Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-05
WATERFRONT QUIET
AGAIN; ROWDYIsM
APPEARS ON WANE
Police Patrol Docks Unmolested
and Men to Handle Cargoes
Are Plenty
STRIKERS HAVE LITTLE
HOPE OF OUTSIDE HELP
New Wage Scale But No Rec
ognition of UnioniStS is
Attitude Expected

Announcement that Honolulu EN-.
ployers Of waterfront labor are pre-
pared to effect a new wage-scale for
longshoremen may be made within the
next "a hours.
This, and the fact that there is a
steady supply Of labor available under
the existing scale, with the result
that the strike has failed to tie up
cargo-handling, are among the devel-
opments Of the day in the waterfront
strike.
This matter of an increase in the
wage-scale is known to have been un-
der discussion for several days past
and there we're reports in waterfront
circles this morning that a meeting
OF shippers and advisers had been
held to complete discussion and agree
ment, so far as the local interests
are concerned But there are several
San Francisco officers, in some cases
head, OF steamship and other com
panies affected whose consent must
be gained, and the best information
obtainable is that up to a late hour
today the desired and expected infor-
nation had not come from the coast.
Rumor differs as to what the new
wage-scale Is likely to be. The report
most generally believed is that local
men favor 80 cents an hour for a.
nine-hour day, with 40 or As cents for
overtime, Sundays and holidays. 4
IL is certain that the employers OF
waterfront labor are not negotiating
nor intending to negotiate with the
strikers, through any committee or
organization. The probability is that
IL q new scale is decided upon, the
employers VIII give no notification
whatever 70 the new union, hut. will
simply put the increase into effect,
perhaps with a statement for the bene-
fit Of the public, and such unionists
or strikers as seek employment and
are taken will come under the new
terms. In other words, the employ
ers are not recognizing the union nor
spokesmen on behalf Of the strikers
as an organization.
Shipping and other transportation
men, commenting upon the water
frcnt situation today, declared that
as soon as the police got some organ
lied palrolling into effect and were
prepared to stand their ground in the
face Of mobs, the rowdyism ceased,
and there were no more exhibitions
Of attempts to wreck or derail trains.
They are also inclined to attribute
some of the apparent encouragement
OF the strikers to the fact that news
wef published this mornslg that the
,shoremen's strike In Seattle had
collapsed The strikers here now
have little hope, apparently, of get
ting assistance from mainland unions.
Two new developments today in the
unions end Of the stevedores strike
are of significance In relation to the
general situation.
Rreekons TO succeed Edwardson
The first one Is that Attorney Rob.
crt w. Breekons, former U. s. district
attorney and now counsel for several
strikers arrested yesterday and Tues
day by the police for alleged activity
in the riots at Pier 19. will be namod
as member Of the unions arbitration
committee, to succeed Jack Edward
son, who resigned yesterday because
of disgust with the strikers tactics Of
violence and force, to which he has
been consistently opposed since the
strike began.
Apitstor Returns TO Coast
Second in importance but neyerthe-
less significant is the statement to-
day by members of Honolulu Local No.
1926, international Longshoremen'
Association. that on the Matson
steamer wilhelmina yesterday an or
ganizer sent here by the San Fran
cisco Riggers and Stevedores' Unicn
to take charge of strike activities Of
the Union stevedores here, left Tor
San Francisco, returning to report to
San Francisco headquarters the re
suits of his work here.
Organizer Was IN Hilo
Union officials said today that after
thisSunio organizer whose name
the would not give out, as they said
lie had requested them not to make
it public, reaches San Francisco, his
report will undoubtedly decide whether
the San Francisco union will aid the
Honolulu local by declaring cargoes
loaded here by non-union strike
breakers unfair and refuse to dis
charge them at the coast.
This organizer was in Honolulu
more than a month. He came on the
Wilhelmina, according to union men,
on August 80. and after completing or
ganization of the local stevedores'
union left for Hilo. where he looked
over the field In that port. Whether
he tried to organize union there is
not known, but at any rate no trouble
has been experienced at Hilo to date.
Work on the Matson steamer Manoa
went along smoothly today, with Nc
Cabe, Hamilton & Kenny saying they
had 210 strike-breakers working her,
of whom so are claimed to be Ha-