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M A R I N E ee ae | Eee 31 of Liverpool. The product of the factory, in order to com- pete with similar products in the United States, is compelled to bear the expense of freightage to the United States, and then in all probability meet a tariff duty of 4o per cent.,, which affords ample protection to the American producers of similar products. But the British ship, launched from the shipyard right alongside of the British factory, is able to earn the freight charges on bringing the product of the British factory to the United States, without being subject to any tax in the United States of any kind whatsoever, and, when in the United States, that British ship is permitted to compete on even terms with an American ship in the carriage of a cargo from the United States. The question arises, why is the product of the British factory required to bear such a heavy tax in the United States, and the product of the British shipyard permitted to bear no tax at all? Why is the labor in the American factory so deserving of protection against the competition of the labor in the British factory, and the labor in the American shipyard undeserving of any protec- tion against the labor in the British shipyard? Does this not explain why it is that foreign shipping has increased and flourished in the foreign carrying trade of the United States? Does it not explain, in large degree, at least, the cause of the prosperity of our land industries that are protected against foreign competition, and which grow great and prosperous, as a consequence? And does not the lack of similar or equal protection for our ships in large part, if not wholly, explain the cause of their decline from 2,496,894 tons under register in 1861 to but 870,264 tons in 1903, during a time that the oceanborne foreign commerce of the United States has in- creased in value from $584,995,006 in 1861 to a value of $2,- 240,797,420 in 1903.” STRIKES AFFLICTING SHIPPING. The accompanying clipping was taken from last Monday’s issue of the New York Herald and typifies quite generally the widespread trouble with labor that seems to afflict shipping in 250,000,000 TIED (OTRIKE THREATENS UP BY LAKE STRIKE) ALL GOAST LINES oo Fifty Ports Affected and the|Freight on All Piers in New West Facing Great Com- | York To Be Tied Up Unless mercial Disaster. Demands Are Granted. 100,000 WORKMENAREOUT|TO EXTEND TO BOSTON Chicago Already Feeling the Effect of/ Trouble Now Confined to New York, the Enforced Idléness of Wage New Haven and Harlford and Earners. the Mallory Lines. CIVIC FEDERATION AT WORK} POLICE FORCE INCREASED ——— ——_—_-e Trying to Patch Up Peace, Between Uake|Men Firm After Last Night's Executive Carriers and Masters and Pilots’ Association. Meetings—Offers of Arbitration Se all parts of the country. On the great lakes after, having settled amicably with six other unions the seventh union has prevented the operation of vessels—and that a union where from the least trouble was to have been expected.. Mean- while all classes of labor engaged in the great business of lake trafic have been idle and the monetary loss is, of course, con-. siderable. ; On the coast the marine firemen and oilers on the steamship lines controlled by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, who quit work originally in sympathy with the freight handlers at the Fall River piers in New York, changed their attitude into a demand for an increase in wages and declared that the demand should extend to a. coastwise steamship lines. Later the strike extended to the Mallory Line. The strike of the New Haven Line started because the company refused to discharge’ a foreman of freight handlers who had been blacklisted by the Freight Handlers’ union which was or- ganized last March. Then the marine firemen joined them in a sympathy strike and later resolved to take advantage of the opportunity to ask for an increase in wages. Violence has been resorted to; freight intended for shipment has been dumped out of wagons by the strikers; the police have been called to protect the company’s property, and all because the company would not discharge one man who probably was a faithful servant. What is the country coming to? TONNAGE AT PRINCIPAL PORTS OF THE WORLD. The following statement, compiled by the Bureau of Com- merce and Labor, may be accepted as showing the tonnage (coastwise trade not included) entered at the principal ports of the world—ports having a tonnage of over 1,000,000 tons— during the year 1902, with the exception of the United States ports, the figures of which are for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903. The figures for the United States and Great Britain are taken from the official publications of both countries, while the greater number of the remainder are taken from the an- nual reports of the United States consuls for 1903, but cov- ering tonnage figures for 1902: Rat- | Tons Rat- : Tons ing Port entered ing Port entered Te Londone oo. 37% 10,179,023 32 Fiume .. 1,054,541 2 New York .... 9,053,906 33 Amsterdam ... 1,887,017 3 Hamburg {080,000,434 Luthar iad aye ce 1,826,526 Ao; Amiwetp 4 oe 8,425,127 35 Rio de Janeiro. 1,801,880 § Hong Kong*.. 8,253,501 36 Venice.....0. 2. 1 y7oauy 6. Liverpool i. 7 84a 200. aa uniank h a 1,723,722 7 Rotterdam . 6,546,473 38. Southampton .. 1,680,525 8 Marseilles .. .. 6,191,839 39 Glasgow . 1,618,525; OQ Genoa ato ant 5,590,012 4o Gothenburg ... 1,573,Q01 10. 6Shanghai. . 4,720,411 41 New Orleans .. 1,561,808 Il Cardiff . 4,688,088 42 Montreal ..... 1,539,404 t2.-Cape Towns). 4,245,002. 43. (Odessa... ..530. 1,533,134 13. Tyne -portst... 3,615,046 44 ‘Baltimore .::.. 1,416,529 id ispom 22: . 3,612,051 45 Valparaiso .... 1,386,884 15 Buenos Ayres ; 3,303,843 46 Venice .....-..1,317,817— 16: Copenhagen, -;.. 3,11 tana' a7 -Cronustedt 2. 7.. 1,300,229 17e slaba Datia tae i+: B1OL, IIS 48. Vera: Craz i.) 1,208;836 RO: CA OICRS. eee oa 3,035,131 49 Santiago de 19 Havre . 3,016,501 Ciba os vo 242,050 20 Dremennc. 4... 2,084,410 50 Calcutta ...... 1,212,622 21 Boston . 2,078,013: 31: Naples s..:c00 <<, 2EE622 22 Melbourne . 2,827,049 52 Puget Sound .. 1,187,768 23. Sydney 2,706,561 53 Bombay ...:.. 1,164,657 24 Alexandria GOT. 250: SA ROMER. ye 303 1,099,318 pe tea 2 6 Mer ae ie ite 2,594,003): 65: Riga Aver eeias 1,066,026 26 Trieste ~~ 2)490;528. 56) Savona. 452. 1,037,806 27. Barcelona . . °23;436,.257 57 - Leghorn . 1,030,241 28 Yokohama ..... 2,030,218 58 San Francisco . 1,016,284 20: Bordeaux: o>... 2'022,103 50. Bordeatix: .+.5.. 1,009,240 30 Philadelphia .. 1,993,422 60 ‘Tampico ...... 1,009,001 aa Nagasakiw. co. 1,974,700 *Chinese junks not included. +Newcastle and North and South Shields. The tug Reliance of the Midland Towing & Wrecking Co.’s fleet, is being thoroughly overhauled in Midland. This vessel was burned last fall.