THE TIMES
cognate organizations stand, are
crime committed in its name.
If our commonwealth is to en
Defense.
The greatest capitalistic organi dure. and our institutions mean In connection with my remarks right then the makeshift expedi
zation extant is not permitted, nor what we believe them to mean, upon the labor problem it is perti encies for which the Natioua
does it attempt, to exercise on can there be any question as to nent that I should speak of the Civic Federation purports to stand
(Continued From Last Issue.) substantial manufacturing con one-hundredth part the detianee our stern duty to stand fiintlike work of the National Council for must logically be wrong. On this
cerns, representing nearly every of civil government that this ir against these violations of law, or Industrial Defense, which is under point my position is perfectly
Merchant Marine.
state in the Union and practically responsible Federation has taken der. society and sacred guaran the direction of your legislative clear. Criticism of my attitude to
In my address last year I told all s t a n d a r d manufacturing unto itself the right to do.
tees of liberty and property f And, committee, the report of which wards the National Civic Federa
you of the activity of the Associ crafts.
if in defense of these principles, will give you a more comprehen tion is well known, but often mis
And
while
so
much
is
being
said
ation in relation to its policy on This great mass of combined about the high cost of living, why and in defiance of their violation, sive idea of the scope and charac understood.
I harbor no antagonism against
carries with it heavy re is it that so many causes are as I have been criticised for an un ter of its work.
the subject of Merchant Marine. power
the
Civic Federation, as such, nor
spoil
si
hi
I
it
ies
to
the
members
con
due
severity
of
position,
gladly
do
But
as
this
branch
of
the
work
signed
to
it
other
than
the
primary
During the year now dosing this stituting it. In general we have eause of labor unionism, which, in I plead guilty to such criticism. of our Association is perhaps of against
many of the distinguished
line of activity has been extended two agencies by which we spread its battle with the law of supply
gentlemen who constitute its ex
most
importance
and
of
greatest
Needed
Legislation.
to limits considerably beyond the gospel one through our print and demand, merely causes one
concern to all of us, and with no ecutive committee and member
The use of dynamite by the desire
those of any previous year. cd literature and the other by strike to beget another and keeps agents
to anticipate what the re ship. Mv opposition to it has been
organized labor as a port may
contain, I feel that 1 relentless, however, and will be re
our industrial question in a never- means of of terrifying
Messrs. Dwell and Long, who are public addresses.
employers
into
I
am
informed
by
our
executive
should
make
reference to lentless, because of its close align
ending
state
of
chaos
and
uncer
connected with tin; export depart office that last year we printed tainty?
subjection to the demands made this extremely special
important
link in ment with the dominating influ
ment of “ American Industries,” and distributed nearly tbree-quar
upon them by labor organizations the chain of our endeavors to
hold ences of labor unionism. By which
The Los Angeles Crime.
have delivered addresses before i ters of a million pieces of indus
is of such common occurrence and the nation in industrial balance.
I do not mean labor unionism, per
Chautauquas and commercial or trial literature. This includes As I glance over the preceding often so horrifying as to cause the Dynamite and bludgeons are not se,
because in the recurrent
ganizations in various parts of the over 990,(MX) copies of “ American twelve months, I see on our coun whole world to shudder and to the only weapons that are em acts but
of
violence,
and mur
country, on the needs of an Amer Industries.” in its three editions try’s fair name a spot so black- look askance upon the safety of ployed by the American Federa der committed in crime
our
country
by
ican Merchant Marine and its re 12,(MM) copies of American Trade nod by crime that I almost hesi life and property in this country. tion of Labor to accomplish its the agencies of criminal labor
lation to our export trade. In Index, and the balance represents tate to speak of it.
This is a matter in which every purposes. Notwithstanding its unionism, these representative la
many eases these addresses were the
citizen who stands for law and oft-repeated
distribution
of
printed
pamph
it is today bor leaders stand mute, have done
Gentlemen,
the
destruction
of
published in full in the local lets on the various policies and the Los Angeles Tunes building order should become especially in no less active failures,
in
the
of absolutely nothing to clean their
papers, and in practically all eases principles which we advocate.
terested, to the end that there legislation than it is in matter
ranks of their fellowship in crime,
the
de
was
more
than
an
individual
act
lengthy excerpts were quoted, ac The demand for our literatim of revenge. Were it that alone, shall he enacted in every state in struction of life and property and or
their organization
companied by favorable editorial is constantly increasing, numeric we might dismiss it as we would the Union drastic legislation, such in its policy of “ Man’s Inhuman upon to a rebuild
foundation
of justice.
comment. Thus wide publicity has ally and geographically. It is a criminal act of an ordinary fel as has recently been adopted in ity to Alan.”
On
the
other
hand,
all their en
been given to the subject and peculiar pleasure to note that we on. That disaster was a tragedy California, so as to place the The persistency and energy with ergies are invariably employed
in
much interest thereby created are asked for our printed matter conceived, planned and executed strongest possible safeguards which it operates in Congress and defense of the men who commit
through the aid of our Associa more and more from schools, col by agents of others.
around the sale and purchase of in our state legislatures, in its such crimes.
tion.
high explosives, so that they can frequent attempts to enforce its It is folly to discuss compromise
leges
and
universities.
This
is
a
I
need
not
go
into
details.
At
In January last a Merchant Ma tribute of which we should well one moment men and women not be purchased like so much policies
through legislation, would expediencies and benevolent as
rine Congress, of two days’ dura be proud.
meat or sugar by any and every reflect credit
a more worthy similation, when a mob is destroy
working cheerfully at their daily person
tion, was held at Washington Essentially our work is educa task
having the price to pay for cause. These upon
efforts
were clearly ing your factory; it is useless for
;
the
wheels
of
an
honorable
under tin* auspices of this Associ tion, and if we can inculcate the business doing their mechanical them.
any organization to fraternize
exemplified
in
the
Hughes
ation and its Special Committee of true principles of industrialism
AVe get from our lawmakers all ment to the sundry civil Amend
with representatives of any other
appro
duty; a splendid investment sorts
One Hundred, of which Mr. I). A. into
of foolish and radical legis priation bill, last summer, which organization, when within the
the
young
men
of
the
country,
standing
intact.
A
moment
later
Tompkins, the chairman of your we shall be laying the foundation
lation, much of which is useless
that no part of the ranks of the latter there are men
Committee on Merchant Marine, for future generations. In the twenty-one persons are mangled and unjust. Then why not let provided
money appropriated to the De determined to destroy life and
is tin; president. The purpose of matter of public appearances, it is •orpses; the smooth running ma us have legislation that will at partment
of Justice for the prose property, regardless of law and
chinery a heap of debris; and the least make more difficult the per
the Congress was to arouse an in roughly estimated that your Pres plant
eution
of
alleged violators of the order, in the doing of which their
a
disfigured
ruin.
terest in the Federal Congress in ¡dent and his associates and col
nf such outrages as are Sherman Anti-Trust
Law should leaders silently acquiesce.
In the arrest of the Secretary- petration
the hope of securing legislation on leagues
being practiced by the hirelings be used in the prosecution
of labor The American Federation of
during the past year, Treasurer of the International As of
the subject, during the session spoken have,
an
organization
in
whose
name
Labor is engaged in an open war
unions.
to
a
quarter
of
a
million
sociation
of
Bridge
and
Structural
then pending.
and behalf these diabolical plots When we consider that notwith fare against Jesus Christ and his
persons. So that through our Iron Workers, the authorities may are
Able and enthusiastic addresses printed
and executed?
standing the tremendous pressure cause. Analyze it as you may you
literature and combined or they may not have seized the It planned
wen- made by a number of Con public appearances
would
therefore
seem
fitting
to bear in op can make nothing else out of it,
and
addresses
fiend
who
personally
committed
gressmen and others. The dele it may be said that we have di
that this Association, at this Con which was to brought
this drastic piece of and those who profess Christ, yet
gates were received by President rectly reached a million of per this horrible crime; but, however vention. put itself on record, by position
proposed class legislation it was hobnob with the leaders of that
Taft at the White House, who, in sons. If we should add the count that may be, arrest and conviction the adoption of a forceful resolu defeated
in the House by only wicked conspiracy and give them
of
the
criminals
is
in
a
sense
rela
response to a brief address by the less columns of press notices given
tion
recommending
such
uniform
eight
votes
out of 298 votes east encouragement by eating and
tively
unimportant
to
a
clear
un
Hon. John Temple Graves, in be our official utterances and our
on the measure, and in the Senate drinking and smoking and hold
derstanding of the causes that legislation.
half of the delegates, gave an in to
Trials of Lincoln.
by a vote of 94 to 16, some idea ing social relations with them, can
on public questions, I am produced the crime. 1 assert so
teresting talk strongly favorable attitude
can be formed of the danger that not segregate themselves from the
I
think
it
is
safe
to
say
there
is
advised,
and
I
think
the
assump
berly,
seriously
and
deliberately
to the proposition.
responsibility that attaches to such
is fair, that through our vari that the destruction of life and not a man in this room who does lurks in the Federal Congress with affiliation.
Expansion of Foreign Trade. tion
respect
to
these
questions.
In
this
not
believe
that
many
of
the
de
ous
activities
during
the
past
year
property
at
Los
Angeles,
at
a
few
The export trade department of
fifteen million people have minutes past one o’clock, on the mands of labor unions affiliated particular ease we are indebted to On this issue, therefore, I chal
this Association has adopted the fully
heard and read of the objects and morning of October 1st, 1910, was with the American Federation of President Taft for the courageous lenge the National Civic Federa
plan of holding regular monthly purposes
to disprove my charges, and
of our Association.
the product of accumulated re Labor are wrong; that the meth manner in which he placed his tion
meetings at our general offices to
if
my
conservatism is denounced
stamp
of
disapproval
upon
the
ods
they
employ
to
enforce
those
General
Reports.
venge
and
sinister
hatred
on
the
discuss ways and means for pro I leave to the report of our Sec
as radicalism, then my mind goes
are worse than wrong; proposed amendment.
moting our export trade, and retary a more detailed statement part of criminal labor unionism. demands
that they are cruel and out of all The “ Council” now authorita back to Los Angeles, and I take
these meetings, I am informed, are of the various departments of our That its highest officials under harmony
with modern civilization; tively represents more than 250 refuge in the stand of Martin Lu
stand
it
to
be
so
is,
1
think,
fairly
well attended by members and are executive offices at 90 Church
“ Here I stand; I can do
well demonstrated by the protests that they are a menace to the wel national, state and local industrial ther;
growing in interest. But of this
New York City.
they have registered against the fare and happiness of our people and commercial organizations for nothing else; God help me!”
you will doubtless learn more street,
leave to the Vhairinen of arrest of one of their brother of ti and ought not be tolerated, and which it speaks, and upon which
My Sentiments.
through the reports of your ex the I also
various standing committees, ers against whom the evidence is that they are the natural result of it can call for protests against All that is needed properly to
ecutive officers having the matter whose
reports will be submitted so strong as to warrant the taking the principles upon which the par class labor legislation. This pow balance the industrial scales in
in charge.
to
you
during
the Convention, the of no chances on his escape, and ent organization is constructed. erful influence was used effective
country and prevent its drift
At this point 1 may add that at
which such committees have because the arresting officers gave I believe, too, that most of you ly during the Republican National this
a meeting of your Directors, in work
ing
into
the quicksands of social
Convention,
in
1908,
when,
after
been doing in their respective him no opportunity to do this, the at least will agree with me that
October, lltlO, a Special Commit fields
ism
and
anarchy
is a clean-cut di
of research.
whole gang of criminals coucert- if the class of citizens who disap planks had been inserted in the vision of right and wrong. Let
tee was appointed to co-operate As my
today fall natnr- dly shouted “ kidnaped!” and in prove of the kind of unionism that Republican platform pledging the
with other organizations and with ally into remarks
American Federation of Labor
a review of industrial the face of the damaging facts indulges in such wrongs as means party to notice and hearing in the
the Secretary of Commerce and conditions
and
who are for it stand
throughout the coun- positively declared his innocence to its ends, would unqualifiedly junction legislation and to an as a all unit those
Labor in a movement to establish try. on the one
by
themselves, and let
and a sketch without a trial by a jury of his place their stamp of disapproval amendment to the Sherman Law all those who are
a national organization of which of the work of hand,
against it stand
which
would
exclude
organized
the
Association
on
not only upon the organization it
the Department of Commerce and the other, and. as I have told you peers.
as
a
unit
by
themselves,
then right
The only crime which these self. but also upon its responsible labor from its criminal provisions, will be pitted against wrong, the
Labor shall he a component part,
about the latter. I men, including Gompers and the heads, instead of treating them in response to request made by right will prevail and every man
looking to the advancement of something
would indeed be remiss in my mes saintly Mitchell, seem to recognize with the respect and dignity due the “ Council” of its affiliated or will
our export trade. I understand sage
were I to fail to speak in the premises is the arresting of to men engaged in honorable call ganizations, it was estimated that square get deal. that which is his—a
that the movement, is progressing of the to you
former. Therefore, 1 ask union men and giving them no ing, the battle for righteous indus from 90,000 to 40,000 telegrams Now, I am aware that these
favorably and that plans are In' your indulgence
while I refer, in hanee to evade their captors.
trial freedom would be so mini poured in on the resolutions com plain, unvarnished statements
ing laid for the formation of an
mized as to make it of little conse mittee in one day, protesting rfoin me will touch some sore
organization based upon the suc plain, unmistakable terms, to a At the Norfolk Convention of quence,
because, an organized two against the party putting itself on
Federation that has grown upon the American Federation of La
cessful method of Germany to our
but they are my sentiments
land and which proposes to bor, in November, 1908, a resolu per cent of our population, stand record as approving of such meas spots,
bring the products of that country deprive
and
I
am
sure you will pardon me
of the right to exer tion was adopted providing for the ing alone, without the sympathy ures ; and as a result of such a for uttering
to the markets of the world cise their men own
mbecause I am
will in a lawful levying of a special assessment, on and encouragement of any portion Horn l of protests, backed by the constrained to the
through organized effort.
do
so
deference
forceful argument of Mr. Emery, to the great interests in represented
One of the aims of your execu manner in their own affairs. A members of unions affiliated with of the other ninety-eight per cent the
objectionable planks were this Association, and in behalf
tive officers has been to improve Federation so tyrannical that it that organization, which should could not long endure on lines of stricken
from the platform after the welfare of this nation I be
and bring to a high degree of effi proposes, when its mighty ruler yield about $200.000, to be placed insurrection and anarchy.
they had been adopted by the res of
ciency our official publication. shall touch the button, the wheels at the disposal of its executive The struggle is bound to be in olutions
lieve they cannot be successfully
committee.
“ American Industries.” and in of industry shall stop turning and board to be used ir fighting Gen just such proportion as there shall I mention
issailed anil as God gives me
this particular activ strength
this endeavor I believe they have the channels of commerce stand eral Harrison Gray Otis, in his ef be found men of intelligence and ity of the “ Council”
to do my
because first, duty I shall and not courage
been fairly successful. The mag still. A Federation representing forts to preserve Los Angeles free standing, imbued with the notion
shirk
it.
azine continues to he published in a system which the great body of from the type of unionism that has that the best way to treat with of its importance and second be
The Public Press.
three editions. The domestic edi tbe American people have recent made the name of San Francisco treason and anarchy, with riot and cause not many of our members
lawlessness,
is
by
conciliation
and
know
about
it.
ly
lunl
occasion
to
become
dumb
While the cowardly attitude of
smell unto Heaven. '
tion being freely circulated exten
sively in channels where it is be founded and paralyzed at the At the St. Louis Convention, compromise, by dignifying its In my address to you last year many of the newspapers and mag
November.' 1910, the amount re leaders through affiliation and as I referred, at some length, to the azines of the country with respect
lieved its influence upon industrial thought of its existence.
questions will lie productive of Will the many who have made ported as remaining in that fund sociation with them on executive Moon Injunction Bill then pend to the labor question, signified
greatest good, and the extent to obeisance and bowed respect to was $89.00. which makes pertinent boards and committees and by ing in Congress, with the endorse either by their silence when their
which other publications quote the chief promoters of that sys the query, were the villains who otherwise emphasizing their im ment of the President to strength plain duty is to speak out. or by
from its columns signifies that it tem. continue to extend their in- perpetrated that awful crime paid portance and respectability and en its chances for passage. I am their speaking in a manner that
is a recognized authority upon tlnenee in its behalf T They tell us from that fund, and, if so, how temporizing with the great princi now pleased to be able to say that si plainly contrary to their convic
ples of truth and righteousness the measure failed to reach the tions. is lamentable, yet it must be
m atters pcrtaining to industri they believe in conciliation and much ?
The Knglish export editimi eireu- compromise, but that they will I make bold the assertion that which lie at the bottom of our House Calendar and it died in the admitted that the public press is
latcs in all Knglish speakiug comi tight when their principles are as many men who coddle ami encour very civilization, and which the last Congress, along with numer today much more courageous in
its condemnation of union out
Irics outsidc nf thè United States, sailed. But. will they ever be age the principal heads of the or American Federation of Labor, ous class legislation bills.
and thè Spanisi! editimi reaches called up to tight if bit by bit they ganization which alone is responsi including every one of its officials But there are danger signs rages than it has been in the past
thè buyers of Lutili American compromise away their principles, ble for that crime will not escape from its president down to its last ahead of us in the 62nd Congress, and that it is growing more so all
if they have any and know what just condemnation for the helping walking delegate, is doing its level and we shall be fortunate indeed the time.
conili ries.
if at its final adjournment we are The bold and fearless manner in
Membcrs of thè \ssoeintimi cali they are. until all is gone and hand they have extended to them best to overthrow and destroy.
aid thè management ver.v malori there is nothing left to tight for? in the promotion of the carnival The situation with respect to as free from vicious class legisla which many newspapers have
alh by iuteresting themsolves in Experience has taught, beyond of crime in which the organiza the so-called labor problem is not tion as we are at present.
given expression to the facts in
increasing thè circulatimi of thè question, that such a haphazard, tion's agents are constantly en unlike the greatest and most try With these briefly stated facts connection with the Los Angeles
magazinc and extonding its use- wobbling policy counts for noth gaged and to continue which it is ing of the problems with which in mind. I ask that you respond affair is both commendable and
fulticss Tliis is mie wav in wliicli ing except to help along the dawn now trying to raise another huge Abraham Lincoln had to contend. when you are requested to assist, encouraging, and if all reputable
It was not by any means the Civil and which, you may depend upon newspapers would pursue the
tlioy . ali he of scrviee to thè As of the system which would com sum.
War in itself that troubled him it. will not be unless there is real same policy they would not only
Nociutimi in cdiicating thè puhlic pel every busies* man, every pro
I Have Been Criticised.
to a hot ter niidcrstanding of thè fessional man and every laboring We are living in a supposedly most, but it was the temporizers, need of your assistance.
perform a patriotic service to the
National Civic Federation. country, but their managers would
industriai quest imi and 1 strinigli’ mail, woman and child to do its Christian era, in a civilizer eom- the compromisers and the cowards
urge upon olir membcrs thè ini bidding or get off the earth, and nioinwealth, under a Constitution in the North that concerned him I have repeatedly declined even the sooner be relieved from the
portance of their co operatimi in which in its last analysis, means guaranteeing us life and liberty. greatest and by whom he was nec to participate in any measure in smart of the lash which is laid
a grand leveling up and leveling But when 1 see the continuity of essarily surrounded to such an ex spired by the National Civic Fed upon their own backs. •
tliis direction.
down of brains and muscle, ignor organized crime, the prevalence of tent that he was afraid to place eration. so long as its representa (Continued in Next Issue.)
Educational.
Freni a nocessurily brief sum- ance and intelligence, horizontally violence and warfare on life and his confidence in his closest friends tives officially flitted about with
mary of some of thè currcnt indus controlled by the bosses of that property inspired by those associ and advisors. That war would fanciful remedies and refrained Y our business should be repre
triai problema of thè daj. lct me system.
ated with labor unionism. I some have been, comparatively, of from adhering to elementary prin sented in T H E TIM E S. \Ye in
now address myself to thè pari A system which insists upon times wonder if our guarantees in short duration had its opposing ciples of free American industrial terest ninety-two and one-half
olir Associatimi hus pla.ved dnring managing its affairs without ac fact do protect us after all. and forces been divided, absolutely, ism.
per cent. T H E TIM E S will give
thè jittst jroar. in varimi* other countability to government of any whether a supine public even one side against the other, which If the doctrines of industrial you the best run for your money
kind other than its own. and faintly realizes what these crim they were not.
freedom, for which the National
forins of aetivity.
ever had. Figure it out with
National Council For Industrial Association of Manufacturers and you
Olir membership is Iliade up of which places a premium upon inal disorders mean.
us.
President Kirby’s Address