Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-20
Thinks PACIFIC
MAIL SHIPS Will
CONTINUE ON RUN
]. EdWardson, Back From the
Coast, Says Panama Liners
Will Also Go to Atlantic Co.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE is
MADE BY UNION HEADS
Say Atlantic ShipoWners Tried
to Get Those on West Coast
to Tie Up Passenger Traffic

That the transpacific liners of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, re-
Gently transferred to the Atlantic
Transport Company of West Virginia,
will not be taken from the Pacific
run but will continue. their present
schedules, is the firm belief Of Andrew
Furuseth. president of the Information
al Seamen's Union, and of other high
officials of the union, is the word
brought to Honolulu by j. Edwardson,
delegate from the Honolulu union to
the big international convention re-
Gently concluded at San Francisco.
I'VE know of the dummy transfer
of the five Pacific liners to the Allan
tic Transport Company-knew of 1t
several months ago." said Mr.. Ed
wardson this morning. More than
that we are satisfied that the Pacific
Mails eight other ships, now running
from San Francisco to Panama, will
soon be turned over to the same COM
pany.
"The Panama line ships will then
60 into the 'Frisco-New York trade.
and the Pacific Mail Company win go.
out of existence as corporate entity.
The transfer of the ships from one
company to another is really no sale,
merely legal freeing of the vessels
from Southern Pacific control so that
the company can operate through the
Panama canal. railroad owned vessels
being denied the use OF that water
way.
Not only will the transpacific liners
continue calling at Honolulu going to:
and ffonI the Orient but they VIII
remain under the American flag, and
Honolulu's passenger facilities will
not be reduced The threat to switch
the ships to another run under
foreign flag Is merely another phase
of nationwide conspiracy to deceive
the public and an attempt to bulldoze
Congress into repeating the Seamen's
Act"
Mr.. Edwardson smiled dryly, and
continued: THAT act will not be re-
pealed at the coming session of Con-
gress / learned from the union Off
cials at San Francisco that they have
assurances from Democratic leaders
and from q member of President Will
sons cabinet, that the Seamen's Act
will not be tampered with until 1t has
been tried out and been proven a fail
ure
why, II the bill does prove fatal
to American shipping, as some ship
owners claim it will, the Seamen's
Union will be the first organization to
make a move to have 1t amended or
We realize as well as any
one that our own prosperity rests upon
the success and growth of the Ameri-
can merchant marine, and we shall
never approve nor support any legis-
lation which will drive American
ships from the seas.
The union Is officially supporting
the McAdoo Ship Purchase Bill, which
will undoubtedly be up for congress
sional consideration at the next ses-
sion of that body"
The eight ships OF the Pacific Mail
now running from San Francisco to
Panama, which Union officials believe
will be transferred to the Atlantic
Transport Company, are the City of
Para, City of Sydney. Newport, Penn
sylyania, San Juan, Peru, San Jose
and Atzec.
Mr.. Edwardson, who returned to the
Islands in the Matsonia last Tuesday,
brings word of amazing charges made
during the session of the union con-
vention in San Francisco. He says |
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