Yol. II. No 1.
PORTLAND, OREGON, APRIL 20, 1912
STATISTICS SHOW THAT UNIONS
ARE NOT MATERIALLY INCREASING
UNIONISM A GRAFT ON MEMBERS
Lady W arw ick Says Life Is
Best W o r th Living at Fifty
Price 5 Cents
SAILORS ON TILLAMOOK
WALK OUT AND NON-UNION
MEN ARE EMPLOYED
It cannot be truly said that ever o f value in return (except
When a move was made recent painted.
With passengers and
trades-unionism is increasing to a paltry $4192 for “ strike ben
ly to unionize the crews of the general freight, she will leave for
any appreciable extent in Great efits” ) but, on the contrary, by
steamers operated by Elmore & Tillamook tonight.
Britain.
The membership in its action without investigation
Co., the sailors on the Tillamook
Captain Hansen says that he is
1910 was only 15,888 greater (as it alleges) in the McNamaras’
walked out, and for awhile it be not averse to employing union sail
than in 1907— three years before case, you and your cause are now
gan to look as though the vessel ors, but, as his vessel for the most
while the number o f unions de suffering humiliation and loss of
would have to be tied up. Rut the part has been running only to As
creased from 1221 to 1153, a loss prestige? What satisfaction is it
union longshoremen agreed to toria on the trip down from the
o f 68. From 1901 to 1905 the to you to have them telegraph
load the vessel, a non-union crew coast, he found it impossible to se
membership was practically sta “ Sent Clarence Darrow $170,-
was employed for her, and she cure men who were affiliated with
tionary. Here are the official re 000,” while, right now, Darrow
sailed for Tillamook on schedule the organization.
He explains
turns for the ten years, 1901 to is appealing to his friends in
last evening.
there is no sailors’ union in As
Chicago for money to pay the ex
1910, inclusive:
In sympathy with the men who toria, and he had to take outside
Number
Mem- penses of his coming trial on
left the Tillamook, the sailors on men. It is for this reason, it is
bership. bribery charges arising out of
of Unions.
Year.
the Patsy, belonging to the same said, that no particular effort was
1,969,424 the very case (McNamaras) for
1901 ... ........1,282
line, went out. Again the long made to keep union sailors on the
1,954,594 which Gompers and company
1902 ... ........ 1,250
shoremen made no objection to vessels of the line.
1,931,558 sent him $170,000 for fees for
1903 ... ........ 1,237
The Tillamook and Patsy will
loading the craft, and Captain
1,901,674 himself ($50,000 to begin with),
1904 ..... __ __1,211
Hansen, her master, soon made ar continue to come through to Port
1,928,560 and for Job Harriman and Jo
1905 ... ........1,209
rangements for employing a new land for the next few months, or
2,122,241 seph Scott? Who needs your
1906 ... ........1,232
crew. It is announced that she until one of them should be need
2,419,816 wages money most— they, or
------- 1,221
1907
will sail for Oregon coast ports to ed for taking care of the salmon
2,383,244 yourself, your wives and your
1908 __ ......... 1,195
night. The crew leaving her did trade down the coast, when As
2,362,450 children?
toria probably will be made the
1909 ... ........1,163
not belong to the union.
2,435,704
Again, are you aware, union la
northern terminus of her run once
1910 .... ........1,153
American trades-unionism, as bor contributor to Gompers and
So far, the sailors on the Sue II. more. Just now the entire fleet is
set forth in the 1911 report of the company, that in the ten years,
Elmore, the flagship of the fleet, kept busily employed taking care
American Federation of Labor 1902 to 1911, you sent that con
have retained their berths. She of the traffic to and from Port
(and every last man, woman and cern (see its own 1911 report)
came o ff the Oregon drydoek yes land. Of late one of the steamers
child is counted therein, doubt no less a sum than $207,766 for
terday, after having received mi has been bringing part cargoes of
“ strike benefits” and that all you
less) compares as follows:
nor repairs and being cleaned and coal on the northbound trips.
Year.
Membership. or your fellows have received
1901 ___________________ 787,537 back for that purpose in the ten
1902 ...............
1,024,399 years is $73,984, and that they
1903 ................................... 1,465,800 now hold $133,782 o f your money
1904 .................... .......... — 1,676,200 so contributed? Could you not
1905 ...........
1,494,300 do a good deal of good for your
1906 ................................... 1,454,200 selves and yours if you had that
Frank II. Powers, o f Powers &
1907 .............
1,538,970 money now?
Estes, a few nights ago was round
And, again are you aware,
1908 ...........
1,482,872
ASTORIA, Or.— W. T. Neff, the ly cheered for the effective way in
1909 ___________________ 1,482,872 union labor contributor, that in
I. W. W. agitator, who was sen which he called the bluff of one of
1910 ........
1,562,112 the thirty-one years, 1881 to 1911,
tenced
to pay a fine of $20 or to the soap-box orators.
IKE some other foreign celebrities who have recently come to this coun
(Continued on Page 2.)
Decrease since '04, 6 years 114,088
try for lecture or concert engagements. Lady Warwick was Insured serve 10 days in the eity jail
For night after night the street
Federation (Gompers & Co.)
*
by the manager of her lecture tour, the sum being 1100,000. Her Itin Wednesday afternoon, was re haranguers had been drawing big
receipts in 1909........... $232,377
erary of thirty lectures extends from New York to Chicago, and her
Do., in 1910.............
193,470
leased the next day on payment crowds in Sixth street, in front of
subjects are •’Personal Recollections of Famous Men“ and "The New Era In
Decrease in 1910 & 1909 38,907
the Old World.” Although she Is a Socialist she will not Include socialism
o f bis fine by E. J. Lewis, of Seat Powers & Estes’ store, and on this
Receipts in 1911............... 182,188
among the topics which she will discuss In her regular lectures. The countesa, tle, one of the officers o f the I. particular occasion George M. Hy
land happened to be passing and
Decrease in ’ l l from ’ 10 11,282
who admits that she Is fifty and whose youngest grandchild Is of the same age
Decrease in ’l l from ’09 50,189 Hereafter U. S. Flag W ill Be Hung —seven—as her youngest child, says that the best time of life Is after thirty, W. W. organization, who arrived heard one of the speakers shout
and that she finds the world more Interesting at fifty thun at any earlier age.
at noon Thursday. A meeting out that he would like to “ spit on
The decreased receipts in 1911
in Court, and Applicants Will
was held Thursday night in the the American flag and trample it
were in spite of the fact that in
Have to Show Respect.
that year the membership (so
Finnisli Socialist hall to protest on the ground.”
Gompers says) ran up to 1,761,-
Hyland, entering t lie drug store,
No members of the I. W. W.
T w o Foreign Experiments
against the action of the city in
835. These federation official fig need apply for citizenship through
arresting Neff, but this was a related the incident, and asked
W ith Oil Burning Engines
ures prove that, even though the local courts. A genuine re
Powers if he had a flag.
very tame affair, the response
more names are being put on the spect for the American flag will
“ You get the flag and wave it
from the working classes of this
membership rolls, less of union be required from all applicants for
in front o f the fellow, and if he
labor’s wages is going into the naturalization papers, and any ad
city not being very enthusiastic. tries any monkey business, I ’ll ar-
Federation (Gompers and com mission of sympathy with the an
A man calling himself A. McDon rest him.”
Hyland is a special
pany) treasury. The receipts re archistic principles of the trouble
ald. secretary o f the I. W. W. of deputy sheriff.
ported for 1911 do not include some organization will bar the ap
Portland, called up Mayor Hen
Powers secured a good-sized flag
the $225,000 or more which Gom. plicant. This is the ultimatum of
derson by long distance telephone and forced his way through the
pers deceitfully dragged out of Circuit Judge Kavanaugh.
union labor’s wages (to the loss
yesterday and demanded the re crowd, and, as he approached the
“ The Stars and Stripes will be
o f union labor’s wives and child hung above the bench at the ses
lease of Neff forthwith. When soap-box orator, he addressed the
speaker.
ren) to defend, or rather to pre sion of Naturalization Court,” said
informed by the mayor that Neff
tend to defend, the McNamara the Judge recently. “ This is an
“ I understand you want to spit
would be released when his fino
murderers of innocent laborers. innovation, but at a time when so
on the flag. Here is your chance,”
was paid, he became wrathy and and Powers waved the Stars and
The Evening Journal of Albany, much disrespect to the flag and to
N. Y., remarks on this head:
asked if the city of Astoria in Stripes, amid the applause of the
American institutions is being ex
“ Likewise, the vouchers show hibited, I think it behooves the
tended to throw down the gaunt majority o f the crowd. - The speak
ing how the McNamara relief court to do all in its power to
let to the I. W. \V. Mayor Hen er, who Powers describes as a
fund was expended have not yet check the treasonable practices of
derson
replied that the eity “ pig-eyed, bullet-headed specimen
been filed.”
this organization.
o f humanity,” stopped short,
would throw down the gauntlet looked confused and made no an
Unwittingly, the Journal for
“ I shall see that the applicants
to any person or persons who de swer, while a gang of sympathiz
got to recall the fact that one for citizenship are familiar with
voucher was filed by telegraph the flag and what it represents;
fied its regulations and violated ers crowded around Powers and
and that by Frank Morrison, also that they have a proper feel
tried to push him away.
its ordinances.
Gompers’s side partner, which ing of loyalty for it and for the
“ What’s your game with that
constituted authority of the Gov
read:
ra g?” demanded one of tin- crowd.
“ Sent to Clarence Darrow, ernment. L’ ntil an applicant can
“ I ’m here to defend it against
convince me that he is in sympathy
$170,000.
you or anybody else; just start
What Darrow did with the with our institutions and is op
something, if you dare !” and Pow
$120,000 left after he got his posed to the present tendency in
ers stood his ground. He was not
princely “ retainer” of $50,000 some classes toward anarchy, I
molested, and when the speaker re.
has not yet been publicly made sh^ll not consider that he has
slimed his ranting, no further men
known. the vouchers of Ilarri shown qualifications which entitle
tion was made o f the flag.
him
to
citizenship.”
HOQUIAM,
Wash.
The
Aber
man. Scot, et al., not •yet being
on file publicly. And the assess
United States Naturalization
deen eity council last Friday
ment ami collection o f the great Examiner Ilazzard is here from Se
pased a resolution declaring the
sum was public as far as union attle, to be present at the hearings
Red
Finnish Hall, the meeting!
labor is concerned. Will the con today. lie states that the menace
place of socialists and the I. W. |
tributing union labor ever be told of the I. W. W. propaganda has
W. organization, to he a nuisance i
what was really done with its been realized by many courts in
the Northwest, and judges are re
$225.000. or more?
and ordered it closed indefinitely
Look at it this way, union la quiring candidates to state their
ABERDEEN, Wash. All Hin
by the police. This action was
bor contributor in 1911 to Gom willingness to defend the flag be
dus have been discharged from the
taken
after
Superior
Judges
Mo
fore admitting them to citizenship.
pers and com pany:
Donovan mill and replaced with
“S E W ENGLISH MOTOR R A IL W A Y COAC^h
ser and Irwin issued an order cit white labor, and they will he paid
Federation receip ts... ... $1*2.188 The judges who have already tak
ing Mayor J. W. Parks and Chief o ff at other mills as fast as pos
Mc-Namara collection ------ 22->.000 en the matter up include Judge P h o to b y A m e r ic a n P r e s s A s s o c ia tio n
Hanford, of the United States
of
Poljee [,. I). Templeton to ap sible, All plants but the Western
IK di»tiirt»efl conditions in the coal raining industry here and abroad
Court, of Seattle; Judge Frater. of
Total contribution in
jtfve particular interest to the inventions designed to free transporta pear and show cause why an in-1 mill have already resumed, and it
1911
$467. 1 SB Seattle; Judge Easterday. of Ta
tion companies from depend»Mi< upon coal as fuel Recently the first jnetion should not be issued re is expected to begin work soon.
Do you union labor men not coma, and Judge Sol Smith, of
Nine o f the mills have had full
so called motor liner, the Kelandia, ever seen in Kurland reached Lon
straining the authorities from in crews report, and some havo
realize from tbqge figures, union South Rend. Judge Frater recent don on her maiden voyage from Copenhagen to the Malay states. Her ton
labor contributor to Gompers and ly dismissed the application of a nage is 3,TIG; her horsepower 2.500. She burns kerosene and has no smoke- terfering with its meetings. The ¡ turned away applicants. Picket
company, that last year you took foreigner “ with prejudice.” when «tacks The Great Western Railway company of Kngland is conducting a complaint says two socialists so ing by the strikers has about
$42.188 more than $1000 a day the foreigner admitted that he series of experiments with a view to superseding steam by electric power. It •defies, the Finnish Sunday school I ••eased, and the strike is looked
(Sundays included), out of the would follow the dictates of an or has installed on one o f its branch lines a roach which is Independent of and other organizations have upon as a thing of the past. Few
wages you worked for, and sent ganization to which he belonged, ► team fiower, overhead wires or coal It Is fitted with an oil burning engine suffered because the police nailed1 er Greeks and Slavonians are seen
"Mich transmits its power through an electric motor. Accommodation Is pro*
it to that non-working, gvt-money- even if they should conflict with » "ii for forty-sis passengers, and a maximum speed approaching thirty-live u(> the doors, which was done to, on the streets, railroad men report
easy firm in Washington, D. C., the constituted authority of the t o * < an hour has been attained
put an end to the meeting of the i ing that they are leaving the city
and that you got nothing what country.
in large numbers.
Í. W. W. in the eity.
SOAP BOX ORATOR
ASTORIA MAYOR
NOT AFFECTED
CALLEDBYPOWERS
BY I.W.W. BLUFF
COURT WILL BAR
I.W.W. MEMBERS
1
HOQUIAM COUNCIL
DEGLARES i W.W.
HALL NUISANCE
HINDUS GIVE WAY
TO WHITE LABOR
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