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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1911)
THE TIMES THE BOYCOTT ABANDONED trusts, industrial and commercial. Some Republican and some organization, as they do at the East 33 B 7118 Here is a conspiracy which the Democratic are bidding Free Workers’ organizations and (By James W. Vfan Cleave.) American people must combat and against each leaders other for the favor the Uplift Clubs of Chicago and lu “ American Industries” for kill. The average politician is a of what they call the “ labor New They cannot under Telephone* February 15, 1908, I wrote about coward. His cowardice is partic vote.” These leaders are not only stand York. why of trades “ The Doom of the Boycott,’ ularly abject when an election is false to the interests of the peo unions should members break away and Main 6980 A 3322 using as a text the decision of the just in front of us. The Federa ple, but they are astray as to the join the new orders. Inde United States Supreme Court in tion of Labor, under the autocra strength—or rather lack of pendent Mechanics are The meeting the Danbury hatters’ ease. Toda tic and vicious bosses which it has strength—of the element to which everywhere with signal success, my theme will be “ The Boycott had for many years, has had a they pander. According to their this is especially galling to Abandoned.” Confronted by the large experience in working on own confession the labor unions and members of the old violence-loving punishment prescribed by the law the baser side of human nature. of all sorts in the United States institutions. Independent which he and his associates have That organization, at this moment, number less than 2,000,000 per Mechanics make The arbitration violated, the chief of the Ameri is swinging its club over the heads sons. And these include women common sense a basis for all and set can Federation of Labor an of the president and Congress, in as well as men, and children and' tlement of their troubles or griev nounces that he and his order have an attempt to force them to do its aliens as well as voters. with employers. They go bidding. The American people On the other hand, the total ances given up the boycott. happily in the idea that cap must take steps immediately to number of wage earners in the ital is at along one and in harmony with “ To Organized Labor and defeat this plot. country is 32,000,000, or sixteen labor, and that this is thè only Friends” is the title of an article A proviso was put in the orig times as great as that of the per road to industrial peace, and that in the Federation’s organ, the draft of the Sherman Act in sons enrolled in all the labor anyone teaching that capital is American Federationist, in which inal 1890 which would have exempted unions in the aggregate. And the naturally at all times at war with 201 East Water Street the head of that organization the labor trust from the penalties difference in the intelligence and labor is traitorous to labor and makes a tearful surrender of imposed PORTLAND on the industrial and the influence of these two ele capital’s best interests. vice which threatened to land him commercial The demago ments of the working forces of The jealousy of the new order EAST and his associates in the penitent! gic provision trusts. COR. EAST YAMHILL was killed in the the country is even more striking is so strong in San Francisco and 63 ary, and which may, even yet conference committee between the reach out for him and them. He two houses on the ground that it than is the numerical contrast Oakland that the trades unionists Thus we are confronted with have undertaken violent tactics points out that under the Supreme special legislation. As such what I may call a new issue of 16 against and officers. Court’8 decision the boycott in the was it would be declared unconstitu to 1. And it is far more porten A brick the was organizers thrown at one man Danbury case was a conspiracy in tional General by the courts, and the whole tous than was that of 1896. The in a street car by a union hood restraint of interstate trade, in law would fail. issue of 1896 involved a fallacy lum. and in another instance re the meaning of the Sherman act Let it be remembered that the it was honest. While the men cently seven men attacked one of and that its perpetrators are lia labor unions and the agricultural but Transfering who put it forward were mistaken the officers. Evidently it is the ble under the law for three times societies agitated in favor of the they were sincere, and they were idea that only certain kinds of men the damage that their crime in enactment of an anti-trust law and courageous. But the issue of 16 to be allowed the right to or flicts. Then he adds : and were a large influence in se to 1 as it shapes itself now carries are ganize into fraternal brotherhoods 180 Grand Avenue “ Under this decision the publi they the drafting of the Sher with it cowardice and dishonor, self improvement, and such cation of a ‘We Don’t Patronize’ curing PORTLAND Storage man Act of 1890. But right at as well as the basest sort of for men must have somewhere about list in the American Federation the outset the unions, through treachery to the interests of the their person the bed bug stamp ist, or any other publication, demagogic friends in Con people. of the violence-loving Olaf Tveit- C. J. W I L S O N makes the organization and the their gress, attempted to shield them The issue is even worse than I moe, or some other high chief of individuals composing it liable to selves the punishment which have described it to be. By aim militant hoodlumism. monetary damages and imprison the law from inflict on all other ing to establish a favored order in Commercial Artist ment. This being the case I feel assailants would inter-state trade. the community, and that order ROOSTER AS A RAT KILLER. Baggage Stored Three Days obliged to discontinue the ‘We Happily for of the and country, they comprising only an insignificant Don’t Patronize’ list. Free beaten at this game. fragment of the population, it in Cartoonist “ This course I pursue upon the were The American Federation of jects the Old World monarchical A large game rooster owned by advice of the legal counsel of the Labor is working the old game caste ideas into our civic scheme, William Reachard of North Codo- American Federation of Labor as over again. It is working the and assails that principle of equal rus township. Pa., is attracting at 3 4 8 M ARKET STREET to the far-reaching character of game at this moment. The Fed rights for all and special privi- tention all through the neighbor Phone Main 5645. Res. Phone E 6185. Baggage Checked at Resi the decision of the Supreme eration now demands the immun leges for none on which our Amer hood by its proficiency dence, Direct to Destination as an ex Court. * * • ity for its transgressions which ican system of democratic and re terminator of rats and mice. Over All Lines “ I would fail in performing my was denied to it in 1890. publican government is based The lanky fowl stalks for hours duty, though it is a painful one, For many reasons there is a This issue is rendered especially through ¿he corn fields, watching Arthur D. Monteith did I not point out that under this special incentive for the oppon perilous because report says some for the rodents to run from be and Hydraulic Engineer decision each and every officer ents of class legislation of all sorts men in high station and of great neath shocks of fodder, their fa 587 Civil E. 15th St. N. Portland, Ore. and member of every labor organ to be prompt and courageous in personal influence in the govern vorite haunt. Once in the open, ization becomes liable for any vio attacking these conspirators. Let ment are allied with Surveying, Landscape En the labor the chase has only one termina General gineering, Construction Superinten Main Office and Warehouse lation of the decision by any one, every one of the 100.000 readers bosses in demanding this anti tion in all cases, the rooster easily dence, Reports and Estimates on Proj not only as to his organization, of American Industries write or republican and anti-democratic overtaking and killing his prey by ects, Water Supply, Irrigation, Sewer but individually to the extent of wire the senators from his state legislation. age. Now Lumber Exchange Bldg. shaking it like a terrier. whatever his possessions may be. and the representative from his The crisis demands immediate Rearchard also declares that the “ I think our men of labor will district to stand out against all action by Republicans and Demo fowl, in its keenness for the sport, Your business should be repre Park and Davis St*. agree with me that I have no right these attempts to enact class leg- erats and men of all parties who often watches rat holes in the sented in THE TIMES. We in PORTLAND, OREGON to expose them to the heavy pen silation, and to denounce and to want to defend the American sys barn terest ninetv-two and one-half like a cat until its victims ap alty for disobedience under this defy the men who are attempting tem of government as it was hand pear.—Chicago Inter Ocean. per cent. THE T I M E S will give decision of the Supreme Court. to create class distinctions in the ed down to us by the fathers. Let you the best run for your money “ I will say briefly here, as I do community and to sow the seeds us say to Congress, “ Don’t be you ever had. Figure it out with HAD A FULL COURSE. more fully editorially, that while of class hatreds. I read this in cowardly!” “ Denounce and defy us. obeying the decision of the court, one of the papers the other day: the element which demands the The sign in front of a Harlem I feel most deeply that never in “ Suppose that Congress should privilege to disobey laws which restaurant attracted the eye of a the history of our country has amend the Sherman Act so as to all other persons are compelled to farmer, he went in. He had there been so serious an invasion grant to the American Federation observe!” “ Be honest, courgeous. a raw, a and fry, a stew, a pan roast, of the rights and liberaties of our of Labor the special favors which patriotic Americans!” You can quench your in a broil and a steam-on-toast. When it demands. The courts would <?et people.” he got through he laid a quarter that amendment aside as legisla Readers of American Industries A WIT AND WORKER. Phose or Write on the cashier’s desk, only to be ward fire with just as good will notice, from the lines which tion for the benefit of a special (Continued From Page 1.) told that he was shy a dollar and “ hootch” at the following Q I have just quoted, that the head class, and that only a small class. of the American Federation oi The court would say that such the bad leadership that has led and a quarter. OPEN SHOP bars, and not Labor dislikes the Sherman .¡ict legislation would be aganist th° the fraternal organizations along ‘No, by jing,” said the farmer. have the enjoyment les But this is no new mood for public interest, and would nulli unlawful and disastrous lines. ‘A quarter’s right. Doesn’t your Taxation and autocratic sway by sign say, ‘Oysters in every style sened by a big UDion card. fy it.” criminal to be in. leaders has put unionism in a for 25 cents?’ ”—Lippincott’s. “ No man e’er felt the halter This is a dangerous concession. the bad way. A trades union is a These life-saving stations It is worse than that. It is a cow mighty draw political machine. As The policy of this paper ex !* are classed as not being fair ^ With good opinion of the law.’ ardly surrender to a band of law such it poor cannot be successful, and presses the sentiments of ninety- This is just as true now as breakers and social disturbers. If it becomes doubly disastrous to was a centry ago when those lines this vicious legislation should be the and one-half per cent of the by labor publications. Web organization when men and two were written. If the feleration’s enacted, it would take several not measures working class. ster says fair means ‘ ‘ pleas advocated. Tax chief steps into any lockup or pen years to get it before the Supreme ation without are giving an account Court. This would cost Vast sums itentiary in or around his home expenditure is another bad PORTLAND CONSULAR AND ing to the eye—beautiful.” town of Washington, D. C., he will of money. It would seriously of feature of unionism. It seems that VICE CONSULAR OFFICES. We claim that these places find that every one of its inmates hamper business all over the coun one Philips, a member in good i feels, in respect to the particular try. Business confidences would standing qualify according to Web of some union, has dealt statute which hit him, just like he get another setback, and it would a body blow grafters who The following comprise the list ster- feels toward the Sherman Act. In be more serious than that which are collecting to the the McNamara de of consular and vice consular of regard to the specific enactment the money scare of two years ago fense fund. This man has made which locked them up, all the oc caused. Respect for all law. good the claim, it is reported, that a fices represented in Portland: cupants, black and white, of cells as well as bad .would be dimin large sum of money, some say nine in Sing Sing, Joliet, and the rest ished by such iniquitous legisla and Consular Offices. seventeen thousand of the jails of the United States, tion. The demoralization and dollars, others Hofbrau as yet unaccounted for Chile—A. R. Vejar. are ready to cry out in chorus damage. moral and physical, and has is never found its way to which would be inflicted on the 128 6th St. with the federation’s boss that defense. This is having a very China—Moy Back Hin, 233 Sec “ never in the history of our coun country before the Supreme Court the effect in union circles, and, ond street. try has there been so serious an would get a chance to set this bad instead of making a public inves Costa Rica—O. C. Ames, 732 legislation aside as unconstitu invasion of the rights and liber tigation of what is public rumor, Marquam Lotus tional -would be incalculable. ties of our people.” building. the leaders of the unions are at But while rejoicing, as every It is no part of the function of tempting 127 6th St. Philips for Germany—O. Lohan, 31 Hamil honest and public-spirited Ameri Congress to pass laws which it making the to discipline ton building. statement, and all knows or thinks to be unconstitu PORTLAND can will rejoice, at the justice are behind closed Great Britain—James Laidlaw, which has at last overtaken the tional, trusting to the courts to proceedings other words, they would Ainsworth building. federation of labor’s law breakers, nullify them before the inflict ir doors. the In story Louvre by stifling Philips, Japan—M. Ida, 219 Henry let us take measures to head off reparable harm on the country. stifle whoever he is. The story is cur building. their conspiracy to evade the law, Congress was created to pass laws rent 4th and Alder in all unions in the city and or to give them a free hand to per which meet an urgent public need, is being commented on every providing they are in harmony Mexico—F. A. Spencer, 46 Front petrate their crimes under the where. street North. cloak of a new enactment which with the organic act. the courts might not be able to The legislation which the Blown In the Bottle- None Other Peru—Barrette Carlos, care C. Perkins reach and nullify until the plot American Federation bf Labor de H. Rasmussen. Genuine. 5th and Washington ters had inflicted serious damage mands meets no public need. No The Brotherhood of Independ Switzerland—A. Z. Bigger. upon employers and upon the body asks for this legislation ex ent Mechanics has established a cept the ringleaders of that very country. Vice Consuls. at Oakland, and the organ On the same page of the Ameri small proportion of the working lodge work in San Francis Belgium—C. Henri Labbe, Lab- can Federationist from which I population of the country which izers F. are W. at Phelps Schultz of Seattle, for be building. have just quoted, there appears is comprised in the labor unions. co. 5th and Washington merly of the Brotherhood of Engi Chile—John Reid, 514 Lumber these words: “ Labor demands A few cowardly and truckling neers, relief at the bands of Congress; politicians, Republican and Dem order. is the grand master of the Exchange. ocratic, have either been coaxed demands it NOW.” Britain—J. Ernest Laid Ninety- This means what careful news or bulldozed into an alliance with In Oakland the lodge instituted law, Great Main Ainsworth building. Quell e paper readers have learned from the federation’s bosses, and are is now running full blast, with First St. other sources, that the American working for the enactment of this 170 members. There is another France—C. Henri Labbe, Labbe 6th and Stark Federation of Labor is pushing special legislation. The fact that lodge in Los Angeles and a num building (consular agent). bills in Congress to relieve the la the parties are believed to be more ber of lodges are being rapidly Netherlands — John William Your business should be retire- bor unions from penalties for evenly balanced in strength than instituted in California. The new Mathes, sen ted in THE TIMES. We in 213 Wells-Fargo building. •.V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V A V wrong-doing imposed by the Sher they have been in any recent can order appeals to mechanics, as it Nicaragua and Honduras—-R. terest ninety-two and one-half man Act. The labor trust is en vass. have given the labor chiefs is opposed to strikes, boycotts and Chilcott, The per capitn wine consump | mt cent. 1 HE 1 1MES will give 306 McKay building. tions deavoring to get legislation which their chance to strut and swing picketing. both the United States you the liest run for your money will exempt it from punishment the lash and they are making the But. now comes the pinch. The Sweden—Valdemar Liddell, 26 and the of United Kingdom are sur you ever had. Figure it out with prescribed for all other sorts of most of their opportunity. trades unions look askance at this North Sixth street. us. prisingly small. Troy Laundry Company The Baggage & Omnibus Transfer Co. u .s. Laundry Company Government Standard Powders Company And Have an Ex pert Explain Our Money Maker