The San Francisco call., 1906-06-29
OWNERS WILL
NOT ARb|TRATE
Receives Mega
tive Reply From Ship
ping Association.

The present strike on the water
front will not be. settled by arbitration
if the ship-owners can possibly help it.
Yesterday afternoon the executive
committee of the United Shipping and
Transportation Association addressed
a communication to Mayor Schmitz in
which it refused point blank to con
slider his suggestion regarding arbitra-
tion made several days ago. The letter
to the Mayor reads as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S 1906
Hon. e. E. Schmitz. Mayor of the
City and County of San Francisco
Dear Sir: We have the honor to reply
to your communication of June % re-
garding the present trouble on the wa
ter front. We believe that the seamen,
cooks, firemen. stewards and walters in
the employ OF. the United Shipping and
Transportation Association are the
best paid men in their line of work in
the world today and therefore can see
no ground upon which to arbitrate the
present trouble.
Thanking you for the interest you
have shown in our affairs and appre-
ciating your efforts to bring about
peace, L remain, yours respectfully,
H. w. GOODALL,
ed Shipping and Transportation
Association"
MAYOR sCHMITZ DISAPPOINTED.
When Mayor Schmitz received this
communication last night he was much
disappointed. He expected favora BILE
reply to his thoughtful communication
and thought the owners of the boats
would at least suggest some other
means of settling the trouble If arbi-
tration did not appeal to ALI of their
number. Regarding the situation the
Mayor said: 1T seems that the United
Shipping and Transportation Associa-
tion will not consider the subject of
arbitration. SO that now / do not see
any way out of the present difficulty.
Even though the water front is in a
sad plight, we shall get building ma
terial into the city anyhow.
The community needs material and
it is going to get it no matter what
troubles these men may have on the
should not be made to suffer on ac-
count of their differences. We will
find ways and means to overcome the
present obstacles brought on by the
strike of the seamen.
Il will make a reply to the ship
owners tomorrow. l have no plan in
view at present by which the strike
can possibly be settled. l did the best
l could, but so long as the owners do
there is nothing more to be done In
that line"
SMALL CHANCE FOR PEACE.
Whatever chance there was of an
early settlement of the water front
trouble was shattered yesterday when
the owners of the vessels refused to
arbitrate their trouble with their en-
ployers. Nothing is left now but a
long and stubborn fight unless some
extraordinary influence is brought to
bear on one side or the other within
the next few days.
The owners say they can get their
boats out now without the aid of the
Sailors Union. They have practically
thrown down the gauntlet to it. The
sailors are just as stubborn, averring
they will fight the battle so long as
there is a cent left of the S165,00O in
their treasury. The cooks, firemen,
walters and stewards are following in
the wake of the seamen and they have
promised to stick by their fellow
workers until the trouble is over.
The steam schooners Noyo and
Coaster got away yesterday afternoon.
1t was announced by the owners asso-
citation that several more of these ves-
sells would leave during the night or
early in the morning. The City of Pu-
ebla, belonging to the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company. arrived last night
with a full list of passengers and a
hold full of freight. She is worked by
union men.