Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-27
CROWD
WHARYES;
OTHER men QUIT
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happen, some person or persons Of un.
known identity at 1880 last night ex
ploded either a stick of giant powder
or large cannon cracker three feet
from the mauka side of the shed cover
ing Pier Is, on Queen street, about lao
feet Eva OF the wharf office. 49,.
Making a roar like a field gun,
the high explosive tore hole in tie
asphalt sidewalk nearly two inches
deep and half foot in diameter. The
wall of the shed was net damaged in
any way. Two men we're seen skulk,
ing in the vicinity short time before
the explosion and it is believed they
set off the explosive.
Dynamite or Firecraeker? -:
According to Harbor Officer A. f,
("Nick"l Carter, fragments of paper
found near the scene indicate that the
explosive was a big cannon cracker
but others claim a big firecraeker
would not gouge a two-ineh hole in
the asphalt as this did. They assert
the explosive acted like dynamite.
This is the biggest development ii
the stevedores' strike to date, SO far
as any attempts at violence are con.
cerned Shipping firms today were
inclined not to take the explosion as
q serious matter, believing it was
done only to throw a scare" into the
non-union longshoremen who worked
all night last night at Pier Is unload.
ing the Wilhelmina's cargo. ~s.. r.
Edwardson Makes Statement E-r.
az Innu- p0fhinn a Tho
son." said Jack Edwardson, business
agent of the Sailors Union and a
members of the longshoremen's local
committee. at noon today. II heard
rumors of it this morning, but do not
believe any members of our union
were responsible. In fact, it may
have been done by the other side to
discredit the strikers. We would gain
nothing by violence and we have can-
toned our men against it ever since
the strike began"
Union Men Work Tanker ST..
A minor victory was gained by the
strikers this morning when Capt. q.
Curtis, master of the Union Oil steam
er Santa Maria, which locked at Pier
IL at O'Clock, was unable to obtaiR
hon-union labor to discharge 452
drums of gasoline and distillate
brought in by the tanker. which
brought also $4,000 barrels of crude
il. The oil does not require any long
shoremen to handle it as it is pumped
out ~, IL. .-.@....,-. .s..... j.. -
gang, consisting of a foreman and
six non-lnion Fflipinos,s was sent to
the Santa Maria. by McCabe. HamiI
ton q Kenny, but after unloading four
drums quit work. Capt. Curtis OBJ
tanned union men about IL a. m, pay
ing the wage scale demanded by the
union, and union stevedores began
working the tanker at / O'Clock this
afternoon The work on her is not
expected to take more than five hours.
Launches Garry Strikehreakers
In order to avoid making their nom
union strfkebreakers pass the crowd
of union pfckets at Pier 16, when the
Matsen steamer Hyades returned from
Port Allen to load $4,000 cases of
canned pines and 500 tons of sugar for
San Francisco, McCabe, Hamilton q
Kenny used launches to transport men
from their offices on Queen street to
the pier In this way they landed a
number of japanese at the pier, so
the union men, who were kept off the
pier by city police and harbor police,
could not modest them,
Hyades Short Of Men 49, III
At noon there weTs only 40 strike
breakers on Pier 16, where there
should have been $50, and the outlook
was serious McCabe, Hamilton &
Kenny said they would put on all the
additional men they could get this
afternoon. The Hyades loaded 700
cases Of canned pines at Port Allen
and $50 tons of sugar. The Dairen
Maru is being worked full blast at
Pier today, the stevedoring firm
claims. ~
strikebreaking FiIipinos Quit .~-
) Shortly before noon today union
leaders claimed one of their Filipino
members had been able to induce $50
Filipinos to quit McCabe, Hamilton
& Kenny, and join the union. The
stevedoring firm admitted that there
had been . Filipino haranguing their
men and union men with them,
and that the Elen had cheered, but
said they could not tell how many
had quit until this afternoon, when
the Filipinos were due to work the
Hyades.
FiIipinos Carried Clubs !
Strikebreakers who came to work
early this morning are said to have
carried clubs and sticks with them to
protect themselves against feared at
lacks from union men, but up to 1850
this afternoon no clubbing or other
violence had been reported by the po-
lice. Four marine corps priVates
guarded commissary supplies at Pier
l6. They were stationed there on
but said it is customary to
put a guard around. these supplies,
strike is in progress or not.