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OPEN SHOP ON THE
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Count7 Court of the 8Ut* of
Oregon, fo r M ultnom ah County.
a g a i n s t w hich t h e y h a d so o fte n j n the matter of the estate of Lewis
a n d so v io len tly t r a n s g r e s s e d an d
N. Bisson nett, deceased.
were put away from the sight of To Alice M. Bissonnett Ernest E. Bis-
THE TIMES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents
free men. Others of their kind are
sonnett, Eva A. Weaver, Hattie
appearing in its columns.
now awaiting trial. The day for
Montgomery,
Clara
Provancha,
Hose Brockway, Alma Bissonnett,
some of them is about ended, when
Henry Peck and all other heirs and
Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter.
they too will be put away.
devisees of Lewis N. Bissonnett,
“ But what of the ‘ Closed Shop’
deceased, unknown or known:
policy
of
Organized
Labor?
Re­
A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
In the name of the State of Oregon:
member it was due to an attempt You are hereby commanded to appear
at enforcement of that policy that before the honorable County Court of
SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance.
some eighty-five or more dynamite the State of Oregon, in and for the
outrages were committed through­ County of Multnomah, at the court­
ADVERTISING RATES made known upon application.
out the country, resulting in the house, in the City of Portland, on 23rd
loss of about one hundred human day of July, 1912, at the holir of 9
lives and great destruction of A. M. of said day to show cause, if any
Saturday, July 20, 1912
property. Furthermore, the at­ exist, why an order should not be made
tempted
enforcement
of
the by the above-entitled court authorizing
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and directing V. A. Brewer, the ad-
THE RED FLAG.
( used Shop
by
Organized
Labor
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.. above-entitled
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The Rooseveltinim have adopted the red bandana handkerchief has been responsible for at least tate, to sell the east half of lots 12 and
as an emblem. It is supposed to represent the workingman of the three-fourths of the labor wars on 13, block 3, Vernon Addition to Port­
the Pacific Coast during the past land, Multnomah County, Oregon, at
country. The selection is ridiculous. It would be much more ap­
ten years. (I believe I ean truth­ private sale for cash
propriate if the colonel had chosen a pair of butternut-colored over­ fully apply the same statement to
Witness my Land and the seal of
said Court affixed this 15th day of June,
alls as the badge of his tribe. Neither workingmen nor any other the entire country.)
1911
kind of men now use red bandana handkerchiefs to keep their noses
“ It was such conditions as these
F. S. FIELDS,
in a cleanly condition. Stop the first 100 or 1000 workingmen you that awakened the employers of L. D. MAHONE,
County Clerk.
Attorney for Estate,
meet and you will not find one red bandana handkerchief in the out­ this Coast to action, and it was en­
tirely for the purpose of securing
513-14-15 Couch Bldg.
fit. Their handkerchiefs arc as colorless as progressive politics.
the abolition of the ‘ Closed Shop’
that they formed themselves into
employers associations. Their rea-1
soiling had brought them to the I B o o k
R eview s
conclusion that if the ‘ Closed!
Shop.’ was in accord with justice
and fair dealing it would not re- Fame-Seekers, by Alice Woods
quire the commission of unlawful
$1.20. Illustrated. George II
and murderous acts to secure its
Doran Co., New York City.
Yet, while not in the least appropriate as a part of a working­ enforcement and to maintain its
With illustrations by May W il­
They contended, and
man’s toliet equipment, the red bandana is not altogether inappro­ control.
son Preston, this attractive novel
rightly so. that the virtue of jus­
priate as an emblem o f the I-W on’t Workers’ party. A red llag tice, which is to be found in ev­ depicts with cleverness an Amer­
artist-story of Bohemian
would, in the event of Socialistic success, hang from the porches of ery good cause, would foster and ican
p
known and Trilb Land-
tens of thousands of homes to notify the world that an auctioneer g,yc ,t strength of the right char- The Under
/ nna
would dispose o f their contents. A red flag is the danger signal used act-r and preserve it.
Chapin, $ 1.2 ^ Ilustrated. Lit
to warn approaching trains that an avalanche or a tornado, or a
“ But it is not formed out of
tie, Brown & Co., Boston,
Hate, love and a secret crosscut
band of outlaws have torn up the track. Red flags were carried this or any other high principle
by the mobs who caused the gutters of Paris to run with blood, and and is therefore a diabolical pol- j trail in the Virginia Mountains
icy. It is so utterly devoid of the make up this attractive novel of
the “ Marseillaise” to be sung, and the Carmagnole to be danced
elements of justice and righteous-1 the Southland. The characters*
around the statue that represented the Goddess of Reason in Paris, ness and brotherly love, that in or- are exceedingly well drawn,
the while the altars o f churches dedicated to the Most High were de- der to maintain it. the advocates Beggars and Scorners, by Allan
McAulay. $1.25. John Yane
fild and the guillotine was kept busy with its work of decapitating must invariably resort to acts of
priests and women. The insurrectos in Mexico carry red flags as intimidation and violence against j Co., New York City,
their fellow-workers, resulting fre-
An historical novel well wortb
the emblem of their purpose to rod and maltreat and murder all
,n the taking of . ^ “ ¡readin g-h arkin g back to the tri
who do not agree with them, and all who have money, or portable quently
life, and almost always m the d -
„ „ won • a similar d epart
property tjiat can be led, driven or carried away— American prop­ striiction of property. It has a b - I * by Charles M a jor-depictin g
erty preferred.
soliitely no respect for the natural | the stnltr(fles, intrigues, loves and
The hen-roast-robbing I. W. W .’s carried red flags as they jour­ or e v il rights of men. and . hate> of S(,otph Ja*obii e exjles ¡D
known to asail with bitterness and Holland after the memorable bat
neyed to San Diego to indicate the right of blatherskites to beat to hatred those members of Organ­
a pulp the plutocrats in the shadows of whose palaces, according to ized Labor, who being big enough tie of Culloden in Scotland in
1745, when the English arm}', un
think for ¡h ,r
lve,. „ e
the bombastic phrase of Socialism, “ lurk the cringing forms of
of Bonnjf
millions of people whose blood has been transmuted into the marble mg to grant to their u n o r g a n i z e d , ^ thp ,
fellow-workers the same r.Khts Prinee Charlie anf, his aJherent.s
columns and granite walls owned by predatory wealth.”
and privileges as they demand for The Mission of Victoria w ilhel
Let Rooseveltism flaunt the red bandana. The Star Spangled themselves. Therefore, it not only
mina, by Jeanne Bartholow Ma-
militates against the rights of the
Banner is good enough for tile Old Guard.
goun. $1. B. W. Huebsch. New
employer and the great body of
York City.
unorganized labor, but also against
Told with singular pathos, this
THE CASE OF DESTINY.
the best, and infinitely the most,
story of a young girl’s experiences
That there is a chapnel of twenty-seven and one-half feet over useful members of organized la­
in New York City, and in the form
the Columbia River bar at zero tide, and that this channel is now bor. Its aim is “ rule or ruin.”
of a diary depicts how she met
“ Why then should you encour­ the inevitable man, was deceived
KHH) feet wide its entire length, is the finding o f the government
age such a policy and lend it your by him and went wrong.” He wes
engineers in their annual survey. It is also established that there is
support, as you most certainly do her employer. A baby cainc, who
n 24-foot channel two thousand feet wide, and that time and experi­
when you specify that none but|died shoriiv after she w a s ’born
ence arc regularly confirming the theories o f the engineers as to the . 1 " ,on Lahor ,.shnll. be employed I , was named after the presen1
effect of the jetty work upon the channel.
ii. the construction o f your plant! I Q ueen^f Spain and the QimeiTöf
It is assumed by the engineers that the construction of the pro­ I lie principle is wrong, inasmuch IInlland As tbe title of the ]itt,P
as it is contrary to divine law and book indicates, this publication
posed north jetty will materially increase the width and depth of
immediately deprives the individ­
the present channel. With the experience of the past as a guide, ual of rights which tin* constitu­ strives to fulfill a mission, and
ought to serve as a terrible warn
it is a reasonable expectation that a wide channel of :t(> to .'to feet tion of this country says he shall
iug. It may, and may not.
depth is to be realized within a few years. When to this there is possess and enjoy without let or Marcus Alonzo Hanna: His Life
added the eight or ten-foot tide incident to the bar. the Columbia hindrance. You expect to enjoy j and Work. By Herbert Croly.
entrance will easily take rank among the best and safest ship chan­ tin* rights to which I refer. Why j With portrait. Tbe Macmillan
then arc you not willing to accord
Co. $2.50 net.
nels in the world.
the same privileges to the free) : The attitude of too many re-
The progress making at the mouth of the Columbia River is re­ workman. and at the same time do
do, f()rln(,rs toward politicians of the
minder that the Astoria handicap should be removed, is reminder al within your power to help *>s- j 0jd S(!hool is a Pharisaic attitude of
that the rail rate from the Columbia basin should be fixed by a tablish conditons that shall mean j condemnation, as if those gentle-
down-river instead of by an over-mountain haul, and reminder that lor the dawn ol industrial peace, j men bad been guilty of personal
Cortland must, sooner or later, be the headquarters of a great nav­ wherein all men shall labor in a I unrighteousness in being what
true spirit of charity and brother- they were Mr Croly. in writing
igation line, with Cortland-owned ocean steamers to meet in Cort­ ■ , ve. and enjov
Lite, liberty, the life of “ Mark” Ilanna, sees
land a fleet of steamboats plying our great system o f inland water­ and tbe pursuit of happiness!”
I the falsity of tbis attitude.
ways.
■'In closing 1 will state, without | Marcus Hanna certainly did
The better channel on the Columbia bar points out Cortland’s tear id contradiction, that there ¡stand for what we now cnll priv-
destiny. If ther are not in Cortland men who can see it, let it be is no place in the whole wide j ilege, but Mr. Croly shows us that
world where labor is better paid, lie did not deliberately choose it
hoped that fate may hasten the day when men will come here with
where the hours of labor are more after seeing a vision of privilege on
power to discern one great, big palpable fact. *
reasonable, where the working 1 the one hand and purity and dem-
conditions are more sanitary and ! oeracy on the other hand. To him
healthful, where there is less in- no such vision was granted. He
AN ACRE ON BROADWAY.
clemency of weather or more pro- was a product of contemporary
The mind is staggered at the prices paid for New York real es­ tection against it furnished to conditions. “ Only one explana­
tate Three years ago a property at the corner o f Wall and Broad tion* who are compelled to work tion will account for his peculiar
streets went at the rate of ¡£12.402,000 an aere, or .+4.To per square nitside. than here on the Pacific success. He must have embodied
inch, forty years ago. A .1. Drexel bought a site on the opposite Coast Furthermore, tin* man who in his own life and purposes some
honestly labors is tin* man who vital American social and economic j
corner, and paid a price for it equivalent to $lo,l.">S.000 per acre.
owns his home out here, whose, tradition which gave his personal-!
The latter site has .pist been acquired by ,1. C. Morgan at a figure not ..*tis and daughters are in our i ity, individual ns it was. more than
made public. It comprises more than a fifth o f an acre, and is re­ schools and colleges, preparing j an individual meaning and im­
themselves for tin* duties of life, pulse.’ ’ This tradition, thinks Mr,
garded as the choicest corner in the New York financial district.
Years ago W II Vanderbilt paid ¡£100,000 for ati old greenhouse and bis kind make up a large ma­ Croly, was that o f the pioneer.
jority of our working peopli
site on Fifth avenue, but land in the vicinity has recently changed
In a little pamphlet entitled, '
“ These results have been ob­
hands at $21,212 a front foot, or $¡*>.500,000 an acre. Several years
tained under ‘ Open Shop’ condi­ "T h e Church and the Working­
ago, a portion of the present site of the Flatiron building went at tions and arc not to be credited man” (Golden Rule Publishing
the rate id' $11.1)00.000 an aere. It was recently stated that a small as accomplishments of organized Co.. Nashua. N. IT., price 10 cents), j
plot at Broadway and Thirty-fourth streets went at the rate o f $:!>.- labor or the ‘ Closed Shop.’ The the Rev. Edgar F. Blanchard finds
Pacific ( oast believes in tin* prin­ that the underlying purpose of the
utMl.lNltl an acre.
ciples of the ‘ Open Shop' and Mosaic Poor Laws and o f the early
These arc fabulous prices for land, and are example of the
while we bid you a hearty wel­ Christian church was “ to prevent]
fictitious values created b\ the increase of population on Manhattan come. upon your becoming a unit destitution and distress, rather;
Island.
in our industrial life. I trust you than to help people as objects of;
A drugstore sold in New York in the financial district some " i ll reconsider tin* matter of the charity after they h?d come to dis­
tress” ; and prophesies that the!
years ago is said to have brought a price sufficient to have covered class of labor to ho employed in new church soon to appear will be !
the
construction
of
your
plant
to
the site with ten-dollar gold pieces set oil edge.
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| ar “ a Religious Brotherhood—a relig­
The rentals that must In* paid on these values aggregate an enor- worthy workman shall be refused ious system organized on positive
ethical and fraternal principles.” !
moils sum. a sum that must be created by somebody's toil. The price employment or turned away.
Fro mthis combination of lodge,
of an acre on Broadway presents an extraordinary problem in
“ Very respectfully,
labor union and church, the work-1
American economies.
"W A L T E R RISK,
ingman will not stay away.
They are white, mitigated by such accretions as come to them after
a few d a y’s use. The red l;andnna handkerchief is a relic of former
days. It is as obsolete as knee breeches, flowered waistcoats and
blue spike-tailed coats with brass buttons. The late Senator Allan
f 1. Thurman was the last public man to flourish a red bandana hand­
kerchief ou the platform, or to use it as a trumpet to emphasize the
rich voicefulness of his bazoo.
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NORTH
AND
BEACH
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D E L IG H T F U L C O L U M B IA R IV E R R O U T E ON T H E S T E A M E R S
T. J. POTTER
HASSALO and
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FROM ASH STREET DOCK.
STEAMER ‘ ‘ T. .1. POTTER” leaves Portland at 10.:30 p. m. (daily
except Sunday, arriving at Astoria 6:00 a. m. and Megler at 7:30 a. in.
Returning leaves Astoria daily except Sunday and Monday at 7:00 a. m.
Megler at 9:30, arriving Portland 4:30 p. in. On Sunday, leaves Astoria
7:00 a. m., Megler 9:00 p. m., arriving Portland at 5:30 a. m. Monday.
STEAMER “ HASSALO” leaves Portland daily (except Saturday
and Sunday) at 8:00 a. m., Saturday at 1 p. in., arriving Astoria 1:30 p.
m., Megler 2:15 p. ni. On Saturday arriving Megler 6:30 p. m. Return­
ing leaves Megler except Saturday and Sunday at 2:45 p. in., arriving
Portland 10:00 p. m. Sunday leaves Megler 9:00 p. m., arriving Portland
5:30 a. in.
STEAMER “ HARVEST QUEEN” leaves Portland daily (except
Saturday and Sunday) at 8:00 p. m., Saturday at 10 p. m. for Astoria and
way landings. Returning leaves Astoria daily except Sunday at 7:00
a. in., arriving Portland 6:00 p. m.
EXCELLENT RESTAURANT SERVICE (Meals a la Carte)
Trains meet all boats at Megler for North Beach points.
Astoria . . .
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North Beach— Saturday-to-Monday tickets............................................ 3.00
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North Beach— Five-ride Round-trip tickets.......................................... 15.00
One-day River Trip, Portland to Megler and return.............................2.00
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