The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-26

went on with my charges. ! asked
him what charges, and he said the
ones had sent the district attorney
from Iquique. A copy of charges that
/ mailed the district attorney was
sent to Shipping Commissioner Knox.
There was no place for Tommy Wilson
to get his information from but from
Knox, showing plainly that Knox is
in collision with the syndicate.
Waiting for the Blakely.
THE Blakely is due here the last
of August. l am going to wait here
for the old man if l have to work for
80 cents day in the streets. Aboard
are a Japanese cook and a Japanese
cabin boy who can substantiate my
statements, as they heard the cap
tain's admissions that he had paid for
us. Aboard, too, are a seaman, Karl
Elias Charles Johnson, and the first
mate, Stanford Veino, who supported
the captains affidavit sent to Consul
Rea Hanna at Iquique. Johnson and
Veino were shanghaied with me.
Crews on every sailing ship for ali
the ports of Chile, Peru and the West
Coast of Africa are shanghaied on
Puget Sound Captains will not hire
man direct, representing to owners
that they are unable to obtain men
without buying them. Thus the cap
tain is enabled to share the blood
money with the syndicate. If you go
aboard a ship and ask for a job the
captain will tell you to go to MaXey
Levy.
The old man thought l was soft
because | did not fight or answer back
on the ship. He thought that l was
soft because let him underpay me at
Tocopilla. But | know that the pro-
cesses of Uncle Sans laws are like
the mills of the gods, that, though
they grind slowly, grind exceeding
small. If my charges are not con-
sidered here l shall send them to
Washington"
Among the papers exhibited by
Hawkins were some showing that he
had in 1908 made charges to George
W. Uhler, supervision inspector gen
eral, Department of Commerce and
Labor, against Henry Seeley, shipping
commissioner at New York, asserting
that Seeley had been selling masters
and pilots licenses. Hawkins wrote
about Seeley first to Senator Knute
Nelson of Minnesota, and says that
Seeley was finally dismissed, though
he had the backing of Tammany Hall.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 81,
The story of Henry o. Hawkins,
ablebodied seaman, in which he ac-
cuses Shipping Commissioner James
Knox and other parties of having
shanghaied him on board the schooner
Blakely several months ago, was re-
ceived this morning with gentle rip
pie of amusement at the United
States district attorneys and the ship
ping commissioners offices. Hawkins
this morning admitted having signed
the schOoner's articles first as an able
bodied seaman, and later as second
mate and declares that on both occa.
sions he attached his signature to the
articles of his own volition. He de-
clared that he believed that the fact
that the "crimp" or agent who pro-
cured him the position on the lumber
schooner was paid for supplying him
constituted shanghaiing.
There is no shipping law which pre-
vents a "crimp" from charging the
shipowner or master a fee, although
he is not allowed to offer special in
ducements to seamen. Hawkins de-
clared that he had been sold intol
slavery and in the same sentence
stated that he took the position not
only willingly, but eagerly, as he was
all in down and out and, to use his
own expression, was hungry enough |
to eat ten-penny nail"
Knox Declines to Talk.
Shipping Commissioner Knox this
morning refused to discuss the matter
in detail, declaring that the statements
of Hawkins were absurd upon the
face. Hawkins charges consist in ac. |