The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-30
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CALLED OUT.
General Strike Ordered in San
Francisco
BY the City Front Federation,
in Effect Today.
4 COMPLETE TIE UP.
Strikers Expect to Stop All
Warehouse Business
And Practically Close the Port
to Shipping.

San Francisco, July 30--The labor
troubles in this city reached their cul-
mination late last night when the City
Front federation ordered q general
strike on the docks Of San Francisco,
Oakland, Mission Rock and Port Costa
and in the city of San Francisco, to
go into effect this morning The reso-
luton to strike. which received the
unanimous endorsement of every del
egation to the fedora ton. was short,
but its effect win be to cause a tempo
rary paralysis of the shipping business
Of San Francisco such as has not been
known before. It reads as follows:
The full membership of the City
Front federation refuses to work at the
docks of San Francisco, Oakland, Port
Costa and Mission Rock. The steamers
Bonita and Walla Walla, with mail
and passengers, now in the stream VIII
be allowed to go to sea.
The meeting of the federation was a
long one, and there was much heated
argument, but when the resolution
came to a vote every delegate present
voted in favor of the strike The fol-
lowing fourteen unions were represent
ed, comprising all the workers on the
water front:
Sailors union of the Pacific, four
local unions of longshoremen, marine
firemen, brotherhood of teamSterS,
ship and steamboat joiners, porters,
packers, WarehOusemen, ship clerks,
pile drivers and bridge builders, hoist
ing engineers, steam and hot water
filters and coal teamsters.
This action, which is a direct out
cone of the lockout of the teamsters,
will have for its immediate effect the
cessation of all labor in and around
the great docks of the city about San
Francisco bay. The sand teamsters'
union and the Oakland teamsters'
union also ordered a strike. This will
make a total of over $4,000 union work
men who have stopped their labor
since the middle of May last, divided
as follows;
City Front federation, comprising
fourteen Organiza lions, $4,000 men.
Machinists and iron workers, 1000
Cooks and waters, 1900.
Sand teamsters, 600
Oakland teamsters, 1000
Total number of men out, $4,000.
The tieup viii be conplete if the
plans of the labor unions are success
full They hope to stop the loading and
even to prevent the moving of ships
that are now almost ready for depart
ure- Unless the proprietors ana m an
ayers are able to secure sufficient non
union help to load and man their YES
sells the strike will practically mean
the closing of the port and the suspen-
sion of business in the wholesale anu
manufacturing sections OF san Fran
cisco and Oakland The ferry boats are
not affected by the strike Union men
employed on them will not be called
out. and local travel and freight trans
fers will not be disturbed
When the news of the action of the
fedora ton was sent to the various
Headquarters of the unions it was
greeted with tumultuous cheering, show
ing that all of the organizations were
in accord with the strike ordered.
Mem bers of the employers associa-
ton state that they have fully consid-
cred the consequence of the strike and
are prepared to meet it. The steam
ship managers will hold meeting to-
day to consider their course They are
not members of the employers associa-
ton, but will act in harmony with it,
They express the opinion that they
viii be able to move ocean going YES
sells, but will not disclose their plans.
The industrial Cancellation committee
of the Municipal league made strenuous
efforts yesterday to avert the threaten
ed strike but without avail. Two meet
ings were held in the mayors office. At
the second meeting a statement from
the employers associations attorney
embodied in a report by Mayor Phelan
was ready and approved by the COM
rnittee as the best it had to offer to the
dissatisfied workmen. No concessions
to the strikers and other union men in
terested were contained in it and at
the meetings of the City Front fedora
tons unions the port did not receive
serious consideration.
The City Front federation has issued
a statement in which it reviews the sit
uatfon and states that the strike was
not ordered until all honorable means
of effecting settlement had been tried
in vain.
ONLY PARTIAL SUCCESS.
San Francisco, July 3O.-Owing to the
strike of the Water Front federation
which was inaugurated today, the
business section of the city is COM
pletely tied up in some places. Al
though a large number of men We're
secured to fill the places Of the strik-
ers. little merchandise has been N owed.
It is too early to forecast the result
or extent of the strike In some bust
ness sections goods were being moved
somewhat freely. but in others a COM
plete tieup is the result of the strike.
Along the water front business is sus-
pended, though one or two river boats
are running on their regular schedules.
One or two unimportant fights oc-
CURED on the water front, and the pO-
lice used their clubs freely. with the
result that some of the belligerents
ware sent TO the hOSDita1