The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-28
.INTER-ISLAND IS
GIVEN UNTIL
TOMORROW
UItimatum Goes to Company and
Directors Meeting Has
Been Called.
TERMS SEEM IMPOSSIBLE
Those on Inside Fear That Strike
Is lmminent-May Come
Very Soon.
TERMS SEEM IMPOSSIBLE

Practically issuing an ultimatum to
pany, the Honolulu Harbor of the Mas
tiers, Mates and Pilots Association yes
terday gave it four hours to consider its
demands. Later it agreed to the com
pany's request to be given until We'd
ncsday to make a reply to those de-
mands which were embodied in a resol-
ution of tie harbor empowering COM
mittee to confer with the company on
three disputed points.
The company and the masters and
mates are very close to deadlock and
those closest to the center of things be-
lieve that a strike is imminent.
Yesterday negotiations between the
directors of the company and the mas
tcrs and mates was confined to stalling
for time on the part of the former. The
time asked was granted by the union
after conference in the afternoon, its
only provision being that the captains
on the conference committee be not dis
patched to other islands with their
vessels before Wednesday. This was
submitted to the Island company yes
terday Immediately afterwards and
agreed to without parley.
The captains affected were Tullett,
Oness and Olson. OF these first Tullett
and Olson were relieved, the first by
Captain Napala and the other by a
mate in the service Oness left on the
w. G.. Hall, which is to return before
the conference on Wednesday, which
it is hoped will be final one.
Confer on Resolution.
Consequently matters are up in the
air until tomorrow, but conferences in
both camps are a continuous event
These concern the resolution, which is
as follows:
Resolved, that committee, consist.
ing of three members of this harbor
be appointed to confer-in connection
with our legal advisers-with the In
ter.Island Steam Navigation Company
and endeavor to obtain from said com
,, pany an agreement whereby no mem
Der of this harbor shall be, against hi;
will, dismissed from his employment by
said company, unless; ~ by order OF
the United States inspectors, empowered
to act in the premises; (2) the party
sought to be dismissed shall admit the
justice of his dismissal; (3) such dis
missal shall be approved by arbitrator
one of whom shall he appointed under
the sanction of this harbor, one by SAID
company. and the third in such man
ner as shall he provided in such pro
posed agreement; and that any suspeu
sion from duty, pending such approved
dismissal, shall be upon full pay.
TIE ultimatum that accompanied this
resolution to the Office of General Man,
ager Kennedy of the company was an
unusual one, eouched in respectful Ian
guagc, but hiding none of its import
which practically amounted to de
mand upon the company for immediate
settlement. The committee, composed
Of. Tullctt, Oness and Olson, and the
association attorneys, A. S. Hum.
phreys and C. w. Ashford, signed the
letter, which is as follows:
Harbor's Ultimatum.
"The undersigned, being a commit.
tee appointed by resolution passed AT
meetIngsof Honolulu Harbor, No. 81
of the order of American Masters
Mates and Pilots, held yesterday, and
the legal advisers of said harbor, re-
ferred to in said resolution, hereby re-
specially request your company to en-.
ter into an agreement with said har.
Dor and its individual members, and
those who shall be members of the har,
Dor within the life of such proposed
agreement, to the effect that members
of said harbor who are now, or shall
be, during the life of said proposed
agreement, in the employ of your com
pany, shall not be dismissed from such
employment against their will, except
in accordance with the provisions out
lined in said resolution.
"Because of recent developments
which, in the opinion of said harbor, in
dicates disposition on the part of youl
company to enforce arbitrary dismis
sails from your employ, of members Of
said harbor, without stating any caus,
for such dismissals, our harbor consid
ers this matter of the utmost impor
lance and urgency to it's members
Wherefore we respectfully urge that Mt
delay, other than such as shall be alb
solutely necessary in the. premises, shall
he permitted. Your prompt and Sc
rious attention to the matter in hand
is therefore respectfully, but urgently
requested
The directors of the steamship com
pany were summoned to eonteren. q
at once upon the receipt of this letter
Two dii,etors were missing, one heins
in ard the other on Kauai and thii
was made the basis OF the request o.
the company for further time to con
would be made for the building of III,