Vol. II. No 2.
P O R TLA N D , OREGON, A P R IL 27, 1912
SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF METAL TRADES ASSOCIATION
HELD HERE BIG SUCCESS
The sixth annual convention
and banquet of the United Metal
Trades Association of the Pacific
Coast was held at the Hotel Mult
nomah. Portland, Ore., April
19-20. Delegates were presen*
from all sections covered by this
Association; also delegates from
British Columbia were present.
Prom a numerical standpoint the
convention was no more success
ful than previous conventions, but
what was lacking in numbers was
made up in enthusiasm, so taken
as a whole it was the best conven
tion the association has had.
An interesting report was made
by the president, II T. Clarke, on
the work o f the association dur
ing his term of office. He gave a
brief review of the strikes which
we have had during the past year
and reported the conditions in the
shops at the present time which,
from a labor standpoint, is every
thing that could be desired. lie
reported business conditions which
have been very poor during his
term of office and congratulated
the different members on the in
terest they have taken in making
the association stronger, even
though business was far below the
average.
The report of the work done in
the labor bureau of the Washing
ton district was very interesting
The secretary’s report showed
that during the past year he had
sent to membfAs of the associa
tion 136 men, being an increase
of 92§ per cent over the previous
year. Practically all the mechan
ics they have required has been
sent from the office and by so do
ing they have given the good men
what they have been looking for
— an opportunity to secure work
whenever there is work, at the
highest wages they are capable
o f earning without regard to their
church or other affiliations.
The secretary of the Oregon dis
trict reported an increase in
membership since our last conven
tion and stated that practically
all firms within the limits of our
jurisdiction are new members
He compared the condition of the
association a year ago with that
of today, the result of which is
very encouraging. Reference was
made to the efficient employment
bureau, which is in force in the
Seattle office and the local mem
bers were urged to make use of
the Portland office the same as the
Washington district does.
Eminent M en W h o W ere Lost
W hen the Titanic W e n t Down
to combine it with the Trades &
W orkers’ Association o f Battle
Creek, Mich. Mr. Phelps stated
that the object of this association
was not only to give the men a
social organization, but an organi
zation which the employer can
join and talk matters which are
of mutual interest to the employer
and employee. The association
would do what it could to make
better mechanics of the members
and to regulate their pay accord
ing to their ability.
It was the sense of the meeting
that although the business is
quiet and probably will be during
the year, it is just as important as
ever that the association should
keep the good work on and that
the members should all be very
active in the association. No
changes were made in the policy
of the organization.
The following officers were
elected:
President, John Hartman, man
ager Atlas Foundry & Machinery
Co., Tacoma, W ash.; first vice-
president, A G. Labbe, Wiliam*
ette I. & S. Wks.! Portland, Ore.;
second vice-president. F G. Frink,
Washington Iron Wks., Seattle,
Wash.; third vice-president, J.
M. Fitzpatrick, Union Iron Wks..
Spokane, Wash.; treasurer, A. M.
Clark, Columbia Steel Co., Port
land, Ore.
The sixth annual banquet was
held Saturday evening, the 20th
at. the Multnomah Hotel. II. T.
Clarke, the retiring president, pre
sided at this banquet. Speeches
were made by John Hartman, the
newly-elected
president;
Carl
Jackson, President of the Employ
ers Association of Oregon ; George
James of Seattle; W. II. McMon-
ies, President of the Manufactur
WO continents mourn the loss of eminent men who went down with the
ers Association of the Northwest;
Titanic. Among the lost were Isldor Straus, one of the wealthiest and
Stanley Mayall of Spokane; Jas.
best known of New York merchants; Colonel John Jucob Astor, head
Howard o f Vancouver, B. C .; Mr.
of the Astor family in America; William T. Stead, the veteran London
Turner, of Tacoma, and F. W. journnllst and advocate of International peace; Krnncls D. Millet, the famous
Amerlcun painter, who made his home In England; Major Archibald W. Butt,
Phelps, o f Seattle.
T
ANARCHISTS PLOT
TO DESTROY SAN
DIEGO, G A L
SAN DIEGO. — For several
nights every vulnerable point in
the city water system has been un
der the guard o f city employees
to prevent what the police say
they have reason to believe is a
A most interesting report was carefully laid plot of anarchists
made by the Spokane delegation. to blow up the mains and cut off
The Inland Empire district with the entire water supply and then
headquarters in Spokane, was set the city afire.
The information that the plot
formed since our last convention
and the reports show that up to was to be carried out was con
this time they have taken into veyed to Chief o f Police Wilson
membership all metal trade firms by government officials together
in that vicinity with the excep with a description of seven “ reds”
tion of two. These two not mem constituting the “ dynamite bri
bers employ a total of six to gade” which it is charged has
eight men. Their membership not been selected to do the dastardly
only includes the jobbing shops work.
but the railroad shops as well.
So startling were the plans of
Reports were made by the chair the conspirators to destroy the
man of each district. All reports city which has stood for law and
showed that notwithstanding the order and the American flag that
fact that business has been very the police have made every effort
quiet, the members have lost no to keep the facts from the public.
interest in the association.
Councilman II. R. Fay, super
Representatives from the Fed intendent of the water depart
eration of Employers Association ment. has been directing the work
of the Pacific Coast were presenl of guarding the reservoirs. He
and told o f the good work that | has been on duty constantly since
the first news was received. It
the association is doing.
It was decided that the United is known that the added precau
Metal Trades Association become tion was taken this morning of
establishing day patrol at all the
a member of the Federation.
L etters and telegrams wishing! reservoirs.
The police have a description of
the association a successful con
vention and stating their regrets the seven men constituting the
because they were unable to at “ dynamite brigade” so it is said.
tend. were received from Los An This crowd came here from Los
geles. Sail Francisco. John Kirby, Angeles early this week. They
Jr.. President National Associa were at once placed under sur
tion of Manufacturers: J. P. Bird. veillance and their movements
General Manager National Asso closely watched until Wednes
ciation of Manufactnreres; O. P. day night when they succeeded
Briggs. President National Foun in eluding the detectives and have
since kept out of sight. This is
ders Association and others.
F. W. Phelps, editor of the what caused the guard to be es
Pacific Coast Mechanic, told of tablished at the reservoirs.
Orders were issued for the po
the Brotherhood of Independent
Mechanics, of which he is the lice to arrest all suspects found
head, and the movement on foot in the city.
Price 5 Cents
I. W. W. HELD BY JUDGE IRWIN
TO BE REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY
CANNOT USE FINN HALL
Judge Irwin, in the Superior
Court at Montesano, Wash., rec
ently,in ruling on the application
o f the Finnish Socialist club of
Aberdeen for an injunction against,
Mayor Parks and Chief o f Police
Templeman of that city, to re
strain them from closing the Fin
nish hall of Aberdeen, held in ef
fect that the I. W. W. is a revolu
tionary organization and denied
it the use of the hall. He, how
ever, agreed to the opening of the
place provided the socialists would
not permit its use by the I. W. W.
Ilis decision in full follows:
“ Gentlemen, the courts are al
ways cautious about interfering
with police power and police offi
cers in doing what they consider a
discharge of their duty in the
maintenance of peace and order in
the city in which they have juris
diction. I don’t feel that the facts
as shown to me in this case at this
time will justify me in totally
granting a complete injunction
against the police officers in keep
ing that hall closed under the
showing that has ben made here.
The doctrine as taught by that
society known as the Industrial
Workers of the World as shown
by that book can’t be too strong
ly condemned; it is in fact anar
chistic in its tendency. The own
ers of this hall were socialists and
were unfortunate in allowing that
society to get, into it. I don’t
eontsrue a single doctrine ns put
in that book to the socialists, or
any principle that the socialists
advocate, but I must condemn to
the fullest degree the methods
that are advocated in that book oil
the part o f the Industrial Workers
of the World.
“ If you people are satisfied
with the relief uu order granting
that the hall shall be opened up
for the purpose temporarily until
the case is finally heard, except
for the use of the Industrial Work
ers of the World or addresses to
be made by their agitators, 1 am
willing to go that far, but if you
are not satisfied with that I will
not interefere with the case at all.
Every other use tlint has been
made of this building, unless it
should be that it is in an actual
commission of a nuisance there,
which the witnesses have testified
to, I hardly think the evidence
sufficient in that regard to justify
the keeping of the hall closed.
Every other use except this use of
the Industrial Workers of the
World lias been a lawful and per
fectly proper use of that ball, and
I am not granting an injunction
here »gainst the police that will
result in allowing that society to
hold its meetings or for its agita
tors to make addresses in that
hall.”
Mr. Bone: “ W ill the court
grant the order with the under
standing that the hall is not to be
used by the Industrial Workers
of the World, that is what 1 uni
derstand to be the ruling; am I
correct, your honor?”
Court: “ I think I will go to
that extent, gentlemen, and au
thorize the police that the first I.
W. W. meeting that is held there
or the first address that is held
there by the I. W. W. agitators,
they shall be authorized to close
it. If the Socialists are satisfied
with that we will give them that,
relief; otherwise, I will do nothing
with the case.”
B. G. OOPS
ROSE FESTIVAL
TO ENTERTAIN
BRING I. W.W. S
TO TIME
NOTED SPEAKER
aid to the president of the United States and a close friend of Mr. Taft, and
Jacques Kutrelle, one of the most popular of American wrlter8 of Action. The
LYTTON, B. C. — Forty-four David Starr Jordan, President of
fearful loss of life In the sinking o f the world's finest passenger ship will prob
ably bring about a revision by Great Britain and other countries qf the regula members of the Industrial W ork
Stanford University to
tions dealing with the safety of sea travelers. It Is admitted on all hands that ers of the World are in jail at
Lecture Here Rose
the present safeguards are Inadequate, the rapid development of passenger
Kamloops as the result of a raid
traffic having outstripped that of the laws.
Sunday.
Battleship M ichigan, Am erican
Dreadnought, at Gun Practice
Copyright, 1912, by American Press Association.
VST year the champion of the navy In target practice with big gnna, the
battleship Michigan this spring lost her laurels to the battleship Utah
j In the tests inaile off Ilamp'en Roads. She has an Imp -lng bulk, with
her two huge sets of superimposed turrets fore and aft. her lofty
"peach basket" steel masts supporting her fire control platforms and wireless
apparatus, and is altogether a splendid specimen of the American llreaduougfit
type. She Is of 111,000 tons displacement, carries In her main battery eight
twelve-inch guns and cost about $5,000,000. One o f her twelve lnehers throws
an S50 pound projectile. Each shot requires 300 pounds of smokeless powder
and costs about $225. The Michigan won the red silk pennant “ for battle effi
ciency” for the year 1911, defeating the former holder, the battleship Maryland.
The photograph here reproduced shows the Michigan discharging a broadside
In the target practice In which the Atlantic fleet recently engaged.
L
made upon a steam shovel crew at
D aly’s camp near Savonna recent
ly. The Provincial police were
mobilized at the company’s works
intime to prevent the mob from
running the men away from the
works. While the officers and
strikers were milling around the
grade, a donkey engine came
through and struck one of the
strikers, breaking his thigh and
otherwise injuring him. He was
taken to the hospital in Kam
loops. All illegal arms, consisting
of knives arid billies, were thrown
into the river.
Alexander Bothwell, a night
watchman at Lytton, who last
week shot a striker in the leg
while preventing a raid on the
company’s camp and who has
since been held in Kamloops un
der #'>000 bail, was discharged
and returned to his work. Mr.
Bothwell. after being deputized
threatened to shoot the first man
to put a foot inside the door of
the building he was guarding.
One of the strikers stuck a leg
in and suffered a puncture of the
calf.
I. W. W. ROUTERS
LEAVE ASTORIA
ASTORIA, Ore The F. W. W
agitators, having failed to make
any impression upon the working
men of this city, and discouraged
in their efforts to make trouble
here, hav<- shaken the dust of
Astoria off their feet, and sought
fresh fields and pastures new. W.
T. Neff, who was fined #20 in the
Police Court last week for refus
ing to move on when asked to do
so by a policeman, was the last
to leave, going yesterday.
The Rose Festival Association
has been fortunate enough to se
cure the services of David Starr
Jordan, president of Stanford
University. Stanford, Gal., to de
liver an address on Rose Sunday,
June 9th, at 3 P. M., at the Gypsy
Smith auditorium.
Professor Jordan is an excellent
lecturcror and too well known as
an entertainer to receive any
comment from us. This will be
a great patriotic and religious
festival given under the auspices
of .Multnomah County Sunday
School Association and will have
a grand chorus of one thousand
bovs and girls and five hundred
adults.
GOOD ROADS
MEETING IS ON
Preliminary plans for Good
Roads day, May I. are being ar
ranged at a meeting o f the “ Good
Roads Squadron.” under the di
rection of O T Prall, in the Com
mercial club convention hall this
aftem oon.
Much interest is being taken in
the proposed parade and many
business men are backing the
movement. President. Brookings
o f tin- Business Men’s club lias
appointed a committee to assist
Mr. Prall.
It is planned to have Governor
West act as chief admiral of the
“ squadron.”
Nearly 13,000 names of the 00,-
000 needed for the good roads pe
titions have been secured. Urg
ent need o f speed is being im
pressed on the eirculators in order
to have the petitions tilled in
time to get the hills placed on tin
November ballot.