Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-06-18
THE STRIKE SITUATION,
Strike of Coast Sailors is Causing
Several Mills to Close Down.

The strike of the sailors on steam
schooners shows no change in the past
few days. the sailors and ship owners
each thinking they hold the best hand
Since the episode on the Centralla last
week. things have been quiet along the
water front, too quiet as regards the
three steamers that are lying at the
docks for want OF men to load them.
The union longshoremen will not load
vessels that are under the ban OF the
Sailors Union, but they give it out that
no violente will be offered to non.union
men who wish to work on them. So far
sufficient men have not been found to
engage in loading one of them, although
mill men say they would easily De found
ii they were not !ntimidated by threats
OF future vengeance on the part OF the
union men.
1t was feared trouble would ensue upon
the arrival of the Coronado, which had
sailed from San Pedro for this port with
non.union crew, but that vessel was
called in at San Francisco instead OF be.
ing allowed to come to Aberdeen.
Upon assurance from the city authori-
ties, given Saturday, work was begun on
loading the steamer Grace Dollar, at the
Dryden x Latch mill this morning, and
an attempt made to secure men to load
the NewDurg, at the Slade mill. A nun.
ber OF special police We're sworn in and
sent to each of the mills, under the per-
sOnal supervision OF Mayor Lindstrom.
In South Aberdeen, the Dryden & Leitch
20. secured workmen, and the loading
went on all morning peaceably.
Up to noon, the Slade mill had not
begun the loading of the New burg, but
had secured some men, and at this writ.
ing, 1890 p. M, it looks AS If work on
this vessel would proceed this afternoon.
While the vicinity of the vessels under
ban is crowded with union sailors and
lOngshoremen, using every effort to keep
men from working on the vessels, no
violence has been attempted, and it is
well known that the city authorities will
exhaust the resources of the city to pre-.
vent such measures, and ii unable to do
so, will call upon the governor for As.
sistance.
The strike will have the effect OF
throwing several hundred men out Of
employment who have no personal inter.
est in the contest, by forcing the mills to
close down. The Dryden & Leitch mill,
the vners or employees of which have
no voice with either the ship owners or
strikers, closed down Saturday night,
owing to the docks being filled with lum-
ber which cannot be shipped. The same
conditions exist at the Slade mill, which
will close down Wednesday next, and
the night crew at the American mill was
let 60 Saturday night. At the mills of
the Aberdeen Lumber & Shnge Co. the
docks are becoming congested, and they
cannot run longer than another week
without shipping some OF the stock on
hand, and all other mills are fast getting
into similar conditions. Whoever is
right in the controversy, or whoever may
be responsible for the tie mp, it is plain
that hundreds OF innocent men are made
to suffer, thus emphaszHg the necessity
for a law that will either compel arbitra
ton or provide for the speedy settlement
of all such disputes, as affect others than
the disputants, in the courts.