New-York tribune., 1901-07-28
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
EFFECTS OF TRANSFERS STRIKE-NEED
OF NEW DRYDOCKS AT NAVY
YARD-ONCE HAD A MILLION,
NOW IN POORHOUSE
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l

San Francisco. July 27.-The teamsters' strike
has dealt another blow to San Francisco busf-
ness which threatens to be serious should the
whole water front be tied up by a sympathetic
strike of stevedores. The teamsters ASSOCIATION
declared the strike not because the hours anu
nav did not suit them, for both these had peeh
adjusted to their satisfaction last Aprll, put De-
cause they refused to handle freight winch d
non-union company had contracted to deliver
The draymen's association refused TO recosni%e
such a boycott and the result was the strike Oh
over a. thousand teamsters, who do most Oh tne
heavy draying for the city merchants Even
+aapsters employed by private firms were called
out which resulted in great hardshlps TO the
commission merchants in fruit and vegetables
as many of their consignments spoiled on ,he
wharf or were sold for a song to pedlers' lhree
large canneries. which employ over three thou-
sand hands and pay $4,000 a day In wages
were threatened with suspension because OF
the difficulty in getting fruit, but the strlk-
ers revoked the order calling out the teams
ters for the canneries and they have been
securing fruit enough to run Ihe oray-
mems association has declined to confer
with the strikers until they are willing 10 agree
not to enter into any more strikes or levy poS
colt or intimidate fellow workmen TO join the
|, union or interfere with the employers business
in anv way and that they will submit any ais
pute about wages hours to arbltratloh- VI
course the teamsters' union refused this plo
posaI as it is a virtual surrender or WHAT inc
union regards as it's vital rights. What the out
come will be is uncertain. The draymens as
sociation is securing many men from the coun-
,rv and from other towns, and under police pro-
tection these teamsters are rapidly renewing the
congestion of freight the wharVes ana at tne
roilroad offices The strike seems to furnsh d
,ood +ast or the relative strength OF the TWO
sides. ..,z
The leading San Francisco business men 'ii''
r,oal visited the Mare Island Navy Yard in or
der to inspect the plant and be able ln'ellIse'''
~ urqe upon the California delegation the i'm
portance of securing Federal aid IN inaNi"s '''e
navy ward capable of docking and repairing the
largest warshps. The present drydock is 100
small for ships of the Oregon and the Iowa type
and the approaches to the navy yard are so
,rucb sboaled by debris from the Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers that there Is danger.
What is needed is to have the channel dredged
and a. new stone drydock constructed Congress
has appropriated nearly $1.OOOOOo for this dry
dock, but for eighteen months the work has been
tied up over contracts. Friends of the navy yard
urge that the building of this drydock should
be begun at once. for this completed it will be
an easy matter TO dredge out the channel The
Mare Island navy yard has a plant capable of
building or repairing the largest batteships, and
the work could be done far cheaper than at
Bremerton.
The remarkable success OF the California
marksmen at the National Schutzenbund. has
excited much comment. and though something
may be due to familiarity with the range and
with tho conditions of the wind. the result is GER