The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-18
STRIKE IS D|S|VIEGRATING
SAN FRANCISCO STRIKERS ARE
LOSING HOPE.
Much Suffering Among Them-Many
are Secretly "Scabbing '-Others
Would Like to-Steel Situation.

SAN FRANCISCO. September Ito
those who have kept i'm touch with the
| events of the strike the situation today
offers better prospects for a settlement
than at any time since the inauguration
of the struggle between the contendlng
factions. The impression prevails in
business circles that the strike is fail
ing more and more as the days pass
and that the end will come ultimately
without any recognized agreement be-
tween the contestants as to the settle
ment of issues at stake.
That there is abundant reason for be-
lieving this view of the situation VIII
eventually be realized is apparent to
many. 1t has been demonstrated be-
yond question that a large percentage
of the strikers are dissatisfied and that
many who went out seven weeks ago
have of necessity been compelled to
seek employment elsewhere. Numerous
mon would return to their work tomor-
row We're it not because of their fear of
personal violence. The management of
| the Draymens Association state posi-
lively that the strike would be ended
within twenty -four hours wehe it pos
sible TO secure police protection for the
army of men who are more than an
Xious to return to the avenues of labor
which they deserted weeks ago in sup
port of the principle of unonsm.
From time to time reports of disaffec-
ton in the ranks of the strikers have
been circulated and as persistently de-
MED. Notwithstanding the vehement
denials of these rumors by the leaders,
the strikers are assuming an atti-
tude which is causing the leaders an
nQyanCe and anxiety The men are
restless, many of them are suffering
actual want, while their leaders are
banquetting each other at leading no
tells; hundreds of strikers are 'scab-
bling" in secret in order that their
families shall not suffer. Every pro-
mise made to the strikers by their
unions was violated and the strike be-
nefits which were relied upon by the
men for their maintenance during the
tendency of the struggle were exceed
ingly intermittent and unsatisfactory.
The result has been the creation of
spirit of hostility in the minds of the
better element of the strikers against
a principle which entails upon them on
ly trouble and privatiOns, loss of posi-
tions and the weekly wage without
which their families must become OBJ
jects of charity or starve.
SACRAMENTO, September 11.-"As
to the strike, from the interviews l have
had with farmers and handlers of grain
their tempers are such that they Will
ask the Governor to send company of
next, and if he refuses. they, the far
mers of California, will be there with
their shotguns and rifles before Tues
day next to see that their grain, now
lying unprotected in the fields, is sent
down and loaded on the waiting ships.
No farmer, they say, can afford to see
the whole crop of a year destroyed, as
is now threatened by lot OF i. -sponSl-
BILE strike leaders"
Thus spoke Will S. Green. president
of the Sacramento Valley Development
Association, to a number Of the largest
farmers of the State on his arrival from
San Francisco tonight. And Green's
words were commended by every Gre
present many of whom after years OF
toll find it impossible to get their grain
to tidewater and see financial rum
staring them in the face.
One of the most important confer
ences of the grain growers of Califor-
MIA will be held in the courthouse here
at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow. Means VIII
then be taken to put an end TO the
blockade at Port Costa and elsewhere,
The meeting was called at the instance
of the Sacramento Valley Development
Association, and an invitation has been
extended the San Joaquin Valley Com
mercial Association, of which Hon. Z.
S. Smith of Kern County is president.
kilograms from Senator Smith indicate
a large attendance.
So far the extreme northern portions
of the Sacramento Valley are represent
ed The remainder will arrive on the
morning trains. Those here farm an
immense acreage, more than 100000
acres being already represented.
PITTSBURG, September 111.-While
positive stories of a peaceful settlement
of the strike of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION continued to be heard today,
PresdeIA Shaffer denied them empha-
tically and said that the battle of the
steel workers would go on until they
won. He denied that the executive
board had instructed him to settle the
strike on any terms and said that he
would not go to New York or make any
further peace movement for the pres
ent.
While the president of the Amalga-
mated Association was standing in this
position, the officials of the United
States Steel Corporation were putting
forth active efforts to start their plants.
During today the company held strik-
ers' pickets back and got lot of pro-
| visions and cots into the Monongahela
mills. 1t was announced at the same
time that there was an ample number
of men ready to enter the plant and
start the mills as soon as they were in
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