Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 502, 21 January 1902 — FIGHTING TARS CONSIGNED TO OAHU PRISON [ARTICLE]

FIGHTING TARS CONSIGNED TO OAHU PRISON

the Sailors’ Union Do Terrible Things to the Uninitiated. SCAB HUHTIIVG IN LDMSEB YARDS Officers of Vessels Are Around Prepared for Emergencies. Several Seamen in the Hand* of Physician*—Terror on tho Waterfront—Dark Deeds Hmt«d at— Non-Union Men Continually Be ing Held Up and Threatened.

Tb» loan eilstln* difference he Union and non-Union sailom wa.» a*a:n brought out by the trial of an aseault case in police court yes lenlay mornln* The feud la one of lon* standing and innumerable cas-c--have arisen In which police Interference has been a prime necessity Jacobson, a sailor in the ship Flo' race, was pronounced by men beionftinn to the Union as a “scab.

Jacobson left the vessel Saturdav night with sev.-ral of hla mates and. while passing through a lumber va *i located near the Oaha Railway depot, was attacked by a number of m- n : and severely beaten about the face. It is alleged that as soon as Jacob . son informed his assailants that he was from the ship Florence, there was something doing. The air resounded with jeers and shrieks an i the fight became general. It se. m* J ■ to Jaeobson that pandemonium ha 1 l>een turned loose in th* long avenues of piled lumber. The opposing forces which tackled Jacobson surely did not belong to . the same lodge. The m-*n who ai failed the sailor first made casual i inquiry regarding his anteced-nts. and the color of “card" carried. Th* n the crowd took turns in smiting Jacobsen bip and thigh. Swore Out Warrants. Escaping from the beligrrents the sailor hastened to th* police station and swore out warrants charging Anderson and Gunn with assault and battery, loiter In the evening fobman Tierney assaulted J Kuplbea at the same place and was incarcerated Geo. Johnson met J. Anderson, a non-Union sailor, and Johns n was jailed. Gunn was also charged wth assaulting Emil Bradford who, it is claimed, does not belong to tn*J Union. « f Ekau and Ti* rney -*er» each sentenced to one month’s tmprisonmer.f at hard labor. Johnson proved tha’. he was merely a spectator, and wadischarged, Gunn was found to hav*-t-truck Anderson Instead of Jar tb son but he caught a month’s sentenc - at Iwilej reef The Union men gave the non Union men a terrible b‘-ating One man had his arm brok«n. and several otu ere are uad*r the care of physician-* A squad of pdlice answered t alarm call and placed three of the assailants under arrest. Jim Kupi hea. the biggest man- on the poll.--* force, bad to put up a tremendous fight with Tierney before the latter could be placed under arrest Union Versus Non-Union. It appears that Captain Spicer of the Florence, has a crew of non Union sailors. Being satisfied with their work and general behavior and. moreover, paying them as high wages as ar- paid on the Coast Captain »plr*rr refused to accede to the demands of. or in any way r* c gniz*». the organization known as the Seamen’s Union of the Pacifis. Being unable to “get even ’ with Captain Spicer perFonally the Union men are said to bar*- planned to waylay the men as they were returning to their ship and accordingly aid th-mselves behind a lumber ptie About 1 o'clock on Sunday morning the Florence’s crew were returning to their ship. wh“C they were assault ed by the ambushed Union men Iron bricks and stones were used as missiles. Three Desperados Captured. Two of the beaten men escaped and went to the police station to give the alarm. A riot squad was sent to the scene of the trouble, and after a desperate struggle captured three jof the men. They TUrney.

Jos. Johnson and Victor Dunn. They were taken to the station and charged with assault and battery. I.ater three other men were arrested after being identified by the men of the Florence as belonging to the gang that assailed them on Sunday morning They were E. Morris, G-orge Corniff and R McClain. Fooled by a Mate. I .ate on Sunday night another gang of Union sailors was stationed on the iumbet yard near the railroad wharf, and for hours watched for the appearance of the mate of the Golden Shore. They waited in vain however. The plot had been given out and the mate, instead of going on board by way of the railroad wharf, engaged a boat at the boat landing and ws rowed across the bay to his vessel. The mate of the Golden Shore used to be a Union man. Some time ago he was second mate of the barkentine Benicia, and when he was offered a male's berth on the Golden Shore he w enl to the agent of the Union and told him the facts in the case. He i.ad a chance for promotion on a larger vessel and he would receive Union wages. He didn’t see any reason why he should refuse the of l» r r.nd propos d to accept it. The agent, however, did not see it in that light. He said that he should stay where he was and that if he j accepted the position on the Golden Shore, he would lose his Union rights and he considered simply as a “scab.” Trouble on the Golden Shore. The young man. however, did ship on the Golden Shore ami. a f* w days later, sailed with his vess-d to Puget Sound, then to Australia. On the return trip to Honolulu there was some trouble on the vesI ael. A member of the Australian Federation of Labor, which is affiliatd with the Coast Seaman’s Union, efused duty when ordered to do' >om.thing by the second mate, and placed his hand on th sheath knife which he carried, hanging on a licit, as if to strike second mate. The mate saw the move and. jumping fr< m the poop, grabbed the arm ol the sailor, telling him that if he dared use a knife he would be thrown overboard. Talk of Going to Court. The man refrained from making further trouble but. since his arrival at Honolulu, he has had daily con fer.nces with local waterfront lawvers as to the propriety of having the mate arrested by the U S. an thoritics on charge of assault and battery. Tne Republican was notified Saturday afternoon by a Sailor’s Union man that the warrant would be sworn before the United States Attorney on the same aft-mnoon but. so far. noth | ing cf the kind has been done, and it ; s believed that the necessary witness I to bring the case to a successful re- ; suit being hard to find, and better 'counsels having prevailed, the fight will not be carried to the eou.ts. Plot Agairst the Mate. Union sailors, it is said, will take th- law into their cwn hand;-. Several warnings have already been received bv the mate and he is on tne lookouV If sum ■ fatality occurs on the rallrc ad wharf, the officers of the vessel say. the Union m«-n wlli nave only themselves vo blame for it. The officers of th varioi* sailing vessels lying at the railroad wharf have also been singled out for objects f attack. The mate of the ship Charles E, Moody, the second mates .if th ships Florence and S D. far U t a and. the officers of the .arks S N Castle and Keeper were ail ac costed by sailors. In al! cases the officers were ordered to discharge their ron-Union crews, while in some instances the men were attacked without warning and threatened with bodily harm. Officers Go Armed. As a result all the officers of the vessel- lying at far railrer.d wharf ■sv« ana-"! thsr.seIves and are in amest- They *3-. -hat the first man who accosts them at right in a mysterious way will be plugged full of 1-1£. Yesterday aftertax n while a Republican reporter was spn-aking with a friend alongside the ship Moody, he was accosted by two men who. in a threatening manner, told him that if anything was published in the pa |

per cooce’Tsing the Sailor’s Union h»! would be “fixed.” The t *-n are well known along the wat-rfreat aci w-»re familiar figure* -r it i tne C. 5 -c-urt a: :h tirr- .- many captains and mat-s vere being arr-sted on charge* pr<>ferr-d against 1 *h-ra by sailors.