The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-27
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- TEyEDoRES and 'longshoremen
in general organized on sunday a.
~ the Headquarters of the Sailors
Union and new members are daily be-
ing enrolled On Sunday seventy-hVe
men signified their willingness to oano
together for mutual protection and the
sum of $50 was collected for fund
with which to complete their organi-
cation on the lines of that of San
Francisco and other Coast ports.
number of those present were without
pocket money and the sum was not as
large as anticipated. Those who did
not pay on Sunday did so yesterday and
quite tidy sum has thus been realized.
The Stevedores' Union is the direct
outcome of the strike last week of the
| 'longshoremen in the employ of the
stevedore firm of McCabe, Hamilton
Kenny. The majority of these men are
Portuguese and Hawaiians, although
kthere are a number of Americans, Brit
ish and negroes amongst them, Nc
ICabe Hamilton & Kenny had been
paying them at the rate of thirty cents
per hour with nine hours TO constitute
| a days work. The firm reduced this
wage to 50 a day to accord with the
prices paid by the quartermaster de-
partment for work on the army trans
| ports. The men at once struck ana
their places were, and are, filled with
| japanese who have SO far proven sat
| isfactory. The strike did not affect the
hatch, stay and donkey engine tenders.
No reduction in their wages was made.
nor is this even contemplated.
! The prospects are that the striking
| longshoremen viii be kept out in the
| cold unless they receive support from
their co-workers. An effort is now be-
| ing made by them to induce the hatch
and stay tenders and the engine ten
ders to join with them in general
union. and then make their demands
upon the firms employing stevedores.
This movement, they believe, would tie
up the loading and unloading of ships.
The latter laborers have not as yet sig
nified their intention of anying them
selves with the strikers but If the local
seaman's union takes the matter in
hand the strike is likely to lead to re-
| suits that were not foreseen by either
side. One thing is against the strikers
at this time The season is slack, the
: sugar has mostly been shipped away
and but few vessels are on the way &c
Honolulu that can be expected to ar
rive for some time to come. The strik-
ers maintain that the Japanese are no
capable of doing the same work jus
cta ta al
that the stevedore firms will have t,
put in three Japanese to two of thei
own number They also maintain that
hardy as is the Japanese. he is unabl
to work the holds as fast or as wei
n as they do. They point to the fac
v that the Japanese relies on a pail o
rice and a chunk of fish peculiarl
dried for his sustenance. which, the
claim, is not enough to give them tn
D staying powers produced by the whole
some meals enjoyed by his competitor
Hewe1Is Irish Poet Departs.
=, The schooner Rosamond was towed I
sea yesterday afternoon at $3.50 o'clocl
. The schooner received the last of hi
4 cargo of sugar at the Pacific Mail doc
| \
~ cargo of %, TAG bags, or about 1, 1853 ton
Cap ain Johnson says he was shp
$50 tons, but was glad to get as muC
as he old The Rosamond had a fai
sized passenger list among them beir
p Maurice Mcmahon, Hawaii's Iri
poet, who goes to San Francisco to pu
lish his poems. Mcmahon, during t
intervals when he was not writil
@dverse, occupied the more plebeian ca
:" ing of official stenograrher to Hawai-
First Territorial Senate He Will go
the northern part of California for
few weeks rest and will probably 7
turn to Hawaii on a sailing vessel.
Passage on Transports.
II The Secretary of War has made
order that all applications for trar
portation of their families on arr
transports made by officers and enli
ed men discharged from the army, a
by civilian employees not in the insu
service who have remained in
Philippine Islands with a view to emit
ing into private pursuits there. must
forwarded to the War DEPARTING
through the commanding general. di
cts. sion of the Philippines. with his reco
- mendation Applications from office
soldiers and civilian employees "
were discharged from the service in
United States for permission to ira
on Government transports from
PA Francisco to the Philippines must
made to the Quartermaster general
ST. Washington. In all cases the applc
is required to set forth in detail his