The herald., 1895-06-12
THE SAILORS UNION WAR
A Plain Statement from Mr.. ]. W.
Davis
A Chance for 1r. MeLaren TO HerlN
Assertions About Those
Circulars

Editor Herald The nondescrip; 6Nc-
ument headed Warning No. >, 80 on Sc.
count of which my friends of the sailors
union affect such CONSERVATION, and
which was published In your psrer 80.
day, was unquestionably promulsaisa
either by the union men themselves III -
very stupid attempt to enlist sympathy
or by me in a signally successful attempt
to brand myself a monumental ass.
have no fear that any honest mAn
VINO knows me will ever attribute Its aU
thorship to me. 1t is not my style either
in diction OF mode of warfare. | ass s
bearing in this discussion only that !
may aid in the discovery of the contem PIT
ible author
The apparition is said to have confront
ed the union agent and few Of his
chums upon awakening from their slunl-
bers early Friday morning. June 7th. In
fact we are told that il mas nailed on
their doors and pasted on their windows,
and that it 'skeered' them into great
and mighty skeer.
That same day Mr.. Mclaren who is the
oracle ana autocrat OF the sailors union
for all Southern California took the mid
day train tor Los Angeles and returned
here on the next day at :45 y. m. He
gave out that he had hoen TO Santa Bar-
bara and that he found these same doc
uments posted IN the saloons there. and
also that Davis was in Santa Barbara and
must have posted them there.
This narrows the question down TO one
of two people-James McLaren or J. W.
Davis, which?
accept the issue Just as he has placed
it. Ii lie was not there at all. and a care
ful examination OF the railroad time ia
bles demonstrates the fact that he was
not, then his faleshood uttered to fasten
the com isslon of dstardly act upon
an innocent man must recoil against
himself. Ii he was there he must nave
taken his departure several hours before
my arrival. | landed in Santa Barbara on
the II: 40 p. m. train, Saturday. June
stb. before Mr.. McLaren's false utterance
ineSan Pedro.
Whence then the posters he saw in the
sloons in Santa Barbara? Mr.. McLaren
frequents saoons. | do not. He saw the
posters. | did not.
My business in Santa Barbara was to
place an association crew on the schooner
Excelsior Will Mr.. McLaren kindly tell
us his errand there?
| expected to meet him there and was
prepared to give him a warm reception
il he should interfere with me.
Upon my arrival there | repaired i'm
mediately to the schooner an" was con-
tinuously with the captain until 1925 p.
NJ. | then went to the Morris house and
had a pleasant talk With my old-time
friend Mr.. Morris. | then took a street
car out to the terminus near the Mission,
backand down to bath house and back to
the Morris house for dinner, and was
homeward on the 55 p. NJ. train.
Will Mr.. McI,aren kindly tell us how he
employed his time there?
During the two years that | have been
the San Pedro agent for the Shipowners'
association of the Pacific coast | have
This both Jack and the shipowner will
attest. In all the questions Of difference
between master and seaman which have
been referred to me Jack has never
been known to complain of any decision.
Mine is the only agency on the Pacific
coast where the standard of wages has
been uniformly maintained. No sailor
has ever been shipped by me on a coast
ing voyage at less than $50 per month,
notwithstanding the fact that radica:
union sailors are continuously enterinl
ing this port from outside points shipped
at $25. and even $40.
| ar: almost daily accosted by union
sailors in good standing, hungry and
ragged, who tell me contide ntially tnat
they would be glad to ship and end the
trouble if jim would let them.
Who is this Jim" anyway. THAT couple
of hundred strong. able men should be
denied honest employment, a whole town
kept in chaos and CONFUSION and the
glutted with vexatious and expensive
litigation in order that one sailor of that
class who never ship should be given
'soit job?''
l will answer this question later.
J. W. DAVIS.