Deckhands Walk Out on the Pacific Navigation Company

Three of the Pacific Navigation Company's boats, the Fairhaven, Sehome, and State of Washington, were tied up at Yesler dock last evening by a strike of the deckhands, who were called out by D. Russell, secretary of the Puget Sound Steamshipmen's Union, as soon as the boats arrived. The three steamers carried union men, but the Henry Bailey, belonging to the same company, has been running for the past three weeks with non-union deckhands, who are paid but $35 per month. This is $5 per month less than the union scale, and because the company refused to pay its men $40 on the Henry Bailey, all the deckhands on the three other steamers were ordered out. The object was to compel the company to accede to the demands of the union. When the Fairhaven arrived, the deckhands were called out before the cargo was discharged. The Sehome and State arrived simultaneously about 9 o'clock, and despite attempts to guard the wharf, union men found a way to communicate with the crews and convince them to walk off. Capt. John O'Brien of the Sehome found twenty of his union men marching off past him to his great surprise. During the evening, Capt. O'Brien secured five men up town who agreed to take the strikers' places, but on their way down to the wharf, they were talked out of the notion by the strikers.