The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17

at ! o'clock and began to load the big
liner Korea, which will sail for the
Orient on Wednesday. This means
that the Korea will not go out in bal
! last. contrary to the announcement of
Friday night. The Pacific Mail officials
explain that they have fifty carloads
of Eastern freight that they contract
ed to carry to the Orient and that this
will be taken according to the agree
ment.
The Panama liner. San Jose, belong
ing to the same company, will sail
within the next few days and she also
| is destined to carry cargo of East
ern freight, contracted for before the
present labor trouble commenced. Both
of these ships will be loaded by regular
union stevedores, the City Front Fed
Grafton offering no objection.
This does not mean that the Pacific
Mail has abandoned the fight by any
means. 1t is still making determ-
ined stand against the strikers, and it
is an assured fact that these two
boats are the last of the big liners to
sail from this port till after the pres
ent strike has been settled.
: On Friday night, shortly before IL
o'clock, a gang of union sailors went
out in a launch to the steam schooner
Brunswick to see if the men there
wanted any aid. Captain Ellefson or
the Brunswick, so it is said, became
excited and fired six times at the men
in the launch. All the bullets went
wild and nobody was hurt. This IS
the report received at the sailors head
quarters. The police received no IN
telIigence of the trouble and the own
ers of the boat said nothing had come
to their ears regarding 1t.
UNION MEN LOCKED OUT.
Secretary Andrew Furuseth yesterday
gave out the following:
In statement given to the press by
the executive committee OF the Ohleeo
Shipping and Transportation ASsocia-
tion | am charged with having per-
formed certain acts and having mace
certain statement5 TO the grGas nnjsco 1lIusy
and 1 am asked some questions Whlcn
are called pertinent
The executive committee consists OF
Mr.. Schwerin, Mr.. Dimond, MI. Gooas
all. Mr.. Pearce and Mr.. Hanify, and
unless 1 have occasion to address the
individual / shalh in this answer use
the expression MI. Executive Commit
tee The executive committee says: :.
LAS Mr.. Furuseth has succeeded IN
tying up the entire water front of San
Fansiseo 5asy SeM aeSire Mr to Gxee ash
utive Committee. do not you. know that
it was you who locked out the long
Shoremen and sailors, firemen and COOKS
and stewards in the freight and passen-
men out, when they had asked you Tor
nothing. when they had not refused to
work for you. when they had expressed
| no sympathy for the sailors, firemen and
cooks on the steam SchoonerS, why are
you accusing us of doing that Whlcn
you but a few days ago nave stated
! that you had done? Why did you
do this, Mr.. Executive Committee? Were
| you not acting according to your agree
| ment entered into before the disaster
| TO the city. and did you not In doing
1 xUanfOn1V disregard the women
! and children? Before the people of San
Francisco, answer upon your honor as
men, is not this true?
NO WORK FOR STEvEDoRES.
Mr. Schwerin, you are advertising
! that Eastern freights cannot go to the
| Orient and California freight cannot go
on the Korea because of labor troubles.
Is it not true that your longShoremen
they by no stretch of the ina gination
could be interested in the steam schoon-
ers? Is it not true that you carry no
union men and that the labor trouble
that you have on your docks and YES
sells is absolutely of your own making
and that it may be terminated at any
time by your will? Is it not true that
your longshoremen are now working
for you aad are willing to work for
you? Upon your honor, Mr.. Schwerin,
as man and naval officer, are these
not facts?
Mr.. Dimond, you are informing those
who have freight on the Californian
that you cannot discharge that freight
on account of labor troubles Is it not
asked you for nothing, that they are
willing to work for you, that they are
ca ger. to work for you, and that you
have locked them out2 If this is true,
why do you tell the people of San Fran
cisco that you cannot get your vessel
disSc9harged? Plainly M some n,,e one must be
Mr.. Goodall, what is your interest in
the steam schooners? Up to the pres
ent you have not loaded them or dis
charged them.
Mr.. Pearce, your vessels carry gen.
eral cargo and passengers. Your long
shoremen. asked you for nothing; they
working for you now. You have locked
out the sailors, fremen and cooks. You
are not interested in the steam schoon-
ers. Why have you, at least partially,
flc up and down the coast to the annoy
ance and great inconvenience of the
public? Please explain to the people of
San Francisco?
ASKS FOR AN EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Executive Board, please give to
the public of San Francisco the declara-
tion and purposes and the constitution
of your organization in order that it
may be known, and please furnish a
copy to the United States District At
torney in order that he may ascertain
whether you are not an organization in
restraint of trade within the meaning
of the laws of the country.
Relating to the questions whether I
can substantiate the following state
ment. Almost everybody is out with
a big knife cutting for himself" etc, I
desire to say that ] am reliably in
formed that the Spring Valley Water
Company were paying their collectors
from s125 to $50 per month, and that
they are now paying them SIS; that the
office help of that corporation has been
reduced in wages 33 to SO per cent.
The Labor Commissioner reported to
the Mayor that his investigations had
proven reduction in the wages paid
by a number of large corporations I
am further informed that mercantile
establishments are reducing in a large
numb of instances the wages of their
clerks and salesmen- Rents, provisions
and other necessaries of life are largely
increased in price. 1t is a notorious
fact, known to all men. that the all i'm
portant building material has been very
much Increased in vri0a