The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
TROUBLE THREATENED
MOBILE LoNosHoREMEN MAY GO ON STRIKE.
Have Made Demands for Increase in Wages and Other Things That Are Considered Unreasonable By Their Employers.
Advertiser Bureau,
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 Mobile,fi Oct. g. Mobile shipping interests tonight are threatened by proposed strike tomor. row morning of the members of Local No ss8 Of the International Longshoremen's Marine and Transport Workers, compos- ed entirely of negroes, to the number of nearly 900 men.
 The demand has been made of ship char terers of 30 cents per hour week days and ss cents for Sunday day work in loading and dischargtng freight cargoes and 40 cents for night work on Sundays. The men also decline to work on Christmas, Labor Day and July Fourth. Other de- HmandS considered unreasonable, have also been made relative to going beyond One Mile Creek to work. The claim is made by negroes that they have only been get ting 15 cents per hour and shortage in time allowances. This latter statement is emphatically denied by the employing stevedores. The matter Is now in the hands of committee of the union.
 Several vessels are in port with others due tomorrow with cargoes and unless an Establishment is reached there will be se- Tious delay to the several steamship lines out of Mobile including the Munson CIa- vana), Mallory (New York;, and Elder Dempster European lines and Mexican Coast steamships also
 
 Tn the Chancery Court, Hon. Thos H. smith, chancellor, presiding, business was disposed of to-day. as follows:
 Jefferson Lewis vs Fannie James Lew 3g, order giving notice of motion for ref Ference, set for Oct. A.
 Lavinia Johnson VI. Geo. Johnson, sub. Emitted on pieadinEs and proof; decree rem dered.
 Emma Swain vs. John A. Swain, sub- omitted on demurrers; submitted on mo- tion for alimony.
 Sibley Holmes vs. M. E. Myles, submit ted on demurrerS.
 Edith Cronk ct al. vs Jas. Wm. Cronk, indy. as exr., etc., decree overruling de- imurrers, and denying motion to dismiss for want of equity.
 Tomorrow in the Circuit Court. Judge Apderson will hear a case around which much interest centers among attorneys, Judges and Justices of the Peace. The cause Is that of the State of Alabama upon relation of James T. Duggan, versus James O. Simms, Justice of the Peace, in quo warranto proceedings. This case was brought about through a recent en- actment of the Legislature, giving to the Inferior Criminal Court of Mobile County civil Jurisdiction, with the view. 1t is al- leged, of doing away with Justices of the
 
 A still more important case, however, Ms set down for the 30th inst, in the same tribunal, wherein Justice Stackhouse ap- pears against Judge J. E. Afford of the %Inferior Criminal Court, in a test of the constitutionality of the act referred to in the Simms case. Able counsel will ap- bear on both sides in each case and the results are awaited with genuine interest. M Gihho Hiaoh "a today this afternoon by United States *Commissioner Rickarby, the defendant being charged with having sent objec- 2tionable matter through the mails to his divorced wife. Gibbs and his one-time wife had lived together for forty years land of a family of twenty children twelve or now living. The letters introduced in evidence were rather warm in tone, though 1t was held they came within the pale of Section 3SsS of the Revised United Estates Statutes.
 The body of John Desilvey was brought here today from Memphis and taken to Point Clear on the bay boat for inter- ment. The card on the coffin showed the man had died from a gunshot wound in Memphis. Desilvey was a member of a well known Creole family of Baldwin County.
 William R. Hearst and his congression- |al party passed through Mobile this morning at 1:30 o'clock. over the Louis- 1ille and Nashville Railroad. en route to Atlanta. Owing to the lateness of the 1our neither MT. Hearst nor members of lis party could be seen.
 The City Court for the October term will begin its grind on Monday next, and until the expiration of the term Judge 5emmes will have much to occupy his ime and legal attention.