The San Francisco call., 1906-06-07
ACTIVITY
Of FRONT
PARALYZED
Fifteen Hundred Steve
doreS Idle Because
Of Trouble.
IIlIo6 OcIlOOIlorS OuCCe6Q
In Shipping Non
Union Crews.
Steamship Association Is
sues a Review Of
the Situation.

The stopping of work on the Pacific
Nail. San Francisco and Portland. Pa
cifc Coast Steamship Company and
American Hawaiian line wharves and
the shipping of non-union crews on
three steam schooners were the devel-
opments yesterday in the labor situa-
ton along the water front.
On the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's docks no freight will be received
until further notice The Pacific Mail
Company will dispatch the liner New
port for Panama on Saturday, but the
sailing of the Korea has been indefinite
ly postponed and the companys Eastern
agents have been instructed to receive
no freight and book no passengers for
the Korea AS a result of this action
on the part OF the steamship companies
about 1900 lOngshoremen are for the
time being out of work.
The steamship association says the
companies will receive no m.H-e freight
until the controversy between the sail
ors and the steam schooner managers
has been settled. as they do not care to
sign bills of lading to deliver goods as
long as their vessels are liable TO be tied
Up by the sailors
Andrew Furuseth. secretary of the
Sailors Union. said yesterday that he
had no idea why work had been stopped
on the wharves named.
The shipowners blame Furnseth for il
all
NoN-UNIoN CREWS SHIPPED.
on the steam schooners Vanguard.
Ravalh and Centralia non-union crews
have been shipped. The Ravalli has
sailed and the others will leave today
The steamship people believe they will
have no difficulty in getting competent
men TO man all the schooners al the
wages refused by the union sailors, nre-
men. cooks and walters.
The Steamship Association yesterday
issued the following review of the SIT
uation as II appears 70 them:
The results of the attempted negotia-
tions of the representatives OF the
Steamship Association, with the Sea-
mems Union. were fruitless and have
been abandoned; in fact we might say
that there never have been any nego-
tiations. because Mr. Furuseth's actions
plainly showed that he reserved the
right 10 name the wages that the own
ers should pay and lx the rules under
which they should operate their vessels,
so far as the management of the crews
was concerned. He named these wages
and put in the rules, which he calls the
trimmings" on the 2Sth of May and,
when the demands were not complied
with he called his men off vessels at
San Pedro and San Francisco The fire
men. stewards, cooks and walters were
called out at the same time, and no
argument that the owners were able 10
bring TO bear on the question had any
influence with him whatever. 1t was
pointed out to him that sailors were
receiving an average of SIS a month
end board and that some of them re-
eeived as high as 500 a month and
board. that on steamers running be-
tween this port and Eureka sailors
working II hours per day received IN
wages and trimmings" at the rate OF
SIS per month. II hours per day $50
per month, 13 hours per day s105 per
month. Il hours per day $12O per month.
Besides this they received hoard and
lodging. Double time was allowed for
Sunday work in accordance with the
rules of the union Sailors on vessels
running 10 outside ports received IS per
month over and above these prices.
IDENTITY OF OWNERS.
A large majority Of the steam ves-
sels plying in the lumber trade are
owned by people who are not engaged
the greater part of the stock of the
sailing vessels and steamships in the
lumber trade on this coast is owned
by men, women and children in this
city that have no more control over the
price of lumber in oregon and Wash
ington than they have over the actions
of the Seamen's Union
Mr.. Furuseth states that the advance
that he demands will only cost the
steamships 81 per day Inasmueh as il
up these vessels. the action of the own
ers must seem incomprehensible to him.
On June g. the Central Federated
Union of New York received letter
from Mr. Furuseth, in which he wrote
as follows:
Almost everybody is out with big
knife cutting for himself. This city
has got il hard and is still getting il
from the landlords and public service
corporations. It seems there Will be q
general effort TO cut wages instead OF
keeping them up. and the best thing
would be for all that can get away, tc
do So"
This and similar information has
been circulated broadcast over the
United States and Europe and, after
useth now makes a demand for higher
wages for his union and calmly tells
the vessel owners that the sailors car
make more money ashore than they car
afost At the wages above quoted.
HERBERT GEORGE BOGIE.
After this apparent inconsistency
(indeed a much stronger term should
be used Mr.. Furuseth. in his newspaper
articles. hopes to gain the sympathy
of the public and appeal TO the preju.
dices of the labor unions by dragging
IN Herbert George and the Citizens Al
lance. He has been told repeatedly
that the Citizens Alliance has nothing
10 do with this dispute and that under
no circumstances will they have any.
thing TO do with it To properly esti-
mate his motives. IL is only necessary
10 contrast his conduct with that oi
when he appointed well known mem
bers OF the Citizens Alliance. as well as
his political enemies, on the committee
OF forty. as being most qualified to de-
wise means and methods for the recon
struction and rehabilitation OF Sar
Francisco.
Today vessels belonging to members
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