The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-29
FLEET
BEING TIED UP
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the men take effect between today and
December z
The company do not intend to make
move until the fleet Of fourteen ves-
sells is about to be actually tied up and
officials of the company win not state
what that move will be. whether legal
or i'm the way Of attempting to secure
strikebreakers.
s. S. Niihau was sent out to Kauai
yesterday evening manned by the first
and second assistant engineers OF the |
s. S. Claudiue the resignation OF
Chief Engineer sutherland OF the
Claudine has not yet taken effect and
ne is still staying by the boat The
Ciaudine goes ont this evening at 81
o'clock for Hawaii and Maui ports,
therefore, with sutherland in charge
of the engines, and probably the first
and second assistants of the S. S. Ma
una Loa, which arrived this morning,
to assist him The engineers of the
S. S. Niihau We're put aboard the S. $.
Noeau whose engineers had quit. Inc
engineers Of the S. S. Helene, laid up
for repairs, were among the first to
quit Chief Engineer Leech and AS
sistant Grace of the S. s. w. G. Hall
are out, so the engineer crews of three
boats, Helene, Noeau and w. G Han
are already out.
With this transfer o. men from m
coming boats to outgoing boats 10
man the latter, the big trouble will
! doubtless come Tuesday. That Is
when the company expects it.
On Tuesday there will be the Kinau,
| Mauna LOa, W. G. Hall, Iwalani and
Likelike to sail with perhaps others.
Before then many of the pending res
| ignations will have taken effect and 1t
is certain that it will be impossible to
get all of the boats away. 1t is pos
gible that none of them will leave
port
The Inter-Island Company are said
TO be considering taking legal action
against the engineers under Section
4449, u S. Revised Statutes, as fol-
! lows:
IF any licensed official shall, to the
hindrance of commerce, wrOngfully or
unreasonably refuse to serve in his
official capacity on any vessel as au-
thorized by the terms of his certificate
! of license etc, his license shall be re-
voked or suspended"
Section 4450, U. S. Revised Statutes
provides that Local boards OF in
spectors shall investigate all acts OF
incompetency or misconduct commit
ned by any licensed officer while act
ing under the authority of his license,
etc"
AS yet no appreciation for inVestiga-
lion has been made by the IL. s. N.
Go to L. s. Inspectors of Hulls and
Boilers Walton and Heeney now here,
nor is it known that any such applica-
ton will be made or that it would
avail the company anything If such
application were made, for the engi-
neers are not Striking" but resign
Ing.
On the waterfrone sympathy is di-
vided between the company and the
engineers and one of the stories of the
situation is that there are in town
many men who have at times worked
as marine engineers for the Inter
Island company who are now employ
ed ashore as engineers and that they
are the originators of the demand for
the increase Of wages which the COM
pany refuse.
There are some men ashore able to
take the places Of the men who are
resigning, but they aTe not available
having positions when they would not
leave. If they were available, it is
said, they would not take the place Of
/ the strikers, for the same reason that
/ it is alleged mainland engineers would
= refuse to take their places, If they
!, were members of the Marine Engi
] neers' Association. Whether the CON-
: pany could secure engineers from thu
Coast who are not members of the
{ Association would be a matter of eX
5 hperiment and the company have no
: yet come to a serious consideration o
ALlo plbpuolllOht plJlCll ih6 " wal
/, until they are bound to make a flna
I move.
20 In the meanwhile the Inter-lslanC
+. company are not taking cash payment
= for berths on vessels scheduled to sal
for the other islands on Tuesday, To-
they do not expect that the vessen
will leave port on that day, antlcipat
ing that then they will confront tn
tie-up in its full-fedged form. rhe!
feel assured that the Claudine and tn
Mikahala will leave for Maui and Ha
4 wall and for Kauai ports, respective
j ly, at o'clock this evening, for the!
have the engineers in port, whose res
ignations have not yet taken effect
to man the boats mentioned
SAILING OF C0IhIBRs.
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