wages, VINO
would otherwise have been idle
| The union men have no right to
complain of this. They could never have
obtained the work anyway, because with
out the reduction in rates the vessels
would never have been brought here and
! there would have been no work of the
kind for anybody. In addition to giving
employment to a large number of men at
good wages. each ship that comes into
the port disburses a large amount of
money in various branches of trade and
thus every additional ship is an ad-
vantage to other trades besides
labor. AS a result of decreasing the cost
of loading we will be able to continue
trading ships much later this season than
heretofore.
WILL BE NO CHANGE.
The broker said there was no prospect
of the brokers yielding to the demand of
the unions. They are so well satisfied
with their present labor that they are not
disposed to return to the union labor at
the old scale of wages, even if the obiec-
tiOnable rule limiting the amount of work
per day, which was the cause of all
the trouble, should be repealed
| The nonunion gangs now put in from 100
! to 125 bales a dayas against seventy-fve
| by the union gangs. When work was
first begun with the present labor, nearly
all the cotton was recompressed. This
| has been stopped and the cotton is now
| put in without recompressing. The mer-
chants have arranged to purchase 800
new steel screws.
There will be no lack of tools of an
| improved order with which to do the
work" said one of them yesterday. we
will be fully equipped for the business.
! There is plenty of labor to be had, and it
viii take but little while to break it
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