THE TIMES
THE BOYCOTT ABANDONED trusts, industrial and commercial.
Some Republican and some organization, as they do at the East 33
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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
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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
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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.
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