The San Francisco call., 1906-06-22
SHIPPING MEN
ARE UNDECIDED
Promise to Consider the
Proposition Made
by Schmitz.
Seanlen Take Non-Un-
ion Men Off State
of California.

%he executive committee Of the Unit
Cd Shipping and Transportation Asso-
o-Rtion me: yesterday afternoon. and
Cor se-eral hours discussed the letter
sent 70 IL and the members OF the
sailors CDion by the -.4ayor. The own
srE srs yet uadeciGed as 10 what they
shall 90 IN the matter and drafted a
ie;ts- % the CHIEF executive informing Z
him they would act ta-or1bly apon
lis suggestions. but refraiaing fron
sGYiag Geaaitely what their action will
6e
YESTERDAY afternoon 4 member Of tie
Sailors Union managed 10 eluda the
vigilance Of the watchmel and police
mon cn the dock OF the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company and get on board
the steamer State OF California There
hs managed TO induce the no2-union
crew % the boat 10 leave. A launch
FROM the Sailors Union soon hove in
Sght ard took the men or shore. II
was all done so quietly that the off,
cials OF the company did not realize
what had happened till IL was TOO late
10 offer any resistance.
DISCHARGE UNION STEVEDoRES.
When the steamer Oity Of Peking ar
rived from Panama yesterday morn
ing the regular union steVedores start
ed to unload her. However, after work
ing but a short time they were in
-0A AA4IN ~ NAAI % kAoAA anu AlAC OAAlNAdA0
on the wharf that their services were
no longer needed. When the union
men left the dock the Mexican crew
OF the boat were put 10 work unload
ing her
Secretary Andrew Furuseth of the
Sailors Union announces that he is in
receipt OF a communication written in
japanese by several well known Japa-
nese OF this city urging their fellow
countrymen here to keep out of the
present trouble. The missive was scat.
tered broadcast throughout the city
yesterday afternoon. and IL is believed
il viii tend to discourage any of the
little brown men who were figuring on
shipping out Of this port in place of
the union sailors.
Manager Pearce of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company is credited with
having announced that he will give his
men but ten days in which to report
back TO work. and in the event of their
falling TO come 20 terms within that
time he will not have anything more to
do with them.
FURUSETH ANSWERS PEARCE.
Regarding this assertion, Furuseth
has issued the following statement:
Mr. ". s. Pearce. manager of the Pa
ciic Coast Steamship Company, having
been most of his life enga ged in rail-
rOading, very naturally applies railroad
gagged IN. 7 viii give the men just ten
days 10 get in out OF the wet" he says.
II they do not come within that time
they must stay out of my railroad, no,
company" Being acquainted with
men who are employed the year around
~ wage upon which they can afford
10 get married and gradually build a
nome OF their own. men to whom such
proclamation no doubt has got great
terror, and not understanding the sea
man or his life. being paid off every
trip, working for wages on which IL is
Impossible TO marry or build a home.
il is very natural for Mr.. Pearce to
make the mistake of emitting q threat
ment along the docks this afternoon.
People are saying: If YOU don't come
back within ten days you cannot travel
on my railroad"
have found out why Mr. Pearce has
locked out the men. He says they must
come back TO the open shop. So here
we know ct last the meaning of the ac-
tion that to us was a mystery for sew
eral days. And he wants to appoint his
as railroad man. forgetting that the
appointment Of Quartermasters is the
duty of the master Of the vessel and
that the masters have at all times eX-
erclsed that duty in the past and no
doubt viii so continue in the future.
lie says he can afford TO take the stand
he does Men along the front are won
cerlng what he means by that We
are informed that Mr. Pearce was a
popular man on the railroad That no
ted from Seattle. that the City Of To-
peka went 10 sea with a crowd of
longshoremen on deck and railroad
nremen IN the fireroom. One only Won
oers what may happen to the vessel
and her passengers with scch crew.
A. FURUSETH