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LEAVE IT TO FURUSETH, HE’LL I
GET THE SAILORS. !
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That the American sailor is the
best paid seamon afloat is due to
Andrew Furuseth, who last year
put a bill through Congress which
not only compelled shipowners to
pay more wages but to put more
men on their ships. Result: Ship
owners declared that they must go
out of business—and some did. And
so, when it came to building a mer
chant marine moneyed men shook
their heads. Nevertheless Uncle
Sam :s building ships, and the pro
fits made in the sea-carrying trade
have never been greater.
Still more ships are needed to
take food to our Allies and our
men to the war, and while Uncle
Sam can solve the problem of pro
ducing the ships, he was somewhat
puzzled how to produce the men to
man them. Then the Federal Ship
ping Board thought of Furuseth
They sent for him and talked the!
matter over. Furuseth promised |
that they should have the men, and !
,‘Furuseth has never broken his
word,” declares the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, which says of the ;
seaman's friend:
It was about thirty years ago that'
Mr. Furuseth made his appearance
on the water front of San Fran
cisco. A viking from the north,
when he stept ashore to fight the
sailor’s fight he was the mildest
mannered but most aggreessive agi- j
tator that ever harrangued a mob. '
He. formed the Coast Seamen’s1
Union, and when he had it well |
launched made a demand for high-i
or wages on all coastwise vessels.
A fight wa3 started on the San
Francisco water front which was
destined to last for years. It was
a bitter fight—a fight of vexatious
delays and broken heads. Strike
breakers took the place of striking
sailors, and they were better with
their hands and fists on shore than
when they got to sea. The ship
owners started an opposition union,
but the sailors stuck to their fight |
until they won it. In a few years]
the name of Andrew Furuseth was
known in every port i i the Seven
Seas.
Despite the violence that accoinp
allied the efforts of Furuseth to bet- J
ter the condition of the seafaring j
man, he wr.3 never personally j
known to engage in an altercation
other than verbal. He has piercing
eyes, black hair, and the features
of an American Indian, and he was
called ail anarchist and an agitator.
But he was never anarchistic in his
methods. He patiently sought the
support of the newspapers for his
movement, and it was not long be
fore his power was admitted.
Sailors and walking delegates
told reporters stories that would
not stand investigation. But the
word of Andrew Furusoth it was
found could always ba confirmed,
i.nd thus h’e “got one foot on the
ground floor of the newspaper
world.’’
In those old days “shanghuing"
was a favorite methods of provid
ing a ship’s crew in San Francisco,
and The Public Ledger says:
Two or three wind-jammers,
■sometimes a dozen, would drop an
chor in the harbor in twenty-four
hours. Most of these were ‘Time
juicers,’’ as the British bottoms are
known to Sailors They came from
England and Australia, from the
Far East and Africa, from the is
lands in the Pacific. Every other
ship brought a story of cruelty at
sea, end the men hurried ashore to
confide their woes to the water
front reporters from the seclusion
and supposed safety of a sailors’
boarding house. When the authori
ties sought confirmation of the stor
ies for the purpose of prosecution
the men were not to be found.
They were outside the Golden Gate
on their way to the Far East, Eng
land, Africa, cr the antipodes.
“Blood money” was the moving
spirit of the “crimps,” or sailor
boarding-house runners, of the
Frisco water front. When a sailor
shipped before the mast he received
a month's advance on his wages
and a bonus equal to the advance.
A scarcity of sailors sent up the
price of the bonus. The 3hips must
have men to get out of port and
it is probable that the skippers
winked at the manner in which the
men were secured. The sailor board
ing-house men saw to it that the
scarcity of men continued. At one
time the advance demanded was
$75 and the “blood money” an
equal amount.
The sailor boarding-house men
and their runners divided the
"blood money” and the sailor rare
ly got anything of the advance. He
was taken to a sailors' boarding
house on the night df his arrival
and "signed up” sometimes before
he was aware that he was ashore.
A night, a few hours on Barbary
Coast, a few drinks, and a drug
and he was so much baggage ready
for sea. Uusually he woke up the
morning after his arrival at San
Francisco with a dull feeling in his
head and nothing in his pockets,
on a strange ship outward bound.
The “bully” second mate could be
relied upon to show him his place
on deck,
Furuseth went after the “blood
money” men. He sent union run
1 ners out to meet the incoming
ships. He got hold of sailors with
stories of ill-treatment to tell, and
if they held up after investigation
he took them before proper au
thorty, and saw to it that the
witnesses were not shanghaied be
fore their testimony was taken.
This is the man that the Shipping
Board sent for to solve their pro
blem of manning the ships for
Uncle Sam, and the writer in The
Public Ledger says:
The man who had begun life as I
a sailor before the mast and knew
the demands of the sailor told them
that, if sufficient inducement were
offered, men who had left the
merchant marine for other occupa
tions would harken to the call of
the sea and return; that his orga
nization would recruit from other
ranks seafaring men. He believed
that if a man must ri3k his life
in the submarine zone he should
be given a bonus. For the rest it
was a matter of good treatment,
good bonus, good hours, and good
accom modations.
A bonus ot 50 per cent, was
agreed upon for the submarine
zone and the following wage scale
adopted: For sailors and firemen,
$60 a month; coal-passers, $50 a
month; oilers and water-tenders,
$65; boatswains, $70, and carpent
ers, $75 a month. Fifty cents an
hour for overtime on cargo and
forty cents an hour for ship work
are allowed; so the men at sea have
equal privileges for pay with the
then Who remain ashore.
Eadh ship will carry a number
ei boys in proportion to the num
ber of seamen on board, and more
ordinary sehihen and fewer able
bodied sailors will man a vessel.
Each man is to receive $100 com
pensation for his ditly-bag when a
ship is sunk at sea. Representa
tives of the seamen’s organization
will have free access to ships and
the docks. The wage-scale is to be
kept in force for a year after the
war, but the bonuses and other con
ditions terminate with the war. —
Literary Digest.
I>RES. WILSONS GREAT BOOK
THE NEW FREEDOM.
"One of the most alarming phen
omena of the time—or rather it
would be alarming if the nation
had not awakened to it—one of the
most significant signs of the new
social era is the decree to which
government has become associated
with business. . . . Our govern
ment has been for the past few
years under the control of heads
of great corporations with special
interests."
This is from the president’s ex
cellent book, ‘The New Freedom.*’
Again in that book he says:
"The gentletsen whose ideas have
been sought (by the government)
are the big manufacturers, the ban
kers and the heads of the great
railroad combinations. The masters
of the government of the United
States.”
The perforation of stamps was ]
first commenced In England In
1853, for receipt and draft stamps,
and for postage stamps in 1854.
Prior to that period stamps were
separated by means of scissors, or a
knife, or similar means and in
some cases those who required
many resorted to the use of a rou
lette, a kind of cogwheel furnished
with small cutters, making a series
of cuts between the stamps.
In a paper read by Prof. E. C.
C. Baiy before the Liverpool section
of the Institute of Chemistry, the
author described a gas-producing
plant at Portadown. Ireland, in
which peat has been successfully
used as fuel.
French chemists have given
very close study to the Serpek
method of manufacture of nitric
acid from the air. In this process
beauxite is used. If this process
can be worked out on a satisfactory
basis it will connect the nitric in
dustry with the very important
aluminum industry.
Gorillas use clubs when attack
ing elephants.
For modern requirements con
crete piles Having a section less
than fourteen inches square or
equivalent area should never be
used if more than thirty feet long.
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