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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1911)
THE TIMES THE DOOM OF THE BOYCOTT. United States, can be relied upon ADVERTISING MEN ACTIVE THEIR FIRST THANKSGIVING. Eaat 33 B 7118 to stand between the Constitution and popular passion, and let me Seek Convention for San Fran “ I went to a Thanksgiving din (By James W. Van Cleave.) The United States Supreme repeat here what I have said re cisco, and Strong Committee Is ner in Paris last November,” said Telephones Appointed to Work for It. Court has recently rendered sev peatedly about the various forms an American who had just re “ When I condemn turned from a year abroad. “ Most eral decisions involving issues of of boycott. M ain 6980 A 3322 Following their recent entry of the guests were Frenchmen, vital consequence to capital, to la the boycott I condemn it in all its bor, and to the American people forms and ramifications, including into civic affairs as boosters of Germans, Italians and Russians. in general. Two of these are es the blacklist, which is only the San Francisco’s interests and the The hostess was an American, a pecially important. One of them boycott in another form. Whether Panama-Pacific Exposition, mem New York woman who has been declared that the Erdman act of used by the labor unions to hurt bers of the Advertising Associa living abroad for several years, 1898 was unconstitutional. The employers, or by the employers’ tion of San Francisco have organ and who entertains lavishly in the other set forth that a boycott by associations to hurt workers, the ized a subsidiary body to carry out French capital. “ On the table were all sorts of labor unions against a producer boycott and blacklist are un- a campaign and achieve an object doing an interstate commerce busi American, immoral and vicious, directly connected with the city’s things to remind one of home. ness violates the Sherman anti and have no place in a country future welfare. The advertising There were lights in pumpkins on like ours.” men of San Francisco, after hav the table and all sorts of Ameri trust law of 1890. The Erdman law forbade rail In the country where the boy ing practically assured themselves can dishes, including a turkey, road companies engaged in inter cott originated threats to pack the of the 1915 convention of the Na which the hostess announced she state trade from discharging an House of Lords by the appoint tional Association of Advertising herself would carve on the table employe on the ground that he ments of new members committed Clubs, are determined to win the in the American fashion. But the 201 East Water Street was a member of a labor union. to certain policies have more than convention of 191:1, and to bring majority of the guests failed to When a case under that act once forced that chamber into sub about this result have nominated grasp the significance of the feast, PORTLAND reached the Supreme Court that mission. But the country from a dozen of their most active mem and sat about trying to veil their COR. EAST YAMHILL tribunal decided that a road has which the federation borrowed bers to compose the “ On to Dal astonishment at everything, even EAST w the same right to discharge an the boycott, and that and the las 1912” committee, with Nolan to the pumpkin pie, which they 63 employe for any cause whatever other European and Asiatic coun Davis as chairman and Albert L. could be induced to attempt with difficulty. None of the foreigners as the same employe has to leave tries which have furnished the fed Hall as secretary. the service of that road for any eration with its other vicious prac The national association conven seemed to know what Thanksgiv cause or for no cause. Therefore tices and with all its class spirit, tion to be held in Dallas this year ing was. “ ‘Zanksgeeveeng fery nice,’ re the Erdman law, which was one are not good guides for it in this will last five days, three of which of the pieces of demagogic class extremity. The correct course for will be devoted to business ses marked a German count on my legislation which from time to the federation would be to obey sions. Dallas has raised $65,000 right, leaning over to me, ‘I nefer time get on the statute books, was the law, and not to attempt to as an entertainment fund, and it eat vone before.’ ”—New York bulldoze an American Congress is expected that 6000 members Sun. declared null and void. It is the old story of a labor into repealing it, and not to en will be in attendance. At the 180 Grand Avenue A SAMPLE STRIKE. union (the Danbury, Conn., deavor to browbeat an American present rate of growth, the asso branch of the United Hatters of president into a useless search for ciation, which is in its eighth year, PORTLAND “ An excellent illustration of America in this instance) which judges who would ignore the law will be represented at the 1913 convention by nearly 10,000 mem this is afforded by the machinists’ C . J. W I L S O N attempted to destroy the trade of or evade it. For years past the country has bers. strike in three machine shops in an employer (Dietrich Loewe, of The members of the San Fran one locality in the spring of 1907. Danbury) who refused to allow been applauding the president and the union to run his shop and to the courts for attacking the in cisco committee are : Nolan Da These men demanded, among Com m ercial A rtist dictate who he should, and who dustrial and commercial trusts vis, chairman; Albert L. Hall, sec other things, an increase of retary; Rellin C. Ayres, Arthur which have been violating the he should not, hire to do his work. twenty-five cents per day in wages and Ba gg**e Stored T hree Days The Danbury case, however, had Sherman anti-trust act. The J. Brunner, Frank J. Cooper, and a reduction in hours from ten Free Cartoonist two features which deserve spe country’s applause will be equally George II. Eberhard, J. Charles to nine. The machine shop pro Green, Arthur J. Hill, Louis IIo- emphatic for the courts which are prietors, with more orders on their cial notice. One was the prompt ness with which the American invoking the anti-trust law nig, R. C. Jewell, Frederic S. Nel books than they could fill, found 348 MARKET STREET son, George II. Tooker, Fred L. it impossible to grant the reduc Federation of Labor went to the against the labor trust. Phone M ain 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. B aggage C hecked a t R esi Wheeler and William Woodhead. The Supreme Court’s sentence tion in working time, though per assistance of its local branch, the fectly willing to allow the increase Hatters’ Union, the original of of death on the boycott is one dence, D irect to D estination A CALM POLICEMAN. in wages demanded. The men fender. The other was the audac more evidence that America has O ver AH Lines held a meeting, national officers A rth u r D . M on teith ity and the confidence with which one law for rich and poor alike, Empties a Theater of People Dur appeared with the regulation the federation confessed that the for high and low, for capital and Civil and Hydraulic Engineer ing a Fire Without Any Ex brand of speeches, some one start 587 E. 15th St. N. P ortland, Ore. boycott was its principal weapon labor. And regardless of their citement Till the End. ed the cheering, and the vote, of in its wars on American employ station and their affiliations and General Surveying, Landscape E n pretensions, the men who violate the bosses a lesson.’ ers and the American people. Construction Superinten Chicago has a policeman whose course, was to strike and ‘teach gineering, In its defense the federation set this law do so at their peril. dence, Reports and E stim ates on P ro j knowledge of human nature ought A more adroit, a far more pop “ Nearly all of these men walk Main Office and Warehouse forth that “ a decision herein in ects, W ater Supply, Irrig atio n , Sew er Now Lumbor E xchange Bldg. favor of the plaintiff in error ular and an immeasurably more to make him the envy of the ed the street for a year or more, age. would seriously obstruct and hin powerful personage than anybody shrewdest politician. Upon being a very few of them getting odd SS8S88S8S88SS86S8SS8SS8SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^SSSSSS8SSSS der the said American Federation connected with the law-breaking assigned to the duty of getting the jobs of some sort at much lower P a rk a n d D a v is S ts. of Labor, petitioner, in carrying American Federation of Labor audience out of a crowded theater, wages than they had been mak PORTIOND, OREGON out the purposes for which it was once acted on the presumption in the rear of which a fire was ing. Take the case of the major B You can quench your in- »J organized.” And it further de that he was above the law. This raging, he climbed upon the stage, ity, whose wages had been $2.50 S raised his hand for silence, and de a day, or $15. a week. Deduct the clared that ‘‘the constitution of was William M. Tweed. ward fire with just as good ♦2 •* strike benefits of $7 a week and said American Federation of La “ What are you going to do livered the following address: •* •• “ Ladies and gentlemen, if you about it?” sneeringly said Tweed we have a net loss of $8 per week bor, petitioner, makes special pro g “ hootch” at the following ¡J want to see one of the greatest one day to a delegation of the New per man, or $416 for the year, and, vision for the prosecution of boy cotts, so called, when instituted York people who protested against fires in years, go outside and look adding the union dues of $20.80, a •: OPEN SHOP bars, and not ¡J by a constituent or affiliated or his dictatorship and his methods. to the south, half a mile away. total cost in dollars and cents to Jr have the enjoyment les- •! ganization, as is described in the Two lines on the blotter of the Take it easy as you go out. Don ’1 each union machinist of $436.80. complaint in the District Court by Ludlow Street jail ,one telling of break up the furniture, because Had these men won their strike ¡t sened by a big union card. J* his entrance there and the other the managment says you can come at the end of the year and re the plaintiff in error herein.” Confident in its power to coerce ¡tiling of his confinement and back when you’ve seen enough of turned to work at the increased •. These life-saving stations *• the fire, and you’ll want to use rate of $2.75 a day it would have J* are classed as not being fair % the courts, as it has for years been death, furnished the answer. Phose or Write your seats again.” taken them just a little over four coercing thousands of employers Moving pictures lost their at years, working every day, to J* by labor publications. Web J* QUAKER MEDITATIONS. and millions of people, the federa tractiveness, and as rapidly as it make up their actual losses, and tion arrogantly admitted the boy ster says fair means “ pleas- I* The dead sure thing is often could well manage it, the throng be right back where they were at J. cott which had been charged i* worked its way to the street. But the start of the strike. But they •J ing to the eye—beautiful.” g more dead than sure. against it. The rebuke came quickly. In a Truth often takes the form of the officer’s task was not com did not win the strike, and some decision which was notable for its things we would rather not be pleted. Some two dozen individ of them are still out of work, with »* We claim that these places •* uals, for whom a conflagration the strike benefits long since dis promptness, and was still more lieve. notable for its unanimity, the Su Lots of people live and learn had little interest, remained in the continued.” ster- The above is no exceptional ex preme Court decided that the fed the things that are of no use to theater. To them, as soon ps the rest were out of hearing, he gave, perience; further, it is a growing eration’s boycott was not only a them. not an invitation, but a command experience. Strikes are more and conspiracy in restraint of trade, People who continually find as defined in the Sherman anti fault seldom find time for any and a warning: “ Say, you fel more a matter to be avoided, for lows, beat it. There’s a big fire times have changed, and arc still trust law, but that it was of such thing else. in the barn back of this place, and changing. Less than five years an odious character that it comes A man makes a hit with a girl you’ll be burned to death if you ago working men went out on under section 7 of that act, which 128 6th St. renders its perpetrators liable for when he tells her how much he stay a minute longer.” Rhetoric- strike throwing their hats in the makers will look long for a better air with a shout and hurrah, boys. three times the damages which misses her. Tell your troubles, and your set of examples of Ihe adaptation This was so for two reasons: First, the assailed employer sustained. It is further stated that the friends will see that you have of style to varying kinds of audi employers were unorganized and ences.—New York Press. were like a flock of sheep, wait boycott was not only contrary to plenty to tell. ing and expecting to be shorn. The young man who is looking the Sherman anti-trust law, but 127 6th St. that it was contrary to common for an opening might try the oys AN EXCEPTIONAL SCOTCH Now employers and employees MAN. meet on more even terms; it ter business. law. This decision bears out the most If money talks it must be in sil Summoned to serve upon a spe means a fight, with great uncer tainty as to the outcome, and by important claims in a case before very tones, for we are told that si cial jury in the King’s bench divi hard experience the married the Supreme Court of the District lence is- golden. sion today, Sir George Douglass working man has found that while 4th and Alder of Columbia, where Justice Gould When the nervous man reaches granted a temporary injunction, the top he is apt to look around of Springwood Park, Kelso, who the “ bhoys” of the union can restraining the American Federa for the fire escapes.—Philadelphia has a town house in Ennismore manage to live and exist on strike Gardens, asked Mr. Justice Dar benefits, the married man finds tion of Labor from boycotting the Record. ling to excuse him from service that to maintain himself and fam- products of the Buck’s Stove and on the ground that he had not oc liy in accordance with years that Range Company of Saint Louis. PORTLAND THE EARS OF ANIMALS. cupied the latter place for a year have past soon eats up bis little 5th and Washington In granting the restraining order and a half. He said he had come savings, and in many cases pro Justice Gould characterized the boycott as an ‘‘unlawful conspir The hearing apparatus of ani from Scotland in answer to the tracted strike's leave him in debt. acy,” and declared that it was mals is like that of human beings, summons and wished to return at Also many men left in idleness that accompanies unemployment ‘‘such a conspiracy as has received but modified to suit the conditions once. Mr. Justice Darling—Have you find themselves more' and more in the condemnation of every fed of the animal’s life. Deer, hares 5th and Washington clined to loaf: they, out of sheer eral and state court in the coun and horses, like all animals whose served on juries in Scotland? life necessitates keen hearing, try before which it has been Sir George—I have never done loneliness, begin to spend their time in the saloon, and they soon brought for criminal action, legal have ears shaped and set in the so, but I am liable. begin to tipple, which, joined with redress, or equitable injunction. best way to catch faint or far-off Mr. Justice Darling—Do you their enforced idleness, soon holds I cite Justice Gould’s words sounds. The serpent has no ear want to go back to Scotland? tln-m in its vise, helpless to help here for the benefit of those labor- drums. The ear of the fish is a 6th and Stark Sir George—-Yes. themselves, and they are loafers ites and politicians who intimate membranous labyrinth connected Mr. Justice Darling—When do that love loafing, in which condi with the bladder by a series of that they will work to get the Su you want to go back?—because I tion their fatherly love freezes out :• preme Court packed so as to re little bones. thought that Scotsmen never of them. They go to their home V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V I Though the sense of hearing is verse the decision against boycot .wanted to go back to Scotland. half tipsy, and their wives regard from his published portraits, they ting. as rendered in the Danbury perfect only in the higher animals, (Laughter.) them askance. Their little chil opened fire upon him in regard to even the animals that have no case. Every jurist in the United Sir George—I want to go back dren steal away from them, and his novels, praising them in a man Ninety- States who would have any of the ears perceive sounds. Instead of Ma in qualifications which would sug ears they are supplied with fine immediately—tomorrow, if I can. they know why. till it angers them ner which was unendurable to the Firit St. Mr. Justice Darling—As a and they push them with scowls sensitive Hiithor. gest him for appointment, by any* nerves whose function is to note president, for membership on the and to respond to every touch: temptation to stay you may earn and curses. Strikes don’t pay. Presently the train entered a Supreme bench would take exact nerves whose receiving centers ore a guinea if you care, but in the tunnel, and in the darkness the ly the same ground against boy different from the centers of the circumstances—a Scotsman wish THE KISS IN THE DARK novelist raised the back of bis suavity, he said: “ Ah, ladies, the All ing to return to Scotland when he cotting which has been taken by purely tactile impressions. hand to bis lips and kissed it Chief Justice Fuller and all of bus animals, including insects, have, might make money in England be A distinguished novelist recent soundly. When light returned he one regret of my life will be that an apparatus which enables them ing so exceptional—I think I will ly found himself traveling in a found the two women regarding I shall never know which one of learned associates. 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