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Volume XV.
Number 19
Portland, Oregon, Saturday, August 21, 1915
Whole Number 811
ORGANIZED LABOR STANDS SOLIDLY
BEHIND MUSICIANS IN THEIR STRUGGLE
There has been a lot of newspaper talk ant jonsider- Union House Card or Union Music card of the Musicians’ employment of non-union musicians by the theatres was turned over to the
E x e c u te Board of the C. L. C. and the Executive Board of the Theatrical
I able glorification in the camp of the Employers’ Associa- Mutual Association.
Fede>» >cn, for such action as may be necessary to adjust the matter.
hull during the past week over the fact that the proprie-
The Burnside Theatre, Mr. G. M. Harris, manager,
" Tuesday afternoon the managers of the Lyric, Empress and Ban­
tors of several theatres have locked out their Union Mu- Fifth and Burnside, and the Ideal Theatre, Mr. T. C. Le- ta, , uieatres were served with a notice to the effect that the matter had
be< . turned over to the Central Labor Council, and that we requested an
sleians and have filled their places with scabs. The news- blanc, manager, Twenty-fourth and Thurman, have both early
conference between them and our representativs. In reply to this r e ­
[papers have been particularly careful to spread the state- assured our members that they intend to stand by the quest by us, we have been informed by Mr. Johnson, acting president of the
Managers’ Organization, that they are holding a meeting next Tuesday and
went that there was a disagreement between the unions Unions and not put in scab musicians.
we will be given an audience at that time. As we had personally interviewed
as to the stand of the Musicians’ Union.
In order that the public may be fully advised as to the Mr. Johnson and had urged a special meeting of his organization for Thurs­
he trouble has been brewing for some time and came stand of the Central Labor Council and as to the exact day, and had been denied this request, we have accepted his notice as to
| Tuesday’s meeting as final. In addition to the foregoing, a night letter,
[to a head last Sunday when the managers of the Empress, status of the case to date the Executive Board of the Cen- approved by the Board, was sent to Mr. Considine, owner of the Empress
Lyric and Pantages broke an agreement with the union tral Council last night submitted the following statement Theatre, asserting that his agreement with organized labor in this city is
being violated, to which he has replied, denying he has broken his agree­
and attempted to introduce changed working conditions, which was adopted by the Com *! in executive session:
ment, and further showing an extreme prejudice against the president of
the Central Labor Council, nnd accusing the latter of unfairness towards
Non-union musicians are now employed in the Heilig The-
Report of Executive Board Relative to Musicians’ Lock-out
him,
Mr. Considine. To this charge the Board answers that Pres. Smith
tie. Broadway and Taylor; Pantages Theatre, Broad-
On Sunday, August 15, members of Musicians’ Local Union No. 99, of
sent the telegram by direction of the Board and it was an expression by the
av and Alder; Empress Theatre, Broadway and Stark; 'lhe A F' °f, M- wer* locked ou‘ by the manaK,,rs °f the Lyric, Empress and Board and not of Pres. Smith, except in so far as he is in accord with the
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Pantages Theatres because said members refused to work in violation of a
Lyric Theatre, Fourth and Stark
trade rule of their local union, to-wit: that the minimum number of union Board, and the Board has so nof ifled Mr. Considine.
In addition to the foregoing your Board desires to call attention to the
musicians to be employed at the Lyric is three, at the Pantages and Empress
Moving Picture Theatres—Gay Theatre, 805 Missis Theatres
six, respectively. Said locked out musicians have been replaced by fact that moving picture houses employing union musicians locked these out
sippi Avenue; Globe Theatre, Eleventh and Washington non-union musicians, now acting in the capacity of strike-breakers at the Thursday and replaced them with non-union players, evidently in support
of the three vaudeville houses, regardless of the fact that the Musicians have
Sts.; American Theatre, First and Main Sts.; Casino,thre*' before-named theatres.
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Believing an emergency existed, the Executive Board was called into made no demand on the picture houses; hence this is purely a sympathetic
Theatre, 285 Burnside Sts., Sunnyside Theatre, 14O/2 special meeting Monday evening, August 16. There were cited before this lock-out.
It has been reported in the press that the Theatrical Federation and
iBehnOnt St.; Nob Hill TheaG-e, Twenty-third and Kearney meeting, representatives of the Musicians and the Theatrical Federation. the Central
Labor Council were not behind nor in sympathy with the Mu­
Is,; Clinton Theatre, East Twenty-sixth and Clinton Sts.; I
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sicians. This should be dissipated and branded as false.
The Theatrical Federation has adopted as law the Musicians’ Minimum
The Isis Theatre, 1613 East Thirteenth St.; The Home from the Theatrical Federation were acted upon as follows:
Number of Men Law, and lame has the full support of the Central Council
Theatre, 122 Grand Ave., near Morrison; Columbia The-
That from President Jefferies filed.
Executive Board.
In view of the foregoing the Board hereby recommends:
are, 108 Sixth St.; Crystal Theatre, 125 Killingsworth L>
1st. That the Central Labor Council enodrse the demands of the The­
St.; Peoples Theatre, 129 West Park St., Star Theatre,
1st. That the Board request the Theatrical Federation tc call a special atrical Federation and t'iose of Local No. 99, A. F. of M.
Park and Washington Sts.; National Theatre, Park and meeting at 12, noon, Tuesday, August 17, for the purpose of considering the
2d. That representatives of the Council be instructed to attend the
Meeting
next Tuesday of the Theatrical Managers’ Organization and use
Stark Sts.; Circle Theatre, 128 Fourth St.; Crystal The-
°f ** Mu8icians’ Minimum Number of Men Law of
every honorable effort to adjust the differences now existing in the theatres.
[¿tie, 46 Third St.; Union Avenue Theatre, Union Ave. and
2d’ That the Board request Local 99 of the a . f . of m . to present such
3d. That the Council urge all union men, women and families and
Russell St.; Sunset Theatre, 328 Washington St.; New law of
4 t0 the Theatrical Federation for their rejection or approval friends to refrain from attending any and all theatres until a fair list of
theatres can be compiled and published.
riand Theatie, lOo Sixth St., Acme Theatre, 265 Russell
That the Board refuse to ask Local 99 of the a . f . of m . to put
Ydur Board deplores the fact that business men in the amusement field
¡St ; Tivoli Theatre, Williams and Russell; Alhambra The- their men back to work under the conditions imposed and required by the have played so blindly into the hands of those who hypocritically shout for
lire,
Ave.,
Forty-ninth;
Majes-
emP1 Following
°y*rs- . the action of the Board, the Musicians’ Board of Directors industrial freedom and clandestinely attempt to further enslave the
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1C theatre, Washington and Park Sts., Richmond lhe- and the Theatrical Federation concurred in the recommendations of the
Particularly do we deplore the action, as these same theatrical interests
tre, East Thirty-seventh and Carruthers.
Board, and the Minimum Number of Men Law of Local 99 of the A. F. of M. have for years enjoyed the benefits and patronage of labor, who have been
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was Presented to the Theatrical Federation at its special meeting of Tues- enabled to enjoy the amusement afforded by theatres because of bettered
If in doubt about a picture theatre demand to see the day, and said law was approved and adopted by said Federation and the wages
gained through the activities of organized labor.
SAVING $ 1 0 0 0 .0 0 PER DAY
Members of organized labor
1 ind their f -iends should re­
member that the
LaGrande
I'reamery is still on the unfair
¡ist and should refrain from 1 A Portland financier claims he can —costs a lot of money. Why not sell install their own fire protection sys-
travagances. By looking around a
using the products of this com­
save the city $1000 per day by the the present costly, high-grade equip­ | terns. More money saved.
little
we could probably get a good
pany. There is no banner in
manager system of government. He ment and organize hose-cart volun­
Stop laying water mains. Costs manager for about $1 a day. Big
front of the place at the present
does not state just how this enormous teer companies? Think of the sav­ lots of money. Have sufficient mains saving in salaries. Of course, he
time owing to the fact that the
i sum is to be saved annually, but he ing to the city in salaries.
to supply water for house consump­ ; might graft and be a rich man in
engineers have granted the ban­
probably could save this much, or
The much-talked of bookkeeping tion. What good is grass if you a few months, but if he did, we coyld
ner man a leave of absence for
more. So could our present commis­ force could be greatly reduced by have no stock and not enough lawn recall him and get another.
two weeks to enjoy his vacation.
sioners should they so desire.
Is it the rich or the poor class
working a small number of men say to pay to make hay ?
At the end of that time the fight > I
They could reduce the number of 18 or 20 hours a day. The city owns
If
people
want
to
irrigate
their
who
favor the City Manager scheme ?
will be renewed and will con­
street, lights, or stop the service considerable park property which land let them dig wells to get water We shall see.
tinue without abatement until
entirely; the policé force might be could be sold for a neat sum and the supply, or charge more for water for
Another thought. If the City Man­
this firm is brought to realize
gieatly reduced, indeed, a town mar­ park employes discharged. With this lawns, flowers and vegetable gardens, ager system is a good one, why is
that the workers have some
shal might do the work; then, too, money the $1,000,000 road improve­ anything, so the city saves money.
not the same system applicable to
rights and that the working
there is the fire-fighting department ment bonds could be bought up and
'county,
state and even Nation? I
Then the street car company, the
people will not spend their
pause
for
a reply.
i
the
interest
on
these
would
amount
gas
company
and
the
Pacific
Tele­
; ioney with a firm that does not
to
something
less
than
$100,000
an­
phone
company
(Home
telephone
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LOW
WAGE
WORKERS
STRIKE
recognize that fact.
nually. Then we might vote some company don't count for much, al­ FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE.
Grave diggers and caretakers at a more road improvement bonds, just most down and out anyway) should
cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio, struck (to get the interest. We just must give half their profits for franchises. i Both branches of the Wisconsin
ORGANIZATION URGED
■ legislature have approved a bill pro­
because their wages were to suffer j have some bonds hanging over us or That would help some.
viding state aid of $100,000 the first
it
would
seem
we
were
living
in
an­
a
proportionate
reduction
with
the
in­
I 1'ht Carpenters’ union has ap-
Put the electric lighting company
year
and $125,000 each year there­
ted a committee to act with the stallation of the state eight-hour law, other and an unknown world.
out of business. Candles are cheaper
after
for county tuberculosis san­
tr.il Labor Union and the Build- Officials agreed to maintain the 20-
We have two fireboats. Why two? and no danger of being electrocuted.
atoria and directing that each insti­
cent-an-hour
rate
paid
under
the
ten-
Trades Council in starting an
I Why one? Sell them. Plenty of
Run the city in a business-like
[water in the river. Let dockowners manner, stop all the enumerated ex­ tution admit cases of incipient tuber­
■ izing campaign in Canton, Ohio. hour system.
culosis.
Central Labor Council
Picnic Complete Success
picnic given by the Labor
P >• Association under the au-
of the Central Labor Council
1 >tal Lake Park last Sunday
' complete success from every
Gl: 'point.
About 3500 people were in at-
' e during the day and every
them thoroughly enjoyed
wiiiM-lves.
"''p was something doing all the
md while a portion of the
i-tened to the addresses of the
inch were delivered by Judge
Hugh and Judge Cleeton, the
!<r were enjoying the sport-
■>"nts which were being pulled
"n the athletic field, or dancing,
r °thi rwise amusing themselves.
■' 1 h interest was displayed in the
‘ ’ ding contest, most of the eon-
ar’ being well known to the
oi.s p . VrHonald, 65 years
,k"''• w'ho was at one time cham-
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^ e world at this sport, suc­
Su ccess
By J O H N B U M P
CORNELIUS
LEHANE,
IRISH
LABOR LEADER, COMING
Cornelius Lenane, of Cork, Ireland
the famous labor orator whose ad
dresses on Ireland, England and the
European war have created a pro­
found sensation in the eastern cities,
is to visit Portland this week. On
Friday night he will speak on "Labor
and the European War,” at Arion
Hall, Second and Oak Streets.
Since his arrival in America from
the European war zone, ^ehane has
been received enthusiastically by la­
bor unions and the Irish societies.
He has been received by the Boston
Central Labor Union, the Boston
Gaelic League, and the Irish Volun­
teers of Boston, also by the Chicago
Federation of Labor, the Chicago
Teachers’ F’ederation (which gave
Lehane a public banquet), the Asso­
ciated Gaelic Clubs of Chicago, the
Clanna-Gael Guards of Providence
and Chicago, and dozens of labor
unions of all descriptions. Wherever
he has spoken he has created the
greatest enthusiasm, and his services
are proven to be of real value in
bringing Dish Catholics and labor
unionists to a better understanding
Scab Musicians Are
Now In Their Glory
“Success '—thut’s the name that's Sing Sing, is trying to treat the
cumbed to the superior dexterity of painted on her stem.
prisoners like human beings.
G eorge II. Parsons and His Band and
a younger man, although Mr. Mc­
She
is
the
old
Australian
prison
Ht
has
abolished
the
rule
of
silence.
Orchestra
Donald gave a remarkable exhibition ship, and she lies down in Portland
of the art. W. H. Fitzgerald acted harbor, for the multitude to see at
Mm are permitted to talk to each
other, and to their keepers.
At present there are non-union
as referee, Jim Cassiday as time­ two bits per look.
musicians in several theatres in the
keeper, and the judges were A. C.
He is trying to conserve whatever
Thousands have visited the old hulk
Moffatt, C. H. Kelly and A. J. Burns. since
manhood may be left in the men who City of Portland. Some of these men
she’s been in Portland.
have been playing for several years
Jack Lewis was chairman of the
come to Sing Sing.
past with the GEORGE H. PARSONS
athletic committee and was ably as­
They have shuddered at the tales
He argues that it will be economy ORCHESTRA, which has been on the
sisted by A1 Raymond, S. Wortman told by the spielers on board of the
to turn men back into society better
and G. McNamara. That they did inhumanities practiced on board the than they were when society shut unfair list of the Central Labor Coun­
Success, when she was in her heyday
cil since 1910. Two of them were
their work well was evidenced by the as a floating hell.
them up.
originally
members of the .Musicians'
fact that all events were pulled off
Our own Governor West, of Oregon, Mutual Association, Local 99, A. F.
It seems incredible that within the
on schedule time and there was very
had ideas like Osborne’s.
of M., but resigned to go scabbing.
little bickering over results of any of ¡last century, only 50 or 60 years ago,
men treated their brother men with
And
he
put
them
in
practice.
the events.
Following is the record of George
such cruelty.
Wm. Cooper, of the Plasterer’s
Amt was criticised cruellv by the H. Parsons, the manager of the
And as they leave the ship, they capitalist press.
Union, acted as the official announcer
George H. Parsons orchestra:
congratulate each other that we live
during the day.
Previous to 1910, George H. Par­
in a better day.
But he plugged along, and made
There was a great deal of inter­
sons was i member of Local No. 99,
things
better
at
the
Salem
peniten­
est displayed over the ball game
However, let’s take a look at things tiary.
A. F. of M., but was suspended for
between the Bricklayers and the about us after we look at the convict
non-payment
of moneys due members
And it got results.
Labor Press. Of this feature Mr. , ship.
and later reinstated. He was in good
('. B. Taylor, who has furnished the
Mr i didn't try to break into prison, standing in Local No. 99 until Feb­
There’s a roar from New York, for
[instance, because Warden Osborne, of
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ruary 16. 1910, when the following
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action was taken by the Board of
Directors of Local No. 99:
“Board of Directors meeting, Feb­
ruary 16, 1910: Case of George H.
Parsons, violation of Article V, par­
agraph 10, Misdemeanors, Constitu­
tion and by-laws, Local No. 99 A F
of M.
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“Par. 10. Failure to puy all sums
due members employed, within 48
hours after amount has been col­
lected for an engagement.”
Testimony was offered showing
that the money had been paid. M em ­
ber Parsons failed to answer sum­
mons and ease is decided by default,
und a fine of $20.00 is imposed for
violation of law.
“On motion G. H. Parsons is con­
sidered in default to members of this
Local in the sum of $239.00. is given
until February 19th to pay same, is
also suspended until that date, and
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