The Forrest City times., 1901-08-02
IS COMPLETELY TIED Up.
Complete Paralysis of Business in
San Francisco Caused by
Labor Troubles.
STRIKE OF CITY FRONT FEDERATION,
The Decks of Snn Francisco, Oak
land. Mission Rock and Port Costa
InyOlved-upwards of Twenty
Five Thousand Men are Now
Idle.


San Francisco, July 31.-Owing to
the strike of the City Front fedora
tion, which was inaugurated to-day,
the business section of the city is COM
pleteiy tied up and indications are
that Dusiness stagnation will ensue.
Although large number of men
were secured to nil the places of the
strikers. little merchandise has been
moved. No disturbances have been re-
ported.
Reached Their elimination.
The labor troubles in this city
reached their elimination, late Mon
day night, when the City Front fed
GRAFTON ordered a 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 Tuesday morning. The resolu-
tion to strike, which received the
unanimous Endorsement of every dele
CATION to the federation, was short,
but its effect will be to cause a tenn
porary paralysis of the shipping busi-
ness of San Francisco such as has not
been known before. 1t read as fol-
lows:
Mails VIII Not he stopped.
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
CT
The meeting of the federation was
a long one, and there was much heat
ed argument, but when the resolution
came to vote every delegate present
voted in favor OF the strike. The fol-
lowing IA unions were represented,
comprising all the workers on the
water front:
The Unions Represented.
Sailors Union of the Pacific, four
local unions of longshoremen, marine
fremen, 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 direct out
come of the lockout of the teamsters,
will have for its immediate effect the
cessation of all labor in and about
the great docks of the city about San
Francisco bay. The Sand Transfers
union and the Oakland Transfers
union also ordered a strike. This will
make total of over $4,000 union
workmen who have stopped their la
Dor since the middle of May last, di-
yided as follows:
Number of Men Involved.
The City Front federation, compris-
ing IA organizations, 5000 men; ma
chinists and iron workers, 1000; cooks
and walters, 1900; sand teaInsters,
GOO; Oakland teamsters, 1000; total
number of men out, 25,100.
The tie-up will be complete if the
plans of the labor unions are success
ful. They hope to stop the loading,
and even to prevent the moving, of
ships that are now almost ready for
departure. Unless the proprietors
and managers are able to secure suf
ficient non-union help to load and
man their vessels, the strike will prac-
tically mean the closing of the port
and the suspension of business in the
wholesale and manufacturing sections
| of San Francisco and Oakland
Ferry Boats Not Affected.
The ferryboats are not affected by
the strike. Union men employed on
them will not be called out, and local
travel and freight transfers will not
be disturbed.
The City Front federation has is
sued a statement in which it reviews
the situation and states that the
strike was not ordered until all hon.
orable means of affecting settlement
had been tried in vain.