Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-16
RUMOR OF MASS
MEETING HEARD
in CITY TODAY
Gathering Said to Be Planned
for Saturday; Strikers Are
Working at Other Jobs

About the only new development to-
day in the steyedores strike is a. ru-
NOR which circulated this morning
quite persistently that nass-meeting
of strikers is to be held Saturday next
in AaIa park, with delegates present
from the other islands TO address the
strikers.
Mayor John c. Lane was among
those who heard the rumor. : Union
officials said they had heard il as well,
but did not know whether any such
meeting would be held. They said no
official action toward setting the date
had been taken and that the move
seems TO be in a tentative stage as
yet
Everything was quiet today along
the waterfront as concerns picketing
or violence, and very few strikers
of the Sailors Union headquarters,
and they were not making any noise.
Strikers Have So Jobs
Union officials said the strike
status is unchanged and added that
$50 strikers are now being employed
on construction work in the city and
vicinity, but not on the waterfront
eight-hour day Everything they
earn except what they actually need
to support their families they give to
the union soup-kettle." remarked one
of the union men this morning. Other
union men, according to union leaders,
are earning 50 day and giving most
Of it to the unions relief fund.
Plenty Of strIke-breakers
McCabe, Hamilton & Kenny said
this morning they have 200 men at
work loading the Matsonia and dis
charging the Honolulu freight she
overcarried to Hilo, not having time
to discharge it all before she left for
the Second City. Four gangs loaded
pines. two loaded sugar from scows
alongside, and two discharged cargo.
The stevedoring firm asserted it
had enough men on hand this morning
to have worked three steamers full
handed and that hundreds of strike
breakers we're turned away because
there was only the Matsonia to be
worked.
Work For 200 Tomorrow
When the Oceanic steamer Ventura
arrives tomorrow there will be work
for IT'S or 200 stevedores, as she has
1900 tons of cargo to load here for
San Francisco, mainly sugar and can
ned pines. The China Mail steamer
China arrives in the morning, but has
only a handful of freight to put off
and take on. She will need only a
few men. The Matson steamer Lur-
line. arriving Wednesday, will need
several hundred.
Consul Morci May Help
In its issue of Sunday the Hawaii
Shinpo, in commenting editorially on
the strike situation says that 81 Jap
anese stevedores who joined the union
recently after leaving the independent
gang, are not entirely the enemy of
non.union men.
They were all working together in
harmony, the Shinpo asserts, under
Mizusaki, with other Japanese steve
dores, but we're misunderstood by the
Japanese luna for strikers while stay
ing away from work because threat
ened by the unionists They have
been Independent stevedores for years.
"A few days ago they were request
ed by Luna Mizusaki to return to their
old gang. but they are hesitating
about doing So says the Japanese pa
per. IF there is some responsible
party who can go between the Japan
ese stevedores of both sides to make
peace the misunderstanding may cas-
lily be cleared up and compromise
reached"
The Shinpo adds that the Japanese
consulgeneral. Rokuro Moroi, has be-
gun an investigation of the Japanese
strikers situation. and it hopes the
consul-general will consent to act as
arbitrator AMI settle the difficulty for