Vol. II. No 23.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 21,1912
JOB-SHOP STRIKE LIFE NETS OF
BETTER SERVICE
UNJUST TO WELL
FIRE DEPT. NEED
WANTED; NOT LOW
PAID LABORERS
INSPECTION ^ ^ TVyf Y friend, Joy, put God in servant, and he sort of made neck FARES AT TIMES
the Constitution of Mon tie parties and otl^er such festivity
Feeders Exorbitant in Their De Anybody who has heard of any
Price 5 Cents
COUNCILMAN JOY
SENDS LETTER TO
MT. SCOTT PEOPLE
Councilman Joy, of the Seventh
unpopular around about While it.is true that, if Portland Ward,
tana, but he doesn’t seem to be almighty
mands—Pressmen Are Made instance at which life nets carried able
has made public the follow
his
place
of
business.
was
governed
by
a
really
wide
to keep Old Nick out of his
Scapegoats.
ing
letter,
which is self-explan
awake
administration,
the
Port
Portland Fire Department ap little Seventh Ward,” said The “ And I ’ve known Joy since he land Railway, Light & Power Com atory :
This brotherhood stuff is great by
came
to
Portland.
Most
of
that
Man
On
the
Corner.
paratus
were
taken
out
and
tested
—sometimes. Sometimes it is just
would never have obtained Portland, Oregon, Sept. 13, 1912.
he has been a good lawyer, a pany
the opposite, as in Portland, at within the past year will confer a “ Now, Joy is not at all a bad time
its
injunction
against a three-cent Mr. Allen J. Harrison,
good
husband,
and
a
good
father,
present, when pressmen who were favor upon this paper by coming sort, and I don’t see any reason lie lias attended to his own busi fare for “ standees”
on the street Pres. Mt. Scott Improvement (.Tub,
getting, in some instances, as high to the front and telling about it. why he ought to be having so much ness; and when the people of the cars; it is also true that
Portland (>423 39til Avenue S. E.,
as thirty-five dollars a week, are Any fire company commander who trouble in his political home. In seventh ward asked him to go people do not want the three-cent
A rleta, City.
fact,
I
don’t
believe
he
is
having
now not getting anything, and will open the life net casing on the
fare.
What
they
want
Is
adequate
Hear
Sir—
is well known that some
down
to
the
Council
and
attend
to
any real trouble. I think the real their business, he did that, too. service. People are perfectly will political and It personal
press feeders who were getting
enemies of mino
from fourteen to sixteen dollars a side of his apparatus and examine fact of the matter is, that there are Joy
have for the past few weeks been cir
ing
to
pay
five
cents
a
ride
for
the
has
a
habit
of
doing
what
he
culating
some
malicious
con
just
a
few
people
out
Sellwood
week up are now being replaced the rope fabric within will prob
of journeying about on cerning my official conduct, reports
thinks is right, and that seems to privilege
and it is
by girls, who are willing to do ably be surprised at wThat he will way who are ambitious themselves, me
the
cars,
only
they
want
to
be
able
im portant to all good citizens of the
to be a pretty good trait. Some to get a car without an undue Seventh
their work for seven and one-lialf find.
W ard, as well as to myself,
times
what
he
thinks
is
right
dollars a week.
th at steps be taken to establish the
amount of waiting.
doesn’t
appeal
to
the
popular
fan
Life
nets
are
made
to
be
used
in
truth or falsity of these charges, and I
There is a strike on in the print
cy ; but personally I ’d rather have Of course, if the Council had am
making this proposition to you and
ing trades, though there hasn’t emergencies. They are supposed
a
man
for
my
Councilman
who
every
improvement club in the Seventh
been
in
earnest
about
that
three-
been much about it in the papers. to be stretched taut by husky fire
Ward, that, if you will investigate these
voted
as
he
thought
was
right
than
cent
fare
ordinance,
and
if
the
ad
fully, you will find them, each
This is the season of politics and men and held rigid for people cut
a man who got hysterical and vot ministration had really wanted to charges
and all, to be false in to tal; also, th at
other things, and there are certain off from other escape to jump into.
ed
where
the
hullabaloo
was
com
make it effective, the City Attor if any improvement club, acting in good
kinds of news that the big dailies If these nets are made flimsy from
ing from.
faith towards the public, as well as to
ney would have enjoined the street wards
would rather not print just now. dry-rot, if they have been folded
cag find any single o ffi
“ Ever since Joy got into office car company from interfering with cial act myself,
Strike news is one of these kinds.
of mine or vote that I have
the
passing
into
effect
of
the
or
somebody has been trying to recall
cast th at was not done conscien
Aside from this, the young men in their cases so long that their
tiously and to the best of my ability, 1
him, or has been raising some kick dinance. Anybody can get an in ever
seeking information for the big fiber is broken and cracked, they
about him. But he is still on the junction these days. But the will resign at once.
dailies haven’t known just how to will not be of any service to peo
You will see a t once the unfairness of
job, and is still doing things that Council was not very anxious for making
get the news. But this is what has ple who leap from upper stories of
charge of “ incom
he believes to be right. He has at the three-cent law to become ef petency M a or general
really happened.
“ failing to represent my
fective
;
it
voted
in
the
affirmative
and
who
would
like
to
get
Joy’s
tracted
some
attention,
I
guess*
a burning building.
Wages Already High.
” etc., but every fair-
goat, so that they could get in the and got a lot of people jealous. on the measure merely as a sop to constituency,
minded citizen will demand at least one
Press feeders in Portland job Maybe the fire commissioners Council
and see if some of these But, aside from that, I guess he Clyde’s little stunt of intimidation, act
of misconduct, and w ill demand that
shops have been getting fourteen know this, and maybe they don’t. things they
established by sufficient proof be
hear about are really hasn’t done anything except be as which he pulled off so neatly with it fore be they
to sixteen dollars a week in the They also ought to know that the true.
will listen to tho rabble of my
good a Councilman as he knew the assistance of the afternoon pa personal enemies.
of your
past. That was the scale. In
“ I’ve known Allan R. Joy for how to be. Sometimes a man gets pers. Clyde was “ grandstand members may k nnw, As l some
have always
many shops the men were paid only way to keep these nets serv some
earnestly w ith the push clubs of
little time. I knew him long into the position that Joy is in just ing,” and the Council was willing worked
more than the scale, primarily be iceable is to frequently inspect ago, when
the city (w hether holding office or not),
he was prosecuting at because his enemies can’t hang that he should do it.
cause they were good men, and them, remove them from their cas torney of one
knowing these clubs to be made
of the wildest coun anything upon him; and in their What the Council wants, and and,
were of more worth to the shops. ings, and stretch them in the open ties in Montana,
up of the most enterprising and ener
wild
attempts
to
get
his
goat
they
when
the
Gem
getic
of tho community, I have
However, the feeders, most of air. Commanding officers of com State was given over to the habit just strengthen his position. That’s what it would like to be able to do great citizens
confidence in their fairness and
for
the
people,
is
to
get
the
local
whom are but little more than
holding necktie parties every about the way it is with Joy—no streetcar company to run more judgment.
boys, thought they ought to have panies equipped with nets ought to of
morning
breakfast, and body has any real kick against
Your people have never instructed mo
on the city lines, where they upon
more money. They wanted the know this, too, and ought to put when the before
any of the measures pending in
cowboy and his, him, and the tinkers and fixers cars
are
needed.
The
Council
would
scale set at sixteen to eighteen dol their lcnowdedge to practical use. trusty gat wild
City Council, and 1 have, therefore,
quite plentiful.1 who want to get his job can’t find like to get these cars for the peo the
lars a week. Back in Chicago, In the meantime this paper will Yet in those were
in the absence of instructions, been com
Joy showed that I any ground from which to start a ple, but it cannot do it just as pres pelled to use my own judgm ent. Of
where there is quite as much press- be glad to hear from any person he could be days
people d iffer in opinions, and
a pretty good public I real attack upon him.”
ent. And the company knows course,
work done as there is in Portland,
honestly, whether it be in a leg
this, so it doesn’t care very much differ
the scale is nine dollars a week, who has seen, within the past year,
¡stature, a City Council, an improvement
the ditch. Then the drunken what happens.
club, a fraternal lodge, or oven in fam
and .the men are satisfied.
any
tests
or
inspection
made
of
life
PEOPLES
COURT
m atters, and where two or more peo
chauffeur
and
his
friends
proceed
The Portland feeders, however,
There ought to be more cars run ily
carried on the local fire wag
ple disagree in opinions, no fair minded
ed
to
make
the
night
hideous
until
not content with the advance of nets
blames either party for Ids opinion.
the Hawthorne, Mt. Scott and man 1 desire
ENTANGLED WITH the police patrol arrived on the on
five dollars over Chicago prices, ons.
to say th at 1 think no mem
Sellwood
lines,
for
instance,
and
scene
and
took
the
whole
bunch
ber of the City Council has worked
wanted still more money, and so
not
so
many
cars
run
to
The
Oaks.
POLITICAL
LIFE
down to the city jail. In the jail People who live on these lines get stituency
harder or puCin more time for his con
they decided to get sixteen bucks Maybe that class of unionism that
better results than
drunken chauffeur continued tired of waiting, night after night, I have, and or secured
a week or bust in the attempt. aims to improve the conditions of Justice of Varied Kinds Seen in to the yell
at no vote of mine has
for the greater part of the for a car to come along, while half contributed in th any
Wednesday of last week they told
way
Rulings of Police Magis
night, and did not fall into a a dozen or so cars run out to The advantage. The fact, is, to th my at personal
1 have
the employing printers about their the laboring man approves of it.
trate Today.
less business and made less money
drunken sleep until nearly time to Oaks almost empty. On Thursday done
desires,_ and on Saturday they Maybe the Pressmen themselves
in the past year than for any former
to court. When arraigned be
struck. They didn’t ask for any approve of their affiliation. But One of the prime faults with an go
of this week, for instance, year
in ten years; and, furtherm ore,
arbitration or consideration in the the chances are, that they don’t— electoral judicial system is, that fore Judge Tazwell, these facts night
since
been a member of the ( 'ity
was an interval of 20 min Council I have
duly accounted by the arrest there
there has been no measure
matter; they simply wanted the in fact, many of the pressmen have during political campaigns it is were
utes
in
the
heart
of
the
rush
hour
passed by th at body “ especially benefi
apt to become a spoils system. ing officer, but Judge Tazwell during which no Sellwood car left cial
money. And when it wasn’t forth
to the money corporations,’’ but on
turned the prisoner out, failing to the corner of Second and Alder the contrary,
coming they struck, without warn been around to the shops where This is just as unfortunate as it is see
ordinance th at has
sufficient evidence in the tes streets, yet in that time three cars passed has been every against
they used to work, and have com true; and it is just as true as it is timony
ing.
the corporate
to
even
assess
a
fine.
true
that
human
nature
is
weak
influences, and I have voted for every
Pressmen In Trap.
menced
to
dicker
for
their
old
jobs
passed
bound
for
The
Oaks.
There
one
of
them.
The
charge
th at 1 have
when facing strong temptation. For instance, again, from time to is no reason why this should have approved “ commercialized vice”
The Press Feeders’ Union some
on any terms that they All
of
which
is
by
way
of
introduc
time ago got the pressmen to “ af again,
time the police have been breaking been. The Oaks cars were not get ridiculous and malicious to call for is too
de
could
make.
And
the
ra^t
of
the
tion
to
some
passing
remarks
upon
filiate” with them. The pressmen
nial, as any one who knows me will
up
Chinese
gambling
games,
using
ting
paying
loads,
and
there
were
wanted to affiliate with somebody unions in the printing trades are things that happen these days on crowbars and sledges to assist
lot of people who wanted certify.
Ho far as the bill board ordinance is
ever since they got into difficulties not showing any approval of the the second floor of the police head them in their work. The matter a to whole
get
to
points on the Sellwood concerned,
this was an ordinance drawn
with the Typographical Union, stand taken by the Feeders, either. quarters’ building, where is situ having been brought before Judge line.
the < 'ity A ttorney, and the bill board
ated the court of Judge -Tazwell. Tazwell by some interested attor If the Council would quit nag by
-which is a pretty good union. So
people had nothing to do with it. w hat
Movement Is Unfair.
Judge Tazwell is a nice, young neys, His Honor has ruled that
they affiliated with the boys who
and knew nothing about it until
ging the streetcar company, and soever,
after it was cnacte'd. The C ity A ttor
compose the Feeders’ organiza There are times when a strike man. He is also a candidate for a hereafter that no raids must be would
discovered th at the ordinance
devise some way of making ney
tion. and this Affiliation meant may be justified. There doubtless higher judicial position at the com made by the police unless a search- tin' streetcar
by the people was a copy of the
do its ordi ( passed
that any time the Feeders wanted are jobs in this man’s town that do ing election. As police magistrate, warrant is first procured from his nary duty to company
ordinance which was appealed
the public, Portland to ‘liieago
he has before him daily a number court. This ruling opens up so
chestnuts pulled out of the fire,
the Supreme Court of Illinois and de
would
be
better
off,
and
would
not
not
pay
the
workingman
a
fair
of
people
who
later
on
will
be
able
unconstitutional, and, therefore,
the pressmen had to go ahead and
many lines of speculation that the figure so frequently in the joke clared
it became necessary for this city to
be catspaws. That is what a whole and reasonable wage. But such is to cast a vote one way or another; police have not stopped laughing column
pass
a
law
subject that was valid
the newspapers. What, and could be on the
lot of this brotherhood business not the case in the present trouble. and by the same token he has be yet. They are not laughing be Portland of wants
enforced; our f ity A ttor
now
is,
not
throe-
fore
him
people
in
whom
there
is
really amounts to.
ney drew up such a law and spent a
the thing is funny—but be rent fares, but it is enough cars to good
It requires no great skill to feed considerable interest felt at times cause
deal of time in draw ing it. It
Therefore, when the Feeders paper
cause
the
ruling
is
such
a
farcical
into
a
press.
In
fact,
when
first received the approval of the May
handle the ordinary traffic on the or.
struck, the Pressmen had to strike, an apprentice around a printshop by men who control large groups travesty upon justice.
and
was brought into the Council,
of votes or other powerful influ The other night a man was ar different lines in the city.
too. The Pressmen didn’t have
explained
by the City A ttorney, and the
any kick coming at local labor con has been a good boy, and it is de ent % Thus Judge Tazwell’s posi rested in one of Portland’s most
necessity of having a valid bill board
law was shown to the Council, and the
ditions. They were getting good sired to give him a “ cinch,” he is. tion is one of extreme delicacy, high-priced hotels for a statutory Judge Tazwell is running for a passage
of this ordinance urged by the
money, considering the work they usually allowed to feed a press. It and one that demands a careful offense. When he was brought to higher judicial position than the City A ttorney;
the ordinance
did—wages ranged up to thirty- is not skilled work. The simple consideration of the law and the the police station $500 bail was de- j one he now holds. Presumably he was immediately whereupon
adopted, and I believe
evidence in each case that comes manded of him. The man seemed! is desirous of being elected. Also, it was done unanimously.
five dollars, and perhaps more, a
week in the different job shops. operation required can be learned before him.
I need not call your attention to the
think the whole thing was an | presumably, the Judge would like dangerous
features of the recall law, for,
But they were affiliated with the in half a day by any creature of There are a whole lot of people to
affront
to
his
personal
standing,
j
although
sixty per cent of
who are not pleased with Judge and he repeatedly called the at to do all that he can to make his all the votes I received
Feeders, and when the Feeders reasonable intelligence.
east at the general election,
went out for their sixteen and Fourteen dollars a week may Tazwell’s rulings. This is perhaps tention of the arresting officer to chances of election certain. This there was still
per cent of the
eighteen ddollars, the Pressmen not be big wages for a man. But natural. Some of the folk who the fact that he was staying at this being the case. His Honor is here voters who refused forty
to vote for me on the
grounds of political or personal opposi
had to ditch good jobs and go( man should be content to be a think he uses poor judgment are high-priced hotel. The Sergeant by humbly advised that the best tion,
and yet tw enty five per cent of
those
that
he
sentences
to
long
out. too. So they went out last | no
forty per cent (known to be polit
feeder all his life. Fourteen dol terms at the rockpile. It is. may in charge told the prisoner that it way of gaining the office he cov that
Saturday, right after the Feeders. lars
ical
and
enemies of mine) may
a week is ample wages for a be. only natural that these people didn’t make any difference where ets is by so conducting his present plunge me personal
Families Must Suffer.
into
another
campaign every
lie
was
arrested,
that
the
crime
was
and the youth who demand* should feel peeved at his rulings.
six months, at the expense of the public
Throughout this week Portland boy,
office
that
there
can
be
no
room
,
sixteen to eighteen dollars for However, there are other people just the same.
the law ought to be, and I be
job shops have been attending to feeding
for criticism. A Judge in Police treasury;
lieve it was iutended to provide that
a press six days a week is who do not like his pronounce The man got busy on the tele Court—the
their business as they could. Most unreasonable
recall must be instituted by voters
people’s court—can i the
his demands. And ments of justice. Prominently phone. He called up some manag
of them have been getting out when he strikes, in without
who will make an affid avit that they
best
gain
the
respect
and
support
any
warn
ing
editors
in
this
little
city,
and
supported
the candidate at the polls,
among
these
others
may
be
men
their work with more or less in ing, for this amount, he is doubly
it would be unfair to allow
he called up some people high in of the community by being a fair otherwise
convenience and delay, all because unreasonable. And when, in addi tioned the police. Not any special the
personal and political enemies,
world of politics. And a few and impartial jurist. He will gain a who m an’s
a bunch of boys wanted seven dol tion to striking, he forces out me policeman, but the police force as minutes
have, under all circumstances, op
later
Judge
Tazwell
came
a
body.
There
is
a
very
distinct
lars more than the same class of chanics of the elass of pressmen,
posed him, to start a recall based on
by such conduct than he will enmity
buzzing down to the jail in a taxi more
or malice. However, I w ant the
workmen are getting in Chicago. he is not only unreasonable, he impression among the uniformed cab.
by
“
obliging”
people.
Our
courts
fair-minded citizens of my ward to in
ordered the police to waive
And because these same young is unfair to his affiliated working guardians of the peace that Judge the $500
vestigate
these malicious charges, and I
bail that he had formerly ought not to be contaminated by want to promise
men didn't think five dollars more brother, and he is the cause of a Tazwell is “ throwing it into the fixed in the
in advance that, if any
case,
and
released
thej
politics;
and
each
Judge,
no
(nat
than the Chicago scale was enough great deal of unjust and uncalled- department.” As to why he is do man upon his own recognizance.!
vote or official conduct of mine can be
that is not entirely upright and
ter how humble his court, should found
a lot of grown men, who have fam for hardship in the community. ing this, opinions differ.
probably this was justice,, see
honorable, I will tender my resignation
ilies to support, have been forced There is nothing of merit in this For instance, the other night a <juite
to
it
that
there
is
no
room
for
once, and, while there may be a d if
a lot of people failed to tin-1 comment in the way affairs of the at ference
into idleness, and rations have strike of the Pressmen and Feed chauffeur got drunk, took an auto but
of opinion among the people as
derstand
its
peculiar
brand
of
fair-
j
mobile
from
a
garage,
and,
with
to
some
measures, and always will be, if
been cut down at home.
courtroom
are
conducted.
ers.
ness.
(Continued on Pace 2.)
some
friends,
ran
the
machine
into
Mavbe this is good business.