The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
s. P. GAINS WHILE
SCHOONE rs LOSE.
Railroad the Principal
Beneficiary of the
Water Front Strike

In spite of its nothing. to -arbitrate-
got-all-th l-the-men-we-want attitude. the
United Shipping and transportation
Association is said TO be far from the
harmonious organization it was at the
beginning of the sailors strike. The
steam schoonerumen, in whose interest
the association is supposed to be act
Ing, are said TO be watching with grow
Ing eagerness. for something any
thing, that Will deliver them from their
friends.
In the first excitement of the strike
they entered with enthusiasm into the
ca mpaign. r. p Schwerin, one of the
leaders in the United Shipping and
transportation Association, was their
friend. He would place the vast re-
sources under his control at their dis
posal, and vidtory was cinch As
evidence of his disinterestedness he
wculo close the business of the Pacific
Mail Company at this port and let the
trade go to Seattle until the sailors
and others agreed to work on the steam
schooners at the owners terms.
As evidence Of good faith he post
pened indefinitely the sailing of one of
his big liners and sent the Togo kisen
Kaisha steamer Nippon Maru to sea
without cargo. All stevedores were
discharged from the Pacific Mail
wharves. and for a few days the SIT
uo tlou ulu look Srlm
RUNNING AT FULL BLAST.
The Pacific Mail Company today is
running its business at full blast.
Steam sehooners, independent of the
association and beyond the radius OF
Schwerin's helping hand, are making
more money than they ever did before.
Even the sailors, firemen. cooks and
waters are enjoying remunerative en-
n 4 -r11,ar1 IN
The. Pacific Coast Steamship Company
is running its freight and passenger
business on practically a normal basis
Inc other members of the association
have not been affected by the trouble,
the BURDEN Of which ..as settled almost
exclusively on the owners of the fifty
odd steam schooners under the protect
ing wing Of the United Shipping and
Transportation Association.
These owners are now doing a lot OF
thinking, and some OF them some talk.
ing.
In the revealing rays of hindsight
they see things differently and there is
manifest growing suspicion that r
r. Schwerin is a man of marvellous
sbrewdness.
They understand now that 1t cost
Schwerin no great pang to see the Nip
pom Maru take her departure cargo
less They realize that the temporary
stopping of the Pacific Mail machinery
was the logical sequence of the most
intricate freight blockade this port
ever experienced.
S. P's MACHIAvELLIAN HAND.
southern Pacific has resented the car
rylng of passengers by the steam
schoeners. They know that, on ac-
count OF their opposition. the railroad
rs duced the rail rates to Portland
They know that. In spite of the rail-
read opposition. they continued to en-
JOY lucrative passehg ger trade
They remember that, early in the
present Industrial campaign, it was de-
cided by the United Shipping and.
transportation Association that the
steam schooners should surrender their
passenger licenses.
Whether 1t was the result of
Schwerin's deliberate contriving or NOT,
they now realize that the majority of
inc steam schooners on this coast are
today where the Southern Pacific for
years has been trying to put them, and
that the railroad now divides with the
Facific Coast Steamship Company a
practical monopoly cf the coast pas
sehger traffic and the cream of the
freight business.
So far nobody has mustered the cour-
o5ts " speak rlSnl out IN meeting, Dut
liere and there along the beach some
OF them have unburdened their souls
of their suspicious. They appreciate
the sacrifices the United Shipping and
transportation Association has n,lde
for them. but If they ever get out of
their present pickle they will in future
conduct their own campaign.
The women of Scotland carry heavy
loads on their backs in baskets, which
are strapped around their waists and