The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1897, Page 8

S THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1897. WORKMEN TURN FROM THE TRAITOR IN DISGUST. Hearst Pleads His Charities in Extenuation of Betrayal. JUST AS THOUGH CHARITY WERE NOT A MATTER OF BUSINESS WITH HIM. Says It Was “Such a Little Transaction” It Should Be Overlooked by the People. But It Was to Save Two Cents on a Pound Under the Free Labor Price Just the Same. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association Takes Action Condemning the Faker as Having Dealt a Blow Against Free Labor. W. R. Hearst makes no denial of the charge of using prison-made goods in his establishments on Mission street and on Market street. He conld not. Of course he could, but sfter twenty-four hours in which to think over the situation the folly of that became too apparent even to him and his satellites. There is Warden Hale to be met, ang, greater than Warden Hale, there are his books and the written contract. There was nothing to be said in face of the sweeping exnosure by THE CALL, With its fac-similes of orders for prison-mad goods written on Examiner letter-paper and signed by the business manager of the faker. The facts as presented and clinched admitted of no doubt, and faker could oaly do that which THE CaLL, while making the exposure, said it would do. It whined 1n its leading editorial yesterday that “it was such a little thing”’—only the purchase of $§369 38 worth of twine. Exactly. And why was that sum spent amonz the convicts at San Quentin? Was it for any reason other than the saving of 2 cents a pound on twine? Iuis avery little matter, indeed—picayunish, 1n fact. But the streets of San Fran- now with men clamoring for work, and they, as well as their more fortunate fellows who, for the moment, have “a job,” but who cannot tell how soon they may be crowded out by the unemployed who trench upon them on the one side, whi.e prison labor undermines them on the other—they are none of them de- ceived. They know that the open market is ready and eager to sell Mr. Hearst his twine, made by free labor, at the same price that it sells to all the other newspapers in this City. The merchants who have the twine to se!l know it, too—they, no doubt, de- plored the loss of Mr. Hearst’s trade when he saw fit to leave them and negotiate with 8an Quentin for the saving of 2 cents a pound. Since the exposure made by THE CArL, tongues have loosened that were be- fore still on this subject and it is known that T. T. Williams, business manager of tne Monarch Faker, boasted in certain quarters of the neat stroke of business he had done in making this contract with the San Quentin prison. He thought he had done a big thing for his master and no doubt he did—no doubt Mr. Hearst was much pleased by the savingeffected. And yet now, when the smiling and smirking mask that he has kept turned toward the workmen of California is torn away and the fea- tures of the miserable hypocrite are revealed under a searching blaze of light, he whines that it was ‘‘such a little thing.”” Cowering under the strong hght turned upon him he seeks relief by holding up his “charities” to public view—he has given s0 much to charity that this little matter of business migit be overlooked. To avoid the necessity of the humihation of charity is the great and constant cry of the American workman, and the “ultimate conclusion of Mr. Hearst's policy,” to use the language of Chairman Davies of the relief committee of the unemployed, *‘is that it would be advantageous to many of the workingmen tobecome convicts in order 10 have an opportunity to work.”” Itis the alternative of being compelled to accept Mr. Hearst's charity, and allowing him to get the benefit of the advertisement that goes with it. For if anybody retained the velief that Mr. Hearst doled out his charity for charity’s sake the uncovering of this “little business transaction” should effectu- ally dispel it. While making a great public parade about saving the Grant monu- ment from the indignity of being set up on a convict-cut base, he is himself secretly saying 2 cents a pound on the twine he uses by employing convicts to the discom- fiture of free labor. Was there ever a more pitiful hypocrite? The very smallness of the business, which he pleads as his excuse, is its most damning feature. If he would pass by the San Francisco merchant and go to San Quentin to save a féw dimes, would he not get all he needs there to make a greal saving—if he thought he wouldn't get caught at it. As itis he bought at San Quentin all the gnods they have in hisline. They dan’t make paper nor ink over there, nor do they set type. That the workingmen of California understand the faking hypocrite now is made clear by the expressions of disgust that come to THE CALL from all over the State, At a meeting of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association held last evening, J. W. Kerr, in urging the re-election of Julian Sonntag said, touching the double- dealing of the Examiner: “‘Gentlemen, the enaction of legislation to offset many most pernicious evils yet remains. We cannot affora to lose Mr. Sonntag, with his excellent voticy and his aggressive principle from the leadership of this association. I, for one, beg that he remain. “There are tne two questions of pure food and convict labor, with which we are now battling hard. Especially must we consider the proposition of convict labor. “It will indeed be a hard blow to us to lose our hardest fighter right at the time we find that one of our metropolitan journals, the San Francisco Examiner, on which we relied for support in common with the otbers, is itself a patron of San Quentin. The Examiner, 1 am giad to say, has been shown up as it deserves to be."” The speaker was warmly applanded The Examiner Should Be Condemned In the Very Strongest Sense. In commenting on the two-faced action of the *‘Jutemill Monarch’ in purchas- ing its twine at San Quentin, while making so vociferous a howl over the fact that the pedestal of Grant's siatue was hewn by the hands of murderers and thieves, Julian Sonntag, the president of the Manufacturers’ ard Producers’ Association, and of the Council of Associated Industries, yesterday spoke as follows: ‘1 say that any person or persons, company or corporation, purchasing convict goods, should be condemned in the fullest sense of the word. It is an injury to all {ree men of the S ate. It is a menace to capital and a menace to labor. +The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association has made a hard fight to remo ve this dangerous competition to free labor, and feels that it has aroused public senti- ment in the matter to such an exient that nobody will now care to be known as a customer of any State institution for the punishment of crime. If I myself were en- dowed with authority I would stop the manufaciure of all goods by power machinery in-any and all the penitentiaries of the State of California without a day’s delay, " tae cisco are overran Stand of the Labor Convention on the Convict Labor Question. The attitude of the laboring clas<es upon the convict labor question has always been pronounced and firm. From the very first that convicts were put to work in the various trades the working people saw the danger and did ail in their power to have it averted. In several Btates, aided by the manufacturers, who saw ruin in the ROY ALDRICH, Newsboy, Who Was Intimidated by the “Examiner” Yesterday. continuation of the system, the free laborers have met with partial success. In this City last month a strong effort was made in this direction. On February 17 the California Labor Convention met at 915} Market street, James Rose president and Guy Lathrop recording secretary. Several bills before the Legis- lature were discussed, and one in particular. It was brought up in the convention by A. McDermott, in the shape of a resolution, which is here given: WHEREAS, The question of prison labor and its encroachment on free labor should receive the attention of this congress without further delay ; therefore be it RESOLVED, That we are in favor of submitting to the voters of | this State a constitutional amendment to be voted on at the next gen- eral election abolishing prison labor when such comes in competition | with free labor and providing that convicts shall be compelled to work by hand, thereby discontinuing the use of machinery. A. McDERMOTT. The resolution was passed uanimously, thersby showing that while the working people are not in favor of keeping felons in idleness they shall not be provided with machinery which will give them the means of competing with free labor. The Jutemill Monarch Tries to Suppress a Newsboy. Roy Aldrich, one of TiE CALL'S bright newsboys, had an interesting experience vesterday while selling his papers on Market street, near the Examiner's business office, on tae corner of Grant avenue. When he star ed out with his bundle of copies of Tue CALL his cry was: “‘Here’s ver DarLy Mor~iNG CArL. All about the Examiner scandal. All about the Examiner buying suppiies of convict-made goods.” The lad had not beer. there bat a short time and had not sold more than half a dozen papers when the manager of the jutemills monarch realized the damage that was being done and a counter play was made that proved to be a failure. Aldrich, in describing the movement, said: “The folks in the Examiner sent out and got several other newsboys, who care out with a few Eraminers, and whenever I would cry out, ‘All about the Examiner scandal—the Examiner buying convict-made gouds,’ the other boys would cry out: *All about Tk CALr scandal. THE CALL buying from the convicts.’ 1 would not stand that, so I run the big fellow off the street with his Examiners, and then made the others leave too, and for a while I had the place all to myself. Af- ter a while the folksin the Examiner sent out another lot of boys to run me out, but I didn’t run worth a'cent, and I called out all the louder. I sold quite a number of CALLs and when the other fellows saw that they were playing a losing game they quit try- ing to sell and took their Examiners back to the office Nearly every one who boqgm: paper of me said that he was glad to see 15 CALL show up the Examiner just as it is. Alameda’s Trade Federation Discusses and Denounces the Faker. OAKLAND, CAL., March 11.—The Alameda County Federation of_dees has discussed the matter of the Examiner purchasing twine from San Quentin informally, but to-night President Rogers stated that the federation cannot take any official action until the San Francisco Union shall have acted. “This action of the Exuminer is severcly condemned by us all,”” said Presiden: Rogers to-night, “but it is not in our jurisdiction, and we cannot take official action urtil the union in San Francisco has taken the matter up. Every union man is up in arms, because they realize just how bitter has been their fight against convict-made goods. Just when we have it about won we find a bi; newspaper doing just what we have been trying to prevent people from doing.”’ All who have discussed the matter‘expressed great surprise that a paper posing as the frignd of laber should be guilty of using convict labor goods. Tne fight against this class of goods has been a very uphill one with California unions and has been waged for years. Itisa very sirange proposition that the Examiner should make | such ado over a convict-hewn pedestal for Grant and should be using twine made at 8an Quentin. T. J. Latimer, secretary of the Federal Labor Union, denounces the action of the Examiner in the strongest terms. “It is hard enough to live now,” he said, “and earn enough to prevent starvation, but if convict goods are to be bouzht we might as well follow those poor fools that went off to a South Sea island tne other day. It is not so much the amount of twine that was used as the utter lack of principle that the | affair shows. It is a fearful examnole to #ct, and the Examiner is always posing as a ‘holier than thou’ in labor matters. This thing will not be forgotten for a long time. Ido not see why we should be so greatly surprised either.” | The statement in to-day’s Examiner that it only jurchased a few bal's of twine of a kind that could not be manutuctured 80 good eisew .ers caused some ridicule at the | cotton-mills. Manager Rutherford has -ome twine there so like the sampie handed | out recently by the Examiner man that no one but an expert could have told the dif- ference. The manager m xed the two together and it took him several seconds to de- termine which was prison-made and which was made in his own mills. “I think we are capable of making anv kind of twine that anybody wants,”” he | said. “If we find that we cannot, then we will get some machinery that can. That subterfuge is too flimsy. | The people at the cotton mills were busy to-day mailing CALLs to all parts of the | world to let people see how the Examiner was encouraging convict goods as against free labor. Alr: Roberts, secretary of the Federation of Trades, said to-night: “There can be but one opinion regarding any concern that will patronize San Quentin. Such a concern is the bitterest foe and most treacherous enemy that iree labor ever had.” Strange That the Paper Could ? Be Guilty of Such Perfidy. RED BLUFF, Car, March 11.—A few intsrviews with prominent workingmen here toilow: C. F. Decker was long the active head of the Knights of Labor and is | the senicr member of the tirm of Decker & Hammer, machinists and foundrymen. He said: “The working people know the Examiner never 1as been a friend to labor and are glad to see such an expose as has been made by THE CALL. It makes many pre- tenses of its friendship, but we know it is only a ma k to cover its own dirty work, and we are glad to see some one remove the mask in the interest of the honest bat not much fooled workingman. The Examiner has done some good work, but work- ingmen generally know the motive, and that greatly nuilifies its efforts when it is on the right track.” Valentine Paul is a well-known architect and builder and an active member of labor organizations. He was present at the time of the interview with Mr. Decker. He said: *T fuly indorse waut Chariey has said on the subjeci, and the only reason | they ever fought the railroad was because they were taken off the payroll. Out with | their doings.” | Charles Unash is the owner of a little cigar factory here, and is very popular with | all workingmen. He said: “I have not kept very close tab on the Examiner lately | since the papers began publishing o much stuff about each other, but I think that a | paper that will make contracts for prison-made goods for its own use is not a friend of union or free lubor of any kind, and such pretensions should be exposed that working- men may know their friends.” 8. S. Pollard was one of the leaders of the A. R. U. here at the time of the strike. He is a quiet and conservative speaking man, but said readily enough: “It will cer- tainly hurt the Examiner, as such pretensions as they have put forth are .so at vari- ance with the truth, as shown by THE CALL.” The quesiion was asked him: “Have the workingmen considered the Examiner as a true friend?” He replied: “I do not think they have relied much on it in the past, and with a few exposures they will have no use for it in the future.” | V.C. Snelling, the popular barber at the Tremont Hotel shops, took a minute to answer the CALL correspondent’s question as to what he thought of the expose. He | said: “I quit tak ng the Examiner two years ago. 1 became disgusted with it cant about free lavor and such siuff, for whom it had no love, but whom it could use only | as a tool to gather in the shekels. It will do some good to see it shown up in its true | light.”” His assistant, G orge Solomons, remarked: *‘THE CALL has the Examiner in | a hole.”” To which Mr. Snelling added that “It will cost Willie a lot of money before | he gets even on the 2 cents a pound he has been saving on twine.” | A.S. Cramer is a carpenter who has managed several lurge pieces of work in Tebama County and has always been an active man in labor organizations here. He | said: *Itlooksstrange to me that the Examiner should have been guilty of such | pertidy to union lsbor, after it has been pretending to be their friend so long; but | then it secms that THE CALL has so much evidence that one can’t help but believe it | tells the t uth. We want to know who are really the friends of organized labor, and | if the Examiner has gone back on us, as it appears it has, well, we will see what to | do later.” A Convicted Boodler, | Filthy Blackmailer and Toady. | SANTA ROSA, CAL., March 11.—TuE CALL'S expose of the Examiner’s purchases | | of prison-made goods was read with lively curiosity in this city, and caused many lefi-handed compliruents to be paid to the unfortunate “‘Monarch of Mendacity.” Many citizens were loth to express an opinion on ‘the subject until the accused | journal could be heard from, but the half-hearted explanation of that paper to-day | confirmed its guilt and loosened many a tongue. Prof. H. W. Gottwald, when asked for an expression, said laconically: “The Ex- ‘ aminer should remember those words of holy writ, ‘Let him who is without sin cast | the first stone.’”’ Guy R. Camp, a prominent orchardist of this city, was more emphatic, and said: | “The Examiner is a lying sheet that should be suppressed. I am not at all surprised | at the latest scandal attached to it, and its denial of the charges would, to my mind, strengthen the case against it.” E. L. Dutcher, contracting painter: **The Examiner is certainly in a bad box in | more ways than one. The fact of their buying the products of the penitentiary wounld not be so bad did they not pose as the friend of labor. Of course, the amount of their purchase is not great in dollars and cents, but their silly attempts to make capital over the Grant monument while in the very act of buying prison goods, convicts them by their own evidence of a hemnous crime.” George A. Burch, a prominent plumber and steam-fitter, expressed himself as follows: “'Asa union man of course Iam opposed to convict labor, and the Examiner's | M heai, co ds on the lungs. 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