The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-29
Stevedores conpreoate At Whar-
yes and They Menace Japanese
s Laber Wiling TO Work
TENSION is STRAINED
WITH SHIPS IN PORT
Trouble Is Promised WheE ssPid:-;
pinos Offer To Work Hyades
But Nothing Develops
tFrom Thursday Adrertiserl

Ihtfe WIS lnImluhtion OF aboIeIS'
tnd an assault on some Of the Japa:
nese atevsdoress at Pier IS yesterday
Afternoon, while foot police in the
crowd stood and watched the perform,
ance. AN Advertiser reporter asked
one guardian Of the law why he did
not protect the men who were being
manhnndled by the strikers. He said
that IL the stevedoFes had sworn out
warrants he would have done so.
Last night Police Captain Fred Tau.
kea put two men on Pier 10, one on
Pier is, three at Pier l6, two at Pier
rs and one at Pier IA. Sheriff Rose
was also at the waterfront, and re.
serves were kept at hand to protect
the public interests, II required.
The disturbance at Pier Is took
place when q number Of Japanese who
had left the Wilhelmina to get lunch
started, back TO work. They were
peuneed upon and threatened with
bodily harm II they did not Join the
strikers. II was during this fight that
the police acted as interested speets,
tors. as tsAl
Many Men Loading
Crowds Of unemployed men stood
around in the streets along the water
front all day, or sat on the eurbine
aud seaWall and talked work and the
conditions OF work, but no one worked
There was affhlI gang unloading the
Dairen Maru hut the Wilhelmina had
only varying Numbers. Several launch
"a carried workers to this ship as she
was being naneuvered from one wharf
70 the other. After the noon riot ar.
rangements were made TO bunk and
feed the stevedores aboard ship until
the lading is completed.
!. Fifty Filipinos agreed to work the
Hyades last night and trouble wal
promised at the street-end of Pier Is
Five nolieemen. two dozen Office meI
from Castle & Cookies and MeCabe
Hamilton b Rennyis, gathered there a
half -past Use clock, but pilikia die
not affiye: About one hundred Fill
pinos and fifty Hawaiians strung
across the end Of the road and all pros
pectise laborers had to run the gaunt
let to get to the wharf, Thirty Of tn,
prospective fifty had trickled througl
and gone TO work by half-past 81,
o,elock. rs'r, ~, g.. d.. IL.
Rloquence on Al sides '.a,
On the Eva makai corner Of Queei
street and the road TO the docks, Fans
tino Buan stood on pile of ties an,
haiAngned the Nhpinos- Wheneue
Faustino rounded cut what sounded lik
a particularly brilliant sentence the Hs
waiian strikers applauded wildly,
Faustino 10 quite an orator, hayinI
studied elocution while incarcerated Il
Bilibid prison in Manila serving a sir
teen-year sentence for burglary, il wa
reported. He was dressed in PONCE
and did not look like q stevedore bu
he was Son strike" nevertheless. n.
Peter KAnai, messenger at tn
mayors Office, also addressed tn
crowd, advising the Filipinos not to &
toi sqork but to be good Indians an
ioinsthe union. He advised them thu
If they would support the strikers the
would receive one dollar a day as Ion
rs the trouble lasts. This sounded goo
and many joined.
silva u Arrested
This promise and threats of assau
deferred many who wanted TO wor
from aceepting the fifty cents an hOC
the master of the Hyades was offerinI
The Hyades has a considerable earp
OF explosives that must be unloade
before her outgoing cargo of case pin
apples and sugar can be slowed.
About seven o'clock last nigl
Mounted Police Officer Kramer arres
ed man by the name of Joe SLY
in the, crowd of strikers for earryiI
concealed weapons. Silva had a q
aud fun cargo Of dago red. He e
plained that he got both in a saloo
but while there was no doubt a.
whore he slowed the booze his yersi,
OF how he got the artillery sound,
fsky. He win be allowed to enter
amended account of his reasons +
going armed, in police court this NOR
ing. Joe IL not a union man. .1 Z
A Hawaiian orator with earbunc
on che baek Of his neck Grated free
whenever he could hndN at dieAtg- ID
night. Most of the Hawaiians we
good humored and looked on the stri