The San Francisco call., 1906-06-28
SAILORS TAKE
MEN OFF BOAT
Plckets Induce Gang to
Leave the Grace
Dollar.

The pickets of the Sailors Union
scored another point yesterday after
noon when they steamed up in Il launch
alongside the steam schooner Grace
Dollar, and after a little preliminary
argument succeeded in taking off rour
members OF her crew They got away
without losing any time. This was n
severe blow to the shipowners ms il
tied up the vessel and interfered with
the unloading of her cargo of lumber
which she brought from Puget Sound
ports.
At the meeting of the executive com
mittee of the United Shipping and
Transportation Association this mat
ter was taken up and the members
practically decided upon asking for
another injunction today to restrain
the sailors from going on board the
Grace Dollar and taking off the non
union crew. This is a follow up of the
move made on Tuesday, when the Sail
ors Union was enjoined from taking
any more men off the Seafoam.
The association has practically made
up its mind now to fight the. sailors by
means of intunctions, 1t was announced
yesterday afternoon that the attorneys
of the shipping men would be instruct
ed to ask for injunctions in every case
where the union sailors attempted to
take men off any of the vessels
The freight steamers Santa Cruz and
Coos Bay, belonging to the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, got away
yesterday. The former is bound for
Puget Sound ports with load of ex-
plosives, while the latter goes to San
Pedro, laden with a general cargo. Both
boats are manned by non-union crews,
and nothing of the strenuous nature
marked their departure from the
Broadway dock.
Secretary Andrew Furuseth of the
Sailors Union yesterday evening gave
out the following statement:
1t may be of interest to the travel
ing public, who are compelled to pay
the larger fares charged by the rail-
roads, or who are compelled to wait
to know that within the last two
weeks, or thereabouts, the steamers
Coos Bay, State of California, Corona,
Santa Barbara, Chehalis, Nome City,
City, Northland, Shasta, Santa Monica
Brunswick, Vanguard, Dispatch, Arctic
Aberdeen, South Bay Centralia, Ra,,
their passenger licenses. one after an
other. The last one, that of the Yo-
semitic was surrendered this afternoon.
vessels carrying passengers are un-
der a penalty TO carry crew sufficient
at all times to handle the vessel. and
or course, as long as passenger tickets
are sold, 1t is easy for the seamen to
of landsmen or not. 1t Is easy to as
certain whether regulations as to sta
tion, fire and boat drill are observed
and whether the officers are at the
wheel, instead of standing their watch
on the bridge, or the engineers are do
ing the firing. The utter inexperience
of the men employed is well illustrated
by the affidavits of Peterson and the
letter from Mr.. Ratcliffe, both of whom
were passengers on the City of Puebla
1t is further Illustrated by the crew on
board the South Bay, who know the
difference between "gee" and "haw"
but not between port and starboard
One of the latter, when asked how he
would heave the wheel if the captain
said "starboard" answered: ITO the
left" Not one of them knew the COM
pass
There seems to be an idea abroad
that the longshoremen UP and down the
coast are ready to do any work that
is desired of them, and that they are
not at all in sympathy with the sea-
men in their struggle. 1t may be of
interest to know that the longshoremen
have refrafned from quitting work on
vessels carrying non-union seamen
upon the advice of the seamen's unions,
except those who acted prior to 1t be-
ing possible to get in proper communi-
cation with them. They, however, have
assured US that If no settlement is
reached through the efforts of the
Mayor, they are ready to quit at any
time in any vessel that does not carry
union seamen.