The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1901, Page 2

4 \ / THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, COMPERS TRIFS | MECHANICS RETURNING TO THE UNION IRON WORKS T0 END STRIKE President of Federation Works Hard for .Steel Men. S S Meanwhile Trust Managers Strive to Start Up All Idle Mills. Special Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—News of | importance is expected from President | Gompers at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor In this city. It is evidently believed by the of- * ficlals there that their chief has met with some success in his efforts looking to an carly settlement of the steel workers’ strike. Gompers has been {n Buffalo for a day or more, and is now said to be in New York. Particulars of his negotia- | tions are said at headquarters to be un- | known there and positive statements of | any officials are denied. A settlement of the strike on terms advantageous to the | Amalgamated men has been the sole pur- 'pose of Gompers' negotiations. He has promised them all the support and as- sistance in the power of the Federation #s an organization to give, and it is peinted out at headquarters that his state- | ment made in Pittsburg last week carries 10 one familiar with the workings of labor | unionism an amplitude of suggestions and definiteness of purpose which is not seen by the lay eye and has been almost whoily overlooked in the published comment on that document. i Though his young son lay in an almost | dying condition as the result of in-| juries sustained in a fall several weeks | ago, some opportunity of value ewl-| dently presented itself for Gompers’ service looking toward a settiement of the | steel workers' strike, for he left his son, | who has since been brought to Washing- | ten, and went to Buffalo on his mission. | Not for Sympathetic Strike. | President Shaffer has no desire for a | sympathetic general strike of the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor, it is said here, | &s he desires the Amalgamated Associa- tion to_win by its own strength if pos- sible. He does not expect financial a sistance, because it is not as yet needed, nd to call for it would be an admission | he individuality of the | the Amalgamated Associa- ying a distinctive part in the Union leaders here say the ment that the Federation workmen | last night orders from Presi Gompers. which assertion was at- "rfl’-"led to President Schwartz of the Pittsburg_union, is wholly denied here. s no power under the constitu- | the Federation to call out men on belongs evtirely to local | Starting Idle Mills. PiTTSBURG, A 20.—Following the erday on either side | ke there was a lull | and neither side tock de e ac- The contest appears to be setl! Henry T. Scott made the following nto a determined struggle. in w statement concerning the matter yester- Th ther side will acknowledge defeat w! Ve the: hope ‘left. Joseph Bishop. arbitrator, appeared here agair . but both sides promptly repud! Zestion that another move for ce was being considered. The steel gers succeeded in starting the last at the Clark plant and are ev planning a serles of extensions at int where there is a chance of will probably start the Star tin mills in this city and increase the foree at the Lindsay and McCutcheon mills. An interesting feature of the fight at the lat- ter mill is contributed by the claim of the strikers that Mrs. Fred Baugh, wife of rintendent. is escorting the strike s to and from the mill. She has always been very popular with the mill men would and the pickets a_regiment hing improper say in th en y say that in peace times she nurse their families and that they cannot inter. | fere with her or the men she escorts. The | steel managers are also arranging for | more men for the Painter and Monessen | mill Veryl Preston, 7 representing President Schwab, w: here to-day and conferred with leading officials of the companies federated in the steel corporation. Strikers Still Active. The strikers met the movement ‘to re- open mills with non-union men with the claim that it will be simply impossible to secure a sufficient number of skilled men to operate them. Their men,. they declare, are standing firm and must_be ted before.the mills run. They say. they have the situztion well in hand and, & e the alleged danger of the strike getting top heav organization w crippling | more plants belonzing to the corporation. They claim that Chicago will, in the end. come out, and that there is no danger of the Joiiet men roing back to work. Pregient McMurtry of the American Sheet Steel Company returned to-day from a tour through the five mill towns of the Kiskiminetas Valley. He inspected the non-union mills running in all of them and also looked over the two non- unjon. properties being operated at Scott- daie. - He said production was ahove the maximum average for this season of the year and that he was perfectly satisfled. | District Manager P. F. Smith of the company said to-night that the Wellsville rlant Jacked but six men of having every crew full, that the product was coming out nearly perfect and that if their men were not irfterferca with and assaulted by the strikers the situation would be emi- nently satisfactory. ' He said algo that the hest sentiment of the community indorsed the policy of the company. The tying up of the Pennsylvania and Continental tube plants of the National Tube Company ir this city last night was completed to-day. Counting both plants, mbout 1800 men went out, and both the properties are shut down. The closing of the Pennsylvanla and Continental plants completely tied up the National Tube Company in this district #nd in Wheeling. The company has made no effort to start at any point. — S—— Retail-Dealers’ Meeting Approved. A meeting of the Municipal Federation of Improvement Clubs was held at Sara- toga Hall last night, at which the action of the executive committee to bring about & peaceful settlement of the strike was unanimously indorsed. A resolution was adopted ‘to the effect that while the fed- eration was in sympathy with the move- ment inaugurated by the Retail Trades Association the federation would not co- operate as a body with the retaflers in their mass meeting to be held at Metro- politan Hal! this evening. | ana Fwith the establishment for ten years or | four or five hoiler-makers 1901. AND NEW MEN ARE LOADING SHIPS AT PORT COSE <+ Strike Leaders Declare Their Ranks Are Still by any, Defections to Unbroken Employers, and That the Prospects Are Bright for Ultimate Victotry for Their Cause Managers Claim to Have Information of Many Accessions That Will Be Made Shortly Nine Iron Molders Renew Their Allegiance to the Union From the Army of Strikers. 5 b.TR.LAND wHoTo STLank : HE machinists' strike situation underwent another change yester- day, when some thirty men ap- plied for employment at’the Union Iron Works and were accepted. On the previous day twenty-one molders twenty-three ~mechanics resumed work and it was expected that more would follow their example vesterday. The men for the greater part were em- ployed at the works before the strike in May and many of them were connected more. Most of those who returned yes- terday were carpenters who walked out to assist the machinists in their strike for shorter hours three months ago. Sev- eral others, including a few machinists, are recent arrivals from the East. 1 think the backbone of the machin- ts’ strike is now broken. Our force at the works is growing gradually and many of the men who went out in May last have returned. The statement was made in a morning paper that we employed 1056 mold- ers. This is incorrect. We never had more than forty molders in our employ. Of these 9 per cent are again at their work. The molders had no valid reason for walking out on a sympathetic strike. It was a costly move for the men con- cerned and those who have gone back accept the old schedule without question. Of the men who went to work to-day there were some twenty mechanies, in- cluding shipwrights, who took their old places in the shipyards. I personally know that some of these are members cf | unions, but to what extent I am unable to say. In addition to these there were and several | machinists, new arrivals from the East, who accepted positions. This talk of bribing men -to return to their places is too absurd for serious consideration.” Wages Higher Than in East. ‘Mr. Scott 'stated further that many of the striking machinists were now Wwork- ing in Eastern mills and iron works for from 25 cents to $1 a day less than they received here. On thée other "hand, ma- chinists were arriving from the East daily and accepting places made vacant by the strikers at higher wages than they could hope to receive in the East. “The strikers have simply seives out in order that Kastern men might take their places,” he said. ‘““We regret this very much, but there is no reason why we should refuse to employ any comfbetent mechanic if we need as- sistance, regardless of where he halls from. The places of the striking machin- ists must inevitably be filled some time and when that time arrives there will be no room for the strikers, even though they should manifest a_desire to return to work. As far as the Union Iron Works is concerned, it is impossible to grant the concessions demanded by the machinists without suffering financial loss. If we are not to be allowed to operate the works at a profit we might as well close the down. As it is, the strike has entail upon us a great loss of business already. The strike of ten years ago lost us ali our Arizona and New Mexico business, for the reason that the business was di- verted into other channels, from which we_were unable to wrest it after the strike was off. Nevertheless we are sat- isfied with the outlook. Our working force is augmenting daily and many of the newcomers are union men, notwithstand- ing the denials of the union leaders.” Strike Leaders Deny Reports. It was rumored yesterday that a num- ber of striking molders had returned to the Vulean Iron Works and to the Joshua Hendy Machine Works. Inquiry at thesc establishments developed the information that the report wak unfounded. A few men went back ten days ago and it is be- lieved that many will return this week. The managers of the works mentioned claim to have private information to that effect, the sburce of which they declare it would be unwise at this time to divulge. They regard the situation as being more promising to-day than at any time since the strike was inaugurated. On the other hand, the leaders of the Machinists’ and Shipwrights’ and Calkers’ unions, as well as the Molders’ Union, declare that their fight never was in bet- ter shape than it is to-day. They assert that the stories of men going back to the TUnion Iron Works are f4lry tales invent- ed for effect. President McCabe of the Iron Trades Council admitted yesterday that some molders had gone back to the Union Iron Works. but he adds that they were not union men. He states that when put them- [ BRIGHT, ACCOMPLISHED SALESMEN THE WILEY B, ZLLEN GO0., 933 Market St., w225, BRANCH, 951 BROADWAY. OAKLAND: Will wait on you at our warerooms in the bullding at 933 Market street, op- posite Mason. It will be some months yet before we will open up our retail plano ware- rooms, where now is located Fair- child’s San Francisco shoehouse, at 931 Market street, but in the meantime it you want a fine, high grade plano, such as dthe Steck, Ludwig, Hardman, Pack- ard, etc., let us tell you that if you will come to 933 Market street we will convince you in short order that you can do befter with the new plano house than you can with the ‘“oldest and largest” concerns in the city. Our great aim and object Is. to be- come, ultimately, the leading and most ToEressive pland establishment in San 0. Keep your eye on us and see us get there. San Francisco, | the discovery was made that men were coming from the East to fill the places of the strikers several members of the union manifested a desire to break away. When it was found that they were lukewarm in upholding the principles of unionism they were promptly suspended. McCabe also said that many of the men who were suspended were at heart non-union men, they having joined the machinists’ or- ganization only a few weeks prior to the strike on May LABORERS FOR PORT COSTA. Non-Union Men Are Sent Up in Launches, The loading of the ships at Port Costa 2hd Vallejo seems to be the issue just at present. The various stevedore firms are scouring the water front and every other section of the city for men to go to the Contra Costa shores to work on the vessels that have been tied up there since the inception of the strike. Their efforts have met with some success and the grain dealers claim that they have men enough now at work to assure the departure of at least three of the deep water vessels within a very short time. Twenty-five longshoremen were sent to Vallejo on the steamer Monticello Monday night to load the Foyledayle with flour. orty men were taken to Post {"osta yesterday morn- ing on .one of Crowley’'s launches and were put to work loading wheat into the L‘_\'mbellnc. the Arracan and the Engle- orn. That some of the strikers are getting tired of the strife was shown yesterday by the action of five of the coal handlers who left the employ of Chandler & Co. on the order of the City Front Feder- ation. - They wént to the office of the coal company and applied for per- mission to go to work. They were put to work with the non-union men. Four longshoremen left the ranks of the strikers also and applied at the Mail dock for employment. Captain Anderson made sure that they were sincere and were not seeking an entrance to the dock for the purpose of instiiling union prineiples into the men that have been employed by the Mail dock in the places of the strikers, and then told them to go to work. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company was tricked by the strike managers of the Firemen’s Union. Two men were sent to the office of the firm to apply for work as firemen. They were hired and sent down to the company’s docks. They went to work in earnest, but not on the coal pile in the holds of the ships. They suc- ceeded in getting the ears of twenty of the non-union firemen employed by the company and talked so glibly that they convinced them that if they went to the office they could demand $10 per day and get it. THe non-union men went up in a body and made their demand, which was promptly refused and discharge papers handed them instead. Report of the suc- cess attending the efforts of the two “hot- air passers” was made to the union, and a_great jollification was held at head- g@arters.” Ten of the mnon-union men, however, reconsidered their demands and went back to the company and applied for reinstatement. They were put back to work. COLLIERS ARE DISCHARGING. Milton and Bristol Ready to Sail North. The strike on the water front seems to have subsided into a dogged struggle for supremacy between the strikers and the merchants and ship owners. The latter are making every effort to load thelr ships and haul their goods from the wharves, while the strikers seem equally de- termined to tie up the shipping and delay as much as possible the handling of freight. Conditions are practically un- changed, although rumors are plentiful of men forsaking the cause of the unions and returning to work. These rumors are'emphatically denied by the labor lead- ers, and the men themselves assert that the etrike is only just beginning. Considerable work was done on the col- llers yesterday. The work of discharging the Bristol and the Milton was completed. Both vessels were towed into_the stream and will probably leave to-day for the ncrth for another cargo. The Milton had a lavge quantity of coal in her bunkers yesterday morning, but it was all taken gut by noon. While a gang of men were foad.ng the Oregonian with coal from the Milton another gang was at work at the forward hatch loading buckets which were dumped into a barge alongside.. The Californian is moored at Rosenfelds’ bunkers and two full gangs of men are at work on her. The Czdrina and the South Portland are discharging steadily and will be ready to make another trip within a few days. The discharging of the Santa Clara at Mission-street wharf of her cargo of sal- mon is progressing rapidly. It is being hauled away almost as fast as {t is land- ed on the dock. The wharf is almost ¢ov- ered with cocoanuts taken from the Tropic Bird, and both vessels will prob- ably be cleared to-morrow. The Argyll is being discharged at How- ard-street pler No. 3 of her cargo of heavy iron. When it is all on the dock the gang of men will be put to work loading her with a largo cargo which is already on the wharf. 'Phe steamship Pomona cleared yesterday afternoon for Eureka, loaded with the largest cargo she has ever carried. She also had a large pass- enger list. It is expected that the Uma- tilla will get away to-day. The schooner J. G. Wall succeeded In getting away for Eureka with a full non-union crew, and {he Palmyra, also fully manned with a non-union crew, got away for the Sound ports. The Paimyra was towed out by the tug Deflance. The arrivals yesterday were the Ameri- can steamer Luella from Usal, loaded with 300 tons of bark, and the French bark Marechal de Villars, in ballast from Hongkong. The first strike benefit was pald day to the members of the Sailors’ Fifteen hundred dollars was disbursed among five hundred men. Only those salil- ester- nion. | ors who have been out for a period of three weeks or over received the benefit. Secretary Furuseth said yesterday that there were funds enough on hand to pay strike benefits for ten weeks longer, and that there would be no need of calling for outside assistance within that period. NO CHANGE IN PEACE TERMS. Labor Leaders Decline to Strike Out Words “As Such.” Another att:mpt at conciliation has failed, the City Front Federation having refused to modify, at the solicitation of the committee of one hundred of the Fed- eration of Improvement Clubs, its last draft of terms of peace. The following interview, given out by Andrew Furuseth of the executive committee of the City Front Federation, explains the nature of the change desired by the mediators: “A special committee of three from the conciliation committee of one hundred, consisting of Nathan Bibo, E. A. Lorenzo and H. W. Miller. came here yesterday and appealed to the executive committee of the City Front Federation on behalf of the State and of the women and chil- dren to consent to striking out the words ‘as such’ in the third section of the terms of peace submitted in my letter to Mr. Greensfelder. They sald they thought, from conversation with indlvidual mem- bers of the Employers’ Assoclation, that if we would consent to striking out the words ‘as such’'—referring to the re- instatement of union men in their old positions—there might be a possible open- ing for the restoration of industrial activity. “Upon being asked whether they said this by authority of the executive com- mittee of the Employers’ Association, they said no, they did not. They had only talked with individual members among the employers. ‘““After considering the matter to some extent, and remembering the appeal on behalf of the women and children and the State, the committee decided to lay the matter over until to-day, when it was decided that to- strike ouf the words ‘as such’ meant that we would consent to go back as Individuals and sacrifice our unions, and we could see no reason why we should even consider such a_thought. “We are not responsible for the suffer- ing of the women and children and the loss to the State. That is the responsi- bility of the Employers’ Assoclation. We have stated before and we state again that we are ready to send a committee to any place to meet a committee from the Employers’ Assoclation or a committee authorized to act for them at any time. 1 J= up to the Employers. Assoclatlo t to us. Theirs is the responsibility.” BOY HURT DURING RIOT. Large Mob Gathers Around a Stalled Truck. During a riot which occurred yesterday afternoon in front of the corporation yard on Eighth street near Howard, 8-year-old Eddie Turner, who lives at the corner of Folsom and Howard streets, was severely'| Injured by being struck in the. back of the head by a brick. The boy’s’ scalp was badly lacerated and it is feared that his skull is fractured. The riot was brought about by a truck belonging to the Western Transfer Com- pany and driven by a non-union teamster named Riddle becoming stalled in front of the corporation yard. A mob of almost a thousand strikers and their sympathizers quickly gathered and a number of boys secured stones and pleces of concrete from the yard and commenced to throw them at the driver. Special officer F. A. Farp, who was acting as a guard oi the teamster, became excited during the fusillade and discharged his pistol into the air. The shot caused jthe crowd to fall back, and the opportune arrival of Polic man'James Cullinane, who did not hes! tate to use his club, put the rioters to ght. Officer Cullinane claims to_have seen a young man named Frank Westley hurl the stone that struck Eddle Turner, Westley was placed under arrest and will }1e held pending tne result of the boy's nau Affer firing the shot into the air, Spectal Officer Earp and his teamster fled from the scene of action. They returned under the protection of Sergeant Campbell and several policemen and succeeded in getting the truck once more in motion. REV. DR. RADER ON STRIKES. Address Delivered at the Centrel M. E. Church. The Rev. Dr. William Rader, pastor of the First Congregational Church, de- livered an address last night before the Men’'s League of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church on ‘‘Strikes; Their Causes and Remedies.” Following is an abstract of the address: A strike Is a fight. There are two ways of striking, by assault and by starvation. The matter of the strike often includes both. The causes of these industrial conflicts are mediate and immediate. Among them may ‘men- tioned prosperity and industrial depression. The two extremes of business activity create the strike spirit. In one instance men strike for more prosperity, in the other for more share of_the prosperity enjoved. - The walking delegate of agitation, the man who peddles theoretical discontent, does much to create unrest. He goes through the land As an evangelist of restlessness. Strikes are caused, t0o, by the discontent of contrast. The steel trust,’ of which Morgan is the head. has “‘tangible assets” to the amount of $304,000,000, While the workmen receive an ordi: The strike 1s only a matter of arithmetl contrast. Trades unions -organize strikes. It is mot fair to lay the blame always on the leaders. who often are the last to consent to such fare. 1In short, strikes are symptomic of something radically wrong in the body politic. They are the disease of industry. Some law is being violated. They are often, but not always. fallures. The strike in this city will bably fafl in the end. It will be a sincere ttle without tangible trophies. ‘What are the remedies? It is theorize, and reminds me of the man who wanted 'to raise canvasback ducks, which he 3 + = REAVE/ EIN sacer O b Puovo BY BELLE OUDRY v Q v) 4 L co/ B University Students Put on Laborers’ Garb and Toil at Waterfront as Stevedores They Work Ten Hours at Oakland Wharf Unloading Cargo of William G. Irwin KOBERT RITCHIE S UNIV{:RSITY OF CALIFORNIA STUDENTS WHO TOILED FOR TEN HOURS YESTERDAY AS STEVEDORES AT AN OAKLAND WHARF, UNLOADING THE CARGO OF THE WILLIAM G. IRW! s i N. claimed were given a peculiar taste because they fed on celery. so he planted the Jersey marshes with celery and procured great num- bers of ordinary ducks. But the ducks wouldn't eat the celery. That has been the experience of the Mayor and the Municipal League. The ducks won't touch the celery. There are three possible bases for the solu- tion of the labor problem: First, there is the economical, Strikes are remedied in New Zealand by an appeal to the courts, where arbitration is made compulsory. In other places profit-sharing, or capital-shar- ng, has been a remedy. Such participation in industry is destructive of despotism. and looks toward industrial democracy. Monopolies ought to be regulated or owned by the State. The second is the political remedy. I believe in the ballct as a means of defense and cor- rection for workingmen, but do not believe it wise for workingmen to organize separate par- ties with the idea of seizing the reins of government. The Government does not belong to the laborer any more than it does to the employer. Let laboring men select the best men for office. The third is the moral remedy. This is ideal, but to it we must come in the end. The con- clusion of a strike is not a fundamental solu- tion. The brotherhood of man is always the last resort, and most people never practice practical plety until they are compelled to do S0 by paying an enormous price. A4 it MOLDERS LEAVE IRON WORKS. At the regular weekly meeting of Iron Molders’ Union No. 164, held last night at 1133 Mission street, it was announced that nine of the seventeen molders who on Monday morning deserted the union and returned to work at the Union Iron Works had given up their positions. More- over, it was claimed that the men were present at the meeting, that they again subscribed their names to the membership roll and that they would remain with the union until the end. It was stated that the men had been induced to return to work through misstatements. After the meeting, in speaking of the re- turn of the men to the union, Secretary McCabe said: “‘Nine of the men who went to work at the Union Iron Works last Monday morn- ing were reinstated in the union to-night. They were misled by false statements made by some non-union men who had an objeet in view. Some of the em- ployers are laboring under the impression that we are out on a sympathetic strike, but such is not the case. We are out for a nine-hour day with ten hours’ pay. Our grievance is being taken up again by the International Executive Board and no doubt we will recetve their sanction. See- ing the way that the Employers’ Associa- tion is trying to disrupt trade unions on this coast, President Fox has advised the ‘members of Union No. 164 to remain stead- fast to the original proposition.’” —_————— Shots Fired at Pickets. An attempt was made yesterday by a non-union man to kill two union pickets who stopped him and endeavored to win him over to the side of the strikers. That he did not succeed was due to his poor marksmanship, as both the men upon whom he fired were standing within a few feet of him. The men who were made targets of were John Grenlund and Jo- seph Green, the first named being a strik- ing sea cook and the latter a striking teamster. The shooting occurred at the entrance to the Pacific-street wharf about 10 a. m. Grenlund and Green approached the non- union man as he was nearing the dock and endeavored to enter into conversa- tion with him. He was not in a talkative mood, however, and drawing a revolver commanded the pickets to shut up. Gren- lund informed him that he dare not- fire, as no attempt had been made to molest him. The non-union man thought differ- ent. however, and opened fire, sending one bullet between Grenlund’s legs and an- other in proximity to Green's head: After firing ‘the: two shots he turned and ran down the dock. The pickets attempted to follow him, but they were stopped at the gate. A warrant was sworn out for the arrest of the gun wielder by Grenlund and offi- cers went to the dock to serve it. They had a description of the man who did the shooting and asked the captains of the vessels to muster their men in order that the pickets who accompanied the officers might pick him out. The request was re- fused and the officers were compelled to leave without their man. close watch will be kept along the front for the shoot- ;{ and every effort made to apprehend im. Can Factory Stoned. An attack was made upon the American Can Company’s factory, at the corner of Seventh and Townsend streets, early yes- terday morning at 2 o'clock by about 200 strikers: and strike sympathizers. The purpose is supposed to have been to force the hundred men who ve en the places of the strikers at the factory to quit work. Since the American Can Com- pany resumed business after having been forced to close down on account of the strike the employes who were in danger of being assaulted by the strikers were allowed to sleep in the factory. The mob camé armed with clubs and stones. The windows of the structure were almost all broken and the doors were badly battered. Fortunately for the men inside, the doors were firm enough to withstand all attacks.. There were two sgedal policemen acting as ‘watchmen at the time, but they made no attempt to disperse the mob. 5 AKLAND, Aug. 20.—The Univer- sity of California furnished a “gang” of intellectual stevedores to-day to take the place of the strikers on the water front. Eight of them, in shirt waists and overalls, per- spired and blistered their hands in an en- deavor to unload the Willlam G. Irwin of a cargo consisting of 80,000 feet of lumber, They are getting big pay for the job and swear they will stay with it until it is finished. The William G. Irwin has been lying at ‘Washington-street whart for twelve days waiting for the strike to be settled and the unloading to commence. She came down from Roche Harbor, Washington, deep in the water with 80,000 feet of green lumber and 4000 barrels of cement. The prospect of getting the hold rid of all this weight was dim until this morning. The captain has been trying all these twelve days to get some one to help him unload his ves- sel, but the union men would not listen to him. The captain was about despairing of ever getting out of Oakland harbor when something happened yesterday afternoon to make him pluck up courage, He re- ceived a visit from Fred H. McMillin, the son of the owner of the Willlam G. Irwin and a member of the class of '05 at the University of California, who told him that if he wanted him to he would bring down all the university stevedores he could get to help him unload the ship. The captain said he didn’t care, and forthwith an agreement was drawn up with regard to wages, meals, hours, ete. The result of the conference was the appearance on the dock this morning of the following: F. H. McMillin, foreman of the “‘gang,” University of California, '05, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Austin Sheffield. '04, Sigma Chi Frater- nity. . ‘William Childs, '01, Sigma Alpha Epsi- on. L. K. Baldwin, '03, Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon, formerly of ‘Cornell. Robert Ritchie, "02, Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon, and son of the Rev. Robert Ritchie, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. B. T. Rowland, '04, Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon, late of Oberlin and famous as a pur- loiner of shoestore signs. B, T. McLaine, '03, Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon, also with a record for getting away with shoestore signs. Cleve Baker, '05, Stanford University. Rives M. Baker, Oakland High School. The boys were divided into two gangs. One was the “wharf gang” and the other the *“ship gang.” They began work promptly at 7 o'clock and worked hard for the first hour, when the pace began to tell on them and they let up a little. Strikers Do Not Interfere. The boys had agreed to work for 40 cents an hour for a day of ten hours with five meals a day thrown in, and much of the time was spent in eating. They were provided_with watermelons and soda- water. While the work is going on the operations are watched by union steve- dores from a_distance, and Policeman Quigley near by. The strikers have not attempted to persuade the university stevedores to join their union or to inter- fere with them in any way as yet. Foreman McMillln says the work is en- tirely a labor of love. His fellow students joined him out of sympathy and not be- cause they wanted money, for their fathers are each rich enough to buy the entire ship. - “This is all sympthetic work,” sald Me- | Millin. “T asked the boys to help us get the ship unloaded and they did it because I asked them. They will get their backs broken before they get through, but it will be 2 good experience.’” “T'll make enough out of this to pay the court costs and my attorney’s fees,” said B. T. Rowland, whose pranks with an- other man’s signs got him into trouble withs the police. T A madk.}:" much money in my . an on’t know to,do with It all ¥ e “My back’s pretty near b o Robert Ritchie: when the gane cosk — for the third meal at noon time. “And my hands are twice as big as they were when I began work this morning. T don’t know whether T can keep up the pace.” The boys all had the same complaint about their backs and their blistered hands, but they are determined to stay with the job until it is finished. The lum- ber will be taken out in Oakland, and then the ship will be shitted to San fran- sco, where the cargo of cemen discharged. - Aglneh Strike Conditions at Oakland. OAKLAND. Aug. 20.—A gang of twenty- five Roumanians went to work, under ro]lcc protection, to-day to discharge the umber cargoes of the schooner Laura Pike and steam schooner North Fork, which have been tied up for nearly two Teosks at e Fuget Sound Lumber Com- pany’s wharf. e e lumbe mT‘;.'ymuf c%v 1th, e e collier ellihgton 1s bet: ¢lscharged at James B, Taylors buniens, Seven hundred tons of her coal cargo will be taken to San Francisco, because of the shortage there. Taylor said to-day he would not take back his striking team- sters to-morrow if they shall insist upon the discharg> cf one man who refused. to 8o out. “T stay with my friends,” said the coal merchant. The Brotherhood of Teamsters has posted as “unfair” the names of retail Thousands of |Persons Shelterless in Brench West Indis. Great Fire Brings ‘\_Desola- tion and Many Are Suffering. ———p—— ST. LOUIS, Island of Marie \Galante, French West Indies, via Hayti®x cable, Aug. 20.—The fire which nearly dstroyed Grand Bourg, the principal townlof this island, having a population of abwut 15.- 000 persons, broke out yesterday. Tle con- flagration is supposed to have beenof in- cendiary orfgin, due to malevolence, All _the publlc buildings except the church, prison and headquarters of the gendarmerie were ‘destroyed, as we some 500 houses, before the flames were extinguished. From three to four thou- sand persons are without shelter and suf- fering from want of food. The Governor of Guadulupe, Jose Fran- coise, has chartered the steamer Hor- tense, which left that island yesterday with the_first relief supplies of food and money. Public subscriptions are being so- licited at Guadulupe. The loss sustained is estimated at over $200,000. "« @ it e e ) coal dealers who are taking supplies from the Wellington. The Painters’ one firms hav Union claims that forty- acceded to their demand for $3 50 a day, as against nineteen houses which have not yielded. The Master Painters’ Association declares that only 10 per cent of ‘*he strikers are emplayed. River Improvements Delayed. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20.—Contractor Darby Laydon and the Government engi- neers, who have been at work for several weeks past putting in a system of wing dams to improve the Sacramento Riv have been hindered to a comsidera extent on account of the strike in San Francisco and at Port Costa. To-day Contractor Laydon said that the work had been stopped at Isleton because he h: been unable to get any rock shipped from California City. He couid not get any | one to move his barges by tug. neither could he get a person who would consen to steer them to the Sacramento River He sald that he hoped to be able to get two barge loads of rocks started for Isle- ton to-day and then the work of dam building would be resumed. If there ara no more delays on account of the strike it is expected that the river improvements will have been completed before the sea~ son of high water. Farmers Advised to House Grain. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20.—An official of the Sacramento Transportation Company advises farmers along the upper Sacra- mento River and these who expect to have the product of their flelds trans- ported by water to Port Costa to prepars to house their grain. He sald that if the strike at Port Costa continued there was little prospect of the vast quantity of grain along the river banks reaching Port Costa before the rains fall, and If it is not cared for the loss to the farmers will be enormous. ——e Teamster Used Whip. John Balletto, a teamster for the Somps- Mouret Company, was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with batte The complaining witness is John Welch, a striking teamster, who al that while he was talking to a non-union eges Continued on Page Seven. 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