Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
BOTH SIDES TO Be
HEARD TOMORROW
ON STRIKE ISSUE
Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee to Investigate Status
of Waterfront Situation
POLICE GUARD NOM UNION
MEN GOING TO THEIR WORK
Strikers Write Letter to Mayor
Setting Forth Statement
Of Their Case


The latest activities Of the police In
the strike situation was escorting Of
about rs Chinese gathered up about
the city 70 launches this afternoon to
be taken TO work the seiyo maru.
This afternoon 6onefacio and Pablo
Robls, said BY the police to be rioters
who tried to 'sstart something" yester-
day evening, were charged with riot
Inn and Will &c arraipned In police
court In the morning. Both are Filipi-
nos. 6onefacio u said to have made
threatening speeches and Robis 10 ac-
cused Of going dsnoercusiy armed. he
10 said 70 have brandlshed . wicked
looking knife.
All Reserves On Duty
All the reserves Of the regular po-
lice force are deino duty on the wa
terfront this afternoon with Deputy
Sheriff Asch and Sheriff Rose In close
touch with conditions. Capt. kamahu
and Capt. iaukea conferred late this.
sfternoon on tke distribution cf Off
GERS along the piers during the night.
There seems 70 be an apprehension
a. the police station that some trouble
may break loose and those In charge
are taking every precaution.
peselcpments in the waterfront
strike sltaatlou during the last ~
hours are ss follows:
Chamber Of Commerce commiftee
decides 70 call Investigation nneet'ng
beginning at c'eiock tomorrow morn,
inc to hear both sides 81 the coutro-
ss;ss s.s;kis, l.s,sn,.ss Ssns ,ss.s.. -
mayor late ysstsfs5sy setting forth
thelr csss ard making plea tor hlsh-
poiIes guard ssrike-breskers going
80 work on the docks this iaorpins.
Jack Edwardson, Spokesman fer
strikers, says Be has cabied assursnc-
en from waterfront workers Of San
Francisco that they will back up 10
cal action providing local union re-.
quests them to make move. Edward
con says no such request has been
made Or decided upon.
Working OF vessels proceeds, with
some delays, and strikers claim addi-
tions to their ranks.
An investigation into the strike sit
uation will begin tomorrow morning
at O'Clock in the Chamber Of Com
merce rooms. This was the decision
arrived at today by the arbitration
committee and officials of the cham
Der. The meeting, however, is not
for arbitration it was expressly
stated by Secretary Raymond g.
Brown. who said that the committee
would act as an "inyestigation com
mIttee. The action OF the chamber
yesterday referred the controversy to
the arbitration committee ''for inves-
tisation, =
Both sides are to be heard tomor-
row, II Is planned. Brown called
on representatives OF both sides after
the meeting and they have promised
to be present The strikers side of
the controversy viii be heard from 8
70 10 o'clock and the employers from
10 to II o'clock.
San Francisco Promises Support
That the San Francisco local of the
liggers and stevedores union will sup
port the Honolulu local, No. 1926, OF
the International Longshoremen' s
Association, Is stated m the reply
which Jack Edwardson, business agent
OF the sailors union and member
OF the longshoremen's union commit
tee, claims TO have received today
from the San Francisco organization.
At 12.45 this afternoon Edwards0n
announced to- the Star. Bulletin that
such news had been received, but he
made II clear that while 1t means the
a &r<r. <rgfy q
cargoes loaded on steamers here by
non-union labor unfair on their ar
rival at that port II the Honolulu local
requests, it the local here has not
yer made such a request
No Request Made Vet
whether we ask the San Francisco
union to declare such cargoes unfair
depends on the arbitration meeting
tomorrow morning" said Edwardson.
.0ur side of the situation will be pre-
scented from 3 to 10 O'Clock. and the
employers will have their inning after
that hour. The reply we received to-
DAY means the San Francisco Rig
gers and Stevedores' Union of the Pa
cific Coast District Of Longshoremen
are with us and will declare cargoes
loaded here by non-union labor unfair
II we ask them. which we have not yet
done
Engineers Donate $3.50
Officers OF the Honolulu longshore-
mems local said shortly after noon
today that at a meeting last night OF
Honolulu Local No. Gil, international
Union of Steam and Operating Engi