The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-01
LOADING OF The CLENLOIC.
About $500 Bales Put On Board Up
to Last Night.

The Longshoreman Make an Ex-
ception of Their Determination Not
} to Load Any Vessel So Ions as Non
Union Labor Is Employed, in Favor
of the Bark Herman Lemkuhl-some
/ Of the ms and Outs Of the Present
/ Fight.
/ The loading Of the Glenloig continued
/ quietly yesterday. About 2, 500 bales had
been put in up to last night. Col. Har-
mon now thinks that he will get in fully
as much cotton as the longshoremen
would have gotten in. He began using
the screws yesterday altogether Having
only three screws, however, he is some
what hampered in the work. He expects
to have a full supply Of screws in a day or
two
The longsbOremen made an exception in
favor of the bark Herman Lemkuhl,
which is being loaded by c. G. Dahl Il Co.
at the lower wharves, of their determine
| ton, as already announced, not to load
any vessels as long as non-union labor was
in use anywhere along the river. They
give as their reason for this exception
that the loading had already been
BaA AAdlAJ AOullllCgCu bll VIC A[CAL uLll, anu
they did not consider it fair to cease work
with the vessel only partially loaded.
They continued TO load the vessel, how
ever. under their own rules. They refused
to accept the loading of the bark Kamfiord
from Richardson ~ Barnard on the con-
ditions offered them of the regular rates
of labor for full days work.
ms AND OUTS OF THE TROUBLE.
There are a good many ms and outs to
the fig hit between the longshOremen and
the ship brokers. A well-posted man on
such matters informed a MORNING NEWS
| reporter yesterday that the real fight is
not between the ship brokers and the
workingmen, but between the brokers and
/ the master stevedores. "The result of
the fight, if the brokers are successful"
! he said, evils be to do away with the boss
stevedores, who are now considered un-
| necessary middle men. If the brokers
win the fight, they will hereafter load their
own ships with the aid of fOremen, who
/ Will secure the labor and Superintend the
loading of the ships. The foremeu will
have to be experienced men and so will a
/ large part of the labor they employ. The
result of the doing away with the steve
| dores will be to greatly lessen the cost of
/ loading vessels with cotton and will mark
| a new departure in the business of the
-
! been loading cotton on its vessels for
! some time without the aid of the steve
| dOrCs or the lOngshOremen and the
| brokers are inQuiring why they cannot
do the same thing with their ships.
TO STAND BY THE BOSSES.
If this view is correct it adds new
| phase TO the situation. Many of the long
shoremen, when approached on the sub
| iect Of their refusal to agree to the prOpo-
sitiOn of the brokers, simply reply, that
they are determined ito stand by the
bosses This suppOsition also appears TO
explain the conduct of the stevedores in
standing with the lOngshOremen, instead
of the brokers, from whom they receive
all their work, in this fight.
| A ship broker who was approached on
this subject said, that the stevedores had
| been done away with in the cotton busi-
ness at Charleston and other ports, and he
did not see why the same result should
not follow here.
In quoting a ship broker as saying, that
owing to competition the profits of the
| brokers were ouly ten and half per
cent" it should have been said that all
the brokers had been able to make out of
the business this season, was their com
mission of ten and a half cents per bale,
and not always that
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
There is a wide difference of opinion be-
tween the brokers and the lOngshoremen
as to how the brokers will come out in
their experiment of loading ships them
selves without the Intervention of the
| lOngShOremen. "Whyn said a longshore-
man to a MORNING News reporter yester-
day, "by the time the brokers have loaded
half a dozen ships, they will be 50 sick of
the business that they will beg US to
come back on the old conditions. The
brokers are bound to lose heavily on the
experiment The Glenoig is a TO- 600 bale
ship. At least, the longshoremen could
put that much cotton into her By recon-
pressing the cotton, as is now
being done for the GlenloigA The
LABOR that is now being used will not
get in more than 5000 bales at the out
side, and think it would be safe TO bet
that they will not get in much over 1000.
Say the vessels cargo is 900 bales short
of what it otherwise would have been,
the loss Of the brokers will be very heavy.
The Glenloig is,a lump sum ship, and the
whole loss will fall upon the brokers.
Each bale short of what the vessel should
have carried means a net loss to the
brokers of about Sl50. If the Glenloig
leaves Savannah ?, 900 bales short the loss
of the brokers will be fully $1,000.
If she is only a thousand bales short, and
! will wager that her shortage will largely
exceed that, the brokers VIII have a net
loss of $4,000. The cost of loading the
vessel with the cheap labor will be fully
as great, if it is not greater, than it would
have cost with the union labor. The cost
of reCOmpressing alone is so cents bale,
and the inexperienced labor will not cost
less than 10 cents bale, which will
bring the cost of loading to just what 1t
would have been with the union labor. A
loss of from Sl,5l1 to s., 900 on each vessel
will bring the brokers around long before
the busy season SETS in again.
Unfortunate People,
Who do not live near the leading dairy re
piOnS can now use DrOducts of sucI