The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-02-11

TO b. dismissed should admit Justice OF
his dismissal.
1.-The reading public is alrcady ia
miliar with the attitude aud answer OF
the company respecting that request
.e company fatty refused 20 admit
enc pr nciP of arbitration, aud reitcr
ltcd its dctcrmiunt on IN dismiss It's
employees at any time or for any rca
ON that should socm to 1t sufficient. |
Inis answer. taken IN conjunction with |
nc importation Of the malihinis, sew
eral of whom were by hat me actual |
on the ground. convinced tho harbor |
that they had nothing to hope from |
uriher negotiations, wherefore, at n |
vell-attcnded meeting held week ago |
Yesterday, the harhor passed resolu |
lion by twonty.sevon votes against two, |
calling upon its master and mates 60
resign from the service of the company |
"a moment before that vote was
taken the first of the dismissals in
which the company had recently in
! dulged was read to the meeting, and it
may well be stated that that letter,
| coming at that critical iuucture, was
the last word required to convince
those members of the harbor who had
previously wavercd in their opinion ms
| to the wisdom of such course
1.-THE Fat in the Fire.
''That letter constituted proof posi-
tive OF the purpose of the company to
pursue the arbitrary course it had
claimed the right to pursue and effect
ually threw the fat into the fire.
:" AS to the present status of the dis
pute aud prospects of victory, l have
only to say that the members of the
harbor are more confident than at any
previous hour since the difference be-
came acute. While it is true that some
of the weaklings among its members,
ms well us two or three 'malevolents,
have remained with the company or re-
turned to its service, and after signing
and sending in their designations, it is
also true that the harbor is gaining ae-
cessions of strength each day and the
plight of the company is becoming
more and moro desperate.
"The company finds that such of
their imported malihinis MS will accept
service on their vessels at all cannot
hope to attain sufficient familiarity
with Hawaiian waters to qualify them
as masters and pilots for many months
to come,
''In the interval and in order to keep
rs many rs possible of their ships in
commission they have sent out frantic
appeals to every incompetent and
drunken beachcomber whom they had
previously dismissed from their service
and pressed into service such of them
MS would respond to the summons.
cit win be remembered that after
this ruction became full-hedged the
company gave out the insincere and
~ AlAL a l,.4
they wished to dismiss Captain Thomp
son was that he was too old for the
service. To Others, especially the ma
tive Hawaiians, they gave the equally
false reason that the object of suci
dismissal was to make place for Cap
tain Simerson, twice suspended by the
United States inspectors for drunken
ness and incompetency. The joke o.
that last reason is that Simerson Is con
siderably older than Thompson.
"And while the company has ais,
given the impression that it desires T.
weed out its older masters and mate
and employ only young men, it is sig
nificant that they sent out poor oil
Harry Swinton rs mate of the Maui o
Saturday, although he is seventy-tw
years old, the victim of rapidly-failin
-. physical powers, if not of absolut
senile dementia.
to "These are but couple of sample
le taken at random of the sincerity of tn
II. company in its attitude toward the han
no bor and of what the public Chat sam
le dear public whom, the company pre-
in fesses such an ardent desire to serve
ce has to expect from the character an
k. capacity of the men who will handl
adj the company's vessels, if it succeed i
Sc this fight.
Gives the Direct Lie.
'fThe company claims that 'every
od thing is running smoothly A corp'
- ration can t lie, but its officers can, an
- do, when they make that claim. | al
- given positively to believe that on Sa
~ urday last when the Maui was leavin
l port with one of the malihinis as firl
on mate, he was drunk, and Mr.. Kennel
VI knew it-so drunk that before the We
TO sci had fairly cleared the wharf he fe
Ia against a stanchion and cut his head {
yer seriously that the captain immediatel
hu returned with his vessel to the whal
BIO for the purpose of either remaining
port or of securing another mate. b,
he Mr.. Kennedy ordered the master to 50
on with his wounded officer and witho,
CHI any substitute. With a drunken an
SITS wounded man as first mate and poor o.
Harry Swinton as second mate of thu
~, craft, it will be interesting to waite
'se her history upon this voyage.
I'D "You may say for mo that Capital
en- Lane, just returned to port yesterda
on in command of the Helene, attendJ
DIS the meeting of the harbor yesterda
ire declared his determination to stand |
lid its policy, and have his written resi-
Die nation from the service of the compar
in in my pocket and win deliver it wit
lss out delay. Captain Lane 10 considers
nv one of the most competent, infiuenti
,ns and popular mon in the service Of Il
of company. The Helene was the first
the tramp steamers to arrive in pc
nm bince the strike commenced. The BE
he ond mate of that vessel has also 7
an signed.
~, H"The harbor 10 going to win"