The San Francisco call., 1907-01-20
DECLARES PICkETS
VIOLATED ORDER
Secretary Fenwick of Ham
mond Company Testifes
Against Accused Unions
REFEREE HEARS CASE


Before Clement Bennett as referee
appointed by United States District
Judge Edward Whitson further testi-
mony was taken yesterday in the pro-
ceedings against Andrew Furuseth, the
Sailors Union of the Pacific, the Pa
clhc Coast Marine Firemens Union, the
Marine Cooks and Stewards Associa-
tion and others for alleged violation
or restraining order issued by Judge
Morrow last year. prohibiting the de-
PENDANTS from interfering with the
business or the employees of the Ham
mond Lumber Company. The plaintiff
was represented by Henry Ach and ].
W. Dorsey, and the defendants by
Harry M. Hutton.
Fred NJ Fenwick, secretary and man
ager or the lumber company, was the
only witness examined. His testi-
mony was that since the issuance of
the restraining order he had heard of
many nonunion sailors having been
beaten by defendants pickets on the
water front. They had severely beaten
three or four winchmen connected with
other ships and passed the word along.
so that winchmen were afraid to work
on nonunion vessels. This neceessi-
tated the Hammond. Lumber Company
unloading its cargo by hand, which
took four times longer than by the
use OF the donkey engine.
We used to start every morning at
o'clock" said the witness. but at s
or half-past 8 o'clock a band of men
would come along and scare them Off"
PICkETs KEPT UP WORK
Witness, continuing. said that since
the issuance of the restraining order
the pickets had boarded vessels, cursed
and beaten nonunion crews, and forced
them to go ashore. In every case the
pickets had been told of the object
and effect of the restraining order.
The launches Annie II and Petrol had
been used in boarding nonunion ves-
sells. B. Jones, coming off the Ravalli
one night, was knocked down and
beaten so severely that he had to be
confined in a hospital for three weeks.
There was never any trouble to get
men during the strike, but they were
always frightened away by threats or
actual violence. A nonunion man
named Cunningham was killed by
strikers on Steuart street. Mems skulls
were broken. their teeth kicked out,
and they were otherwise seriously in
jured. Strikers used to travel in
crowds of from eight to twenty men,
The witness estimated that his COM
pany had lost from S25,00o to $50.0
since the injunction by reason of its
business and employees having been in
terefered with by the strikers. All the
pickets took instructions from the
strike committee and Furuseth.
The witness had often seen Furuseth
on the wharves giving directions to
the pickets. Between August 10 and
Is the witness took before Mayor
Schmitz and Furuseth seven men who
had been beaten by strikers and asked
for police protection. When Furuseth
said that he had instructed the pickets
not to do violence the witness asked
him whether he would consent to a
policeman riding on the launches.
Furuseth did not reply that time. but
said afterward that he would allow
a policeman in each launch if the
Hammond people would allow Furuseth
to go on board their vessels at WILL
accompanied by a Scandinavian inter-
prefer to speak to the nonunion sailors.
SPOKE FROM HEARsAY
On cross examination by Hutton the
witness admitted that he had never
seen any of the complainant's en-
ployes beaten, that he had not seen
Cunningham killed. and that he had
spoken of those matters from hear
say. He admitted also that he had
heard Captain of Police Martin, in
charge of the water front district, say
to Mayor Schnitz that in ordinary
times many persons were beaten in
drunken rows, and that there were
fewer beatings and disturbances dur
ing the period of the sailors strike
than at other times. He admitted also
that Furuseth had always contended
that he had instructed the pickets to
commit no act of violence, and that
all the alleged beatings were simply
drunken rows. The witness added that
he had several after thew
had been beaten, but had not seen the
beginning of the fights.
Don't you know that the winchmen
didn't work because the Longshore-
mems Union to which they belonged
had issued an order that they should
not work on vessels employing non