The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1901, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9. 1901. LABOR'S HOSTS IN GREAT MASS MEETING CHEER ELOQUENT DEFENSE OF UNIONISM LEADERS HAVE MEETING WITH GRAIN MEN SRR Merchants Ask That Union Employes Be Allowed to Load Ships at Port.Costa. R Commission Men Are Anxious to Secure Release of Ves- sels From Tied-Up Fleet. i i g NUMBER of prominent grain mer- chants were in conference twice vesterday with representatives of the labor unions for discussion of the strike situation in its rela- | tion to grain shipments and the market- | ing of the great crop now being harvest- | ed. No results were obtained, but further conferences will probably follow. Among the fiims represented were Bal- four, Guthrie & Co., George W. McNear | d Eppinger & Co. The representatives the unions were Edward Rosenberg, secretary of the Labor Council, and Hugh McKevitt of the executive committee of ihe City Front Federation. A At the morn- ing conference Secretary Furuseth of the ilors’ Union was also present. The grain merchants are endeavoring to get some sort of a concession by which stevedores will be allowed to unload grain barges and to load grain ships at Port Costa. They argue that otherwise the farmers will suffer great loss, although entirely innocent of any offense against zed labor. A conference at Mayor Phelan’s office at 4 o'clock was the result of a reguest by the Mayor. Michael Casey, T. Westoby, Hugh McKevitt, Charles Kelly and J. C. | tianson were present as representa- tives of the unions. The purpose was to cuss the strike situation and to con- sider methods of preserving the peace. a SHIPS ARRIVE AND DEPART. Full Non-Union Crew Takes Out the Umatilla. Little was done on the water front yes- terday toward relieving the harbor of the congestion of freight and shipping. Men | at work on all the wharves and it reported that several vessels were to put to sea, but the Umatilla was large ship to leave the port. Sev- schooners cleared for coast ports and umber « , leaving the ns on the water front practically ged. progress is being made in the task & the collier Tellus. Two full work, but they are all com- new men, and in consequence were he only gangs posed of take out but little coal during a day. Yes- terday morning East street was filled | with carts sent to the Dunsmuir | bunkers by retailers from various por- of the town for a supply of coal. collier Milton, which has been un- g into barges for several days past st empty. When she is completely | rged the Czarina and the South d_will be moved out into the stream and unloaded by the same means. of a sufficient number of barges is g a serious handicap to the coal Aconcagua was unable to clear for 2y, though her owners confi- | expected she would. Considerable yvet remains on the dock to be d aboard Howard of the Mariposa said t he would get his vessel | y. The longshoremen em- yed on the Pacific-street dock are handling all the freight that is being land- ed on the dock for the Mariposa in a rapid manner. dock large gangs of men The loading of the America is so far advanced that she will be to-morrow with a full cargo. | derable portion of the cargo of | dney is still aboard that and will not be ready to sail for several days. There was no room on the Mail dock for the Acapulco, which ar- rived terday from Panama and way ports, and she was anchored in the stream. No attempt will be made to un- her until the Mail dock is cleared of Belgian King from Hongkong, via Diego, arrived here yesterday. She e sent to Lombard-street wharf to complete non-union crew, shipped at | Eureka, brought the Pomona into port | morning. A short time afte arrived she went to Baden, where she and her cargo of livestocl gasoline h Snug was yesterday Ehe | la | kets yesterday while on her way he Ohio to the collier Milton with | hailed by d of non-union men. The non- | called the pickets all sorts of | res and for a time a battle was | T The pickets, however, were and when they displayed their pis- the non-union men stopped hurling at them and urged the launch own- | > ahead full speed. steamer Imogen out and loaded with British bark Dovenby, , were added to the fleet of E terd: When released towed Port Costa and wheat, Anubis is tied up at the seawall, g the rest of her cargo. She came from Port Costa yesterday, where from Ja- to 2000 tons of wheat and barley had beea put aboard her. Sh cheduled to sail August 13, and will probably get away on e steam ed and wi Flace Strike Power in Hands of Ex- ecutive Committee. The Carriage Blacksmiths' Union No. 99 1d a meeting last night at Turk-street Temple and placed strike power in the hands of its executive committ This action was taken in accordance with the request which the executive committee of the Labor Council ued at a recent meeting. The request was to the effect 2t unions should hold meetings as soon as possible and place full power to act in ihe hands of their several executive committees, which are to be directed when to act by the executive committee of the Labor Council. Although the carriage blacksmiths have placed sirike power in the hands of thelr executive committee, the members do not expect to be ordered out on a strike. The membership of the union embraces about 125 blacksmiths. There was aiso a rumor circulated at the meeting to the effect that the Horse- shoers’ Union would also place strike power in_the hands of its executive com- mittee It was stated that the executive committee hopes by calling out the unions upon which the teamsters depend for their supplies to render the strike more stringent Strikers Attack a Stevedore. John Franton, a mon-union stevedore, was attacked by a crowd of strikers on Market street, near East, at a late hour Jast night. Before he could receive ma- terial injuries he was rescued by Ser- geant Blank and Officer Callaghan, wbo were atiracted to the scene by the sounds of the scuffiing. By the aid of their clubs the officers dispersed the crowd, and James Donahue, a sallor, was taken pris- cner. His wounds were dressed at the Harbor Hospital, after which he was booked on a charge of disturbing the police. ety Federation Levies Boycott. The City Front Federation has declared & boycott on the goods sold by Tilimann & Bendel, Murphy, Grant & Co., Neu- stadter Bros. and Levi Strauss & Co. Representatives of these firms are mem- bers of the Employers’ Association, and the federation will endeavor to have the boycott enforced in all the Pacific States. FATHER YORKE DENOUNCES BOTH THE ATTITUDE AND METHODS OF THE EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION Stirring Address Delivered at Metropolitan Temple, in Which Merchants, Press and Police Are Criticized and the Workingmen Encouraged to Stand Out to the Bitter End in the Assur- ance That Their Cause Is Just and That Victory Must Finally Reward Them for Their Sacrifice ABOR had its inning at Metropol- itan Temple last night. A great body of workingmen, every one of whom knew what toil means filled the hall. The gospel of hu- | man brotherhood was preached to them with the earnestness that convinces and the justice of their cause was asserted from the platform with fervid eloquence. The mass-meeting was a great rally of the strike forces. The audience was re- markable for the small number of women present. Apparently by common impulse the wives and daughters remained away in order that so many more of the men who are fighting labor’s battle might at- tend and receive encouragement to con- tinue the struggle. Metropolitan Temple was packed to its doors at 7:30 o’clock. More than 500 peo- ple found room after every seat was taken. Thousands were turned away and went home in disappointment. As favorite labor leade came upon the platform they were received with deafen- ing cheers. Andrew Furuseth, Michael | Casey and W. H. Goff were given warm welcome. Father Yorke entered late, | after the meeting had been called to or- der, and the audience greeted him with a storm of applause that lasted nearly five minutes and made the chandeliers shake. Light of Day Courted. Promptly at 8 o'clock W. H. Goff, presi- dent of the San Francisco Labor Council, introduced Walter Macarthur, editor of the Coast Seamen’s Journal, as_the pre- siding officer of the evening. Mr. Mac- arthur gave a preliminary talk, in part as follows: ‘We are now gathered for the purpose of giv- | ing publicity to the labor side of the present crisis in the industrial affairs of ou Wo have nothing to fear from pub) Al £00d cause always courts the light of day. Only those who would break Into the houses or transgress the rights of others need fear the public gaze, The conflict now in progress in San Franclsco is between the workers organized in the trade unions and acting unitedly under the directi of the Labor Council, the City Front Federa tion and other representative bodies, and the Employers’ Assoclation, composed no one knows | | of whom and acting by stealth for the ac- complishment of objects which can only be judged by inference. The labor organizations, after striving val: for months to secure by conference and conces sion a recognition of their claims for decent consideration on the part of their employers, | have been driven to the necessity of taking | steps for the defense of the principle of trade unionism itself, The Employers’ Association persistently tries to befog the issue. It declares that it is per- fectly willing to grant the workers the right 1y < employ Dick, or Harry. union to do that. tunity to organize and if employers have griev- ances that cannot be adjusted we want to have representatives who can go to the employer and seek to reach agreement. ' 1 never knew a We want to have an oppor- What do we want? We want recognition of to belong to a labor organization. The trade | 0Ur unions. Their unions are already recog- unions repudiate this assumption of magna- | Dized. We want opportunity to help each nimity. The right of the workers to organize | other. They stand for the proposition, ‘‘You for industrial progress has long been granted | MUst not help each other mutually. You must by all civilized countries. That right is the inalienable heritage of the present generation, won by the labors.and sacrifices of the work- ers in all times. thing that human beings are capable of has been done to prevent the present crisis. Everything possible is still being done to pre- vent further suffering on the part of innocent and involuntary participants. We fully appre- clate the hardships of the women and children and the business inconvenience to all concern- ed in the city, throughout the State and along the Coast. But no amelioration of these con- ditions seems to us possible except by a_set- tlement of the issues involved. a not bear each oth the proposition, mutually. den they will not keep contracts. made under certain conditions. contract between Spain and the United States, 's burdens.”” We stand for ‘We must help each other We must bear each other's bur- Why Contracts Were Broken. They say the unions are not relfable and Contracts are There was a treaty of peace and amity. Yet a time came ‘when the United States felt it had a right to ebrogate that treaty suffering Cuba. for the Sailors’ and go to the ald of In the same way it was right and we now submit our c: urge that the that settlement to you and earnestly right and public progress. Rev. Frank K. Beker Speaks, The Rev. Frank K. Baker, pastor of the Church, was First Methodist Episcopal the first speaker. He said in part: T am not here for any other purposé than to 1 wish it were pos- speak a word for peace. sible to stop this struggle, and I trust it We are doing our best peaceably, vet firmly, to bring about great- hearted public will lend a hand toward a sef tlement that will mean victory for decenc: Jnion to break a contract, it was right for the Firemen's Union to break a contract. We looked at it in this way: On the one hand was the permanent welfare of workingmen, on the other a temporary con- tract. To my mind there is no question where duty lay. 1 am not sorry those contracts were broken. T am satisfled those unions would take the same stand over again to-morrow under the same conditions. > Industrial democracy is developing along the same lines that political- democracy developed in England. When the King would not listen to petitions Parliament stopped supplies. So when the industrial plutocracy refuses to hear petitions, to redress grievances, it is the right ase the wish of eve: honest son of toil that it | of the people to stop supplies. might stop speedily. 1 wish it were possible | Let me close by saying to the Employers’ for rome Nehemiah to come forth and by sim- | Association that I am satisfied that it three Dly speaking the word bring peace. of their number would meet three of us, with The cry of the oppressed or of those who | some trusted citizen as a seventh, our differ- think !J!Lr;} xarlx'l? ‘nx‘\r;reqs‘s::‘lué; ‘xxh“ vr:; of l;\hr‘ ences could be adjusted without trouble. ager. The industrial qv Vs every other . social question 1n the shade. The strike Is | Jicster Reeves sang a barytone solo, a warning. It is like the skirmish that comes | *Strike for Justice. before the battle, ped up in th indifferent to these terribly dark shadows. Some tell me that this is a_battle agal unions. We all know that greed has organi. gigantic trusts and monopoly, that it has defied and has dictated to producer and con- law sumer alike. 1 cannot co: eive any law t would prohibit the sons of toll from organizing Liberty is our inalienable right, and as long as trusts are allowed to go in their course I believe it for thelr own protection and profit. is_absolutely necessary for workingmen small manufacturers, too, to organize for s protection. We all have rights, concessions sometimes. We all have libert but how about the other fellow? So the cry our city and of our State is peace, and 1 lieve it §s your ery. This question will h but we must all m: to be settied by hoth sides making concessions. The thing for all to do is to play the part of a man. The solution is in the golden rule not in the fron rule, brotherhood, in the ' doctrine that will te the employer to look upon the toiler as a Jow man. when labor s up capital is down—we shall make progress. for the arbitration of labor questions, I wish it were possible for one side or other so to make con: them that we may have peace. the manly and magnanimous part. Cenesis of Trades Unions. Andrew Furueeth, secretary of the Sail- ors’ Union, was introduced. He said part: 1f you want us to win this struggle for man liberty you want to make a solemn prom- ise now not to let any one, no matter who may be, induce you to break the peace. ‘Trade unionism is an outcome, a sequence, the divine injupction, burden.” When that injunction was given “world was a world of masters and slaves, The totler was not supposed to have a soul to save. As that injunction percolated down through Many who ought to assist in the solution of these problems are so wrap- own selfishness as to be utterly in the gospel of human As long as we play at the ses saw game—when capital is up labor is down, Let law step in and provide wit] each side compelled to abide by the resuits. ions or so to meet So I believe the side which shall make concessions will play *‘Bear ye one another's Father Yorke’s Address. The Rev. P. C. Yorke delivered the chiet address of the meeting. He spoke for more than an hour and frequently aroused the audience to frenzied applause. He said in part: 3 I have spoken many ‘times in this hall, but never with such reluctance and with stch a sense of responsibility as this night. We are face tc face with a great crisis. The question Dbetween the employers and the employes is no longer a question of hours or wages; it is a question of unions. Have the men a right to combine in unions? Have such unions a right to treat with employers on the condition of the employed? . A strike is a war. Tt is a last resource. Like every other war it entails suffering. Both sides suffer. But the burdens perhaps fall heaviest upon the innocent third parties that are caught between the upper and nether millstones. I cannot forget the women and the children, therefore it is with reluctance and with a sense of responsibility that exceeds any words that T can find for it that I speak here to-night, 1 should not like to be the man that would stand in the way of an amicable arrangement between the forces of capital and labor. I should not like to say a word that would make such an arrangement more difficult now or in the future. But at the same time he would be no friend of labor, he would be no real friend of capital, he would do no good to this city and to this State who would conceal the real issues that face you, who would not warn you that while vou désire peace you cannot afford to accept any peace but peace with honor. (Great applause.) My purpose this evening is mot to indulge in oratory or {n exhortation. When men are in earnest, when the matter before them is of supreme importance, even as this matter, ex- hortaticns are useless, 1 want to put before you, and I want to put before the larger au- dience of this city and of this State as clearly as I know how about how this question stands. To that end I will speak to you, with your permission, to-night, first on the question of the rights and duties of labor in general; sec- ondly, on the nature of the present crisis; and nst zed hat and elf- ake fes, y of De- ave and ach fel. not the in hu- he . of the the ages it began to find its way into the brains and hearts of men, until they began to be- lieve that men are equal before thelr God. Then a time came when men asked if there should not be equality before the law, and now the movement is toward industrial equal- ity—the most deeply religious movement of the ages & ‘There are some forces in sociéty who seem to have forgotten this sequence, and who seem to think they may put a bound to progress be- cause they have industrial power. I do mot believe these men understand this movement, If they did the vast majority would change from their position and would say, “‘We were mistaken and you were mistaken. 'We did not understand each other. Let us shake hands and have peace.’ T am not going to denounce any one. Let me ask you when you leave this meeting to go quietly home. £it down and compose vour thoughts, and attune your thought and your | prayer to the hope that this may end. They say we want to run their business. e do not. They say the union says: ‘You must ) bi confined to any country or to any time. been fought out before, studied, and there s absolutely nothing new in it. and the workingmen have developed no new form of crankiness to put them upon their met- tle. thirdly, on vour duty in the premises. The Conflict Not New. This conflict between labor and capital is not It has It has been caretully The merchants have no new grievances, I wish to call your attention in the most re- spectful way that I can to a decision that was | deltvered by onme of the higher courts of this city | in ’lhn last week or so. well of and respéct the constituted authorities, and especially in a country like this that 1§ ruled by law it is necessary to speak res fully of those who are the Interpreters of law, of the judges upon the bench. in on this question of labor and capital with- 1t is our duty to speak ot the i f the decision given iy "3"&’3 g of the v Tu loss T wish to speak as respectrully ‘as pos le of him in his official capacity. 1 have nothing to say with regard to the sub- Bk + ELOQUENT PRIEST ADDRESS- ING LABOR MASS MEETING IN METROPOLITAN HALL. - < o3 stance of the decision, Which seems to me to be merely a question of words, but I wish to call your attention to the reasoning which preceded the substance of the decision. If you take the trouble to wade through the columns of the newspaper in which that declsion was given out you will find that the learned judge laid it down as a theory that the present con- dition of labor arises from these two princi- ples: First, that the employer tries to get as much as he can out of the laborer for as little as possible; and, secondly, that the laborer tries to get as much out of the employer for as little work as possible. He lays down this principle not as a_matter of fact—and as a matter of fact perhaps it may be true—but | he lays it down as a matter of philosophy, as a matter to decide what wages are to be earned and what the value may be of a man's time, and he says that the condition of the working: man is to be decided by this. that it s right for the employer to try to make him sell his labor In the open market at the smallest prica that he can get it for. I say that such a doc- trine as that. is un-Christian and it is un- natural. (Great applause.) Just Price for Labor. The price of labor s not determined in the open market and with unlimited competition. There is such a thing as a just price; there is such a thing as a fair price. If T g0 into a store to buy some article and the man that keeps tha store presumes upon my inexperience in com- merce and charges me more than the current price for the article, do you not say that he is a fraud and a thief? Will any honorable man do such a thing? If a man goes Into & store and tries to impose upon the inexperience of a salesman to get an article for half what it is worth ie not such a man a thief also? What ie_the difference when it Is wages that are s0ld? What is the difference when wages are the price of labor? The man who tries by competition or by throwing dust in your eyes or by any other means to get your work for less than it is worth commits a great sin, for he defrauds the laborer of his hire. (Ap- plause.) Suppose the learned Judge's philosophy were in vogue in San Francisco to-day, namely, that it is the right of the employer to get what he can out of the employe for the lowest wages, what limit is there to his right. what guar. antee that he will not force the laborer to work for him for the wages the negroes work for in the South, where they work for their keep and for the liitle shanty that Is over their heads? The class that can hire the papers and can pay the police to shoot for them (applause), the class that is strong because it has the sinews of war can, if such a philosophy holds, even in our country, force the workingman into a condition of chattel slavery compared with which the condition of the negroes in the South was freedom itself. Right to Family Life. A man has not only a right to a just wage, but he has a right to his family iife. How can a father do his duty to his children and enjoy that social communion and that happi- ness which make home the most beautiful 8pot on earth if there be not some regulation of kis hours of labor? Before you had teamsters’ union here I understand the team- sters went to work before the sun rose in the morning and they came back when it had long set at night. Working at one of the hardest classes of work all the day, what time had those men for family life, to supervise the education of their children? A man has not only these rights, but he has also an immortal soul to look after, and it has been the experience of all ages that a* least one day in seven is necessary for that purpose. Men have a right to a free day In the week. How are you going to enforce these rights? The history of the human race has shown that there are two steps always by which rights are gained: Certain private bodles of men band together to secure these rights; sec- ondly, the rights thus gained are confirmed by the sanction of law. It was thus that the | 3 right of trial by jury was gained. 1If these rights that I have spoken of are to be gained they are to be gained in the first place only by the association of workingmen, and second- 1y, when the time is ripe, by making them the law of the land. It seems to me that is the difference between the employes to-day and the Embdlovers’ Assoclation. Have working- men a right to form unions? Have they a right to band together so that they may be able to enforce their rights? Have these unions the right to speak for the whole body? I do not wish to dwell upon this point; I wish sim- ply to say that it is the word of the Pope himself that such matters as deal with the benefit of the workingmen come properly and rightly within the sphere of the law, and in this country it depends upon the workingman entirely as to how soon the law will take effect. The Present Crisis. I wish now to take up the second part of what I am going to say, and that is to deal with the present crisis here in San Francisco. The most efficacious cry that has been made against you, the most taking warcry that the other side has set up is this: That they have a right to run their own business as they please. No man likes to be interfered with. I say that no man has a right to run his busi- ness as he pleases. There was only one man who could run his business as he pleased and do as he pleased, and he couldn't do it for long, and that was Adam before Eve was created (laughter and applause). No man has perfect liberty except a man who is free from all human companionship. If I should go to live on the top of a_mountain where nobody could come near me I would have perfect 1ib- erty to do as I pleased; I might wear anything or nothing, I might stand on my head or shoot off firecrackers, or I might carry concealed ‘weapons without a permit (great laughter and applause), but the minute I go to live in so- clety 1 begin to give up some portion of my liberty, T can't do just as T please; T must think of what my neighbor pleases and how he will look upon my carrying-ons. There is no more influential portion of this community, and deservedly so, than the lawyers. Can the law- yers always run their own business as they Please? Let a lawyer try to run his law office as he pleases and he will have the Supreme Court dowm on him like a thousand of bricks. He is bound hand and foot by laws, he is hound by precedents, he Is hound by 'the d cree of the court, he is bound by the wishes of his clients, and instead of managing his cases as he pleases he has to walk a very nar- Tow chalk line when he goes to court. Strength Is in Unity. "The second point which the employers try to make in this controversy is that they will not deal with the unifon directly; they will deal ‘with their individual employes. 1f John Brown or Tom Robinson has a grievance against the firm let him come up and make his complaint and the firm will attend to it, but we will not have anything to do with walking dele- gates or secretaries or anybody else; we will not recognize the union, and we will not let it eome between the wind and our nobility: the union must have nothing at all to do with us. This 1s perhaps the most fundamental point in the contention. If the men can't form a cor- porate body and if they can't appoint their deputies to speak for them to any emplover whatsoever then they might as well give up and bury their unions. What is the good of a union? The good of a unfon fs in its strength, In that a large number of men are bound together, and where there is unity there is strepgth. The employer who will turn his back upon one man will think ten times be- fore he will offend five hundred. Guardian Angels of Draymen. The third matter which concerns the present crisis is the attitude of the civil power. It is against the fundamental principles of our institutions to suppose that any man is guflty of crime before there be some acts or some evidence to ghuw that he has committed it or that he intends to commit it. Who are pro- tected :n this town to-night? Who pays the taxes of this community? Is it the rich me: chants_whose names figure on the assessment roll? ‘It is you who pay the taxes; it is you who pay the Mayor: it is you who pay the police. 1 say that it is a crying shame that while the workingmen have been orderly, while vou will find columns about shooting and out- rages by workingmen each morning in the papers and of shooting this and of shooting that, while it has all come from those who are trying to take your places, that the police force of this city, pald for by your taxes, should he turned into guardian angels of draymen. (Laughter and applause.) I wish tu go now to the third part of this speech, that is to say, what is your duty in the present circumetances. In ihe first place let me say that it is my conviction, and T belleve it is the conviction of a vast majority of the people of this city, that your quarrel is just (applause), that this thing hae been forced upon you, and that what is at tie bottom of it is Dot a 'desire to resist infustice or Inter- ference, but that it is the desire to so cripple and hurt the unions that the employers may do what thy please in the days to come. They are willing to suffer a little now in order that in future time they may reap the benefit. They might _as well go out, the three or four hundred of them, every man Jjack of them armed with brooms, and try to keep the Pa- cific Ocean from coming into the Golden Gate (Laughter and applause.) Settlement Rests With People. In the second place I would say your duty is to stick together. If you don't ham gether you will hang separately. In your union is your strength. If you can keep to- — gether you are bound to win In the long run. (Applause.) Don't be too critical now at the time when the war is on. Remember that the settlement of this matter does mot rest with yo and it does not rest with your employ- ers; it rests with the people of this city. You are not dealing with men who are distributors of what they manufacture, but what they re- ceive from elsewhere. They do not produce, but they receive from elsewhere and distribute to others. They distribute to your wives, they distribute to your relatives and your friends; they distribute to the people of this city, and therefore it is the people of this city, of this State and of its contiguous territory that will have the say as to whether they shail be allow- ed to tle up the commerce of this town for an indefinite time, (Applause.) If you can or- | ganize the common people your cause is won. ‘Watch the Newspapers. The fourth thing that is necessary for you o do 1 to keep your eyes on the newspapers. (Applause.) The newspapers have still a great power of making public opinion. They may not have so much power of making public opin- ion in their editorial column as they have of making it in their news columns. They can color the news to sult themselves. Therefore watch your newspavers; and you have reason for it. ‘The men vou are fighting against will not fight fair. Only the other day a deputa- tion of them went to the chief papers of this | city and demanded, because they were big ad- | | vertisers that the newspapers should in the | irst place take the news of the strike off their front page, the place of honor, and put it into the back of the paper, and gradually be- | gin to cut it down column by column until the people of this city would have the idea that the | strike was petering out. I have that on the | authority of a man who has the confidence of | you all, and who has given me permission to make use of it, and I know, if I had never heard of it, on such authority, I know it is what they always do. The advertisers of | course give good money to the newspapers, but | they get as much from the newspapers as they give. The man who thinks that monmey for | advertising is merely charity money under an- other guise is twenty-six different kinds of a fool. Advertising is valuable, and when these merchants pay for their advertising they get | | from the newspapers fair value for their money and they have mo right to demand anything more. Moreover, the value of advertising de- pends upon the number of people it reaches. | It a newspaper does not give you the nmews that you pay your nickel for get another. Be Law-Abiding. Let me echo the words of the last speaker: Above all things be law-ablding. There is in | this city, as there Is in every other city in the world, a hoodlum element; an element that never dces an honest day’s work: an element that will be always around where there is a | crowd, and that will be delighted when there is & row. And if the workingmen give any pri text, or whether they give any pretext or not, it there is a hoodlum gathering and row down on Mission street or on the water front the fact will go into_the newspapers as a riot by workingmen. It 1s an old trick. A man goes out in the outskirts and some men jump on him, and he says he can’t recognize them, but he knows they are strikers. You must be prepared to look out for these things in the papers, and gyou must give no opportunity to the employefs or to the conservative people of the lown (o hold you really guilty of any act against the law. It is very hard, I know; | blocd may boil within you and your hands | may twiteh, but remember in silence and in | repose shall’ be your strength. The man wins Who knows how to wait. (Applause.) There- fore abstain from quarrels, especially quarrels of the tongue, whioh is an unruly member and gets men Into all kinds of trouble. Men begin by calling names and soon end in blows. | Two Reasons for Temperanc I do not ask vou to ¥ake the pledge, but I would advise you to be more temperate now than ever in the liquor that you are accus- tomed to take, and that for two reasons: It means bread for your families, and in the sec- ond place it means self-control, and you want Self-control mow 1f never you wanted it be- fore. You can’t hire men to be teetotalers for u, you can’t afford to hire men to stay up all night and work for vou and you can't | aftora to hire brains: your employers can. They can pay for men to talk for them; you can't | do it. Therefore you must look to yourselves, Vou must he sober yourselves, you must prac- tice self-restraint for yourselves and you must think for yourselves; and, above all, you must remember that a strike is not a time of idle- ness: if you can’t work for_your employer you must work for yourselves. You are going about it in the right way. If you can put your case before the people of this State they will see that it is their own case. How many employ- cra are there in the whole State? How many of the employed? A handful of the onme, a great ocean of the other. The cause of one Worker is the cause of other workers. T have come here to deliver my soul; I have said my say. 1 believe in the cause of the workingman, 1 believe in a falr wage, I be- lave im fair hours. I believe in one rest day in the seven. 1 belleve in enforeing these things by unionism. I believe in putting them into the law whenever you can, and I believe that these things are at stake in this eity to- day: that it is not a question of wages or of hours, it is mot a question of longshoremen, it Is not & question whether you haul this freight or whether that steamer will go to sea, It is the great question, Shall men for whom Christ died to teach !he&lhll their souls are their own. that they ark free men With free men's rights, be crushed Beneath the foot of the meanest of all the angels that fell from heaven, Mammon, the spirit of greed? The Strike in Oakland. OAKLAND, Aug. S.—The union team- sters employed by coal and lumber deal- ers in this city have notified thelr em-, ployers that they will strike if any at tempt Is made to handle lumber or coal cargoes at this port with non-union men. Union longshoremen who had been work- ing for the Humboldt Lumber Company were called out this morning because they had begun to bandle lumber from the steamer Mandalay, which was discharged 2 few days ago by non-unlonists. Stocks of lumber and coal are running low in this eity. The ship Highland Light, coal laden, is tied up at the Howard Company’'s bunk- ers because the holsting engineers are on strike. James P. Taylor has been noti- fied that his unlon teamsters will strike if he tries to discharge with non-union men the ship. Wellington, due here to- morrow with coal. Shipping firms along the water front find no surplus labor here. - All available non-union hands have been hired for work in San Francisco, v The Master Painters have settled down to a long slege with the striking journey- men. The bosscs are looking for men at the old scale of wages—$3 a day for eight hours. The Building Trades Council has not yet taken a hand in this contest. ——e Strike Affects City Employes. For the first time since the inception of the strike the city government felt its effects yesterday. Flve teansters quit work at the Corporation Yard. There are fifty men employed in the repair depart- ment and they were allowed to remain at work. Permission was gilven by the unions to owners of teams to do the necessary hauling. In case the men doing work for the municipality are called out there will be more than seventy-five af- fected. ———— ‘The average man believes he is justified in stealing an umbrella or a kiss when- ever he has a chance. ARMY OF IDLE LABORING MEN IS INCREASED Strike of Sand Teamsters Forces Out the Men Who Sweep the City’s Streets Pl e Men Who Haul the Sweepings and Drivers of Sprinkling Wagons Ordered to Quit —_— HE Sand Teamsters’ Union, in re- fusing to indorse the action of its executive committee, which, n ordering them to go out on strike, stipulated that the men engaged in hauling street sweepings and the drivers of sprinkling wagons should be allowed to remain at work, caused more than 300 men to join the idle crowd yes- terday. Its action also prevents the con- tractors from keeping the streets clean and exposes the residents of this city to the dangers that lurk in an accumulation of filth and dirt. The executive committee of the union, in ordering out the sand teamsters and excepting the men who worked with the street _cleaning contractors, expected that its action would meet with the approval of the union, but its decision was re- versed. The members claimed that every member of the union should go out, despite the hardships it might cause. There are about forty drivers of dirt wagons and street sprinklers employed by the contractors, and when they re- fused to go to work yesterday morning the contractors were compelled to send their entire force of street sweepers back to_their homes. Great indignation was expressed by the contractors when they were informed the action of the union. They said that last March a contract was signed by them and the teamsters which was meant to prevent just such action. “They have de- liberately broken that agreement,” say the contractors, “and have destroyed the faith we had in the fairness of labor unions. RETAILERS DESIRE PEACE. Merchants Will Endeavor to Effect Conciliation of Employers and Strikers. The retail dealers in almost every line of merchandise in which business has been affected by the existing labor dis- sensions held a meeting last night in the ssembly hall of the Parrott building for the purpose of devising a mode of co ciliating the strikers and their employer: The meeting was purely preliminary. An organization was accomplished and plans were discussed, but nothing definite was done further than the issuance of a call for another meeting, to be held next Mon- day night. It was decided to have every retail or- ganization In the city represented at the next meeting. The following committee was appointed to arouse_interest among the retail socleties: W. J. Kenny, chair- man; James K. Taylor, secretary; J. W. Cornell, J. Larney, J." Downey. H. C. Flageollet, Joe Halle. Chris Hartmann J. Eames, John McCafferty, E. L. Bar- rington and F. L. Bent. Besides inducing retail associations to send delegations to the Monday meeting the committee will endeavor to have all lines of retail merchants represented Whether they are organized or not. At the meeting the strike situation will be ;uu_v cdanvasied'and an earnest effort wilt e made to devise a means of end labor troubles. 98 . ‘Warrants Issued for Strikers. ‘Warrants are being issued daily for the arrest of strikers or non-union men for battery and other misdemeanors, and the Judges will soon have very little else to do except to try these cases. Yesterday several warrants were issued. J. L. Golden, a non-union teamster em- ploved by Hugh Flynn, coal dealer, Steu- art street, secured a warrant from Judge Cabaniss for the arrest of P. Doherty, P. Conlon and P. Hinrichs, striking tean: sters, on the charge of battery. He said he was attacked by the three men Wed- nesday and severely beaten. Michael Carroll, who drives for Wil- son & Co., coal dealers, on Battery street, secured a warrant from Judge Mogan for the arrest of “John Doe' Grif. fin on the charge of battery. He said Griffin, who_is a striking teamster, at- tacked him Wednesday and beat him. A warrant was issued by Judge Cabaniss for the arrest of Charies Trade. James Shannon, an old man, was driving a team for George Ryan, lumber dealer, ‘Twenty-eighth and Alabama streets, along Sixth street yesterday, when Trade and four other strikers pulied him off the wagon and drove off with the team. He knew Trade, but the others were stran- gers to him. Timothy Killeen, one of the five strik- ing teamsters charged with severely beat- ing Christian Anderson, a non-union teamster. last Saturday night at Second and Folsom streets, appeared before Judge Cabaniss yesterday. The case was continued for two weeks to give the po- lice an opportunity to arrest the others. The Judge reduced Killeen's bail of 320 to $10. Attorney Coffey, who represented the Employe:s'. Association, opposed the reduction and ludged a protest against i- A man who gave the name of William Pearson was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with assault with a deadly weapon on C. F. Smith, a colored non-union teamster living at 1125 Stockton, street. Smith and L. Maguire, a neighbor who is a striker., had a quar- rel about the strike, and Smith alleged that Maguire hit tim on the head with a rock. Smith swore out a warrant for Maguire's arrest, and Pearson was ar- rested, presumably by mistake. A non-union teamster, who, it is said, is employed by the Overland Transfer Company, was attacked by a band of strikers late yesterday afternoon on Fourth street and severely beaten about the head and face. The non-union m: escaped by running through a saloon.a out the back door. He ran up Silv street and hid in a house. Sergeant Helm with a force of police dispersed the crowd. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF MRS. GEORGE DAWSON Wite of the California-Street Saloon- Keeper Wanders Away From Home in Il Health. Anxiety is being caused by the queer disappearance of Mrs. George Dawson, wife of George Dawson, the well-known boniface of 321 California street. It is now about ten days since Mrs. Dawson left. her home at 2219 Devisadero sireet, and though every effort has been made to locate her, her whereabouts still remains a mystery to her husband and her friends. There are any number of theories to ac- count for her absence, but the most plaus- fble one is that she wandered away dur- ing ‘a temporary aberration of mind, brought about by lilness and medicines she had been taking. and is mow being cared for at z]rlu rrenswk:;e_m:e of some friend e shall recover. “‘:ls‘kxlle“l;ushand says this is not the first time his wife has remained away from home for several da She has many friends living at different places across the bay and has om several other occa- sions gonme to visit them without giving any intimation of her intention. A careful canvass of her friends’ homes, however, has falled to develop amy trace of the missing woman. phiemama iDL 5% L An Estate Has Been Left Him. Charles Ferrero Erwin Niles, formerly employed in locomotive works at Sehen- ectady, Z:éx Y!.; ;‘z: last heard from in March, 1891, in San Francisco, Was chenged ns machiniet i’ ther ORie Iron Wor:(i.‘ Addm-w;!!:rru & Hess, at- torneys at law, room . Claus Sprecke! bullding, San Franciseo, Cal. o res / A