THE MORNING- OREGONIAN; TUESDAY, MARCH 2D, 1910.
'CLOSED SHOP' AIDS
CITY, SHY
Central Labor Council Replies
to Oregon Employers'
Charges.
STRIKE CAUSES REVEALED
Declaration Made That Portland Is
"Cheap Tovn'--Increased Wagees
Will Not Stop City's Progress,
Say IiOcal Labor Leaders.
Replying- to the statement issued
Sunday morning by the Oregon Em
ployers' Association, the i executive
committee of the Central Labor Coun
cil of Portland and vicinity, last night
gave out Its position in a statement
dealing with the impending industrial
disturbances here. The statement .deals
chiefly with the charge by the em
ployers that a "closed-shop" policy in
any city is ruinous to its industrial
life. This Is denied and the counter
statement made that it helps a city.
One of the declarations of the union
men's statement is that where a city
Is well organized from a standpoint
of the laboring classes strikes are few.
This results, it says, from the fact
that the unions themselves are modest
in their demands because of their very
strength and the fear that they might
overstep the bounds of reason, and the
further fact that the employers, be
cause of the solid organization, are
willing to accede to reasonable de
mands. Stand Taken Against Violence.
A stand against violence is an
nounced by the unions in the state
ment. This, it says, injures the cause
of labor rather than furthering Its in
terests; though the right of agitation,
termed free speech, is reserved as law
ful. The charge Is made that the em
ployers are hiding behind the cloak of
industrial peace, when, in reality, what
Is wanted is cheap and servile labor.
This is branded as a subterfuge on the
part of the employers.
Portland, according to the state
ment, is the cheapest labor wage town
on the Pacific Coast and all, Tt de
clares, because of the lack of organiza
tion here. The statement follows in
full:
In The Oreffonian of March 27 appears a
statement made by the Oreg-on Employers'
Association.
That statement, headlined as "Appeal
Made for Industrial J'eace," contains so
much absolutely wrong as to facts and con
clusions. Ht the same time beinw an attack
on the trades unions of Portland, that tho
executive committee of the Central Ia-bor
Council of Portland deems it advisable to
present to the public labor's side on the
question of industrial peace.
First be it stated that there is no more
potent factor for industrial peace than the
Btronarlv organized labor unions. "Where the
unions are strong, their very strength makes
them conservative in their demands. Tney
have gained their strength through strug
gles and suffering. They do not care to
Jeopardize, through any exorbitant demands,
the positions they holtl. On the other hand,
the employers in such a, well-organized in
dustry have their memories about past
strikes and boycotts when they refused
labor's plea. This brings about conferences
and peaceable adjustment of disputes. x
Weak Vnlons Have Little to Lose.
"Where the unions are weak, there in
dustrial strife can always be found. "Weak
unions have, very little to lose. They stand
to gain better pay and shorter hours for
their members. The employers in such in
dustries believe t hey can readily outfight
such weak . .iion. and refuse conferences,
settlements or arbitration.
This truth is so self-evident that it should
really not call for mention. But the Carne
Cies. the Rockefellers and the great host
of labor's exploiters yearly Fpend millions
In university subsidies, In library founda
tions and other methods of disseminating
economic and political doctrines which will
pern it these men. and their descendants to
remain our industrial over-lords, that com
mon sense doctrines and self-evident facts
have to be continually repeated. The rodo
montradlng Don Quixotes of our capitalistic
era have to be pulled down to earth by tho
Sancho Panzas who tell the facts and tho
rut la
in -Philadelphia there Is a. great streetcar
strike. Why ? Because the carmen were
poorly organized, and, besides, Philadelphia
Is an all-round poor union city. In Chicago
the streetcar izen recently secured an in
crease without a strike. Because they are
etrorgly organized and Chicago is a good
union city. Also the much-talked-of strike
of railroad firemen which would have tied
up all Western roads simply went to arbi
tration tecause the firemen are strongly or
ganized. ,
Xine months ago, after considerable ef
fort on the part of the Building Trades
Council, a committee of that Council se
cured a meeting with the Executive Board
of the Employers Association. The labor
committee pleaded for conditions that would
make for Industrial peace. The committee
was told that when the occasion arose the
Employers Association would move for in
dustrial peace. Evidently the recent acts
by this assocltion against union labor and
its present statement were then already pre
meditated. What the Oregon Employers Association
wants is not Industrial peace, but cheap
and servile labor. This association is evi
dently prepared to inaugurate an era of
Industrial strife in preference to peaceable
adjustment of labor's fair demands.
The open shop humbug is depended upon
to secure victory to these employers. Xow
the open shop is a shop where the door is
always swinging outward for the union
man who demands fair wages and .fair
treatment, if some non-union man can be
secured to give his labor to an open shop
employer. Let a streetcar man working on
one of Jossclyn's cars Join the union of his
calling ami word of such action is quickly
carried to the head office. Also that man
gets his discharge.
Peter K. Dunne, the writer-humorist. In
the following quotation, shows up the hypoc
risy of the open shop:
"But," said illennessy, "these open shop
tnin ye mlnshun say they are fer th' unions,
if properly conducted.'
Shure." said Mr. Dooley, "if properly
conducted. An' there ye are. An' how wud
they have thim conducted? No sthrlkes,
no rules, no contracts, no scales, hardly iny
wages, an dam few mlmbers."
There you have the Employers' Associa
tion on the open chop as explained by its I
leaner.
The workingmen of Portland are organ
izing and demanding better pay and the
sight-hour-day.
Portland Compared to Others.
The Employers Aoclat!on claims in
creased wages will stop the progress of .
Portland. Now the wages demanded by I
the Portland workers are only the wages
and hours given by the employers of fcan I
Francisco, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane.
That is. western wages are demanded. It
Js true in some instances there is still so hie
wage difference in some of these cities. But
they are in process of adjustment. Only
Portland still remains in the main the open
chop and cheap town. But the end to this
tigma is in sight.
The Employers' Association of Oregon is
only typical of the Corbett and Josselyn
type of employers. Evidence is on hand
that the majority of Portland employers do
no believe in its doctrines and practices.
Hence many already have the union shop
and others are rapidly swinging Into the
union column.
The vapid argument that Increased waes
would hurt, the growth of Portland Is ab
surd, because' other Western cities are pay
ing such Increased wages and are prospering
at about the same ratio as Portland,
though Portland has really greater natural
resources to draw from than these cities.
The fact la that the narrow and cheap pol
icy of the Employ Association really is
responsible for the retarding of the growth
of Portland to the natural limit of its re
sources. Cheap wages' have always caused
stagnation In a city o nation. In Russia
and China wages are low. According to the
Employers' Association aigunjent, if logical
ly followed, those countries otkght to be the
most prosperous. And m a way they are
for the Corbetts and, the Jcsselyns, but not
for the great mass of the peopJe, not for
true growth and real freedom.
The attack on the trades ualcflP officials
needs but this comment. They, in jnost cases,
work at their respective trades, and give
their earnings free to trades un w-ork,
because they realize its "necessity .V secure
fair pay and short working hours m the
shops. The paid officers in the uni'As. in
most cases, receive the pay they
earn at their respective trades rarely it'cr
and frequently less. These men do not ad
lives of ease. As a rule their workix
hours far exceed those in their trade. Thert
as to the charge of "luxury" enjoyed b
"these chamoions .of labor." the low wave i
rate Of Portland and htarh r.amf nf nlalnest ? Prominent 111
food is the answer to this buncombe. Ia it
not pitiful, that men in high industrial
positions are so small either in head or heart
that they sink to such low levels? The men
who wrote this untruth are either absolutely
ignorant of conditions in the trades unions
or deliberately told a falsehood to fool the
public.
As to the talk about American independ
ence and the ripht of the individual, as to
strikes and boycotts, referred to by the
employers, these few remarks will suffice.
From time immemorial the trick of the big
fellows was to talk independence of the
individuals and discourage unity of effort
on the part of the masses. But the masses
have seen throughthis trick. What inde
pendence has a poor streetcar man who
wants Justice from Josselyn, who represents
millions of capital and thus a strongly or
ganized and concentrated force ? This
streetcar man only has Individual rights
when he unites with his fellow workers and
uses pow er agaj nst power.
Strikes follow Dissatisfaction.
The workers strike when refused condi
tions they believe they are entitled to. Then
they use the right of free speech and free
press to keep other workers from taking
their places. They Invite these other work
ers to make common cause with them, to
Join their ranks. That is all there is to a
strike. . Every kind of violence is discour
aged by the unions. Violence is not only
useless, but harmful to labor's cause.
Unions have used, are using and will con
tinue to use the boycott, to tell their mem
bers and their friends to withhold patron
age from business concerns who refuse to
pay fair wages and give reasonable hours
to their workers. Biased courts may tem
porarily deny this unquestioned right to the
workers. But all to no avail. The wages
earned by the workers and their friends are
their own. They have the right to withhold
their patronage from their enemies. They
have the right to be told who are their
enemies. "Union treasuries might be mulcted
in damage suits, members of unions might
be sent to jail for the exercise of this
right, but history will repeat Itself. In
England the judges of that country some
ten years ago tried to crush the unions by
practically declaring the strike and boycott
Illegal. But the Tory government respon
sible for this tyranny lost its powers to the
Liberals, who returned to the English
workers the right of strike and boycott.
And this will also happen in the United
States. Actions as outlined by the Oregon
Employers' Association by their very reac
tionary trend dimply bring the day of ad
justment nearer.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CENTRAL LA
BOR COUNCIL OP PORTLAND AND
VICINITY.
92D YEAR REACHED
Ben Simpson, Pioneer of 1842,
to Celebrate Birthday.
RECEPTION WILL BE GIVEN
Indian
POLICE AID IS SOUGHT
Leather Company Seeks Protection
Pending Present Strike.
Fearing trouble from the crowd of
striking leather 'workers, gathered near
their place of business, the. Breyman
Leather Company, 72-74 Fifth street,
late yesterday called for police protection.
Although Sergeant Goltz and two patrol
men hurried to the scene, no disturb
ance was seen. The managers of the
company, not contented with conditions,
however, have asked the police depart
ment to send patrolmen to their establish
ment this morning, during the time their
men are coming to their work.
P. Yost, a member of the committee
of strikers, stated last night that there
would be no disorder, for they were go
ing to conduct a peaceful campaign. The
plan of the strikers is to gain the sym
pathies of the nonunion men at work
and get them to leave their employment
as a matter of sympathy. The success
of this method was made apparent yes
terday when about 30 men. working for
the George Lawrence Company, walked
out and Joined the strikers.
In his report to the Captain of Police
last night Serseant Goltz said the atrik
ers were peaceful.
Tho strike arose through orders re
ceived from the Leatherworkers' National
headquarters, which is directing a Na
tional strike for an increase in wage.
CONVENTION RATES GIVEN
X. . P. Grants Special Konnd-Trip
Tares for Seven Assemblies.
Special round-trip rates of one and
one-half fare were announced by the
Northern Pacific Railroad yesterday for
eeven assemblies.
The occasions for which the special
rates have been granted are: Teachers'
institute at Colfax, April 4 to April 8;
Inland Empire Retail Dealers' Associa
tion and United Commercial Travelers'
Joint meeting at Spokane, April 18 to
April 24; High School Athletic Associa
tion track meet, Lewiston, April 22 to
April 23; Indian Encampment and Con
vention at Pendleton, May 3 to May 9;
Grand Council of United Commercial
Travelers, May 20 to May 21.
P. K. )L. & P. Engineer Here.
M. S. Hopkins, consulting engjneer- for
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company. Is here ircra Columbus. Ohio,
to look over the company's electrical
stations and to attend to matters that
come under his Jurisdiction. He will
probably be here a week.
TAXES TARDY ON APRIL 4
Delinquent Date Begins Next Mon
day, Office Hours Lengthened.
After next Monday, April 4, all tax
payers who have not paid taxes on their
property will be charged 40 per cent
additional, according to state law. If the
taxes are allowed to run they will also
bear interest at the rate of 12 per cent
a year. It Is possible, however, for any
one to pay the tax after the delinquent
date, and If it is unpaid by the property
owner for three years it will be sold
by the Sheriff under the hammer.
Property owners may pay half of their
taxes and secure an extension of the
other half until the first Monday In Oc
tober or October 3.
Deputy Sheriff Martin, in charge of
the tax department of Sheriff Stevens'
office, has, with the assistance of the
deputies under him, collected by far the
larger proportion of this year's tax. He
expects a great rush of eleventh hour
property owners during the remainder of
the week and next Monday. For their
accommodation he will keep the office
open until a late hour.
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Industry,
.righting, Politics and Common
.wealth Building, Noted Citizen
JIas Left Mark on Affairs.
A pioneer of prominence in Oregon's
upbuilding i Ben Simpson, who will
celebrate hi'V 92d birthday this afternoon
at a receptUV- between 2 and 4 o'clock,
at the home A' hi daughter, Mrs. Wil
liam Klllingsxrth, 220 Alberta street
General Simpson. a he Is known, from
his former title -ft Surveyor-General of
Oregon, Is the fct.'nder of a wel-known
family in Oregon. His sons are: Sam
Jj. Simpson, deceasexi, famed poet, author
of "Beautiful WUlai.iK,tte": Sylvester C.
Simpson, long time eii'tor of the Oregon
Herald of Portland, St.te Superintendent
"of Public Instruction 18". '-'4. subsequently
a hlstorial and legal wrhPr for the Ban
croft Company in San FraVcisco and now
a resident of Alameda, Cal.; Grover
Simpson, a high officer of the Wells
Fargo Company In Chicas,V; William
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: to 'f s f y J t
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sleepers the privacy of a boudoir, the dining-car the
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These Trains Also Carry Standard and Tourist
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Leave Portland 9:00 A. M. 7:00 P. IV1.
PASSENGER STATION 11TH AND HOYT STS.
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Ben Slmpnon, Pioneer of 1S46,
W ho Will Celebrate His Mnety
Second Birthday- Today.
Simpson, of Pocote.116, and Clarence, in
dustrial agent of Wells-Fargo Company
In New Orleans. Of General Simpson's
four daughter's Mrs. William Killings
worth and Mrs. W. T. Burney, of Port
land, survive.
Time Kind to This Pioneer.
General Simpson was one of the most
vigorous characters in early Oregon
affairs, and his1 native energy stays with
him even in his advanced age. "Time
that scars us, maims and mars us," as
Sam Simpson wrote in his most noted
poem, has not impaired the mind of this
pioneer and he still has active use of
his physical faculties. In industry,
Indian fighting politics and Common
weath building General Simpson left his
mark on the affairs of Oregon.
'Born near Nashville, Tenn., in 181S, Mr.
Simpson came to Oregon in 1846, at the
ege of 28 years. That was the year the
United States established its claim to the
Oregon country by treaty with Great
Britain, after its claim had been secured
by several annual immigrations like the
one in which Mr. Simpson participated.
One of the early steamboats of the
Upper Willamette was built by Mr. SliTip
son in 1862, to ply the river above Ore
gon City. At Clackanr.as he owned a
sawmill and at Oregon City a merchan
dise store. His lumber he sent to Cali
fornia, after discovery of gold there, and
sold it. for 200 a thousand feet. Mr.
Simpson also shipped knock-down houses,
which sold in San Francisco for $1000
each.
Simpson Helped Fight Indians.
After the massacre of Dr. Whitman in
1847, at Wailatpu, near Walla Walla. Mr.
Simpson volunteered as a member of the
force sent from the Willamette settle
ment under Colonel Gilliam to quell and
punish tho Cayuse Indians, and was pres
ent at the death of Colonel Gilliam which
resulted from accidental discharge of a
gun.
Mr. Simpson was Indian agent eight
years, was sutler for Fort Yamhill and
Wtaa A .lrtc nAranol f.liwu) rt Phil
CViann U 1, . 1 f( VI
wuci luan, .villi w IIUUl Jie UCtdUIC Mill-
mate heforo the. Civil War. After the
war, Mr. Simpson was appointed by
President Grant chairman of the com-
I mtttee of three which negotiated a
.vtreaty wltn tne coeur a Aiene inaians.
'e was also appointed Surveyor-General
c Oregon and for a number of years
ge 'ed as postal Inspector.
Prominent as Legislator.
2Hr. Simpson was elected, six times to
the LesVBlature once m territorial days,
four tim1s t tne House of Representa
tives aftev' Oregon became' a state, and
once to til e Senate, from the counties
of Marion, ?lackamas. Polk and Benton.
All friends General Simpson and of
the family a.ri invited to the reception
to be held this- afternon in honor of this
noted pioneer. '. '
festivalTa.rade in view
East Side Businei-' Men's Club to
Arrange Plans Tills Week.
This week the East Side Business
Men's Club will adopt flefinite plans
for the children's parade 05.' Grand ave
nue at the next Rose Festival. George
T. Atehley, president, has appointed
committees to solicit funds o defray
expenses. Last year about J1.100 was
expended on the parade and" street
decorations. This year plans art more
elaborate and more money will bvs re
quired than at the two former fes
tivals. '
Grand avenue, now paved, to vEast
Clay street and Hawthorne avenue, be
ing Improved to the Ladd Addition arid
beyond, makes it possible to- enlarge1
the plans and' carry them ou easier
than formerly, when the parade space
was limited to a short section of Grand
avenue.
to deliver an address before the mem
bers of the association. The newly or
ganized Coos Poultry and Pet Stock As
sociation has decided to hold a county
poultry show in one of the bay cities
soon. The exact time and place has not
yet been determined. There are many
fanciers pf poultry in the county and the
members of the society think that a show
will help advance the poultry interests.
BAD BOYS AROUSE POLICE
O. A. C. Professor Talks to Ranchers
'MARSHFIEUD, Or., March 28. (Spe
cial.) The Coos County fruit growers are
inaugurating a campaign for the better
education of the ranchers in the care of
their orchards. With this idea in view
Professor Charles A. Cole, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, has been secured
Seattle Chief Proposes to Clean Out
Dens Where Plots Are Made.
SEATTLE. Wash., March 28. (Special.)
The confessions of four boys, 15 to 20
years old, that they committed crimes
ranging, from purse-snatching to bur
glary, highway robbery and horsesteal
ing, have forced the conviction upon
Chief of Police Wappenstein that a ma
jority of recent highway robberies were
committed by youths.
He has ordered a cleaning up of dens
wehere these boys meet to hatch their
plots. Nine boys were taken In a raid
on the pool room bf TeJ Daine, on
Marion street, near Third avenue, and
Daine was held In $100 ball for allowing
minors to visit his place.
Ford Wood and Chester Farnan, con
victed in the Juvenile Cort, had both
confessed that they plotted their high
way robberies at Daine's place and that
similar undertakings are hatched there
all the time.
Comniandery Observes Kaster.
ALBANY, Or., March 28. (Special.)
. Temple Commandery No. 3. Knights
n'emplars, of this city, attended two
Kaster services today, the members of
the commandery marching to each
service from the Masonic Temple. One
service was held at the First Presby
terian Church, where Dr. Franklin H.
Geselbracht, pastor of the church,
preached, and the other at the First
Baptist Church, where Rev. S. A.
Douglas, pastor of the church and a
member of the commandery, conducted
services.
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whom we purchase pianos. All answers must reach our store on or before
Wednesday, April 6, 1910, at 6 P. H. Send your answer to the Graves Muslo
Co., and be sure you address. Piano Mfg. Representative, Desk No. 1.
Graves Music Co.
Ill Fourth Street
Portland, Oregon
Send us the mines of persons you think might buy a
piano; we list aoid notify you when we sell them; you
can then come to omr store and select, at publishers'
list price, $25 worth of any sheet musie in our house.
Send list of names on separate sheet of paper. Be sure
to sign your name, grving your address.
Ill Fourth Street
sic Co.
Portland, Oregon
The Chinese are superstitious people, and
think It is a bounden duty to Rep tne oooy
intact, and if by any misfortune they are
compelled to lose a limb by amputation they
invariably ask for the severed member and
keev it ' a box to bo burled In dcu time
with the owner.
Then are 1250 street and lnterurban rail
way cor.yDanle In America, with a total of
3.1.000 mlK' of single track and 73.000 pas
acngers caf.s. The total number of passen
gers carried annually is 10.000.000,000, and
the gross annual Income Is S440.OO0.0O0
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