The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1901, Page 6

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Alhambra—Benefit Children's Hospital, Jupe 1 Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. " Northern Hotel; ' Saturday matinee, AUCTION SALES. By R. W. Scott—Wednesday, May 29, at 11 o'clock, Trot- ting Horses, at Alameda Training Track—Lapman's Stables. ey ———— 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by maill to their new ®ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local‘agent in @il tewss on the coast. F DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES. IFTY-THREE members of the Iroquois Club met recently at Benicia and told the Democratic party of the State what it is to believe and fight diminishes the party creed. The immortal fifty-three, led by Clitus Barbour, in- | decided in the light of the cotton tax decision. formed the party that it must believe in state com- | munism, and in the public ownership of about all the agencies and activities of business and production. Looking over the several extensions, additions, Jean-tos and declarations of the party creed in this State, we find that it stands now for free silver at 16 | to 1, for an unlimited issue of irredeemable paper cur- rency, for abolition of national banks, for destruction of the independence of the courts, for denial of the executive veto, for destruction of private ownership of land, for uction of the legislative branch of the Government, ‘and public ownership and adminis- tration of public , transportation, production and distribution ! be seen that it only remains for the party to express its programme in the simple motto of Nicholas Bakounin and the anarchists, “Down with law; everything belongs to everybody.” Yet the rank and file of the. party wonder why business men, and men who, by thrift, temperance and industry, have gained property, reject its principles and antagonize its candidates. Speaking from a Republican standpoint, we do not hesitate to declare that it is unfortunate that the prin- ciples of the Democracy have been wrested from their former conformity to the constitution and have be- come distinctly revolutionary, not only in respect to our system of government but in respect also to the social institutions of the people. The present party outrun the old sandlot creed as to invest it with the features of a reasonable and quite innocuous political movement. Let any reasonable man consider the effect upon the business, the property, employment and rights of the people of the success of a party committed to such policies! It is net a wholesome political condition, either for the party in power or the country, and will neces- sarily, it seems to us, lead to a renewed attempt at re- organization of the Democracy, or the formation of a new party by which the conservative ‘Democrats will attempt to get the party back to a speaking acquaint- ance with the constitution, and at one with the wel- fare of the country. New York Aldermen are discussing the advisability of adopting an ordinance prohibiting persons from standing in open street cars, but until some means has been found to cure the American habit of rushing during business hours it will be very hard to pre- vent them from taking the first car that comes even , if they have to stand and, crowd everybods cise. It is said the Game Warden of New York has found | so many game birds hidden away in cold storage plants as to make the penalty money for violation of the law 2mount to upward of $1.000,000; and if any- thing like that sum can be collected the game law will have to be classed as one of the best revenue pro- ducers on the statute-books. In New England there has been invented a new drink called “stretch.” It is said to be composed of water, hard cider and alcohol. and according to re- ports is about the most diabolical thing ever devised in the country. programme and principles so far | THE SAN FRANCISCO ©CA THE ISLAND DECISION, NTIL the full text of all the opinions in the insular cases, decided by the Supreme | Court, is-at hand it is hardly possible to correctly estimate the full effect of the In the outline as at present presented, the decision exeludes Porto Rico and the Philippines and declares them, to use the language of the Louisiana court’s judgment, treaty negatively, not a part of the Union of their people. This issue is distinctly raised in curs: “Whatever may be finally decided by islands and their inhabitants—whether they States, or be permitted to form independent of Congress.” case to the people, for trial and decision, as trary and plenary. to conceive of its exercise of powers outside be upon ground not touched in the majority States when exported to Porto Rico, a part ritory of the United States. ticles exported from any State.” gress. tax is in effect an export tax upon our products. Prohlbition of such tax upon exports to the general markets of the world seems clearly to include prohibition of such tax to any special market, whether within or without thg ter- the United States, In brief the court decides that the constitution does not follow the flag. Upon this point both the majority and mi- nority of the court tread upon ground that is clearly dangerous, and both disclose a situa- tion that will arouse the solicitude of the country and supply our future politics with an issue of transcendent importance, Its bearing upon the interests of the people is far greater than that of the question of slavery, 1f the majority opinion had decided the islands to be wholly under the entire con- -?itution and & part of the Union of the United States, then they would have been potens tinl States, their people full citizens and their territory equipped for admission as full States into the Union, As our readers are aware we have regarded this as one of the great dan- gers inherent in the annexation of these possessions, If once declared potential States there arose the risk o/ incorporation into our citizenship of many millions of people, alien in race, constitution, character and customs, non-assimilable, with tropical characteristics and labor system unfriendly to our American characteristics and system, The greatissuein our future politics will be thefinal disposition of these islands and the court's opinion, in which this language oc- the American people as to the status of these shall be introduced into the sisterhood of governments—it does not follow that in the meantime, awaiting that decision, the people are in the matter of personal rights unpro- tected by the provisions of our constitution and subject to the merely arbitrary control It will be seen that by the first half of that sentence the coust clearly remands the a political issue purely. The latter part of the sentence will leave an unpleasant impression upon the lay mind when interpreted by this sentence which follows: “Large powers must necessarily be entrusted to Congress in dealing with these problems, and we are bound to assume that they will be judiciously exercised. That these powers may be abused is possible. But the same may be said of its powers under the constitution, as well as outside of it.” : .This seems to be a clear admission by the court that the powers permitted to Con- gress in external government are outside the constitution, and if so, of necessity arbi- This will be held to be dangerous ground, since it ‘is hard for the people, accus- tomed to witness the limitations of their goyernment by the constitution which creates it, that limitation. : Th.e decision validates the Foraker act, imposing duties on Porto Rican products imported into this country, and upon the products of this courtry exported to Porto Rico. No doubt a rehearing will be asked upon this point, and we venture the opinion that it will decision. At the close of the Civil War Congress put an export tax on cotton. The cousti- tutionality of an export tax was carried to the Supreme Court, which voided the law, de- claring it to be the exercise of an unconstitutional power by Congress. viously correct that the court’s decision has never been questioned. The majority decision on the island cases limit: Congress to its constitutional pow- ers only, in dealing with the States of the United States,and the people and products there- of. But it upholds Congress in putting a tax upon the products of the States of the United This was so ob- This The of the territory of the United States. Such conclusion seems clear. The constitution says (section 9, article I), “No tax or duty shall be laid on ar- This is in the statement of powers forbidden to Con-| Now, granting the dectrine of the island decision, that Congress may lay a duty | upon articles imported into the States from Porto Rico and the Philippines, how can the | same Congress lay a duty upon articles exported from the States into those islands? | member that in the laying of such duty it is dealing with the States of the United States, | | for until the club gets together again and increases or | OVET which its power is by no means enlarged a hair’s breadth by this decision. Re- No doubt this very interesting issue will reaci: the court soon or late, and must be As we have said ,.the decision leaves the final disposition of the islands to the peo- ple, the source of political power, as a political question entirely, and the court affirms | choose. ‘that the islands are alienable and may be permitted their independence if the people HOME-SEEKERS’ EXCURSIONS. | { i ITH the new management of the Southern | \;\’ Pacific road there have alrcady come evi- | dences of a rew policy in dealing with Cali- | fornia. Efforts are being made to increase travel to | the State from the East and to bring to us not only | tourists but home-seekers. To that end it has been announced that arrange- ments have been completed to run a number of excur- sions from Chicago tc California during the summer months. The trains will leave on the first-and third Tuesdays of June, July, August and September, and | will be known as “the home-seekers’ excursions.” The fare from Chicago to any California point will be | $64 50 for a first class round trip ticket, from St. Louis | and New Orleans $39 50, and $52 from Kansas City. | These tickets are good for twenty-one days after date of sale, and stop-over privileges are allowed along the | entite line of the Southern Pacific Company’s system | traveling westward in California, but no stop-overs will be allowed on the return trips. The railroad men have sanguine expectations of the results of the excursions, based upon results obtained | from what is known as the colonist rate, which is said to have induced upward of 20,000 persons to visit the State. It is probable the new excursions will bring ! even larger numbers, though of course they will have |to face the competition of the Buffalo Exposition, | which will naturally attract many persons who might ! otherwise have decided to take advantage of the cheap | rates to make a holiday trip to California. ’ All excursions of the kind are bound to be helpful. They bring California nearer to the East so far as | expense goes, and thus obviate one of the difficulties | which has hitherto stood in the way of people of or- | dinary means who have had desires to see the Golden | State but have not been able to do so. | Along with the new policy of increasing travel by | augmenting the inducements and lowering the rates it | is to be hoped there will come an improvement in the depot in this city. The structure that stands there to :recech visitors to the metropolis of the Pacific Coast has done all the duty that ought to be imposed upon it. The time has come to clear it away and erect a | depot not uaworthy of comparison with those of the | great cities in the East. Y T Since there is so much talk among Eastern Demo- crats of the advisability of making the next Presiden- { tial fight on the issue of tariff reform, we may hear be- fore long of a movement to renominate Cleveland. When a party once gets started on the back track /there is no telling where it will stop. Some people who are never satisfied with a quiet life, even when they have a chance to enjoy one, are | trying to disturb the serenity of the season by getting up a public debate between Missionary Ament and | Mark Twain. ; ¢ WIRELESS COAST SIGNALS. SIGNOR MARCONI is \;poned to have stated in a recent interview: “All the principal head- lands on the British and Irish coasts are now equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus, most of it with a radius of 200 miles.” Such activity on the part of the British Government in a matter of that kind should stimulate action on the | part of the Government of the United States. It | may be that the need of such signals on our coasts is not quite so great as it is in Great Britain, whose coasts are nearly always enveloped in fogs and whose narrow seas swarm with shipping; but none the less there are certain parts of our coast where an equal need exists. San Frandlsco, for example, is the cen- ter of a vast shipping industry and fogs are frequent, so that even if we do not undertake at once to estab- lish wireless signal stations on every notable head- land they should be established here at least and at other important Pacific Coast ports. The Call recently directed attention to the estab- lishment of a wireless telegraph service by the New York Herald at Nantucket lightship, and in comment- ing upon it pointed out the advisability of having such a service between San Francisco and the Farallones. The issue is deserving of more than passing notice. It is known that ships frequently have to wait outside the heads for many hotrs before venturing to enter the port in foggy weather. A wireless signal service would enable information of the arrival of such ships -to be promptly sent to the city, and thus an immense benefit would be conferred upon commerce. The matter should be taken up by the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants’ Association and other in- fluential bodies. The Marconi system is no longer an experiment. It is now an established method of signaling, and its value is no longer deniable. Cer- tainly the United States should not be the last of civilized nations to adopt the system, nor should San Francisco be the last important port in the world to have the benefit of it. —— Now that the Supreme Court has turned over to. Congress'all questions relating to the import of goods from the Philippines it will be more important than ever to American labor to send sound protectionists to the House to guard against the danger of cheap labor competition with American products. Senator Quay has announced an intention to retire from politics at the end of this term, and as he has added that he has no enemies to punish, it would seem | that the opposition to him has been completely cleaned out. Because of the bright colors used in the exterior decoration of the buildings the Buffalo Exposition is called “the rainbow city,” and from all reports the midway is a genuine aurora borealis. I WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 'PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. e e @ T—— PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FrRANCISCO CALL. ————— ) Remarkable Good Accomplished for Children in Country Towns by American 's Clubs. 901, Women By Clara Kern Baylise, CHAIRMAN OF THII BDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE OF T HE ILLINOIS rED. BRATION OF WOMEN'S CLUDS, O rnmm e e (COPYRIGHT, 1901,) XV, ~WOMEN'S Bdueational Commitiee of the Hiinols gndernuan of Women's Clu n.{ very candid person will t that the work of women's clubs, like the new wos min herself, is a (?flnf of glich recent and fapid growth as to betray, here and thete, traces of amateurishness, It 18 some- times not well considered, its promoters are too impetuons, or they do it all them- selves when it would be better to let the beneficlaries nesist, Iepecially is this lats ter true when the work is for the school children in country towns whete patrons, teachers and clubg muy readily come into touch and co-operate with one 'nnoth%r. and where, with a little guidance, the children can by thelr own efforts obtain what they wish, But in making this passing stricture per- mit me to say with Theophrastus Such: “Dear blunderers, I am one of you. If I trace your shortcomings and failures it is because they are my own. The more in- timately I seem (o discern your weak- nesses, the ctronger to me is the proof that I share them. How otherwise could I get the discernment?” r If club women do not always take them- selves serfously, if some of their enter- prises have bicomed and faded bearing scanty fruits, they are by no means on thdt account a class apart from the rest of mankind. Indeed, the stricture belongs rather to the individual than to the class, and the multiplicity of enterprises of un- questioned worth which they have origin- -%ted or furthered in the brief period that as elapsed since clubs came into exist- ence is little less than amazing. Work of Educational Committees. The interest of the clubs in education has been comprehensively stated by one of the educational committees as embrac. ing everything which touches the life, growth and training of the child in and out of school; sleep, diet, elothing, play, books, and everything pertaining to his welfare. Since nothing they have begun is yet carried to completion, what they may do is best told by what they are al- ready doing. ‘Along the legislative line in Illinois, for example, they have secured parental schools where disorderly pupils may be coerced for their good without demoraliz- ing the regular schools. They have insti- tuted a juvenile court to dispose of chil- dren who have commitied their first of- fens: without sending them to the reform school to be made worse by association with expert offenders. They have rescued from factory labor children under four- teen and have insisted upon factory in- spection to protect them from needless danger to life and limb. They have pro- cured mote rigid enforcement of compul- sory education laws; have advocated the removal of children between the ages of | two and sixteen from poorhouses, so tha(K | youthful association with the feeble- | minded and insane might not throw a cloud over their whole future lives; and | they have labored zealously, though thus | far unsuccessfully, for an anti-cigarette | law to prevent children from impairing | their physical and mental abilities. And | much more. The clubs have fostered kindergartens and nurseries where mothers who are wage earners may leave their babes and little ones, feeling sure that they are in | better hands than their own. The evening school for those who toil during the day and have no other oppor- tunity to fit themselves for more lucrative positions and the Saturday sewing and cuoklng classes for'girls who have no home facilitles for learning domestic sci- | ence are other enterprises initiated or ad- vanced by club women. It may be doubted whether domestic science and manual training should ever have prominent place in the public schools, since any thorough training which would fit a girl to take charge of a household or a boy for the trades must necessarily be given aside from the men- tal training of the regular schools; but | at least manual labor in the public schools _should be carried so far as will serve the two purposes of bridging the gap between intellectual and physical Tabor, which is creating on the one hand an army of drudges and on the other a society which scorns toil; and the other purpose of enhancing the pupil’s capac- ity for mental effort and orderly conduct by giving him physical recreation. For we may say of disorder in the schoolroom as Loudon sald of crime on the streets, that it is to a great extent simply a ques- tion of athletics. Decoration of Schoolrooms. Of all the efforts of club women on be- half of school children none has met with more conspicuous success than that for the beautifying of the rooms and grounds, | and for the provision of libraries and works of art. Every device has been re- sorted to in obtaining funds for this pur- pose; appeals to the directors, personal contributions, sociables where lunchboxes were sold to the highest bidders, dime sociables, oyster suppers, literary and musical entertainments, book and picture receptions and a score of other schemes. In one town of small size and large heart 625 books were contributed at a single book reception. In another still smaller town $220 for the frescoing of the rooms were the receipts for a single presentation of “Little Red Ridinghood” by the school children. In the decoration of schoolrooms the first requisite is a clean room with tastily tinted walls. Rooms have thus been made attractive without picture or bust; while on the other hand a masterpiece of art hung on a dingy wall, so far from culti- vating the artistic sense, merely intro- duces the disturbing element of incongru- ity. The most perennially pleasing pic- ture I have ever seen in a schoolroom was a large blackboard drawing illustrating Trowbridge's ‘“‘Midsummer”: Around this lovely valley rise The pul?le hills of paradise. Oh, softly on yon bank of haze Her rosy face the summer lays, Becalmed along the azure sky The argosies of cloudland lie. Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” furnish another excellent motif. It may be questioned whether pictures like these, drawn by artists known to the pupils and associated in their minds, as they will forever be, with gems of litera- ture, have not a far greater culture value than framed Madonnas or busts of Ra- phael. y Very small outlay of money is necessary to render a room attractive. One of the most memorable transformations I recall was that of a gloomy primary room with high walls and ceiling which the credu- jous averred had once been white, bound- ed on all sides by a blackboard with up- per half above the children’s reach, shade- jess windows, black hissing steam pipes and badly scratched desks arranged in straight rows. This in a short time was transformed into a kindergarten with terra cotta walls, gilded steam coiis, newly varnished desks arranged to leave an open square in the middle of the rcom, in which were placed a rug, two small rocking chairs and a table with a pretty cover. By the use of colored crayons the upper portion ef the blackboard became a dado of vines and flowers, and one section of the black ex- panse became A charming opera box with rich, velvet hangings. he staring win- dows were covered with shades and with daisy-chain curtains made by the chil- dren. The ugly pulpit from which the former teacher ha dfl%nled learning and threats was replaced by a long, sloping table, at which the little ones might rest themselves by stan at their work. The older children, who had come into this very room as into a lx(zrlmn ‘where they were ke?g in straitjackets, now danced merrily in and welcomed their visiting friends as in thelr own dra -room. Even the dirty little tatterdemalion who was accustomed to pick the pockets of his father’'s drunken guests began to say excuse me'—in very ng. aced manner at first—and finally came with clean face and new garments to take his place among those who de- serve to be called human. - For this is what the clubs are doing ‘would I CLU#S AND THE SCHOOLS. everywhera in the cities—capturin 1' 1ittle beasts and making them over into human belngs, In this connection I am reminded of the remark of the girl who sald that the teacher ought to be consldered purt of the sehaolroom decoration, and of that of the boy who, when kept after school und re- proyed for bad conduct, blubbered out: I don't ree how yoit éan expect anyhody to behave when you wear (hat ugly dress week after week.' About Clubs for Boys. Bvery mother of a boy must have ob- setwed that as they grow older the lads who as children used to come freely into the house to play with her son become ghy and hang around outside whistling for him, but never venturiug to ring the bell and ask for him. As’children lhe{ had no comsclous personality, were wholly intent on absorbing tbe universe. But when a boy sees his feet protruding too far below his trousers legs and his hands shooting out awkwardly beyond his coat sleeves he becomes uncomnfortably aware that he has a body and an identity. He is no donger a child; neither is he a man, and he feels ill at ease in the presence of his elders. He needs a little wholesome let- ting alone till he has time to get acquaint- ed with himself and adjusted to tie new conditions. This is the time when wise mothers in the clubs hold a consultation to determine which of them shail turr her third-floor dancing hall into a boys' club which they fit up, not with “sissy” books ard pic- tures‘ of serapns, bt with bearskin rugs, stags’ heads, gymnastic apparatus and a big dog to join in the sports. There is’still the widest latitude for work in the line of clubs, reading rooms and playrooms for the children of the tenement districts. We do not appreciate their hunger for amusement. In the long winter evenings there should be a club- room within walking distance of every boy and girl whose home offers no oppor- tunities for pleasant and profitable recre- ation and there are many society halls, schoolhouses and churchesin these locali- ties standing in dumb yet eloquent pro- test at their own idleness. ‘Workshops, sewing and cooking schools, reading and clubrooms are the recreative necessities of winter time. In summer, which is the period of maximum physical and minimum mental development, the children should live out of doors. At this very moment when clubs are adjourning and schools are closing there is pressing need for activity among city clubs in arranging for vacation, schools and playgrounds. The city ‘already has parks, boulevards, roof gardens and ball grounds, but these e for children who can spare 10 cents for car fare and are barred from the little omes who have greatest need of them. In the city slums are thousands of chil- dren turned loose during the summer va- cation with no alternative but to play in dirty alleys among malodorous garbage boxes. They never see a bit of green sward, their homes are unfit for human habitation, the streets are no better, the mortality during the heated term is frightful. The adults who can do so find their way to the parks, remaining there until driven out by the police at mid- night. During an exceptionally hot sea- son so many af .people | ed. to, be allowed to sleep on the grass.all night that the authorities relaxed the regula- tions and permitted them ‘to stay. Mos- quitces and night fogs were bliss com- pored to the stifling rooms and nauseat- ing odors of their homes. Vacation Scheols and Playgrounds. But the little children sweltered in the tenements night and day, and for them clubwomen co-o?eraung with philan- thropie individuals and corporations haye opened vacation schools and playgrounds. Boston established the first playground twelve years ago. Baltimore, iladel- phia, Providence, New York and Chicago all maintain them,. but the supply is in- adequate to meet the demand. The care- | takers say they get along very well when th're are not more than or 300 chil- | dren for one teacher, but when there are | more they have difficulty in maintaining order and directing the games. Babies in their carriages, brought by older chil- dren, are centers of attraction and are well tended by motherly little girls. When the first vacation schools were opened in Chicago in 1398 by the women's clubs 6000 children applied for admission. As there were but flve schools, nearly two-thirds of them had to be turned away, it becoming necessary in one case to call the police to control the crowd of parents and children dem#hding admis- sicn. . The number enrolled was 2450, mak- ing an average of 4% pupils to each scaool. During the summer 12,000 children were taken on excursions. Some of them, living in the heart of Chicago, had never before taken a ride on the streetcars. Simultaneousl; with the vacation sthools the clul committee opened six playgrounds and schoolhouse basements, putting into the former, wherever space would admit, runaing tracks, baseball sand bins, seesaws, parallel bars and shaded benches. At first the children held aloof, thinking that they would be ex- pected to pay for the privilege of coming. They were accustomed to have these buildings and grounds closed to them dur- ing vacation. But when they were made to understand that they were welcome without money and without price they flolskte"t to the grmmdu. ut to secure the greatest refresh: for the body and soul nothing equsll;n:g; trip to the country—the real country, where there is room for the children tp get entirely away even from one another. 'fixe city child needs solitude as much as he of the country needs contact with his kind. ‘We have no right to expect a boy to be- come a single-minded, upright man who Las never in his life lain on the grass ail alone, looking up at the sky through the tree tops and listening to the singing of the birds, experiencing that peace which passeth all understanding. ntil he has done this he has never ‘‘seen.God face to face and talked with Him as man talks with his brother,” and no man can com- port himself as though he were familiar with the things of Lhe infinite who every moment of his life has been pressed upon and stifled by the things that are finite. The difficult part of these outing trif is to assemble the ckiidren for the return journey. They hide away, regardless of the starvation that confonts them, hoping to be overlooked and ieft “in the world.' Gardening for City Children. There is one outlet for childish energles =o far as I am aware, never yet utilized. | sno‘\‘xldu‘;erfil much like to see the clubs make the Pingree vacan Xpei w}th'ltlhe lchtool ehégen.! lot experiment we ither 'm“gl barren or npv v grown with weeds, which could be used for this purpose. 'Girls as well as b could assist; the unsightly lots coulg Lo laid off into neat flower, lettuce and rad. ' ish beds, or If the boys Dreferred, some o .them might be devoted whe to'eom d potatoes. e work owhershi could be Individual or comm: e produce divided for family consumpting or sold and proceeds made to cufm";" ute to the Jelea.suu and welfare of all the o wer even XRept vegetable garden repiac (e mer bone and unbomnm"flm would adults and of Btet;:dne‘ifihboflhoodu Bl x es inculca p {he children w 3" Enoy the ve to see grow; love &ut shows freshness and my conviction that nothing are ne | the Tron. Trades Council, comgrising | body, with a prest IRON TRADE MAKE PUBLIC A STATEMEN The following communieation issuad and signed by phe press committee No, 68, International As: ehinists, has been reealved; Btatements have been persistentiy olroulated thraiighont the business 4&-“»" that h = £ Loeal ation of Ma- of e ity Aradan hive ihe machinists and ! [aken. an WP AdVantage of thelr wmployers i the rvlr‘-ll for the shorter workdny, thet we gave (hem na notles of our Intention u’ old thein Wit we wanted, that we wouli nol pent With them or disouss the matier; hat nda wera uneensonable; that we de mand Fight 1o diet "hu thay shall hire A disehafue) ve an AFbitrury alntise In our de (e Just how many Wiprentives shall he permitted (e e Trndei that wa wisly (o whge » «hinist 18 to receive, further, that we are dlotated to wnd g by men Who ars nok members of our W Al of Lhe . Tl e e manate from one wonipun ave & tandency 0 pigs Us 10 & degidedly bad \aht hefore the K"""" Many of the good eitlsens of Ban Pranclsco are aaking Why we do pot make # 'mnn' wtatement lll' U A -mn-lv-;. “l:'lvly' r-;'l;‘v-.‘ the L he present - we v .-mfi"li Immvmvlnu Aanything to the pross, for severnl reasons, One renson was that at tha very oo ment of the mavement It wa oo med Dla mot to make & newspaper fght, bir wml';i- to quistly adjust matters, If in our pawer, and not creat HNNecERIArY oxclte ment 1n the eity, owing fo there being a Nible ehance of our coming to An_aure: With our employsrs even at the very list Ment, in which ease the least sald the trouble in the futire to adjust Another fénson was that by keeping qulet wea wowld give the employsrs a chance (o ace themselves on record before the public nowing from past experience that they ars very seldom willing mmmm thelt employes on & falr ground, or listen to or treat with . e has been the policy of the t -m'.' I.:“elr men s indic viduals, knowinig that s way only can they whip them fnto line. ’Yn it {- tactly fair for them to organize ind deny the right of their employes to meet them as an organi- aation. 0 to the Statements that have In contradiction to R R s0 vreviously circulated ?ve:n'llhp{: say that two years ago, al the convention of the International Association of Machinists, held at Buffalo, N. Y., it was de- clded to make a universal demand for a nine- hour workday on a basis of ten hours' pay. througkout the United States. to take effect May 50, 1901. This notice was given to the ress and published all over the United States, “anada and Mexico, nud' has been reasserted om time ever since. ‘"0': ;ll;';lpl ;.o m';'. the lnlchlnla:r Q‘In!.(’l: Frran- ¢ lity sent out a notice e form e N dreoment_stating what we desired to of machinists. These were duly t employers o treal leased to meet t PAm-l- the serving of our agreement. the var- fous trade unions concluded to make similar demanas and formed an assoeiation of repre- centatives from each trade union. kmown as the fol- i trades: Maechinists, kers, pat- :2;\‘:1‘;!(”1 molders, blacksmiths, coremakers and steamfitters. Our employers were served With notices virtually the same as those pre- viously sent out by the machinists and author- izing the above council to discuss and settle for each and all. From outward appearances notices were posted on the bulletin boards of the various shops in this city, Instances without signatures, as follows: “Reallzing the importance of harmony be- tween the management and the employes of this shop, and having received a communica tion from the International Association of Machinists containing certain demands, and not knowing whether these demands are in accord with the wishes of the men in the Shops, we therefore invite ome representative Tan ot the shop to meet us at Ruby Hall, 320 Post street, on Tuesday, April 30, at 1:30 p. m.. for the purpose of presenting any grievance they may have and to consider any suggestion that may be offered for our mutual interest and welfare. Tn answer to the employers’ notice twenty- seven men were chosen by the several shovs to meet the employers as requested at Ruby Hall at the appointed time. They were regeived by the Manufacturers’ Assoeiation in succes sion. It seemed that they were an organized dent, mre:;ry'ul!m:ho‘nph- er and sentinel, who demanded from the men O edentials from their employers before they Were allowed to be seated. The employers had negleéted to furnish these. so tHe men were al- Jowed to be seated upon being vouched for by their spokesman. A programme had ben ar- ranged, withfa list of questions that were to be asked the men individually. and, their am- awers taken by the reporter. To this mode of procedure the spokesman demurred. and he Hated that they were there to answer questions asked in the notice posted presumably by them, and not there to answer questions or discuss anytaing appertaining to the agreement they had received from I A. of M.: that they sim- ply represented the men in the shops, and Were mot there as representatives of the Ma- chinists’ Association; that a committee of the fron Trades Council were awaiting in the ante- room who had authority to discuss and settle ihat The spokesman told them that 90 per cent of the men in their shops were members of the I. A of M.; that the agreements sent out by the unions were in accord with the Wishes of the men in the shop: that they had nothing further to say on the subject. and Would retire and give them an apportunity to Aiscuss the matter with the committee in the anteroom. This ended the conference. The next conference was held between the men in the shop, through their committee, with {he employers in the offices, Who told them that they could not settle the matter—that it would have to be done through their executive board. The day of the strike, at 9 o'clock, a commit- tea of the men went to the office and gave them one more chance to say what they would do. The answer was “‘Nothing.”” The men struck at 9:15 a. m. "As to the agreements sent out there is noth- ing in them that states who the employer shall hite or discharge or anything outside of the apprentice clause that they have serfously ob- jectea to. but they have refused to discugs the agreement with the unions In any of it r- ings. The unioms are simply asking for a shorter work day without any reduction of pay and a fixed schedule for overtime work. This covers the situation up to the time. . Since the strike the actions of the men speak for them. They quletly quit their work and have attended strictly to their business ever since, and are perfectly willing to rest their case with the public. 3 R. I WISLER. . M. BURNETT, WM. DELANEY, Committee. The Value of Publicity. Publicity for public business is the key- note of official efficlency. Publicity in their own affairs is what the people want, and publicity is what, sooner or later, they will have. Secrecy invites susplcion and breeds distrust.—FBaltimore Ameri- can. —_———————— _ Charged With Mayhem. Louis Robles, Joseph Nunez and Emile Arata, the three boys who threw lime at Cecilio Blanco, 9 Virginia place, Sunday and blinded him in one eye were booked at the City Prison yesterday on a char of mayhem. The boy may lose the sight of his eye. 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