The record-union., 1899-07-19
A FEW STRIKERS RETURN.
FOURTEEN ARE NOW ABOARD
THE JACINTO.
The Others Blowing In Their
Money and Will Shortly
Be Broke.

yesterday morning showed no change
IN the strike inaugurated by the deck
nands against the Sacramento Trans
portatlon Company. The five boats
OF the company which were tied UP
at thelr wharfs on Monday night were
sun at their wharfs, and the strikers,
many of whom had been drinking heav-
lily, showed no inclination to return to
work
Inc strikers are mixed gang, in
which are to be seen Italians, Portu-
suesse, Kanakas, negroes and others.
They seem to be unorganized, and for
mat reason, and for the further one
that they are believed to be not well
supplied with funds. the transporta-
ton company expect that they will
soon return to work.
Few of the many applicants for jobs
as deckhands will not go on the boats
unless they are guaranteed protection
from the strikers, and as such guar
antee cannot be assured, few are be-
ing shipped
The deck crew of one OF the COM
pany's steamers is composed of from
twenty to twenty-five men, and the
officers realize the futility of sending
aboard The boats are engaged al
most exclusively in moving grain, so
that there is nothing to be lost in the
line of perishable goods, and grain can
wait awhile.
The company hopes to see the strik-
ers back at their posts in short time,
but the latter have not, as yet, given
any intimation that they intend to re-
MI hni,
crease in wages from $40 to $50 per
month is allowed.
The Apache and the Modoc, the two
down-river steamers of the railroad
company, are running regularly, and
the disaffection does not seem to have
extended to them. Other smaller
steamers are also making regular trips,
and even the San Joaquin No. 4, one
of the boats of the Sacramento Trans
portation Company, is working among
the loaded barges on the front. While
the strike continues no serious dam
age is being done to the company.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the
company succeeded in getting together
a crew of seventeen deckhands for the
Jacinto, which was due to start up
the river Fourteen of the men shipped
were from the ranks of the strikers,
and three were new men.
The strikers evidently supposed that
the start would be made from the COM
pany's wharf at the foot of n street.
and some murmured threats were heard
to the effect that it would go hard with
the first man who went aboard. The
crowd gathered around the company's
sheds, and in reply to demand of the
officials of the company for protection,
Chief of Police Dwyer relieved Officers
Bagley and Pennish from patrol duty
on their beats and sent them to the
scene.
In the meantime the Jacinto got up
steam, moved over to the Yolo side.
shipped the crew which was waiting
there. and then. with a barge in tow,
steamed up stream.
After the start was made the steam
er's cook and a number of men to fill
up the crew to the maximum point were
placed on wagons, taken up above the
city and finally transferred to the
decks of the JacintO.
The crew of the San Joaquin No. 4,
which plies down the river, was busy
yesterday hauling from the bars
stranded barges. Only the crews of
up-river boats Joined the strike.
Late in the afternoon it was gem
orally understood that another of the
companys boats would follow the ia
cinto up the river during the evening.
1t is understood that the transporta-
ton people have notified the striking
deckhands that no advance in wages
will be allowed, and it is further under
stood that many of the strikers would
be willing to compromise on $40 per
month.
With the disaffection in the rnaks of
the strikers, shown by shipping crew
for the San Jacinto, persons who have
watched proceedings from the start de-
clare that the back of the strike is
broken, and that the men will all be
working by tonight.
There was much drinking and many
fights among the strikers yesterday,
but nobody was seriously injured. Most
of the men who went out have been
spending money freely in the saloons
along the front, and the feeling pre-
walls that they will not be financially
able to continue the strike for any
length of time.