Portland labor press., May 13, 1904, Page 2, Image 2

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FIRST NATIONAL BAN K —
OF PORTLAND. OR.
Designated Depository and _
Agent o t the United States.
P r e sid e n t........................... . . . ■. A. L. MTT ¿ A
Cashier............... . . . . .......J. w . N E W k i r k
Aaeletant Cashier............... W. C. ALVORJD
Second A ssistant Cashier. B. F. 8TBVBJNH
Letters o f credit Issued, avallable In
Europe end the Eastern States.
Sight exchange end telegraphic trans­
fers sold on N ew York, Boston, Chicago,
8L Louis, BL Paul, Omaha. San Fran­
cisco and tha principal polnta In the
North weak
Sigh t and t in » billa drawn In auma to
ault on tendon. Parla, Barlin, Frankfort-
on-the-Main, Hong Kong, Yoloohama, Cop­
enhagen. Christiania, Stockholm, 8L P et­
ersburg Moscow, Zurich, Honolulu.
Collections made on favorable t
S T R IK E R S .
Prospects of Settlem ent Be­
tween Contending Parties.
A report has become curren t that
the boss bakers and the em ploying _
Isstherw orkcn have »oacbt lhe 311,1 " ‘ I ;
the C itizens’ Alliance in their im­
$30, $35, $ 4 0 , $45, $50, $55, $ 6 0
pending trouble w ith their men, and
th e re is no question but w hat there
F IS H IN G RODS. HO O KS, BEELS. ETC ||
is sufficient grounds for the belief.
T here has been no change in the
Baseball and Sporting Goods
Guns and Ammunition
b ak ers’ situation for the past three
weeks. T he men are standing out
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firmly, and a num ber of them have
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secured positions in country towns.
PORTLAND. OR.
Enough are at w ork at the wages
J. FRAN K W ATSON..........
...P resid en t
R. L. DU RH AM .................... Vice-President
asked for in the new scale to keep
R. W. BO TT........................................... Cashier
GEORGE W. HOYT........ A ssistant Cashier
th e idle ones for an indefinite length
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of time. W hile the idle bakers do not
714 C h a m b e r of C o m m e re e
BUSINESS.
get as much as they would w ere they
Interest paid on tim e deposits.
w orking, still they receive a weekly
D rafts and letters of credit issued, avail
allow ance sufficient to m eet neces­
able In a ll parts ot this world.
sary expenses. T here has been no
Collections * specialty. Gold dust bought.
aud furnish the money. Repay in instalments
desertion front the ranks, and as fast
a little more than rent.
as possible the idle ones are secured
LONDON A N D SA N FRANCISCO BANK,
LIMITED.
em ploym ent, thus reducing the ex­ » » » > » < » » * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Chambcr of Commerce Building. Tbtrd
pense of the fight. A few days ago
and Stark Streeta.
it was thought th a t the trouble would
Board and Lodging, $4-33 Head office. li Old Broad Street, London.
be adjusted. Some of the boss bak­ Lodging, 35 Cents
Thla
bsnk
transaets a generai banklns
per week, and upward
Meals, 10 Cents
business, m aire. Ioana, dlsoounta bilie sud
ers of the larger shops intended to
laeues lettera of credit avallable for trav-
elera and thè purchaae s f m erchandlse In
agree to the concessions made by the
Oregon Telephone, North 981
any city of thè world. Deala In forelgn
journeym en, and sign up. This was
and dom astle exchange. Interest psld on
term deposita.
frustrated, how ever, by o th e r p a r­
W. A. MACRAB. Manager.
ties than those in the baking busi­
ness.
T he trouble is not felt by the pub­
N O W IN PO R T L A N D
lic, as there are plenty of fair shops
O F F IC E
to supply the m arket. T he only ones
JOHN MATTHIESEN, Prop.
inconvenienced are the em ployers, who
C or. 1 3th and Burnside S ts .
stubbornly oppose their own in ter­
ests, and the few idle men. T he union
P H O N E M A IN 7 2
P o rtla n d , O regon
258-266 Front Street
has conceded enough points for any
Corner of Madison
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reasonable man, and it is now up to
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the bosses.
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The Largest Plant in the Pacific Northwest
T he union still continues to agi
Francisco’s
tate its label w ith telling effect.
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Leather-workers’ Strike.
T he leatherw orkers’ strike is now
going onto the eighth week. T here
has been little change from the start
A sim ilar condition obtains in San
F rancisco and Los A ngeles. T here
has been a concerted effort of the
firms in this line of business on the
coast to destroy the union. A lthough
the union has not asked for an in
crease in wages no r the shortening of
hours it makes little difference. T he
em ployers are determ ined to have an
open shop. All the union asked for
was a renewal of last y ear’s ag ree­
m ent, which was refused. It is there­
fore the life or destruction of the un
ion involved.
Last F riday the fight was carried
into Justice R eed s court. Since the
com m encem ent of the trouble the
firms have im ported a num ber of
men, am ong whom
are
several
bruisers. T he la tte r have been pa­
rading around and in front of the
shops about the tim e the union m em ­
bers w ere doing picket duty.
The
bruisers nave been displaying a dep­
uty sheriff’s badge, notw ithstanding
Sheriff Storey denies th a t he ap­
pointed them as deputies. O n April
28 E. M. H ogue, president of the
union, was struck by one of these
bullies by the name of Schulpius. T he
assault was unprovoked, but no resist
ance was made by Mr. H ogue, as it
was believed that the attack had been
purposely made to cause a riot, ex
pecting thereby to invoke police pro ­
tection and secure the sym pathy of
the public Instead of falling into the
trap, Mr. H ogue secured a w arrant
for the arrest of Schulpius for as­
sault. T he trial was held last Friday
the defendant calling for a jury trial.
It was clearly shown in the evidence
subm itted, and there was plenty of it,
th a t Schulpius was guilty as charged.
T he testim ony of a policem an alone,
who saw the assault com m itted, was
sufficient to convict the accused. In
fact the officer told the alleged deputy
that he had no right to strike the
man, and he should not do so again.
If Mr. H ogue was guilty of disturb­
ing the peace he should arrest him,
but to strike him he had no right. T he
o fficer testified that he had seen no
w rong com m itted by Hogue.
In the face of all this evidence the
jury* w ent out and in a few m om ents
returned a verdict of ‘ not guilty.
T his jury was com posed of the fol­
low ing business men: John A. Hen-
kle, A. G oodman, W . C. Puffer, H. W
Fries, C. H M eussdorffer and Louis
R osenblatt.
The attorneys for the defense were
R. A. L citer and B H aney, and the
prosecution was conducted by D istrict
A ttorney M anning.
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Jn o u r w ell lig h te d B A S E M E N T S A L E S R O O M o f
11000 sq. f t . w e c a r r y a f u l l lin e o f W O R K IN G -
M E N 'S U N IO N M A D E C L O T H IN G . C a rh a rtt’s
U nion M ade O v era lls, C oats, O v e r sh irts a n d P a n ts.
S u it Cases, T r u n k s a n d T r a v e lin g B a g s.
E x tr a V alues in C h ild re n ’s C loth in g.
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P R E S S M E N ’S U N IO N .
meets at A storia, O regon, M onday
L ast T uesday evening the P o rtlan d
m orning, the 6th day of June, 1904, at
10 a. m. T he basis of representation P ressm en ’s U nion held their regular
will be the same as allow ed by the m onthly m eeting. P resident P onnay
international at its conventions. M at­ m anipulated the gavel upon a good
ters of grave im portance will come tu rn -o u t of m em bers.
T h ere was one application for ap ­
before the convention. T h e various
locals on the coast are in favor of prentice m em bership.
T he hall com m ittee was given full
com plete jurisdiction on the coast.
It is absolutely necessary for all pow er to select a m eeting place for
the union, and it is expected th a t by
locals affiliated to be present.
H ave credentials signed by presi­ next m onth a new hall will have been
dent and recording secretary, with secured. T he union has been holding
forth at the P la ste re rs’ hall, 127/2
seal of local affixed.
,
J. H U R L E Y ,
F irst street.
T he excursion com m ittee th a t had
Sec.-Treas. Pacific Coast Branch.
T he above letter is particularly sig­ full charge of the P ressm en ’s railroad
nificant for the reason th a t the Pacific excursion to T h e Dalles last Sunday,
Coast longshorem en's union are dis­ rep o rted th a t about 400 people were
satisfied with the treatm en t they have accom odated, and th at all had an en­
received from their international. joyable time. As the business of the
T hey hold that the Pacific C oast has affair had not been com pleted the
been discrim inated against in favor of com m ittee m ade only a partial re ­
the G reat Lakes unions, and in fact port, but will render a full account
that the form er has received no bene­ at the June m eeting. I t is th ought
fit w hatever in p roportion to the th at the receipts will be slightly in
am ount of tax th at they pay in each excess of the expenses, but the rail­
year. T heir grievance is th a t the road com panies have raised their
W estern unions have been left to shift rates for excursions considerably
for them selves at their own expense. over that of last year, m aking it al­
Tw o years ago the Pacific Coast m ost im possible for the prom oters
Branch was organized, and m ore good to realize anything like decent re
has been derived from it in that tu rn s for their labors. F or this rea­
length of tim e than has ever been son the pressm en will quite likely
abandon the giving of railroad excur
given by the parent body, they say.
A short tim e ago the Pacinc Coast sions in the future unless the com
Branch petitioned the international panies are w illing to allow a fair p er­
that they be given a portion of the 5 centage.
A special m eeting of the union may
cents per capita tax paid into the
parent body for local organization, be called betw een now and the regu
and th at the branch be em powered to lar m eeting night in Ju n e to receive
settle its own affairs—in o th er words, the agreem ent with the O regonian
they fell th a t they should be given P ublishing Co. back from the in ter­
the r i g h \ t o control their own affairs national, to w hich it was subm itted
-ince the international paid little a t­ under international requirem ents to
tention to them anyway. T he peti­ be approved. T h at th e officers of the
tion was turned down cold, hence the parent body has accepted the contract
spirit of secession in the Pacific Coast the m em bers here have no doubt, and
unions. It is said th at the longshore all th at will be left to do is the for
unions of the Gulf are also in the mal proceedings w inding up the af
same hum or, and unless P resident fair. From th a t tim e on tw o shifts
Keefe and his official colleagues will be em ployed in the press room s
change their tactics the international of the O regonian.
organization will have a big slice cut
D elegate-elect W. S. M cH ugh will
off from the W est and South.
T his is the m ost im portant m atter leave for St. Louis about the lfitli.of
that will come before the convention June, to atten d the convention of the
P A C IF IC C O A S T L O C A L S M A Y at A storia, and it is essential th a t all international, which convenes in that
SECEDE.
locals affiliated with the Pacific Coast city June 20.
Branch be there.
G eorge M cCormack, a m em ber of
Besides this, an attem p t will be
D on’t Like T reatm ent Given Them
the
S eattle P ressm en ’s U nion, was a
made to ad ju st the differences th at
by the International.
have arisen between Locals 263 and visitor last T uesday evening. He not
T he executive council of the P a­ 265 in the P o rt of Portland.
only expressed a few happy rem arks,
cific Coast Branch of the In te rn a ­
T he trouble existing betw een the but he rendered substantial compli
tional L ongshorem en, Marine and local and the exporters at H onolulu m ents in the shape of a box of good,
T ran sp o rt W orkers, has issued the will also be reviewed, and decided union-m ade cigars. Mr. M cCormack
steps will be taken against ships from
following circular letter to all its af­ thp islands that arrive on the Pacific is in the em ploy of the American
filiated unions:
Coast with a cargo loaded with scab T ype F oundry, traveling about setting
T o all Locals affiliated with the P a­ labor.
up m achines. H e is here installing
T here are oth er im portant ques­ a handsom e M iehle for the Marsh
cific C oast Branch, I. L. M. & T. A.
You are hereby requested to send tions th a t will be raised in the con­ P rin tin g Co.,
vention th at are not sufficiently m a­
delegates frdm your local to the third ture at this tim e to announce, but it
annual convention of the Pacific Coast is certain th at it will be an in terest­
T he O akland, California, Boxmak
Branch of the I. L M & T. A., which ing meeting.
ers have secured an increase in wages.
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