The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-09
UNION AGAINST SHIPPERS
BUSINESS PILING UP FOR JUDGE
ESTEE
Captains Charge That Paid Union Run
ners Work Up Cases Against Them.
Ten Warrants Yesterday.

United States Marshal Rays office is
quite a resort for seamen, especially
disabled ones. Since the conviction of
Captain Sodergren and his two mates,
sailors with grievances have made daily
visits to the office. Ray enjoys a sort
of daily panorama of bunged-up vis-
ages, and Deputy Hendry says he is
beginning to dream of marlin spikes
and Delaying pins. The last lot visit
ed the office this morning, one of them
wearing huge white bandage around
his head. The men varied the occasion
by nearly getting into a fight in the
MarshaPs office. They were from the
ship Emily Reed, and had more details
to give of the stories of cruelty on the
vessel.
Among the shippers it is claimed
that there is a regular organized cap
tain-baiting business in Honolulu. 1t
is the work of the Coast Seamens
Union, say the masters. The Union har
had practical control of the front here
for some time, and it has it in" for
most of the shippers who come here
from Newcastle. The latter have nom
union men on board, and nine times
out of ten, when they arrive here, they
quickly announce their intention to
take non-union men away.
Something will have to be done to
stop this business in Honolulu" said
Captain Wallace of the Sea King, after
he had been held to appear before a
jury just because he did not stop
fight in which he admittedly took no
part. "These arrests are all the work
of men sent down here from San Fran
cisco, and paid by the union to get
captains into trouble. 1t is getting so
that an American captain cannot be
master of his own ship, but has to take
orders from the fok'sle.'
This is the claim made by Sodergren
and others, that the union runners here
get hold of seamen and put them up
to getting the warrants. The cases are
all the same,-there are three or four
seamen with n terrible table of cruelty,
and the captain, two mates. the carpen-
ter, cabin boy and sometimes the cook,
with an entirely different story. The
juries puzzle over the mixture of truth
and rank perjury, and make decision.
The result promises to fill Oahu Jail
with the ships officers. There are a
number of mates over there now and
Captain Sodergren has six months
job on the reef coming, if an appeal
does not clear him.
Ten United States warrants We're is
sued and served yesterday in Rays
office, seven of the men arrested being
sailors or ships officers Captain George
. A. Baker, First Mate A. Kerr and Sec
Emily Reed were charged with assault
and battery on the high sea, the war
rants being sworn to by three sailors.
The defendants put up $1,000 bonds
each, and will be heard on Thursday.
Four sailors from the bark c. D. Bry-
ant were arrested for deserting the YES
sci at the time of the fire Sunday
morning. They will be tried under a
law United States statute COVERING such
cases.
The other three warrants were for
Chinese uniawfully in the territory.
This morning the case of Cut Yung
came up in court, but Judge Estee had
no interpreter, and was, compelled to
adjourn till o'clock this afternoon, by
which time an interpreter from Quar-
antine island will be secured. Cut YunFr
like All See, claims that she was born
in Hawaii and that her father was a
citizen AS an additional reason why
she should be allowed to land, she
claims to be he wife of merchant in
Honolulu