Image provided by: Northwest Labor Press; Portland, OR
About Portland labor press. (Portland, Oregon) 1900-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1904)
P O R TL A N D LA B O R PRESS 4 ity obtainable the peace was never | T hey have no fear of the ju st man civil co u rts, has aroused the indig disturbed until Peabody sent in the T h ey have also elected to unite in a nation of every liberty-loving citizen BAGLEY’S Union Made Tobaccos soldiers. Even th en m ost of the general effort to b etter th eir condi in C olorado, Mr. O w ers being one ol volunteers refused to obey the vic them . H e th erefo re show s in his a r tions. It is a cam paign of p ro g ress; ious com m ands of th eir officers, who a g raduated im provem ent of the laity. ticle th a t Peabody, and the governor were the tools of th e m ine-ow ners, fr 15 of Idaho, during the Coeur d'A lene ^ijiS T öaS ' W e do not say th a t a m an should and they had to be m u stered out of not be em ployed w ho does n ot be trouble, assum ed au th o rity not in service. R ecruiting officers w ere sent FINE CUT CHEWING Publish*! every Thursday by th e Port long to a union, but we reserve the keeping with the provisions of the out in the state, who accepted no m an land Labor Preea Publlshln« Aesoclatlon. rig h t to refuse to w ork with one who federal co n stitu tio n , and w ithout p re M A Y -F L O W E R F A S T M A IL who was not pronounced in his ex (Incorporated Au<u»t 18, 1800.) does not. the same rig h t exercised cedent in the m odern form of civil pressions against unions. At the P E A C H and H O N E Y today by those who are endeavoring ized governm ent. tim e the m ilitary was ord ered out of to deprive us of the sam e privilege. O FF IC B i the Cripple Creek d istrict n ot a com CUT PLUG SMOKING A w riter in the last num ber of the R oom H, ¡» U S W a o h in a to n S tr e e t. O rganized labor refuses to w ork pany rem ained th at had been m u s w ith a non-union man or w om an be Iro n Age calls atten tio n to the fact L IM E K I L N C LUB CO M PASS SUN CUR ED tered in at the beginning. w ho cause th ey enjoy the b etter conditions th at the A m erican capitalists TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. GOLD SH O R E B U C K IN G H A M established by trad es unions w ithout built m anufacturing plants in Russia In Advance. T he U nions affiliated w ith the U nit One year .................................................. **’W co n trib u tin g a penny to the support are being driven out by the o p p res ed - B ro th erh o o d of L eath erw o rk ers .60 and expense of the m ovem ent. No sive tax atio n of the governm ent. H z m onths ............................................. SCRAP CHEWING have, by referendum vote, p ostponed insurance com pany o r beneficiary o r T hese capitalists im agined th at if they tlieir national convention from 1904 RED BAND ELEPHANT ganization would subscribe benefits to escaped trad e unions and th e tariff advertising r a tes . to 1906. T h e last convention was held eir profits w ouit. he enorm ous. ous T x hey „ey . . T h e business of their ould be a person unless the la tte r had con th R ates will be made known upon appU is m anaeed bv a Een. trib u ted to its support. T he principle lured Russian w orkers and got ‘he | GRANULATED SMOKING the organization is m anaged by a gen eatlon. applies as readily to a trad es union latest m achinery from this country. eral executive council, and having a h jl - ............................. .... ........................... T U R K IS H PA T R O L L O N G TO M P R IM E M ESS A direct benefit has accrued from W h at th ey fo rg ot was the difference H. O. K undret.................. M anaging Editor them to the w age-w orker, and the betw een a republic and a despotism . corps oi able m en actin g in th is ca pacity the b ro th erh o o d is becom ing q , B. Thom as .................Business Manager la tte r do n o t feel like sharing their "R ussia is engaged in hounding from an in tern atio n al pow er in the indus SCRAP SMOKING her vast co n tin en t alm ost th e last honey with those w ho did n ot help trial w orld. Its m o tto is “concilia g ath er it. T his is a n atural tra it of A m erican en terp rise she has so far ELEPHANT tio n ” in all disputes, and local tro u BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ch aracter th at exists in the being of allowed to rem ain and flourish,” says N H Bird..................Team Drivers' Union m ost men. T h e P arry ites attack the the co rresp o n d en t of the Iro n Age. bles m ust receive the sanction of the President. executive council. As a rule a m em LONG CUT SMOKING A. H yronlm us...........Beer Drivers Union bo y co tt when used by organized la T he A m erican business m en looked ber of the council is placed in the Vice-President. prosperous, so th e C zar's tax collec Geo. M. Orton..................P ressm en s Union bor, b ut are silent as to its dem erits D U B L IN B A G L E Y 'S B E S T O R O N O K O field to direct the m ovem ents of the Secretary. when used by th e capitalistic class. to rs raised th e rates higher and local. T h is plan has been a m atter It is practiced m ore at the present higher. A cam paign of p etty an noy a Ho ' S i « “ 1- « tim e by capital th an labor, but if the ance was Degun. w hich has driven the of g reat saving to th e b ro therhood, FANCY SMOKINGS Henry S e r . . . ........ .^ B rew ers' Un,on and m any strikes averted and tro u reverse was tru e we could n ot show er capitalists out of Russia and back to bles adjusted by conciliation during C U T C A V E N D I S H (B r ig h t) K L E E K O (H a sh C ut) n r------ .......................................... encom ium s upon the principle. W e the Lbiited States. th e past year. Entered at the Postofflce as second-class believe there are m ore hum ane m eth AND O TH ER BRANDS m atter, September 29. 1900. W o rd has been received from T rin ods th a t could be em ployed in the At a recent m eeting of the San B A G LE Y * CO. D e tr o it, M i d i . solution of the labor question. idad, C olorado, th a t W illiam F airly F rancisco C entral L ab o r U nion it was T he C itizens’ In d u strial A ssociation and Jam es M boney, m em bers of the declared the sense of th e council th at give it pu blic ity . assails the use of the label, and rec national b oard of the U nited M ine it is not p ro p er to legislate for the L ast M onday the C itizens’ Indu om m ends th a t m an u factu rers refuse W o rk ers of A m erica from A labam a It is ap p aren t from the lessons trial A ssociation m et in Indianapolis to stam p it on th eir goods. T h ere and M issouri respectively, were w ay lengthening of the h ours of labor in E uropean countries and in A ustralia. Indiana, in its first annual convention are a num ber of charitable leagues laid one day last w eek on the road any branch of em ploym ent; also th a l T h e first is for an am endm ent to the learned during the last six m onths T he business tran sacted on the whole and societies in th e large cities of betw een M ajestic and Bowen, dragged it is a violation of the tru e principles co n stitu tio n of the U nited States, th a t the real purpose of the P alo A lto was P arry 's address and the passage the E ast th a t have declared in favor from th eir buggy and beaten by eight of trad es unionism for any m em ber w hereby congress is given the pow er bosses was to engage the unions in of a num ber of resolutions denouncing of the union label as a m eans of men, w ith stones and six-shooters, of a union, d irectly or indirectly af to regulate the h o u rs,o f labor in m an battle and com bat them , w ith the o b trades unionism. In fact the conven elim inating child labor and the infec and left lying on th e road. M ooney filiated w ith the A m erican F ederation ufactories, and resolves, tw o -th ird s of ject of d isru p tin g the labor o rg an iza tions; in fact, parties overheard a tion practically resolved itself into a tion of diseases carried by sw eat-shop was seriously injured and had to be of L abor, to join an y union of any each house concurring th erein . w ar m achine to be used in a battle goods. T he union label is a sign that taken to a hospital. No a rrests have craft ch artered by a national or in te r T h a t th e congress of the U nited statem en t of J. F. P arkinson to the against organized w age-w orkers, with the article was m ade where th e p ar been made. I t is rep o rted th at the national body o th e r th an the A m eri States do recom m end to the several effect th a t he w ould break (w ith th e states of th e U nion the ad o ption of assistance of his friends) every union P a rry as chief officer of the indus ents w ork under fair conditions, and men w ere attack ed by assassins in the can F ed eratio n of Labor. the follow ing am endm ent to the con in P alo Alto. tria l ordnance. their children were going to school. em ploy o f the com panies. T his is “ I s T h ere Any S o lu tio n to the L a T he executive com m ittee of th e T hese captains of com m erce have stitu tio n of the U nited S tates, to-w it: Yes, give the operations of the probably th e reason th a t G overnor B uilding T rad es Council have offici donned their w ar paint, and from C itizens’ In d u strial A ssociation pub Peabody has n ot declared th a t in su r bor P roblem ,” was th e them e fo r an Article XVI. now on will start down the line on licity. and it will eventually appear rection exists in th a t section, and th a t address m ade by C arroll D. W rig h t in T h e congress shall have pow er to ally set fo rth the position o f th a t Buffalo, N. Y., last week. T h e k er a scalp-lifting cam paign. A ny man th a t it is an in stitu tio n th a t stands the m ilitia is needed. P eab o d y ’s establish uniform hours of labor in body, w hich in substapee is as fol nel of his conclusions was th a t the w ho carries a union card is apt to for p o o r pay and th e dem oralization searchlight is n ot tu rn ed in th a t di m anufactories th ro u g h o u t the U nited low s: T he differences consist of tw o p ro p o sitio n s: F irst, th a t the J. F. loose a little bunch of hair w hen they >f the to ilers.. Its in terest vested in rection. H e is too intensely preoccu only and tru e solution of the p ro b States. lem could be obtained by the “ap com e in contact w ith P a rry 's brave the cry of hum an liberty is the Dr. pied in carry in g out the behests of the T he o th e r jo in t reso lu tio n directs P arkinson C om pany em ployed n o n T h is means th a t the A m erican F ed er Jekyl, and its purpose of re-estab- m ine-ow ners in their cam paign of plication of the religious idea.” In “th a t the secretary of com m erce and union m en in the erection of a build such an event all org an izatio n s of ation of L abor alone will lose 2,000, ishing industrial slavery takes on the tyranny. labor be and is hereby requested to ing in violation of an agreem ent w ith fensive and defensive would pass 000 tufts, not counting the great army >hape of Mr. H yde. rep o rt to th is body w hat legislation is the B uilding T rad es Council. Sec- away, and the industrial affairs would of organized w orkm en not affiliated T he great m ass of toilers owe a T h e N ew Y ork ch arity organization required in o rd er to establish an ef p n d , th a t the J. F. P arkinson Com o perate u nder the G olden Rule. F o r w ith this body. prayer to high heaven th at all em society has appealed to union labor fective system of labor insurance in pany em ployed a tin n er after he had T his is a good deal of hair and the ployers and all capitalists are not a in th a t city for co-operation in pre this to obtain will delay the solution the U nited States, and to w hat extent m ade application in regular form to som ew hat. A. F. of L. can hardly stand such a venting tuberculosis. T h e secretary arry. such a system could be established the union and had m ade arrangem ents to pay his initiation by w eekly in loss, but the war has ju st com m enced W e do not believe that the expres of the society p resen ted the m a tte r at T he expense of m aintaining the m i by federal au th o rity , and to w hat ex stallm ents, and th en this com pany a t and we may be able to save a few. sion of the C itizens' In d u strial con- a m eeting of th e C entral F ederated tent such a system has been estab litia in the Cripple C reek d istrict up T he Labor P ress publishes the ention will m eet w ith the approval Union. H is figures, show ing the lished elsew here, w hether under gov tem pted to keep this man out of the to the tim e th ey w ere m u stered out speech and resolutions referred to for spread of the disease in the tenem ent of even the m ajo rity of the em ploy ernm ent aid and a u th o rity o r o th e r union by m aking him a fictitious has cost the S tate of C olorado about no other reason than to give the pol stockholder. ers. for it assum es a belligerent a tti d istricts, caused a sensation am ong $1,000,000. It is n ot generally know n wise, and th e effect th ereo f upon icy of the C itizens’ In d ustrial A sso In co n tra st to the above evidence, tude th at will paralyze the industrial the delegates. H e also declared that those sought to be benefited th e re how ever th a t the sta te secured the ciation of z\m erica plenty of publicity. show ing a lack of money, this tin n er condition of our country. 10 per cent of the deaths in the U nited loan from the m ine-ow ners involved b y ” T h is is essential to m ake the p u r U n d er the present system the S tates are due to pulm onary tu b ercu P resid en t P ro Tern. W illiam Frye m ade a dem and for a m a ste r’s card, in the strike, giving th erefo r a 4 per poses of that organization fully un urging the claim th a t he held $500 rades union is a fixture, and any^ at losis. T h e trad es in the o rd er of cent interest rate. T h e o p erato rs had of the senate; S enator L. E. M cCo- if stock in the J. F. P arkinson C om derstood. and the A ssociated P ress is em pt to destroy it m eans war. th eir tendency to co n tract tu b ercu lo mas, chairm an of th e senate com m it som e idle m oney and by investing it d o in " organized labor invaluable ser T he solution to the labor question sis he classified as follow s: Marble tee on education and lab o r; Speaker pany. It does n ot seem plausible to in the loan th ey caught them cornin’ vice in giving the proceedings so is for capital to m eet and trea t with and sto n ecu tters, cigar-m akers, com Cannon of the house, and C o n g ress those on the union side th at a m ail and goin’. Is it any w onder th a t the m uch space. organized labor. positors. pressm en, hat and cap m ak m an Jo h n J. G ardner, chairm an of w ho had to ask to pay his initiation Give it publicity. T his is the force w rit of habeas corpus w as juggled ers, book binders, cabinet m akers, the house com m ittee on labor, are weekly, could suddenly raise $500 to th a t tests the fiber of the whole. Let in the S tate of Colorado? all pledged to aid the eight-hour and purchase stock in the concern em ploy F ran k Buchanan, president of th m usicians, glassblow ers and barbers. th e public know the facts and the^j Clean linen, b etter san itary conditions anti-injunction bills, and have de ing him. will accept the good and reject the In tern atio n al A ssociation of Bridge NEW LABOR LAWS. W hile Mr. P arkinson has succeeded clared them selves generally favorable and S tru ctu ral Iro n W orkers, is in apd isolation of patients were recom bad. securing a few supporters from m ended. A com m ittee of union men to necessary labor laws. T he principles of organized labor San F rancisco looking after the in Sixteen Bills Before the Present Con professional and business m en, th e re was appointed w ith instructions to co- te re sts of his organization in that have been publicly tested for fifty gress. is a stro n g sentim ent against his h ig h years. N either church nor party city. H e will rem ain on the Coast iperate w ith the charity society. STRIKE AT PALO ALTO. • handed and arro g an t m ethods of d o Sixteen distinct labor bills and two for m ore than a m onth, and may visit pow er has bucked its steady m arch. T he alleged tyrannical policy of the jo in t resolutions are before th e p res Professors of Stanford Organize a ing business, am ong the people of If its policy has been despotic and P o rtlan d before he retu rn s E ast P alo Alto. labor unions m ade by the P arryites en t congress, says th e St. Louis L a T h ere are few labor leaders, if any subversive to the rig h t- of a free Citizens’ Alliance. T h e C itizens’ A lliance, bloated w ith b or Com pendium F o u r of th e bills who have had to contend against as s n ot b orne out in the recent calam people the crushing heel of public T h e unions of P alo A lto are in the the first im pulses of organization, relate to the eig h t-h o u r law, passed opinion would have stam ped it out b e fierce an elem ent in the m ovem ent as ity that befell Baltim ore. T he T y p o m idst of a strike th a t has already as proceeded to carry out its program ; that headed by Sam Parks. Buchanan graphical U nion of th at city addressed by the house in each of the last three fore it was one-fifth its age. sum ed a serious aspect, says the San a few days of conflict, how ever, served sessions. T h e scope of the bills is le tte r to the non-union firm of the But it is hard to understand when sim ply took his life in his hands and Jo se U nion Label. to show these gentlem en com posm g as follow s: F riedenw ald P rin tin g Co., expressing fearlessly contested every inch of and where the trad es union came into T he tro u b le is the direct outgrow th this o rg an izatio n th e seriousness of L im iting the hours of daily service possession of this arb itra ry force. ground th at P arks and his followers reg rets at the loss sustained by the of laborers, w orkm en and m echanics of several violations of an agreem ent th e ir task, and by the first of this T h ere is no record of its having ex attem p ted to cover. P arks w ent to firm, and in view of the busy season em ployed on the public w orks of or w ith the B uilding T rad es Council, week th ey already show ed signs of ceeded its constitutional rights. In K ansas City with $40.000 to capture offered the assistance of the union in w ork done for the U nited S tates or com m itted by the J. F. P arkinson w eakness. O n M onday the A lliance she convention, and if he failed, by any m an n er it could be useful, w aiv fact the courts grant them the rig h t any te rrito ry or in the D istrict of C om pany. T h is com pany had bound selected as an executive com m ittee to organize, and the privilege of se a pre-arranged plan, B uchanan's life ing th e usual refusal of union men them selves in a solem n co n tract with P ro fesso r F ran k Angell, president, G. was to pay the forfeit. Buchanan and doing co n tra ct w ork in union shops Columbia. cu rin g as m any m em bers as possible, th e Building T rad es Council to em W. M osier, co n tracto r, D. Sloan, seed Defining a legal d ay ’s work. is friends defied the w hole nefarious for the F riedenw ald C om pany; also and places no restrictions upon the ploy none but union men, and to live grow er, Mr. Lakin, capitalist, J. W . Providing for the ad ju stm en t and am ount of wages its m em bers are to schem e and routed the enemy. P arks statin g that m em bers of the Baltim ore paym ent of accounts of laborers and up to union rules generally. W ells, co n tracto r, P rofessor S anford, receive. T he C itizens’ Ind u strial A s is now in Sing Sing prison, his union U nion would w ork in shops with A fter ex h au stin g every honorable S tan fo rd U niversity, and in stru cted m echanics arising u nder the eight- sociation is an organization; so is the has been di-banded, and Buchanan F ried en w ald ’s nonunion men until effort to ad ju st the difficulty through th is com m ittee to m eet w ith th e re p hour law. and the true principles of unionism th eir difficulties w ere overcom e. An C itizens’ A lliance, the M anufacturers' T o lim it the m eaning of the w ord th eir business agent, W m . H arp er, resen tativ es of the B uilding T ra d es th er instance w hich proves th a t un A ssociation, et al. W h at a crim e reign supreme. Ju stice and courag “conspiracy” and the use of “restrain the B uilding T rad es Council declared Council, and see if an am icable se t are tw o essentials th a t adm inister to ions are not nearly so had as P arry th erefore th a t the w age-w orker, who ing orders and in ju n ctio n s” in certain the J. F. P arkinson Com pany unfair, tlem ent could be arranged. needs it the m ost of all, should unite the success of the trad es union move paints them was the Iroquois th eater and every man loyally w ent out, co m P en d in g this m eeting the strike will cases. inent. T h ere are m any P arks holding fire in Chicago, w hen every striking his stren g th in this day of organ iza pletely closing the place up. T h e o c be continued as effectively as possible. P roviding for th e ad ju stm en t and cards in trad es unions, and th ere are team ster was ordered to w ork re tion. paym ent of the accounts of le tte r car casion of the strike was seized upon It is to be hoped th at an early set W e are inform ed by P a rry th a t the also m any Buchanans, who are the gardless of com pensation. riers arising under th e eight-hour law. as an o p p o rtu n ity and excuse to o r tlem ent will be reached, but in any real captains of the movem ent. C or trad e s union is un-A m erican. We case th e unions arc prepared to show T o provide for the paym ent of over ganize a branch of the Citizens' Al th eir opponents the folly of th eir a t It is hard ly probable th a t the a n ti defy that prating whelp to show one ruption may exist for a tim e, until i liance, w ith J. F. P arkinson as te m tim e claims of le tte r carriers exclud titude, and the injury to the com m u clause in any constitution and by p ro m o ters are apprehended. T h e sta injunction and eight-hour bill will p o rary president. nity resu ltin g from the same. laws of any labor organization in the bility of a trades union depends prin be passed at th is session of congress. cd from judgm ent as b arred by limit* A m ong those w ho have become tion. L egislation is being hurried through cipally upon the im m aculate fiber of U nited States th a t conflicts w ith the ____ ______ Jpiruon of th e R oyal T o provide ag ain st en terin _ g into a .co n sp icu o u s as m em bers of th e newly spirit of our federal constitution. If its parts, superinduced by business and m em bers are striving for an early Gorge. contract by any officer of the govern-1 form ed C itizens’ A lliance are the fol- adjournm ent. T h e M anufacturers' th e re is one we w ould place our like transactions. E d y th T ozier W eatherred, in d e low ing: P ro fesso rs Sanford, Show, ment of the U nited S tates of Am erica A ssociation and Business M en's Al stam p of disapproval upon it as quick Angell, H askins, W ing and M urray, scribing a recent trip over the D enver E lsew here in this issue appears an liances will he th ere w ith large sums for products of convict labor. & Rio G rande R ailroad, says in “T h e ly as anyone and wipe it out. of S tan fo rd U niversity; R everends A1 E xposition.” T o create a n ational arb itratio n tr i W hat reasonable grounds has the article on the "H isto ry o f th e H a of m oney to defeat the m easures. T he bunal and to define the duties and den and Baldwin, and also the follow "A t last the goal of the am bition o f C itizens’ Industrial A ssociation for beas C orpus,” from th e pen of F ran k m em bers w ho arc favorable to such ng, J. F.- P arkinson, J. McGilvary, year? has been reached—m arvelous, pow ers thereof. rem edial legislation are woefully in O w ers, an able lawyer, and district its attack upon trades unions? T h ey T o provide relief for such em ployes architect, W alker, D ow ning & Son, w onderful, grand and inspiring Royal are com posed of th e best m echanics atto rn ey of T eller County, Colorado, the m inority. It m eans th a t the cam G orge is on eith er hand. T h e o nly in U nited S tates navy yards as m ay J. W. W eller, D. L. Sloan, M arshall disappointing th in g is you only have in the land, m en of families, tax pay w hich should be carefully read. Mr. paign will have to be fought over be disabled by accident w hile in the Black, M essrs. Lakin, H ettin g er, Mo one pair of eyes, while the train d a rts ers, and loyal citizens. T h ey are the O w ers has never been considered for again n ex t w inter, and p erhaps many perform ance of duty, and, in the event sier and Bean. I t will be noticed in and o u t of the trem endous chasm . years to come. T h e bill», however, sons and daughters of the men and or against any class, yet he is known of fatal casualties, fo r the relief of th at in th is group the school pro fes If any w ho have never seen it are w om en who revolted against the ty as a ju st m an, and absolutely in d e will ev en tu ally pass. sors, preach ers and doctors are quite w ondering how it looks, ju st go and surviving dependents. see. T h o u san d s have tried to describe ran n y of K ing G eorge, w ho erased the pendent. H is official duties are also p ro m in en t; m en w hose acquaintance it, yet every attem p t falls sh o rt of Giving em ployes of th e governm ent It has been rep o rted th a t G overnor blem ish of slavery from our escutch rem oved from the seat of the indus p rin tin g office th irty d ay s’ leave exclu w ith lab o rers and m anual lab o r is giving th e subject justice.” eon, and who endured th e dangers trial w ar in the Cripple Creek dis P eab o d y has suspended m artial law If you contem plate a trip E ast, lim ited, and w hose know ledge of the sive of holidays and Sundays. in the Cripple CrSek district, only trict, but the au th o rity assum ed by and privations of pioneer days. T h ey w rite W C M cBride, 124 T h ird stree t, w o rk er's life is based m ore on m ere T h e tw o jo in t reso lu tio n s propose P o rtlan d , O re., for booklets picturing have elected to preserve th e ir in teg G overnor Peabody in suspending the about SO guards being kept th ere to entirely new legislation in th is coun th eo ry , th an on actual observation C olorado’s fam ous scenery, and any rity by m utual com pact against the w rit of habeas corpus and foisting aid th e civil au th o rities to preserve try, although com m on in th e older and experience. o th er inform ation you m ay desire. greed o f unscrupulous em ployers. m ilitary au th o rity above that of the th e peace. Froatt th e b est of author- Portland Labor Press OUR BRAND