Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-03
SHIPPERS TAKE MEASURES
TO HOUSE STRlKEBREAKERS
AND FURNISH PROTECTION

Preparations to protect waterfront
workers and lock after them on the
wharves in large numbers should the
strike not be settled amicably within
the next few days are in progress
today.at Pier 16. This, with the mob
outbreak this morning at Pier 10,
when trains carrying strike breakers
were stopped by the strikers and the
men taken from the cars. furnish two
big developments of the stevedores'
strike today.
With half a dozen carpenters at
work this morning the weather side
Of Pier Is was being converted into
quarters to house and care apparently
for hundreds OF strike-breakers Sheds
in which the men can sleep were be-
ing erected on the wharf, lumber and
wooden horses for eating tables were
lying on the dock, lavatories and toll
cts were being installed, cooking uten-
sils provided, and in other ways It
was quite evident that shippers were
making provision to protect, house
and feed their strike-breakers on the
wharf until the strike is settled.
1 The shipping men today seemed bet.
ter organized than at any previous
time to take steps looking toward a
plan of action in case the situation
becomes more serious, -. .=-.ss
Will Protect Men r... ..s. s....
Shipping men explained later today
that these preparations do not mean
employers are not willing to meet the
strikers halfway, but that they are
simply a part of a general plan of
action agreed on by the shippers to
protect their interests and property
in case things get more serious.
Pier IS is the central pier of the
group at the Eva end of the harbor,
and by its location strike breakers can
be moved quickly and by water to
other piers as needed This was done
this. morning when the Matson steam
er Manoa decked at Pier Is. Fully
two hundred strike-breakers, largely
Filipinos, with a sprinkling of Japa-
nese and number of Hawaiians,
were moved by Young Brothers launch
Huki Huki, and another launch towing
barge, from Is to Is, and started
to work at once discharging the Ma
noa. sel
No Trouble Al Pier is
At Pier Is when the Manoa locked
at 7:30 this morning there were hun
dreds OF striking union men grouped |
around the doors. Only two doors of |
the pier were open and both were
closely guarded by more than dozen
patrolmen and mounted police. There
was no trouble at this pier, although |
an hour and a half previously union |
men turned the switch on trainload |
of strike-breakers being taken from |
the Oahu Railway station TO Pier IS |
and took off many laborers as report |
ed elsewhere in today's issue of the
Star Bulletin.
This mornings acts of violence on |
the part of union men caused both
Fred l. Waldron and Joseph e. |
Sheedy to declare that such acts will |
make public opinion turn against the
strikers, who have until now appeal. |
ed for public sympathy
THE strikers are making big mis-
take by resorting to such overacts |
as this morning." said Waldron. IL i
they expect to gain sympathy in this I
manner they will be badly disappoint-
ed.
From such violence as took place
this morning it is only a short step
to bloodshed and murder" said Joseph |
e. Sheedy, chairman OF the maritime
affairs committee of, the Chamber of
Commerce, today. THE newspapers
should show up this mornings acts
Of the strikers in their true light. A
few steps more and lives and prop
erty viii be endangered"
Uptown, as soon as 1t became
known that perhaps the most serious
offense had been committed against
law and order since the strike began.
opinion took a decided turn against
any such exhibition of disorderliness.