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JuLy 17, 1902. THE MARINE RECORD. 15 TUGBOATMEN RETAIN THEIR LICENSES. Inspectors At Burraio Dismiss CHarces.—No Grounps on Wuicu ‘to CANCEL LICENSES. “In view of these facts we decide that the charges pre- ferred are not sustained by the evidence,and the saine are hereby disinissed.” : BENeeB This is the decision handed down this week by Fred- erick L. R. Pope and Joseph G.. Schumacher, United States local inspectors of steam vessels in the action brought against members of the Licensed ‘Tugmen’s Association, by the Great Lakes Towing Co., growing cut of the tug- men’s strike at Buffalo and other lake ports. Testimony in this action was taken in the inspectors’ office in the Federal Building at different times and also at up-lake ports, and much interest has been felt. by marine men in the outcome as no similar case has ever been brought to the consideration of the inspectors of the Great Lakes. oo After a careful review of the testimony taken in the investigation of the charges’ preferred by James Ash, president of the Hand ‘& Johnson tug line of Buffalo, N. Y.; against Harley..H...Vroman, Joseph M. Green, Albert McMinn, James=Gray, James Doyle, Joseph Law- ‘son, J. F. Whelan, Charles. Smith, Thomas Higgins, James -Hason, William FE. House and John Farrell, duly licensed pilots, and Fred Ferguson, Joseph T.. Whelan, John Doyle, Henry’ Bullard, Robert Mason, James Reilly, James Byers, John. O’Connor, William J. Miltner, O. J. Rolo, William J. Whelan, and Thomas V. O'Connor, duly licensed engi- neers, for entering into a combination and conspiracy without good and sufficient reason in law, and for wrong- fully and unreascnably refusing to serve in their official capacity, as authorized by the terms of their certificates of license, to the hindrance of commerce, and in violation of Section 4,449, Revised States of the United States. We find that all the officers named therein, having given satisfactory evidence of their experience and ability, and having.taken an oath that they would. faithfully and hon- estly, according to their best skill and judgment, without concealment or reservation, perform all the duties required of them as pilots and engineers by the laws of the United States, had issued to them by the United States local in- spectors of steamboats, licenses certifying that they were skillful pilots and competent engineers, and could be en- trusted to perform duties as such for a term specified in said licenses. The evidence shows that these men were employed in the capacity for which they were licensed on steamers owned and controlled by the Hand & Johnson tug line or the Great Lakes Towing Co.; that on the morning of April 26, 1902, the local manager G. H. Vroman, acting under instructions from the general managers, notified said licensed officers to get their boats in shape to be laid up; that he would have to pay them all off that evening. In compliance with this order, all steamers navigated by these men were laid up at the time specified. It does not appear from the evidence that said pilots and engineers have violated their oaths, or any of the steamboat inspection laws, while acting under the author- ity of their licenses; nor does it appear that they were negligent, incompetent or, guilty of misconduct while in the discharge of their duties; or that they refused in any way to perform the duties required’ of them by the terms of their certificates of licenses while in the employ of said company. In view of these facts, we decide that the charges pre- ferred are not sustained by the evidence, and the same are hereby dismissed. nor GRAIN FREIGHT RATES FROM NEW YORK. 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