The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-03
STRIKE DEADLOCK
LIKELY TO BREAK
inside Of Hours.
While Developments On Surlace
Are Unlmportant Shipping
Men Are Expected To Act
sTEvED0REs APPEAL
70 COAST FOR HELP
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They Also Send Word To Austria
la That Certain carpoes
Loaded Here Are Unfair
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On the surface there was no develop
ment in the longshoremen,s strike yes
terday, both sides standing pat. II Is
hoped, however, that there win be some
action by shipping men today looking
towards ending the trouble. There
was no general conference yesterday,
but, as usual shipping men were dis.
cussing the strike thoroughly.
Union men have made definite re.
quest that San Francisco. union men
declare oil eargoes unfair, beginning,
with the Matson steamer Lurline and
the Oceanic steamer Sierra, both of
which are due to arrive in San Fran
cisco today, Il was stated by officials
yesterday. The former cablegram, in
substance, was request, inasmuch as
II said that the eargoes were unfair,
hut it did not contain definite res
quest that the San Francisco union
act, thelexplanation Of union men here
being that they considered the state.
nsent Of their attitude sufficient.
Australia Also Gets Appeal
\ Moreover, >cableRrams were to be
sent 10 Australia asking union steve
dores there to refuse to discharge the
Oceanic steamer Sonoma, which. sailed.
Z for Sydney, vim Page Pago, yesterday,
and the Canadian Australasia steamer
Makura, due tomorrow from yancou.
yer for Suva, Auckland and Sydney
and the statement was made. that the
Honolulu union men are confident that
the request win be aeceded to. Aus
,traha is one ofSthe strongest union
countries in the world, IL not the
4 strongest.
44 Mayor Lane suggested arbitration
yesterday. He gave Joseph ID. Sheedy,
chairman of the. maritime Affairs com
mittee Of the chamber of commerce, a
memorandum which proposed that three
men from each side meet under the
presidency Of o seventh man.
Mayor Wants Arbitration
auibThe mayor believes the dispute
should be arbitrated, but he admitted
that the men are holding out firmly for
forty and ffty.fve cents, although the
closed shop, already abandoned; and
the no-discrimination stand, which, in
a sense, >succeeded the closed shop de.
err. Moses X. Kaiue, secretary .tfeas-
urer of the union, said that the single
demand now was forty and ffty-five
cents. The men consider that they
are able to guard themselves against
Discrimination becauHe Of membership
in the union.
u. r.. Gait, chairman Of the commit
tee of the chamber Of commerce whish
heard union and shipping men Satur.
day, said that his committee evidently
had finished its work, unless one side
or Che other sought its services. No
request looking towards this was made
yesterday. Raymond G. Brown, secre-
tary of the chamber of commerce, said
that he had been busy during the day
Trying to bring about an understand
irR but Ia had nothing definite TO re.
port Mr.. Brown thought both sides
to blame-7the mem for going out as
they did and the companies forttheir
attitude.
Many stevedores Available
There were 'stevedores in abundance
yesterday. The Oceanic steamer So
mona had twenty.two working
enough for her, as she handled very
little cargo. 1t was on the Matson
steamer Wilhelmina that the great
number was, There were seven gangs,
of about $50 men in all, ON the Will
that number Sunday night. She was
TO be worked all last night. Two
trainloads came in yesterday morning.
1t was stated that there were so many
men that all could not be used, and
some were sent 10 the barge Benning-
ton to be ready for the Matson steam
en- Manoa, due from San francisco this
morning with 1908 tons Of cargo for
Honolulu. In all, II was estimated,
there were 600 men available. OF
these, 375 were Fihpinos, fifty Hawa-
iians, 100 Japanese and seventy,6ve
Chinese and Koreans. The Filipinos
were not union men strictly speaking,
although many of them had ,dtakdhi
meal tickets from the union at different
times. This has led to much bad feel.
ing. There was no trouble yesterday
and little or no picketing. VI
Mayor Lanes Attitude
Mayor Lane, who has been following
the strike situation, carefully in order
to keep in touch with all it's phases,
said yesterday that If the men and the
employers had reached a deadlock, the
only way to settle the differences
would be by arbitration.
ttArbitration, said the mayor
'shas been recognized in all civilized
communities as the proper way TO set.
tie differences. think the present
strike Of the stevedores could be settled
in this way. An arbitration committee
should be appointed to weigh all the
claims Of the men and the objections
Of the shippers cannot see any bet
ter way OUT Of the difiicuitx,
Recently when the United States
was threatened by general tieup OF
all the railroad systems, committee
representing 300 manufacturing indus
tries, employing more than 3.000y00C
persons, petitioned President Wilson Il
settle the railroad troubles by the prin
ciple Of arbitration. i believe that
he should have made an effort to reach
an agreement In this way rather that