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) Portland Labor Press G OFFICIAL PAPER FEDERATED TRADES COUNCIL p É OFFICIAL PAPER STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR T R A D E U E 1 0 E S A R E T U E B U L W A R K S C E M O D E R E D E M O C R A C IE S .— W. E . G L A D S T O E E . V o l. I V P O R T L A N D , O R E G O N , M A R C H II, 1904 ••••••••••••••••••♦••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••e® W H O G E T S O U R NOT FOR CHARITY No. 31 1 die of Jan u ary , when a m an asked me and purpose. for a free meal. H e was a deserving There is but one step in a g reat looking fellow and I said: “ Go down p ro g ram ," D avenport said. “ I no to the O ndaw a, th at is a charitable in ticed w ith infinite grief th a t a dem o stitution, and will give you som ething cratic m em ber (H u g h es of New J e r to eat. ’ I he fellow w ent aw ay and Poor Folks Have to Pay in a few m inutes retu rn ed an d told me Produce More Work Than sey) of this com m ittee offered an am endm ent to the naval ap p ro p riatio n th a t he had been dow n th e re and Same as Others. Foreigners. bill w hich goes th e w hole lim it of this th at the man in charge refused to eig h t-h o u r p atern alism .” give him an y thing to eat unless he L aw yer D avenport then told th e As an inducem ent t> show and tell you more about this pro had the m oney to pay for it. I m ade gressive store, some one of our customers on Saturday Evening, com m ittee he had taken sten o g rap hic fu rth er investigations and found th at April 2d, w ill receive ABSOLUTELY FREE S10. rep o rts of his fo rm er speeches m any of the o th e r restau ran t keepers against the eig h t-h o u r bill, edited had had the same experience. W e then T A K E T H IS T IP M R . M A N them and published them in the m ade a com plaint to the allied crafts, B ridgeport papers. You can dress better, and pay less if you visit this popular th at if we w ere expected to pay the "I d em o n strated th a t th is bill ab- Underhanded Business Methods store. Step out of your way and be convinced. union scale th a t the O ndaw a should Says a Yankee Workman Can solutely takes aw ay the liberty of the Employed by Captain I)o More Work by GO em ploy n o th in g but union help and w orkm an, he said, “and since th en McClelland. pay the union scale also.’ the beam ing faces and h ea rty hand Per Cent. “A new restau ran t has been sta rted g rasp of union and nonunion m en of m y hom e show s th a t th ey th in k I am at S21 Stevens street, and the p ro p rie th eir friend.” , to r said, w hile he did not know much A few days ag o th e re appeared in about the O ndaw a, he had heard those An em ploye fam iliar with th e ' in R eferring to the labor leaders, D a the A ssociated P re ss new spapers an eating at his place talking about it. dustrial conditions of G reat B ritain, v enport said th a t th e y th o u g h t th ey article from Spokane th a t the C ooks’ ’A sh o rt tim e ag o a m an w ho does contradicted the statem ent of W al rep resen ted the sen tim en t of o rg an and W 'aiters’ U nion of th a t city had jobs around the tow n cam e in and lace D ow ney, the N ew Y ork ship ized w orkingm en, but they did not. 221-223 Morrison Street, lirÇ?er First Î and were b o y co ttin g and picketing a odd asked me for som ething to eat. I builder, at a recent hearing before "I am satisfied th a t the g reat m a charitable in stitu tio n — a restau ran t asked him w hy he did n o t go to the the house labor com m ittee th a t E n g jo rity of union m en are not know w here those w ho had no em ploym ent O n iaw a, and he told me th a t he could lish m echanics produced 60 per cent ingly socialists," he rem arked. “T h eir n o r m oney w ere fed. T h e dispatch n ot get an y th in g th ere unless he had m ore w ork in the sam e tim e with distinguished rep resen tativ es are m ak also stated that the keeper of the O n- th e m oney to pay for it. H e told me sim ilar tools than A m ericans. At ing every effort to com m it them to daw a Inn, as it is called, C aptain Mc fu rth er th at he had been hired by Cap the h earin g last F rid ay on the eight- socialism .” Clelland, had drenched th e pickets tain M cClelland to wash the w indows hour bill H aro ld Lom as, m anager of ‘You are fam iliar w ith steel tru sts, w ith w ater from a hose th a t he was and po sts at the fro n t of the building. the C rocker-W heeler E lectrical Com- are y ° u not.-" asked A ndrew E urseth. w ashing the w indow s w ith; th a t he T h e m an said he w orked hard for a pany at W ashington, refuted Dow -! “Y es. to some e x te n t,” responded w as n o t opposed to unions, etc., but full half day, and that as he had n o th ney ’s assertion. H e w as born in D avenport. With entire New Store and th o u g h t th ey w ere in p o o r business ing much to eat for three days he was G reat B ritain and served his ap p ren -j "A re there m any independent firms N ew Fixtures m aking a fight upon an asylum for p retty hungryy. T he w aiter brought ticeship in m achine shops before he outside of th a t com bination?” was the poor. 1 asked. him a 10-cent meal, and w hen he had came to America. An Up-to-Date Store T his article was undoubtedly sent eaten th at he asked for m ore and ‘'V ery few ," was th e reply. W. D. Forbes, president of the W. o u t by th e Spokesm an-R eview , the th e w aiter bro u g h t it to him, giving D. F o rb es Com pany of H oboken, N. I "D o you believe th a t the steel Com e See Me.« A ssociated P re ss’ ag en t there, and him a check for 20 cents. W hen he J., argued th a t its application would j tru st should have the pow er to regu- E x p e r t O p t ic ia n In C h a r g e o f also an enem y o f trad es unions. presented the check to M cClelland the increase the cost of governm ent pur- ,ate e the hours and w ages of all the O p tic a l D e p a r tm e n t T he facts are th a t the R estaurant la tte r flew into a rage because the chases and tend to prevent m anufac men in th eir em ploy?” was the next K eep ers’ A ssociation of Spokane dis m an had eaten so much. I have been tu rers from seeking governm ent co n question. E x a m in e V o n r E y e s F re e T h e I o w a J e w e le r I certain ly do. T h e w orkm en m ust covered th a t C aptain M cClelland was told, also, th at a blind m an, being led tracts. n o t ru n n in g a ch aritab le eatin g house by a sm all boy, w as also refused at “ It is im possible to have a fixed conform to the em ployers' condi at all, but was p racticin g th e dirtiest th e O ndaw a because he had no day,” continued Mr. Forbes. “ In tion, declared D avenport. Now, suppose a m echanic should kind of business in the nam e of ch ar m oney.’ m aking engine sylinders, if a cut is “T he p ro p rieto r of the N ew Dewey started, it m ust be finished.” w ish to leave th eir em ploy, th a t he ity. T h ey found th a t he w a s ’receiv ing aid from the public and was ch arg was n e x t seen and he stated th a t the w ith conditions, “W h at do you do under the ten- was dissatisfied ing for the m eals a less figure than O ndaw a was n ot a charitable institu hour sy stem ?” asked R epresentative w here would he go in A m erica to get the others, and th a t a person th a t tion, as it was rep resen ted to be, but H ughes. em ploym ent as a steel w o rk er?” he T H IR D a n d M O R R IS O N S T S . was asked. had no m oney could not get a meal charged the same prices the other “W ell, I m ust say th a t our m e " I do n ot know ,” p ro m p tly ans- at all. resta u ran ts in th a t vicinity did. H e chanics are intelligent men, and if T he resta u ran t keepers laid the sa id : ‘I can serve the same meals they cannot finish a cut before q u it w ered th e lawyer. D avenport then resum ed his re m a tte r before th e union and said th at they do at th e O ndaw a for the same tin g tim e they do not sta rt it; they m arks about the “ty ran n y a,nd intol th ey m ust be p ro tected against this price they do,’ if I cut m y steaks in do som ething else.” underhanded com petitor. T h a t the tw o as th ey do, and if I serve the same “In boring a cylinder is there any erance of organized lab o r.” H e O ndaw a Inn should em ploy union vegetables and kinds of m eats in the in ju ry in changing the m en at the praised Jo h n D. R ockefeller as a g reat help and pay them union wages if same quantities they do, and I em ploy m achine w hen the tool is set?” was benefactor to m ankind, w hose “thrift, sagacity and prudence enabled him to m eals w ere to be charged for. T he n o th ’-ri but union help th ro u g h o u t, asked. provide em ploym ent for the w orking Spokane Record then in terested it and am n ot running a ch arity house, “C ertainly not. O ne man can run classes.” self in the m atter, and rep o rts as either. W e are prepared to prove the m achine as well as an o th er if he T h e F a s te s t G r o w in g S to r e o f t h e N o r t h w e s t th a t m any men have been refused A sked w hat would becom e of the follow s: * is a com petent m achinist,” was the m eals at the O ndaw a, and if th ey are individual liberty of the steel w orker “T he H o tel and R estau ran t Em reply. who leaves the em ploy of the steel • • • • • • • • • • ployes are actively p icketing the O n going to come in com petition w ith us Mr. F orbes said th a t 85 per cent of daw a Inn, and, ju d g in g from the in they should pay the sam e w ages we his w ork was for the governm ent. tru st, D avenport said he had full lib • • do and n ot pose as a ch aritab le insti erty to go anyw here and get any em creased business rep o rted by the other H e em ploys fo rty to seventy skilled ploym ent he could. resta u ran ts in the sam e locality, the tu tio n .’ m achinists in m aking auxiliary en T h a t C hristm as D inner. diverting of patro n ag e is p ro g ressin g • m A NUFACTURES gines and electrical m achinery for [T he statem en t of D avenport, th a t “F o llo w in g is th e bill of fare sup naval vessels. H is shops run nine nicely. hours a day, but he declared it would i b J.''. * " >IlL '* rc 1’rese n tatn es (of OF U N IO N f lìflD E posed to have been served at th e O n “O n account of th e O ndaw a rep re -C, . . to ____ . u . .:„ the v . eight I ia b o r> are m aking.every effort to com senting itself to be a charitable in sti daw a In n to the children as well as , be im possible establish tution the cooks and w aiters were the grow n people w ho appeared at the hour day and run the shops at a profit. m it them (the unions) to socialism ,” is not born out by the action of the loth to place it on th e unfair list, but lunch co u n ter: H aro ld L om as, W ash in g to n m an recent convention of the A m erican “Soup. now th at th ey have proven beyond a ager for the C rocker-W heeler E lec F ederation of Labor, which defeated Chicken Gumbo. reasonable doubt th a t the In n is run trical C om pany, m ade a statem en t op socialism by an o v erw helm ing m a Fish. * purely and solely as a m oney-m aking posing the eight-hour day in A m er jority. H is o th e r sta te m en ts are Baked Salm on, T o m ato Sauce. venture they are in ten d in g to carry ica under present industrial condi equally absurd, and his self accredited B O IL E D . th e fight to a finish. tions. If th e eight-hour law day popularity am ongst th e union men in Sugar Cured H am with Cabbage. “T he R estau ran t K eep ers’ A ssocia could be m ade universal, he said, he his hom e sta te is a bigoted assum p tion is behind the culinary crafts, and B risket of Beef w ith G rated H o rse w ould be glad to see it established. tion, and is a lie w holly in fact. H e are lending them every possible as radish. “ If E ngland, F rance and G erm any , is know n far and w ide in his hom e sistance. A rep o rter for the Record EN TR EES. w ere to establish an eight-hour day,” I state as a tool for the m ining co r m ade the rounds of a num ber of the Lam b P o t Pie. said Mr. L om as, “the A m erican em porations an d is recognized by union resta u ran ts and chop houses located Braised S hort Ribs of Beef, Brow ned ployer could com pete.” achinery i labor as a b'tte r enem y and a hireling on Main. F ro n t and Stevens streets, Sweet P otatoes. “ Is A m erican electrical m of the tru sts.] and interview ed a num ber of the res Fricasee of Chicken. sold in E urope for less than it is sold I _________ ta u ra n t keepers on the O ndaw a and Saute of Chicken G iblets on T oast. in A m erica?” inquired Mr. H ughes. I tr • • the effect it has had on th eir business. “Y es; A m erican m achinery is b et-! H e a rst s Suit Advanced, B oston Baked P ork and Beans. W h a t T h ey Say. ter than the foreign make. It sells for 1 A dvanced over all o th e r cases on RO A STS. “T he first place visited was the Shoulder of P ork w ith A pple Sauce m ore th an th e foreign product in the the calendar of the Suprem e C ourt of P o rtlan d Coffee H ouse. O ne of the foreign m ark et, and it sells for less ( the L n ite d S tates, th e h earin g of the WARRANTED Sirloin of Beef an Jus. IN E V E R Y D ETA IL p ro p rieto rs of this place, in speaking L eg of M utton w ith Sago D ressing. than in A m erica,” was the reply. I m otion of the* solicitor-general in the N O T -T O . R I P of the O ndaw a, said: ‘As long as the Stuffed Y oung T urkey, C ranberry Mr. L om as explained th at he had I suit of W illiam R andolph H ea rst O ndaw a was run as a charitable insti against th e coal tru st was taken up w orked in the E nglish m ills and had -Sauce. S f lh B S R O O M : S . LU. C o r n e r F i f t h a n d S t a r k S t r e e t s on M onday. tu tio n we had no com plaint to make also been a dealer in Europe. R oast Goose with C u rran t Jelly. F A C T O R Y : C o rn e r G ra n d A v e n u e a n d E a s t T a y lo r S tre e t a g a in sfth e m and intended to lend our T he action of the S uprem e C ourt in “ F rom your o b serv atio n .” asked M ashed P o tato es in Cream. aid and support to 'th e m , but we soon th u s giving this case a place upon Janies O ’Connell, president of the In Pickles, Cabbage and Celery. P O R T L A N D , OREGON learned th at they were not w hat they tern atio n al M achinists’ U nion, "w hat the calendar ahead of other? en tered D ESSERT. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • rep resen ted them selves to be, and E nglish P lum Pudding, F ru it Sauce. is the rative productive capacity of before it is based upon the H o ar act, were cu ttin g into our business. It was the E nglish, Scotch o r Irish mechanic w hich m akes a provision th a t cases A ssorted Cake. agreed am ong the resta u ran t m en th at of ex tra o rd in ary public in terest and as com pared w ith the A m erican?” N uts, Raisins, Apples and O ranges. we w ould send all who asked for free “T he British artisan produces less national im portance m ay be taken “L. E. G urry and J. E. M addux, who m eals to the O ndaw a. and th o u g h t, in w ith the sam e tools and m aterials. o ut of th eir reg u lar o rd er on th e cal w ere chef and second cook respective asm uch as th at place was receiving endar and advanced for an earlier ly at the O ndaw a Inn at C hristm as Man for man the production is not hearing. T h at the suit o p R e p resen ta cash and o th er co n trib u tio n s, that it so great and the to tal production ifot tim e, have m ade the follow ing sta te tive H ea rt against the coal tru s t was no m ore than rig h t they should m ent concerning the peculiar m ethods so m uch,” said Lomas. was one of ex tra o rd in ary public in feed the deserving applicants. I sent ‘Is th ere not a world tendency to by w hich Captain M cClelland runs te re st and national im portance need a num ber of myn th ere w ho had asked Ititi a n d 1 6 8 F i r s t S tre e t the Inn as a ‘charifable’ in stitu tio n : w ard sh o rter w ork days?” w as asked. ed no d em onstration. T he request me for free m eals, and all of them , “Y es,” he said. that the suit be advanced on the cal “ ‘T h e above bill of fare was not with one exception, came hack and “ Is the production dim inished?” endar was m ade by S olicitor-G eneral served in full C hristm as at the chil told me th at Captain M cClelland had was th e question. H oyt, who m ade clear the im portance W e show a line of FU R N ITU R E and CARPETS, CURTAINS refused to give them an y th in g to eat dren's “free” dinner, for w hich it had “N o; education and efficiency has of the 'case. and PORTIERES to fit any purse, whether it be for a PALACE unless th ey had the m oney to pay for been donated by the people. C on enabled the w orker to produce m o re,” T he m otion before the Suprem e or for modest COTTAGE. C ourt which was heard on M onday it. I think it a sham e for a place like trib u tio n boxes had been placed all Lom as declared. is an appeal by the In te rsta te Com W e have the goods. We sell at L IV IN G PRICES, LATEST th at to receive d onations on th e plea over tow n for ca*h contributions, and Mr. F orbes co rro b o rated Mr. L o m erce Com m ission from the decision th at it is a charitable in stitu tio n when in addition the public and business m as’ statem en ts and gave several of Judge Lacom be of the U nited STYLES and RELIABLE MANUFACTURERS. th ey do not give aw ay any m ore meals men co n trib u ted liberally of supplies. com parisons an d illu stratio n s of B rit- S tates C ircuit C ourt of the N o rth ern th an the average resta u ran t along this A m ong the things contributed for this 11 shops to em phasize his opinion. D istrict of New Y ork, su stain in g th e At the recent convention of the m em bers of the union with the condi stree t.’ m em bers of the coal tru st in th eir re purpose and not served to the chil Daniel D avenport, 'th e anti-B oycott fusal to subm it in evidence th e ir Boot and Shoe W ork ers of A m erica, tion of trade in all parts of th e coun “T h e next place visited was the dren w ere one side of beef and one A ssociation a tto rn e y from B rid g e agreem ent w ith the independent coal w hich was held at C incinnati, it was w hole m u tto n by E. H. S tanton, tw o p o rt, Conn., repeated his form er de o perators, by w hich coal was to be decided that a departm ent of infor try and the prices paid in the dis Main Coffee House, Mr. S tew art, the m ation and price lists be established trict. T his additional feature to the p ro p rieto r of this place, said: T had loins of pork by W ilson & Ball and a nunciations of the A m erican F ed era shipped to tid ew ater from the mines. in connection w ith (heir headquarters. h eadquarters will necessitate the ta k supposed the O ndaw a was a charitable 20-poung tu rk ey by Mr. O ’C onner, of tion of L abor, declaring th e o rg an i On this evidence hinged th e success of the suit of Mr. H ea rst ag ain st the T h is departm ent will furnish the ing of 1100 feet m ore of floor space. institution until along about the mid-J (C ontinued on Page ! zation was socialistic in its principles coal tru st. AMERICANS BEST $10.00 UNION LABOR MISREPRESENTED R e g u la to r s o f R e lia b le C lo th in g P r ic e s W ELCH THE AMERICAN CLOTHIER • ! sun nt Tim om siann 253 HSSIIOS mu FIFTH A. N. WRIGHT | ROBERTS BROS. 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