Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-03
Resistance to Excited Crowd of
Men and Boys Would Have
Led to Pitched Battle, Says
Rose, Admitting His Officers
Unable to Protect Strike
Breakers From MoIeStation
SHIPPERS HAVE PLENTY
OF MEN AT WORK TODAY
Organizing TO Give Them Lodg-
ing on Docks; More Labor
Than They Can Use at Ex-
isting Scale of Wages, They
Say, and Declare Vessels
win Be Despatched on Time

a.
At the Eva end Of Pier 1e, ship
tpers this afternoon are putting up
blockade f2 feet high and made OF
pinch plants, which 10 expected 70 be
finished early this evening.
Ten minutes after the whistles blew
for noon today an automobile transfer
truck Of the Honolulu Construction
q prayinc Company filled with strike
breakers came down Queen street at
q good clip, turned the corner and
headed for Pier rs.
AZ once an outpost picket stationed
near the pier gave . warning shout,
and Immediately union pickets sprang
90 apparently from nowhere, most Of
them corning from the o. r. & l.
scales opposite Pier II, where they
had teen lying IN the shade keeping
watch.
More than 20 piekets ran at top
speed toward the truck, but the driver
turned on mere sgsse and dashed upon
the wharf, going at easily 20 miles
an hour. He escaped the nearest pick
cts BY so feet.
Curses, shouts and epIthets Of vari-
QUE uneompiimentary kinds were
hurled after the fleeing truck by the
pickets as II disappeared down the
length Of the pier toward the strike
breakers scanpv at the lower end.
That they had 300 strike breakers
working the Manoa and Wilheimlna,
and 800 more waiting to go to work
the minute they were needed, was an
nounced BY Mccabe, Hamilton & Rem
nv this afternoon. "We have more
than we can USE" said officials Of the
firm.
The stevedorine firm claimed 100
Of the strike-breakers are japanese,
with rs on the Manoa and rs Of the
MiIheTmins. The balance OF the strike
breakers consisted mainly Of Filipi-
nos, who predominated; Chinese, q
close second, and few Portuguese
and Hswaiians.
All the strike-breakers were fed at
noon aboard the barge Bennington at
Pier rs. They were brought In the
Young erothers' launches Louise and
HpN Hukl 70 the barge, from Pier ~,
where the WiIhelnina ls berthed, and
Pier IS, where the Manoa is diseharg-
ing.
Lawlessness among the striking
wsterfronters and their sympathizers
reached new height early this morn
ina when a mob estimated to number
1000 men and boys interfered with
Oahu railway cars taking strikebreak-
ere to the docks BY the railroad
tracks.
One car was switched off to sid
Ino under intimidation Of the strik-
ers but later picked up by the engine
and taken on. Another was not only
seized but held so defiantly that In or
der to avoid trouble, the police al
lowed IL to be taken back to the o.
r. q L. station and so far as can be
learned. after Il was opened and the
frightened strikebreskers emerged,
none Of them cot to their employment
on the docks.
Reports were fret that both cars
had been taken down the o. r. q /.
line TO ! point in the kalihi section
and there the strikehreakers told to
s.best it,p but this proved incorrect,
according to the emphatic statement
AZ the police station at noon. Police
officials say. that but one of the two
cars seized was actually kept from
reaching the dock.
Sheriff Roses men were unable to
|eontrol the situation and the strikers
admittedly took the upper hand. The
sheriff says that II his men had used
force there would have been . general
melee and pitched battle with the
strikers and their gangs OF followers.
This was the most sensational de.
velopment in day which otherwise
showed the employers as very obvious
~ winning In their determination to
srnove the freight"
BY organized effort and resolute as.
sistance, the shippers are now secur-
ing laborers in large quantities. Many
are coming fro.a down the country,
and II is understood that it was the
carloads OF these, reaching the city
early today, that gave the strikers
the opportunity to overawe the police.
The Star Bulletin was informed to-
day by shippers that they are getting
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