The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-10-10
This Is Net Result Of Steyedores'
Strike, the Men Returning 10
Work Today Without Recouni-
ton Of Union Being Granted
SINGLE AND LANE Z,
WERE INTERMEDIATES
To Meet Added Stevedoring Ex-
pense Of 100000 a Year,
General Cargo and Pines VIII
Pay Another TWo-bits a Ton

ray another TW0-bitS a Ton
Honolulu longshoremen who have
been on strike since September 49,
twenty-five days--will return TO work
today. They will accept increases in
wages granted by shipping firms yes
tcrday, They endeavored, in a. series
OF conferences yesterday afternoon, to
get a concession from MeCabe,. Hamil.
ton d Kenny that straw bosses should
abe selected by the union. When this
was refused emphatically, they receded
to requesting that MeCabe, Hamilton q
Kenny meet the old lunas, who had
struck, and this was agreed to, said
Robert w. Single, who acted as in
teTmediary. t.......
Formal recognition was not extended
TO the union at any time. ,Neverthe-
less the leaders say that they won a
victory in that an increased scale was
granted. -
Freight rates to and from San Fran
cisco will go up as result of the high
er wages. Raises being talked of now
are twenty-five cents a ton on canned
pines and twenty-five cents ton on
general cargo. Bananas probably will
not be affected. They 60 at forty cents
n bunch now. Figuring three cubic
feet to the bunch they pay five dollars
and thirty.three cents ton. Sugar
may 60 up, although predictions Of
shipping men are not so definite as. to
this.
Sugar now psys three dollars ton.
The contract has four years to run,
but an amicable settlement is expected
If the shipping companies believe that
they, Mil have to raise the rates :, on
sugar. An Increase of twenty-five
cents q ton was made effective last
year.
Second Jump For Pines
Early this year the Matson line in.
creased rites on canned pines from
three dollars a ton to three dollars and
seventy-fve cents ton, and the Ocean.
ic line Joined in. This followed an in
crease Of fifty cents ton in general
cargo rates, from three dollars and IF.
ty cents to four dollars. The Matson
line offered contracts to pineapple men,
which we're accepted the last of Febru.
twenty-five cent rate, but the Matson
line was to get seyenty-fve per cent Of
the pack a year If it had space for it.
According to the best information OBJ
tainable here, Capt. William Matson has
not signed these contracts. They do
not stand in the way of the proposed
increase, it is believed. w. .E'
One shipping man said that import
e 4
pose an increase Of twenty five Nents a
ton for their freight. He had not
heard the attitude of the pineapple
IlCn,
Increase Means Much
1t Was estimated that the increases
in wages would cost the Matson line
GIon" 10000 a year. When the Togo
Kisen Kaisha, Osaka Shosen Kaisha,
Pacific Mail, China Mail, Oceanic,
Canadian Australasian and Great
Northern Pacific are added the in.
creased expense will exceed 100000, it
is believed. All shipping companies
doing business through McCabe, Ham
iltOn x Kenny have granted the new
scale, and the Oceanic will do likewise.
Besides steamers of the lines men.
toned above, the army transports are
worked by McCabe, Hamilton 4 Kenny.
The Inter-Island is not affected. !
New Stevedoring Rate i
AS predicted in The Advertiser, the
new scale is thirty cents an hour for
nine hours, forty five cents for Sundays
and holidays, and fifty cents overtime.
This table shows the old scale and
the new: 4
Il
Nine-hOur day ...$2.OO day .30'hour
Sundays ........... 800 day AS hour
overtime ......... 40 hour 80 hour |
FOremen or hatch a 4
tenders, all work. .45 hour go hour
Wlnchmen ...... 40 hour so hour
The Oceanic Scale was three dollars
a day of nine hours for foremen, two
dollars aud fifty cents a day for winch,
men, and hatch tenders, two dollars for |
the men, with a days pay for eight |
hours or mOrej overtime was seventy |
five cents an hour for fOremen and |
nifty cents an hour for men; and Sun.
days and holidays were four dollars u
day of niue hours, with overtime in
proportion.
increases were made effective at
seven o'clock yesterday morning.
Ready To Accept
The men had believed for some time
that they could not expect thirty Ave
cents an hour, their latest demand, and
they were ready to accept the new scale
yesterday. They still sought some
means OF protecting themselves against
discrimination because of union mem.
b"rship, as they put it, and Robert W.
Shingle and Mayor John c. Lane act.
~ as Intermediates in dealing with
McCabe, Hamilton l. Kenny. The two