| Summary: | Yukon Sails; Dock Battle Is Averted By Officers. Battle Averted Sergt. C. L. Kemper reported that a battle was averted when police squads arriving at the scene caused Filipino members of the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union to put down sticks. More than fifty Filipinos went to Alaska on the Yukon to work in canneries. Passengers wrestling with huge trunks presented an unusual spectacle, as they hurried to get their belongings on the ship. One man, apparently a business man, grinned as he placed a steamer trunk onto a hand truck. "If you want to get something I done, do it yourself, I always said," CaUSed bV RefUSal '< he laughingly remarked as he . , i shoved the trunk away from the of Teamsters to Pass'wie of luggage the t Lines of Cannery Workers ;dumped outside the p Women Also Help Vessel Takes Large Listing Detective Lieut, waiter j. O'Brien said he saw a man work- Passengers on the steamship inS with a trunk "larger than he Yukon became "baggage-smashers" $£^„ff th£ug£"& bag- today, pushing their own luggage gage pile, selecting their personal into Pier 2 on little hand trucks luggage. and then putting it oard the ship, i L. J. Hands, baggage agent of the as the sailing of the Alaska vessel steamship line, said he believed not was delayed twenty-five minutes more than ten of fifteen persons when teamsters refused to deliver had to handle their own luggage, baggage on the pier. , as most of the passengers had Police Sergt. George W. Wilson checked their baggage yesterday or earlier. Hands said he admonished
|
|---|