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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1912)
THE TIMES THE TIMES Brief News of the Week DR. BEN REITMAN ------------ I R ioting convulsed th e city of B uda pest, H ungary, as a re su lt of th e gov- j a t 212 F ir s t S tre e t, P o rtla n d , O regon. P h o n e s : M ain 5 6 3 7 ; A -2686. •rn m e n t's defeat of universal suffrage. , In th e p resence of 200 persons, Dan j T H E TIM ES is not responsible for any opinions ezpreosed by correspondents D avis, a negro aged 21 years, w as I burned a t the sta k e a t T yler, T exas, appearing in its columns. a fte r confessing to an a tta c k upon C ar rie Johnson, a w hite girl. E n te re d in Postoffice a t P o rtla n d , Oregon, a s seco n d -class m a tte r. W ith tho u san d s of to n s of p e rish able freig h t and foodstuffs ro ttin g on th e docks and w harves, th e p o rt of **‘A FEA RLESS EXPO NENT OF IN D U STRIA L PEACE L ondon is com pletely tied up as a re su lt of th e tra n s p o rt w o rk e rs’ fed era SUBSCRIPTION RATES—$2.50 per year, in advance. tion strik e. T h e H am burg-A m erican lin e ’s new AD VERTISING RATES made known upon application. m am m oth trans-A tlantic liner, Im per- ator, th e biggest vessel In th e w orld, S a t u r d a y ,J u n e 1, 1912 w as successfully launched a t H am burg, G erm any, E m peror W illiam a c t ing a s sponsor. THE EIGHT HOUR DAY. ict of not guilty w as re tu rn e d HE shorter work-day will always be a popular subject with the In A th verd e federal c o u rt a t C hicago for th e workingman. It is partieualrly pertinent for discussion just e ig h t w all p a p er m an u fa ctu re rs and Dr. Ben Reitman, manager for now due to the Eight-Hour Bill which has been introduced in our Jobbers who w ere trie d for alleged vio Emma Goldman, who was tarred and lation of th e S herm an law in c o n sp ir feathered at San Diego by a committee National Congress, providing that all direct contractors and all their ing in re s tra in t of trade. of vigilantes. sub-contratctors as well shall employ no man on Government work C hinese of so u th e rn C alifornia, more than eight hours per day. This brings everything supplied to th ro u g h th e ir ch am b er of com m erce LORIMER W ILL NOT RESIGN In Los A ngeles, have Issued an appeal the Government, directly or indirectly, under its provisions. Further to th e people of th e co ast a sk in g them Will Investigate Conditions Personally more, if adopted, it means in the language of the union leaders, an to jo in In a p ro te s t a g a in st th e D illing Before Revealing his Intentions. ham exclusion bill, w hich has a lre ad y extension of the Eight-Hour Day to every line of industry. Every p assed th e U nited S ta te s senate. Chicago.— U nited S ta te s S en ato r L o rim e r w ill not resign hlB s e a t with- man, woman and child in the country, therefore, is vitally interested. | out a stru g g le, re g ard less of a n y p re s We will at first confine our remarks to the present Bill only. su re th a t m ay be b rought to b e ar by JUDGE ARCHBALD his friends In th e se n a te , his friends Whom does it benefit? Who will pay for it? What are its advant j now say. ages? W h atev e r w as th e occasion of Vice- Government work is so intermingled with other work that no one P re sid e n t S h e rm an 's m ysterious visit to Chicago, S e n a to r L orim er m ade who has not studied the matter can understand all its ramifications. plain the fa c t th a t he will in v estig ate r We were surprised, when we came to investigate, at tin; number of conditions a t W ashington person ally before rev ealin g his Intentions. plants which were doing the work and the number that wished to be H e announced th a t he will go to W ash in a position to do it; in other words, had submitted bids from time ington w ith in th re e days if his physi cal condition Is no w orse. W h eth er to time and lived in the hope of eventually getting a contract. Every his trip h a s been h u rried by a m essage workman therefore in machine shops, foundries, cotton mills, woolen- he m ay have received from V ice-Presi mills, (lour mills and limitless other occupations is interested. It dent S herm an th e se n a to r w ould not say. makes no difference whether or not he is doing Government work to Published every S aturday by THE T IM E S COMPANY, Incorporated T .XV ,1 day; he may he doing it tommorrow. What then are these supposed Rebels Collect Forces at Chlhuahu’ . friends attempting to do for this advantage? El Paso, T exas.—T he w ar scene in Mexico hus sh ifted in th e c ity of Chi We are most interested ourselves in foundries and machine shops, huahua, w here G eneral Orozco is con and therefore in this article will refer mostly to these industries. The c e n tra tin g all th e rebel forces in n o rth ern Mexico for a final stan d average machine shop throughout the country works either nine or a g ain st G eneral V ictoriano H u e rta ’s ten hours. It, is doing work perhaps for several customers, but Gov federal forces. All th e c o u n try Bouth of C hihuahua is being abandoned. To ernment work is its filler. Without it there is not enough to keep prevent th*e fe d era ls from m aking pro everybody employed; it represents the percentage of profit. Judge Robert W. Archbald, of the g ress in th e ir p u rsu it, th e reb els are Briefly, there are two arguments why the firm devoting only part United State* commerce court, who la burning th e ir bridges a s th ey cross of its plant, to Government work could not continue its practice under being investigated by the house Judi them . the proposed legislation. The first is that the general competitive ciary committee. Cobb Reinstated by Ban Johnson. Chicago.—Ban Johnson, p re sid en t of work, or its own line of business, requires a nine or ten hour day to People in the News the A m erican league said th a t Ty produce at the right price. Obviously, a plant could not run one de A Jury tria l of H arry K. T haw , slay Cobb, of th e D etroit team , would be partment, or part of a department, on eight hours and the others on e r of S tanford W hite, in his appeal for re in sta te d in tim e to play th e Tlgers- ten or nine. Even if it were practicable, wages would be based ac re le ase from the M atteaw an insane Sox gam e here, and th a t he would be fined $50. aBylum, w as denied. cordingly and there would he continued strife. What is worse, it A nnouncem ent is m ade th a t E dson Eight-hour Law Valid. would be impossible to maintain discipline, the greatest essential of Joseph C ham berlain, vice-president of San F rancisco.—T he s ta te suprem e th e O rand T runk Hallw ay, has been the well-organized shop. The second argument is that in most eases appointed to succeed C harles M. H ays, court re tu rn e d a decision here uphold it would lie impossible to segregate the work. Each mechanic would who lost his life in the T ita n ic d isa s ing th e c o n stitu tio n a lity of th e eight- h our law for wom en, passed a t the require constant superintendence to lie sure lie was working only eight ter. B ecause a rum or gained credence laBt re g u la r session of the C alifornia hours on a Government piece and the regular time oil other work. It In th e general conference th a t Dr. legislature. B enjam in Young of P ortland, Or., used cannot he done. tobacco, th e M ethodist conference a t The result would lie that a firm would have to do all Government M inneapolis failed to elect him to a work or none. The private establishment cannot do Goverinent work bishopric. Dr. Y oung's friends discov exclusively. It is mostly given to the lowest bidder; there is no cer ered th e condition w hen it was too lute to overcom e. tainty as to whether the contract will lie obtained or not. One stroke, Ju d g e L aw ler has dism issed from and all a firm’s business may he lost; another business would have to th e c ale n d a r the 27 in dictm ents s ta n d H avana.—T h a t A m erican In terv e n ing a g ain st form er M ayor E ugene E. tion will not be needed to end th e up lie built, up. No one would take sueli a risk. S chinlts of Ran Francisco. T hese a re risin g of negroes of th e Island w as the Therefore, the present Bill if passed means that the Government th e last of th e hundreds of Indict em phntlc a sse rtio n of th e officials at will have to do all its own work. Well, you say, the result would be m en ts a risin g from th e g ra ft cases th e palace. against dozens of form er San F ra n c is he exchange of c ab leg ram s be the same; the same number of workmen would lie employed. Blit co officials and corporation m agnutes. tw T een P re sid e n t Gomez and P resid en t would the result, he tile same? The Government, to do all its own T aft h a s led to a m ore definite under- s t a n d lr - re g ard in g the n ttltu d e of the Political News Bits work, would enlarge its present plants and perhaps build new ones, U nited S ta te s tow ard Cuba. P resident hut in any instnnee the work would he centralised. The workmen O rtnsby M cliarg will conduct all Gom ez' m essage a g a in st A m erican in would have to follow the work. What does this mean to the man c o n te sts on behalf of Colonel Roose terv e n tio n drew a response from P re s velt In th e republican n ational conven ident T aft. In which a ssu ra n c e s wore whose home and whose friends are not movable? He has the altem tion. given th a t th e a ction of the A m erican alive less work or perhaps no work. William Cramp & Sous rcc R e p resen tativ e Lindbergh, of Mtnne- governm ent w as m erely a m easure of outly refused to hid on a battleship under the eight-hour law. How sota, has announced his candidacy for precaution and e n tire ly disassociated th e U nited S ta te s sen ate to succeed I from any question of in tervention. many are out of work as a result T he Im pression Is general th a t the Who then gels the benefits? The Government employee. With S e n a to r Nelson. A nnouncem ent th a t he would be u rem oval of th e fe a r of Intervention out belittling the work of the Government employee, is it not a fact c an d id ate to succeed U nited S ta te s will g re a tly stre n g th e n popular sup- that he is already pampered for political purposes beyond all limits S e n a to r W. M urray C rane of Massa- ' port of th e governm ent. ------------------------------- Is not the very expression “ Government job” a synonym for a "soft c h u se tts w as m ade by T hom as W. , Airship Inventor and Wife Slain. snap?” lias not the Government employee already all the favors In Law son, th e Boston financier. D eclaring his firm belief that he will San Diego, Cal.— C. H. T olliver, air- can reasonably expect .' And who will pay for his new one I bo nom inated for president at Balti- ship in v en to r and p resid en t of the The increase in the cost of the battleship “ New York” built In m ore. S peaker C lark n ev erth eless has T olliver A irship com pany, and his wife the Government of $1,710,000 over her sister ship the “ Texas” built announced th a t he will also file appll- w ere found dead In th e ir hom e here I and B ert G. Lewis, form erly se c re tary outside suggests the answer. Our Government expenditures are large cation for reelection lo congress. enough now; indirect taxi’s are easy to eolleet, hut there will come a \\ illlam A. I’ren d erg ast. co m ptroller of th e a irs h ip com pany, w as a rre ste d of th e city of New York, lias been time when these same indirect taxes will he too heavy a burden and picked by Colonel Roosevelt to m ake on th e c h a rg e of m urder. the workmen will be the principal sufferers. the speech placing him in nom ination T H E M ARKETS. Obviously, the present Hill is of no benefit to the ordinarv work for th e presidency before the Chicago Portland. man, and so we will get right down to the proposition that most inter convention, and H iram W Johnson of C alifornia will m ake the first W heat—T rac k p rices: Club, 96c; ests him. speech seconding the nom ination. OFFICIALS OF CUBA DENY INTERVENTION ANARCHISM. [<I\Y (mm’s the ¡mnoiinrement that Ihmiia (inlilinim will .I.■ Ii\ l° '2 J U N E 1912 series of lectures iii I'ortliiiul. 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