Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-27
Denies HE HAS
GIVEN STRIKE
FINANCIAL AID
Link Brands as False Report
He is Using Walk-oM to
Influence Voters
WOULD NOT SECURE
BALLOTS TN THIS WAY
But McCandless Says Water
frontiers Should Be Given
More Wages

L. l.. McCandless, candidate for
delegate to Congress, expresses sym
patty with the striking longshoremen
but denies vague reports heard here
that he has contributed largely to the
strike fund. He also says that he is
not using the strike situation for po-
litical material in any way.
Aside from being candidate for the
delegateship, McCandless is reported
TO be in receptive mood in the mat
ter OF being in the race, to succeed
Mayor John c. Lane. However, Nc.
Candless has told the Star-Bulletin
that he is not considering running for
the county office. This paper has
been informed that the Bourbon lead
er, through assistance TO the "strik-
ers,R Is attempting to secure their
support not only in his fight for the
delegateship bat in his purported cam
paign for the rnayoralty
All Of these reports, however, Nc.
Candless denies, and his denial is
firmly emphatic. He says, however,
that his sympathies may be with the
striking Iongshoremen IL conditions
regarding wages and hours Of work
are in line with information which
has reached him.
From hearsay / understand that
the longshoremen are receiving on an
average of not more than $3.50 week,
and understand further that Nc
Cabe, Hamilton & Kenny, the steve
doring firm, is making pretty large
diyidends,g McCandless asserts. Il
do not think that IL they are making
on an average OF only $3.50 week
they are getting enough
A man can work on a plantation
and get one dollar day, and q house,
fuel, water and medical treatment
free. This is two or three times more
than the present longshoremen are
getting.
As I understand it, the longshore-
men always have had union here.
The union has been In vogue here for
q number Of years, and it is nothing
new, have been told.
The longshoremen are now paid
for overtime work. They get 20 cents
an hoar and 40 cents an hour for
night work. III they were to work
steadily at that wage the men might
be able to get along
But these men are always standing
in reserve, and think because OF this
they should be worth something to the
steamship companies. Without this
reserve the companies would not be
able to take care of Incoming or out
going steamers. These men some
times remain idle for three or four
days waiting for a steamer to come
IN, and think that this reserve should
be worth something. But hear thai
It Il not taken into consideration,
which is wrong. The companies should
pay something for that reserve be-
cause they have TO have it to carry on
their business.
"Absoiutely Untrue
sAny reports that have donated
$1,000 or other sums of money to the
strike are absolutely untrue If have
been quoted as saying that / would
use the strike TO secure votes, that
Is also untrue McCandless continued.
II do not believe in the principle
OF trying to get votes by taking adj
vantage of the man who is in hole.
I'm not built on those lines. | have
never done IL and never will.
.1f these facts about the wages and
other. conditions Of the longshoremen,
as | have heard them, are true, then
surely am in sympathy with the long
shoremen, he concludes.
John II. Wilson. Democratic nation
al committeeman, has written letter
to Jack Edwardson, business agent forlI
the Sailors Union. in which he ex-
presses sympathy for the strikers and
declares they should be given more
money.