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THE TIMES W E S T A N D FOR T H E O P E N S H O P Voi. I. No. 7 PORTLAND, OREGON, DECEMBER 2, 1911 Price 5 Cents M'NAMARA BROTHERS PLEAD GUILTY j DATE OF HICKS' SALEM POLICE SOLIALISTIC SOAP-BOX ORATOR AT LOS ANGELES TO DYNAMITING OPENLY DEFIED URGES SECRET BOYCOTT CRUSADE TRIAL IS SET FOR TIMES AND LLEW ELLYN IRON WORKS FEBRUARY 12 BY I. W. W. S AGAINST PORTLAND MERCHANTS LOS ANGELES.— The house of cards bolstered up in the McNa mara ease fell Hat Friday, Decem ber 1, when James B. McNamara pleaded guilty to murder in the tirst degree before Judge Bord- well. Rampant unionism received a second jolt from which it will take long to recover when John J. McNamara put in his plea of guilty to dynamiting the Llewel lyn Iron Works last December. James B. McNamara’s trial on the charge of the murder of Charles J. Haggerty, a machinist, in the Times disaster, brought this casus eelebre to a sudden and dra matic termination. The court acted quickly. The sentences of both the condemned men were set for December 5. At that time it is probable that Dis trict Attorney Fredericks will re quest a life sentence for James B. McNamara, and that 14 years will be the limit imposed upon John J. McNamara. The attorneys for the defense admit that the impregnable wall o f incontestable evidence built up by the state was too much for them, and that the defense was unable to contend longer against it. Although the expense to Los Angeles county and to the defense has been very large, this unex pected climax will make it much smaller than it would otherwise have been. Detective William J. Burns is deserving of credit for the splen did skill he has shown in collect ing the evidence, of bringing it di rectly home to the guilty ones and o f his daring tactics throughout the famous case. Another thing is impressed upon the public mind with tremendous force, and that is that radical THE WORLD’S LEADING DRINKERS. The people of Belgium individu ally drink more beer than do the people of any other country in the world, their quantity being 55.2 gallons yearly per capita o f the popoulation. The total quantities of beer drunk by the principal beer drinking countries of the world and the yearly per capita con sumption in each country are (Bu reau of Statistics) : Per Yearly con* sumption. capita. Gallons. Gallons. 11 ) ,700,000 55.2 Belgium .............. 31.44 United Kingdom 1,397,300,000 2«.47 Germany ........... 1,703,500,000 61,700,000 22.98 Denmark ........... 211.09 1,851,300,000 United States . . 18.00 64,600,000 Switzerland . . . . 492,900,000 17.17 Austria ............... 13.20 56,900,000 Australia ........... 13.31 72,300,000 Sweden ............... 9.51 375,000,000 France ................. 6.36 47,400,000 Canada ............... More beer is consumed in the Jnited States than in any other country of the world, but, as shown above, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark largely exceed this country in per capita consumption. Of distilled spirits the leading drinkers by quantity are the United States and Russia, each with a yearly per capita consump tion of* 1.45 gallons. Comparison follow s: Russia ................. jnited States . .. rermany ............. •’ranee ................. Austria ................ lungary ............. Jnited Kingdom. taly ..................... Netherlands . . . . Belgium .............. Sweden ................ Vnmork ............. Per Yearly con capita. sumption. Galinas. Gallons. 1.45 232,700,000 1.45 133,500,000 94,200,000 1.48 1.48 70,900,..... 1.81 54,700.000 43,700,000 2.11 0.96 40 , 100,000 26,100,000 0.76 1.84 10,800,000 10,700,000 1.42 1.57 8,600,000 8,(K>0,000 2.97 There we see that, per eapita of mpulation. the Danes are by far he heaviest drinkers of spirits in he world. Russia and the I nited States each ranking seventh. Turning to wines we find that, n orders as named, the world's heaviest drinkers per capita are France, Italy and Portugal. Com parison follow s: Yearly eon- Per sumption. eapita. Gallon*. Gallon*. 39.3« France ............ 1,541.400,000 31.17 rta|T .................... 1,012,000,000 unionism has led the unions into the mire, from whence they will have difficulty in extricating them selves. Public distrust of all unions is now indelibly impressed on the public mind, justly or un justly. With the grave injury wrought to the union cause, the rights of independent labor have been materially advanced. We shall have no more street parades or public speeches in fa vor of the guilty McNamaras. The hard-earned money of duped toil ers will no longer be wrung out of them for a McNamara defense fund. No longer will these repre hensible scoundrels be enabled to pose as martyrs. Ortie McManigal, the third man in the case, self-confessed dyna miter, will probably receive an immunity bath, go scot free or re ceive a light sentence. Truth is mighty; justice has prevailed. Soon will ring down the curtain upon one o f the most frigtful tragedies yet written in the twentieth eenturv. STILL BELIEVE McNAMARAS GUILTLESS February 12 is the date set by Judge Gatens, presiding judge, for the beginning of the trial of Burt Hicks. He was recently indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury of murder in the first degree for the slaying of a union machin ist, W. A. Wort man. Agreement as to the date was reached between Deputy District Attorney Fitzgerald and W. M. Davis, special prosecutor retained by the unions, and Dan Malarkey, one of the attorneys retained by the defense. John F. Logan is the other defendant’s attorney. It is probable that the trial will not be delayed, for both sides are whipping matters into shape. There never has been very much delay in getting a jury together in Multnomah county for a mur der trial. There is keen interest manifested on both sides, and it is probable that the trial will be largely attended. The brilliancy of the respective attorneys is conclusive evidence that the rights of both the state and defense will be properly safe guarded. What lends particular interest to the case is the fact that not oidy is the defendant on trial for his life, but the question of whether the open shop policy can or cannot be carried out in Portland is in issue as well. SALEM.—The recent action of Governor West in pardoning W. E. Clark, an I. W. W. man, led his oo-workers to say: ‘ ‘ Arrest us if you want to; we don ’t care. The Governor will pardon us. H e’s with the laboring classes and he will pardon any of us. ’ ’ Thus quoth three Industrial Workers of the World who re fused to leave a local saloon at midnight recently, the legal clos ing hour. Their arrest followed. They had engaged in an alterca tion reflecting upon the moral character of Salem and women re siding in this community and were on the verge of a fistic encounter when the hour of midnight ar rived and the saloon was cleared of all but the proprietor and the I. W. W. men. The three men, Louis Butler, John Sullivan and A. Scherra, were in court. Butler stood trial and was sentenced to ten days, and the others five days apiece. HYPNOTIZED A SNAKE. RATTLE The man whose most spectacu lar parlor trick consists in the fact of wabbling his ears while holding his mouth full o f bird seed will find much to interest him in the plight of a snake at the zoological gardens in the Bronx, which, coil ed to strike, was frightened by a much to each workman and how keeper, and now cannot uncoil much to the skilled man who puts the watch together? Would all himself. The snake in question is a dia be paid alike? Would the man mond-back' d rattler some five feet who sweeps out the workshop be in length, and, according to entitled to the same pay as the Charles Snyder, the keeper who craftsman who makes a balance frightened him, finds himself suf- wheel ? fe fio g from self-hypnosis. Many If. instead of a watch factory, the time and oft, as Mr. Snyder you have a ship yard, when a 20,- fluently says, has the self-same 000-ton iron steamship is being snake fixed his baleful eyes upon Portugal ............ 146,300,000 27.39 built and several hundred work Spain ................... 345,900,000 IS.32 men are employed in its construc sparrows, pigeons, or rabbits until tile sparrows, pigeons or rabbits Switzerland . . . . 52,200,000 14.55 Germany ............ 1(1.1« tion, the problem of division of the became relaxed as to their spines 74,600,000 Bulgaria ............. 34.900,000 8.19 results of labor would be still and hopped obediently toward Austria .............. 178,600,000 6.34 more difficult of solution. Is it United States . . 60,500,000 II.«« remotely possible that the princi him. Now. the hypnotic habit be ing firmly fixed, he himself is tied United Kingdom 15,200,000 (1.31 ples of socialism would or could up in a hard knot because lie is be applied successfully to the unable to take his mind off him WHAT IS SOCIALISM? building of such a ship? self. It is true that capitalists as a Mr. Snyder believes that if the The basic principle of honest so rule make all the profits they can cialism is to give to every worker from the labor of the workers. It snake could only make himself the result of his own labor, and is also true that workers as a rule. take an interest in astronomy, or not to suffer capitalism to make exact from capitalists all they can j baseball, or chess, or differential a profit from it. Actual commun obtain. Capitalists combine in in calculus, long enough to forget ism or no individual ownership of dustrial trusts to enhance their that he is a snake and had been property is the ultimate purpose profits. Workmen combine in la frightened, he would uncoil with of socialism, but at present its bor unions to increase their all the rapidity of a Waterbury more conservative apostles preach wages. In pursuit of their pur watch spring. Mr. Snyder has only the doctrine of ownership by pose both resort occasionally to put him in a pail of water, at the co-operative commonwealth unlawful methods. Capitalists ex tempted thawing him on the steam pipes, and played handball with of the means of production, such clude competition by driving as land, buildings and machinery, smaller capitalists from the field. him. but still the snake persists in giving to laborers an equal oppor Workers exclude competition by his egotism. According to the reptile house tunity on equal terms to procure the use of the closed shop, and by the list* of the land, buildings and strikes, picketing, boycotting and, blotter, the snake became coiled in machinery. the following manner: Mr. Sny in some instances—dynamiting. Put the socialistic doctrine in der went into the cage with a Industrial freedom and strict working harness and then forecast enforcement of law arc the reme piece of hot soldering iron. The the result. The co-operative com dies for all these evils. The meth snake raised his head to strike. monwealth owns, we will say, a ods o f socialism can never remedy Mr. Snyder made three or four fully-equipped watch factory. To them. Socialism proceeds upon rapid motions with the soldering make a watch requires the ser tin- theory that most men arc al iron. The snake curled right up. vices of an engineer to run tin- ma truistic in their tendencies, where However, Mr. Snyder considers chinery and. if fuel is used to gen as only a few are inclined that the snake a valuable object lesson erate power, a fireman is needed. way. Most men. whether Social to parlor magicians.— New York One workman makes the main ists or capitalists, arc governed by Herald. spring. another the wheels, an the selfishness which eighteen cen other the dial plate, another the turies of the teachings of Christ w m w .v .v . hands, another the cases and still have failed to banish from the con- j •l W A R N IN G . another puts the watch together. duct of human affairs. •* In ;t futile effort ft» revenge It will be necessary to have a busi Public opinion in many commu % themselves upon The Times for ness man to keej) the books and j its effective advocacy of I ml sell the watches and a janitor to nities is trending more or less in i •* trial Freedom, labor union emis the direction of socialism, but “ a! care for the premises. *• Maries --- obviously sympathizers statesman should follow public ■ There are ten men engaged in opinion as a coachman follows his *• with the accused prisoners ;tn* persistently engaged, in different the production and sale of the horses; having firm hold on the *• parts of the city, in trying to hi watch. The object of socialism is reins and guiding them.” To yield 4 * duce people not to continue to to eliminate the capitalist. But j to the Socialists’ control of public | % patronize or read this journal. These pestiferous agitators de the co-operative commonwealth! affairs would be ‘ ‘ to break ope the ** serve to be ignored and repelled, takes his place as the owner of the ! locks anil bring in the crows to *♦ and Times patrons and readers laud, the building and the marhin- j peck the eagles.” — Los Angeles *,* are advised to refuse their impu- erv where the watch is made, and % dent demands. Times. % Any miseonduct on the part of while the commonwealth might . *• these paid e r n r i e s of monopo- exact less for the use o f its prop - 1 \ listir* organized labor -hould irn- THE HAS AND THE ARE erty than a private capitalist J* mediately be reported to the po would demand, it would be com-1 lice. The hysterical shrieks of union pelled to exact a considerable ‘ ‘ I ’d rather be a Could Be. bosses and the cowardly tactics share of the money derived from If I could not be an Are; of their hirelings will not stop the the sale o f the watches. For a Could Be is a May Be, onward and upward march of The lim e s, or abate its zeal to pro How would the proceeds of the With a chance of touching mote the true material welfare of sale of the watches be divided? I ’d rather be a Has Been Los Angeles, and the State, and How much would go to the jani Than a Might Have Been, by the best interests of ail the pa : tor? how much to the fireman? For a Might Have Been has nc trons of this steadfast journal.—• Los Angeles Times. how much to the engineer? how been. much to the bookkeeper? how But a Has was once an A re.’ V iV < (W W .V A SALT LAKE.— Tin* local union of the Structural Bridge and Iron Workers, which is reported to have contributed more than $6000 to the McNamara defense fund, held a special meeting Friday night. The union expressed itself that the McNamaras are innocent, but that they pleaded guilty to ease the financial strain upon the unions called on to contribute to their defense fund. Public opin ion will never endorse this view, although the union asks that judg ment in condemnation be reserved until further facts are shown. The Oregonian recently con |imele was built was that Mr. Joss tained the following descriptive lyn might collect 10 cents for car article regarding the methods of fare from visitors. To recompense himself, the orator declared, the Socialistic soap-box orators, which Gipsy was entertained at a ban is good reading : quet by Mr. Josslyn. That was Against business men who dare the orator’s explanation of the to stand in the light of progress, Progressive Business Men’s recep as represented by soap-box ora tion of the evangelist. That the tors, a boycott is to be organized exhorter was sent to Portland by — and a secret boyeott, at that. J. Pierpont Morgan was another Such was the threat last night assertion. o f a speaker under the banner of “ I went up the other day to Socialist Party, Branch No. 1, who watch him at the Empress theater. spoke to a crowd of men, half of whom were impressed and half of He told us to sing ‘ Follow Me.’— whom laughed, at Fourth and Al me, mind you; me, Gipsy Smith, not God. After that he posed this der streets. With hair flung to the night way and he posed that way— (there were illustrations appropri breezes and his hand to his breast ate to the occasion)— then he be in a typical attitudb, he told in gan to pose some more and when awed tones o f a far-reaching Con he had us all watching him—poof, sumers’ League being formed. Se crecy was to be its watchword, lie he threw his chloroform in our faces and we were drugged,” vo said, and its purpose was to send ciferated the speaker. to the Court o f Bankruptcy those “ You bourgeois, you bourgeois, who dared to stop the dissemina tion of truth, as told only by those you common people, arc you who speak from the rostrum of So fooled? I know I am only a ‘ gut tersnipe’ and what Gipsy Smith cialist Party, Branch No. 1. The plan is to get consumers to called a dog. ‘ Dogs bark at me,’ ” sign their names to a list. They the speaker quoted. “ At me, me, will then be on the list of tin* Con me, I, I, me, Gipsy Smith.” A little later in his discourse the sumer’s League, they were told. Then the merchant who is not speaker said lie believed Gipsy ‘ ‘ good ” will find his customers Smith might be sincere. Probably dwindle away from his doorstep half a dozen sentences later he while ‘ ‘ his hand falters from hun contended that the evangelist did ger. dust settles round his goods not tell the truth. “ Will you stand for his lies, lies, while his poverty-stricken clerks grow faint and blind from having lies?” the orator queried. Discussing opposition by busi no one to wait on.” The elocutionist did not say how ness men to speeches made on pub all this was to be accomplished, lic thoroughfares, the speaker but he declared it was all to be said.: done secretly. “ Secrecy is the “ Yes, we w on’t fight them with weapon o f the Socialist,” he de their weapons. They ean bring out clared. their police and their militia. We, Although the topic o f secrecy with our bare fists, w on’t stop proved an alluring one and was them. No, we are the consumers. introduced whenever there was We poor mutts, we poor, silly any flagging interest to be mani devils—yes, we have one power, fested, other subjects were dis we buy. And we won’t buy from cussed. Gipsy Smith was scored the men that would fight us. We because he ate dinner when B. S. shall fight them till they are re Josslyn was present. duced to bread and water.” Gipsy Smith is in league with Applause did not interrupt the the streetcar magnate, said the speaker seriously, although laugh speaker, mid the reason the taber- ter did sometimes. A WIT AND WORKER. In view o f the fact that one Mr. Reguin lias appealed to the Decla ration of Independence in making his statement to the public to prove the grievances of the Feder ation of Shop Employes, another partial paraphrase from the same document becomes pertinent. One Edward Carlisle, of the strikers’ union, in Portland, is responsible for the following declaration: “ When in the course o f human events,” a situation arises where the pride o f a labor leader conflicts with the welfare and interests of a large number id' men, women and children It becomes the duty of some per son to butt in, as it were, and see if every one is getting a square deal. A few of us have entered on this thankless job, not with the expectation that you will love us for it. hut just so we ean grab our joli hack like the rest. There is no reason to dispute the statements of the officials of the road, that they have enough men to carry on all necessary work. Anyone can see that for himself. The situation is daily getting better for the railroad and only the absence o f a sense of hu mor keeps a number of pickets at the shop gate holding the empty sack. It is useless and unjust to blame anyone for this condition. The trouble did not originate at this end of the line, hut it is l i p to IIS to end it. and in the settlement we will take no advice from outside labor leaders. The railroad man agers have always treated us fair in the past, and will surely do so in the future. So, revolt while the revolting is good. Let the empty sack drop and go home and get your over alls. The old man will give us a square deal— he can sec the joke, all right! Time to Balance Up. The Trades Unions are now up against a deficit in the treasuries of the several unions involved in the Oakland strike and boycott of the Sunset Lumber Company. They are making a strenuous ef fort to keep the poor dupes of strikers in line after a disastrous battle of more than a year. What are the net results of this struggle so long drawn out? Let us balance up. The strike was originally called because of the tact that the Sunset Lumber Com pany was employing non-union teamsters. The teamsters' union is always one which most easily gets into trouble, and it is also the most violent and the least law- abiding of all unions. It always draws other unions into the strife and makes innocent men, women and children suffer. So it was in this ease. It drew in the millmeii when they had no grievance, and finally it drew in the State Build ing Trades Council. The net re sult is that instead of one open shop mill in Oakland, there are six or seven. Instead of a few team sters working happily alongside of nonunion teamsters and a lot of union men at work in the mills, there are hundreds of non-union men at work, and the striking hands have been living on a strike benefit and the treasury of the as sociations lire well ngill empty. Indeed, the ease is so had with them that all the Los Angeles strike benefits and the McNamara detense subscriptions have \\ II nigh stoppisl. Too many taxes on the union man and not enough work. The balance is one-sided and it shows the wretched man agement of the rule or ruin labor bosses. Taxation and Graft In the Unions. The last election seems to have I...... in every way a disintegrating factor in the unions. It is too had that this should be so. as it is not the unions that should suffer, hut (Continued on I’age J.)