The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-04-02
MATES ON STR|KEI
STEAMERS TIED UP


Navigation Company ana Wider s
Steamship Company are dissatis-
fed and have gone out on a strike for
higher wages. They went out yester-
day afternoon.
The result is that many Of the local
steamers viii be tied up and will be
unable TO leave port. Two steamers,
scheduled TO leave last evening, were
unable to get away, having no mates
aboard. The lie Au Hou was the first
vessel affected. She was to have sail
ed for Lahalna yesterday afternoon bat
did not get away. Her mate and her
second and third ma .es refused to take
her out and II was impossible to get
men to go in their places
The prUbabi tiles are that, unless
other men can be secured in time. the
Kinau and the Claudine will not sail
on their regular runs today. Licensed
men are extremely scarce in town and
1t will be impossible to fill the places
of all the strikers A few men have
already been engaged but they, for the
most part have been taken out of tn
carpenter shops, though they hold lii
Censes for just such emergencies.
They and all others who take the po
sitions left vacant by the men who have
walked out will have a very unpleas-
ant time of 1t, according to the strik
ers, for, while the strikers are a peace
able lot of men and do not contemplate
creating any disturbance or preventing
other men from working, their many
friends among captains, engineers and
pursers aboard the vessels of the two
local steamship companies have taken
pains to spread around the hint that
they will not welcome "scabs" aboard
the steamers of the two fleets.
The mates asked the steamboat COM
.panies for an increase in their wages.
They We're refused, according to their
statements, without the proposition be-
ing entertained for moment.
For some time past the mates of Ho-
nolulu have been quietly organizing
and talking over the matter of wages
among themselves. On the 18th of
March they addressed a communication
to President Wight of Wilder's Steam
ship Company and to President Ena of
the Inter-Isand Navigation Company.
In this letter they drew the attention
of the respective companies to the fact
that while the work of mates in these
waters was very much more difficult
than the work of mates on the Coast,
they We're receiving less remuneration.
panies consider their case and that
wages be raised until they were the
same that mates We're receiving on the
Coast
| A couple of weeks passed and there
was no sign of an answer. Nothing had
been said about raising the mems
wages and no reference was made to
the communication from the mates.
Every mate. second mate and third
mate had signed his name to the first
communication.
On the last day of last month, no an
swer having been received from Presi-
dents Wight or Ena, the committee of
two appointed by the mates to look
after the matter addressed another
communication to the two companies
to the effect that unless an answer to
the original communication was forth
coming by noon of the first day of the
present month the men would walk out.
A little before noon yesterday, there
fore, the committee of two represent
ing the mates Of this port composed of
Mate Tut of the Claudlne and Mate
Grafton of the Hanalei. were sent for
by the presidents of the two companies
and n consultation was held.
According to the statements of one
of the striking mates Tut and Grafton
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