The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14
DROVE INVADER OFF SHIP
BLooDsHED AvERTED ON SNOW
AND BURGESS.
Crowd of Alleged Union Sailors Tried
Unsuccessfully to Take Sailor From
Bark-Repulsed by Captain.

A bold attempt was made last night
by a gang of men, said to be members
of the Sailors Union, to forcibly take
one of the crew of the American bark
Snow and Burgess ashore. Had not
Captain T. Olsen the commander of the
vessel and another member of the crew
forced the crowd over the side of the
ship at the muzze of revolver and rifle
blood would have been spilled.
The attack upon the Snow and Bur-
CESS occurred about 10 O'Clock in the
evening. Frank Turk succeeded in
shipping a crew of ten men for the ves-
i sci which leaves for the Sound in bal
| last this afternoon. The men signed
! for $35 which is less than the Union
| scale. When the union heard of this
| they were up in arms. Their resent
ment was especially directed against
one Gus Randel who had recently come
here on the bark Palmyra. Randel had
been induced by several members of his
| former crew to join the union. He
claims that they literally forced him to
sign the articles. Subsequently he de-
cided that he did not care to remain
with the union so he returned his card
! of membership and signed on the Snow
| and Burgess.
The first intimation that he had the
| crowd after him was when he was in
his bunk in the forecastle. Three men,
all of them foreigners and former ship
| mates of Randel climbed over the side
| OF the vessel as she lay at the rail-
| way wharf. They were met by the sal
| lor on watch who demanded their busi-
! ness.
| "Oh we want to see Jack" replied one
| of them. Randel goes by that name
| and as most of the crew were new men
to the watch he permitted the three
visitors to go to the forecastle. Once
! inside they proceeded to try and inti-
! mi Pan6a1 Hero dirty b''
they ordered with many oaths get out
| of this ship and come ashore. You
are union man and YOU signed the
papers here and you shan't go scabbing
the first chance you get"
Randel resisted them and declared
that they would have to kill him first
before they could get him out of that
ship. Before the trio of men had
chance to offer Randel any violence
they were interrupted by the appear
ance of the sailor of the watch. One of
the crew had recognized the visitors
and informed the watch that they
were uinon men and had better be or
dered off the vessel. The sailor who
has served in the Boer war hurried for
ward and found the three union men
around Randel.
Here" demanded the watch you
have seen Jack and you had better go
ashore"
, "Oh that's all right" replied one of
them you just keep quiet a bit. This
is none of your business"
The sailor told the men they would
have to suffer the consequences if they
did not depart and he went back to his
cabin and secured his rifle for the pur-
pose of driving the men ashore. He
warned Captain Olsen of the trouble
; forward and the pair started toward the
J fOrecastle to compel the men to go
ashore.
They saw a figure rush from the
forecaste into the donkey engine room
pursued to the door by the three visit
ors. 1t appeared that finding himself
alone with the men, Randel suddenly
: sprang from his bunk after the watch
I left and sought refuge in the engine
room.
= Evidently the three men saw that the
watch meant business for they whis-
tied and by the time that the Captain
. and his watch met them by the en-
{ gine room a dozen men had climbed
1 over the rail and stood ready to back VI
their people in the demand for the sal
lor To Captain Olsen and his COM
panion it seemed as if the rush would
8 never stop and when the skipper or
, dered the men to get off his ship there
T were at least forty who were opposed
to him.
The crowd also had additional forces
along the wharf by the side of the YES
sci rs well as at both ends of the Snow
and Burgess. Olsen told the men TO gel
off quick
$ I'VE want that fellow" shouted the
/, ringleaders.
V well you don't get him. He Is or
S this ship and he's going to stay here,
: replied Captain Olsen "and you haC
better get off right now, or therell b'
trouble"
The crowd was in an ugly humor anC
p many We're under the influence o
s liquor. A few began to mutter abou
n paying no attention to the captain anC
breaking open the. door of the engine
room and taking Randel whether III
would come or not. Some of the in
vaders We're armed. 1t looked as If al
a carried rocks in their pockets from tn
3 way in which their clothes bulged out
= However, no body made any attemp
, to start trouble. Captain Olsen wal
" armed and the Mauser rifle which tn
watch pointed agggressively at thu
heads Of the crowd had most quietinl
: influence.
i The men began to parley and trie'
to argue with the Captain and tn
watch over the advantage of the unio
II for sailors. The argument did not las
l. long as the orders for the crowd to de
part were backed up by the muzzles o
= loaded weapons and one by one the in
vadors departed down the rope ladder
Before leaving they threatened to re
main on watch and prevent the balanc
of the crew joining the ship They di
stop one of the men as he started on tn
railroad wharf later in the evening. II
ran away and asked the protection q
the police. An officer was sent wit
him to the vessel. When the men o
watch saw the pair approach the
started for them but the officers pres
ence prevented any trouble. They sal
they were going over to the Edwar
May to see some friends. EVidentl
they did not attempt any trouble theI
as nothing of the kind was reported tC
-fday. The Snow and Burgess leaves tn
q aftarnnnnl for the Sound