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
POL ICE GUARD NOM UNION
MEN GOING TO THEIR WORK
Strikers Write Letter to Mayor
Setting Forth Statement
Of Their Case

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Developments In the waterfront
strike situation during the last "a
hours are as follows:
Chamber OF Commerce COMMITTEES
decides 70 call Investigation meeting
beginning at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn.
inc 70 hear both sides Of the contro-
versy.
Striking unionists send letter to
mayor late yesterday setting forth
their case and making plea for high.
er wages.
Police guard strike-breakers going
to work on the docks this morning.
Jack EdWardson, spokesman for
strikers, says he has esbIed assuranc.
60 from waterfront workers Of San
Francisco that they will back up 10
cal action, providing local union re.
quests them 70 make move. Edward.
son says no such request has been
made Or decided upon.
Working Of vessels proceeds, with
some DELAYS, and strikers claim addi-
tlons 70 their ranks.
An investigation into the strike sit
uation will begin tomorrow morning
at 3 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 "inyesfigation com
mittee. The action Of the chamber
yesterday referred the controversy to
the arbitration committee for inyes-
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Both sides are to bs heard .tomor-
row, Il Is planned Brown called
on representatives ot both sides after
the. meeting and they have promised
TO be present The strikers side OF
the controversy WIN be heard from 8
to 10 o'clock and the employers from
10 to II o'clock.
San francisco Promises Support
That the San Francisco local OF the
figgers and stevedores' union will sup
port the Honolulu local, No. 1926, OF
the International Longshoremen's
Association. is stated in the reply
which Jack Edwardson, business agent
of the sailors union and q member
OF the longshoremen's union commit
tee, claims TO have received today
from the San Francisco organization.
At 12:45 this afternoon Edwardson
announced to the Star-Buletin that
such news had been received, but he
made Il clear that while II means the
San Francisco union will declare
cargoes loaded on steamers here by
non-unlon labor unfair on their ar
rival at that port II the Honolulu local
requests 1t, that the local here has not
yer made such request
No Request Made eYt
whether we ask the San Francisco
union to declare such cargoes unfair
depends on the arbitration meeting
tomorrow morning. said Edwardson.
"Our side Of the situation will be pre-
sented from to 10 o'clock and the
employers viii have their inning after
that hour. The reply we received to-
dav means the San Francisco Rig
gers and Stevedores Union of the Pa
ciflc Coast District Of Longshoremen
are with us and win declare cargoes
loaded here by non-union labor unfair
ii we ask them, which we have not yet
done"
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