The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-21
PATROL ON BAY And SHORE
THE SAILORS UNION GUARDING
THE WATER FRONT BY
DAY AND NIGHT.
COAST SEAMEN RECEIVE SET
BACK-DEsERTED BY POPE
& TALBOT.

The strike of the Sailors Union is in full
blast, and the ship-owners have taken up
the gauntlet which has been thrown down.
To man the owners have refused to meet
the demand for the increase in wages.
The union was out in force on Tuesday
night, as many as 300 coast seamen being
engaged in patrolling the water front. All
through the long dark hours of the night
silent forms could be seen lurking in the
shadows among the shipping. The bowling
storm was unheeded by these watchers Of
the night, and the binding rain and hail
had no terrors for the hardy mariners.
When morning dawned the break of day
revealed the groups along the shore.
A bay patrol has also been established,
and there would have been trouble had an
attempt been made to put non-union
crew on board any of the vessels in the
stream. With all the vigilance of the
sailors the schooner Maid of Orleans got
away with a crew. She was lying at Main
street wharf and at $50 o'clock in the
morning a non-uniOn crew was quietly
put on board and the vessel towed to sea.
About an hour afterward the union got
wind of the flank movement, and some
twenty men were sent to Main-street
MAdI1. lHdtllS tIldb b1c hdlei vi Ol1C
was on her way to Shoalwater Bay the
union men turned their attention to the
schooner Ivy.
The latter vessel was lying at the same
wharf and had her crew on board. The
union men took out all hands, even COM
polling the mate to 60 ashore. A large
crowd of union men fiocked at Vallejo
street when Boarding house Master Kane
left the dock to 90 to the schooner Elwell.
1t was thought that Kane was going to put
a crew ON some vessel in the stream, and
trouble was only averted by the appear
ance of the police. All day yesterday dele
cations from the Sailors Union followed
the 'scab'' boarding-hous masters and at
tempted to prevent them from securing
non-union crews. In several cases they
were successful in their purpose and that
too, without resorting to violence.
The bark Wilma and the schooner La
Glronde are to sail this morning with non
union crews. The former goes from Mis-
sion-street wharf at 6 o'clock, and the lat
ter from Main street at o'clock. Trouble
is feared at both sailings, and the aid OF
the harbor police has been invoked.
The union has received a setback at the
outset of its fight Pope & Talbot, which
firm has always employed union men, have
refused to pay $35 month for sailors, and
this is the largest shipping firm on the
coast, and the withdrawal of its support
means much to the union. Their ship
Palmyra is now waiting for crew to go to
Puget Sound, and yesterday Secretary
Andrew Furuseth of the union offered to
supply the men. Port Captain Leach Of
the firm told the secretary that he would
take crew for $25 month. This it was
said. could not be done, and the Palmyra
will sail to Puget Sound with non-union
crew. This will be the first non-union
crew which has ever worked on Pope &
Talbot's vessels.
w, E. Mighell, another big shipper who
operates large coastwise feet, is also
against the union. ~ was the friend of
the unions" said Mr.. MighelI yesterday,
until 1t Disseminated against me. | was
getting sailors here at $25 month, but as
soon as my vessels reached the Sound
ports the crews were taken off and my
agents We're told that the wages from there
was S35. | appealed to Furuseth, who is
the recognized head of the union on the
coast He told me that he could do moth
ing, so | quit the union, This was fourteen