The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII—-NO. 167. ¥ SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1902. STROMBOLI AND S ' POURING AWFUL FIRE ON ISLLANDS OME, Nov. 13.---The volcano on Stromboli Island, off the north coast of Sicily, has commenced a terrible eruption. A colossal column of fire is rising and incandescent stones are being emitted from the craters. AMOA VOLCANOES Many hcuses on 1he island have beecn destroyed. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AUCKILAND, New Zealand, Nov. 13.---According to advices réceived here from Apia, Samoa, via Tonga, a volcanic eruption has broken out in Savaii, the westernmost and largest island of the Samean group. Six craters are reported to be emitiing smoke and flames. In one village in the vicinity the earth is covered two inches deep with ashes. Stromboli, the northernmost of the Lipari Islands, is in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Sicily. It is entirely of volcanic formation and has an area of eight square miles. On the island is a constantly active volcano 3040 feet high, with an extinct crater on top, but an active one on the side at a height of about 2150 feet. On the east side of the mountain at its base is the town of Stromboli. It has a population of 500. Recent floods and tidal waves on the shores of Sicily caused a loss of hundreds of lives. The tidal disturbances at that time were thought to be of volcanic origin. GOMPERS SAYS AN EDUCATOR WHO POSES AS STRIKE-BREAKER IS UNFIT FOR POSITION President of the American Federation of Labor Excoriates Professor Eliot of Harvard. : A i ! | | | | | | i | T { <HARLEJ YWILLIAM. A ELIOT SAL o } PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNI- | VERSITY AND PRESIDENT OF | FEDERATION OF LABOR. - AMUEL — COMPFR S - - EW ORLEANS, Nov. 13.—President N Samuel Gompers at the opening of the American Federation of La- bor to-day delivered an sioned warning to the members of the or- ganization that the immediate future of de and labor assemblies was seriously d by the conflicting claims of made by different bodies. Tn- and handled with moderation, he de- red, the labor organizations of the country would soon be involved in a conflict, which would, by comparison, dwarf all the struggles in which labor or- ganizations have so far been engaged. The matter would, unless checked, he as- serted, come to a point where laboring men would fight with laboring men from | Lehind barricades in the manner in which men dealt with their mortal foes. His warning of danger and his counsels of peace and moderation met with a hearty vesponse from the assembled delegates and wild applause greeted the speaker as he closed that portion of his annual address in which he had pointed out the perils which in his opinion will surely come unless methods are altered and aitered soon. ALLUDES TO ELIOT. M. The afternoon was consumed by the address of President Gompers, who occu- pied two hours and twenty minutes of rapid reading. After touching upon the scope and bear- ing of the labor union movement, Presi- impas- | ngs were fixed in calmness‘ 3 ‘ dent Gompers declared that it was amaz- | Inz to note the ignorance among so-called educated people regarding the aims and objects of the organization. . “No man who, as an educater,” said President Gompers, ‘‘poses as a Strike- breaker, is fit for the position he holds. Compared to such a man Benedict Arnold Was a martyr and Judas Iscariot a saint.” Although no name w#c mentioned, it | was understood by the delegates that | reference was made to President Ellot of | Harvard University, and they applauded | with vehemence. | Cheers were again called forth when it | was declared that the men who acted the | role of strike-breakers were looking | backward toward barbarism and not to the future. GROWTH OF FEDERATION. Corcerning the growth of the Federa- tion, President Gompers reported as fol- lows: Six new national unions were formed, during | the year and two are now in the process of for- mation, while others will soon be in a position to have a national or international charter formed from, existing local unions of the trade. In all, new charters were issued to: National and international unons, 14; State branches, 6; central labor unions, 127: local trade unions and Federal labor unions, ; total, 1024. At the end of the fiscal year (eleven months) September 30, 1902, we had affiliated with the American Federation of Labor national and international unions (with approximately 14,000 local unions under their jurisdiction), 99; State federations, 26; city central bodies, 424: local Federal labor unions and local trade unions, directly affillated to the American Federation of Labor by charter, 1483. |. In the eleven months ending October 1, 1902, | there have been organized and chartered by our \'atfiliated national unions and by the American | Federation of Labor direct not less than 3500 | new local unions, with an added membership | of not less than 300,000. | Apart from the miners’ strike, Gompers saiG there had been during the past year no general trade contest involving large numbers nor has there been so farge a number of strikes as in former years. Of | the strikes reported the preponderance have been for higher wages and shorter hours, and they have Leen largely suc- essful. GREAT ANTHRACITE STRIKE. Gempers reviewed the causes and pro- | gress of the anthracite miners’ strike and in the course of his remarks said: One of the remarkable vet consistent features | of the contest was the attitude assumed by the | mine owners'as to their divine proprietorship of | | the mines and their declaration that alvine providence had placed in their possession the properties and that they would better care for | the welfare of their employes than would the agitators. There is no boubt that the companies’ | presidents, having assumed the role of complete mastery over their workmen, were unable to realize other than that they were, indeed, the repositories of their mortal, as well as their eternal, salvation. Their consistency has not been questioned. The premise was wrong and unjustifiable from the beginning, and carried along for a series of years when. they imagined that they had crushed entirely the spirit and the character of their employes. Viewing the entire industrial field, the social { and economic conditions and the whole moral> of the wage earners of our country, we have nothing to be thankful for to the employing class. Whatever improvement has come to the wage workers in any way Is entirely due to their own efforts, to their own intelligence in organizing and agitating for the enjoyment of a higher and better life. After recounting the various steps in the negotiations initiated by President Roosevelt, which ended in the ‘appoint- ment of the arbitration commission, Gom- pers sald: MORAL VICTORY WON. A great moral victory has been won for the miners and the cause of organized labor and for humanity. Material advantage is, there- fore, inevitable The declaration of the opera- tors that the only manner in which the strike could be ended would be by their return tc work unconditionglly has not been verified; and this fact is due to the splendid discipline of the men, the excellent manner in which the contest was conducted and the fraternal, gen- erous and prompt support of organized labor, 1 desire personally, as well as officially, to ex- press the deep appreciation which I feel, and which I know the miners feel, and we all feel, to the wage earners of our country and to all others who have aided in this great contest. It was a great opportunity for the manifestation of the solidarity of labor under the banner of the Amerlcan Federation of Laboer, and mag- nificent!y taken advantage of and responded to by our fellow unioniste. - Our movement seeks to avold strikes. We TIMBER KING ATTEMPTS T0 FIND COVER Walker Is Refused Permission to Withdraw. Commissioner of Lands Will Investigate Frauds. | Further Charges That Min- ers’ Claims Are Included in Locations. Coada SR Special Dispateh to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Thomas B. ‘Wallker, the Michigan timber king, who has come into possession of large tracts of land ‘In Califormkssahy othen-Pacific ccast States during the past year, has made a request to the Department of the Interior, and has been denied permission by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to withdraw applications for 2500 acres of land in the Redding land district in California. The basis of Walker's ap- plication to withdraw is found in one paragraph of a letter written by him, which was sent to the department by the officers at the Redding land office. In substance Walker says that the pro- tests on the part of miners living in the territory around these lands are so emphatic and general as against the selections made for him of territory that he has concluded to withdraw, and he asks for the return of abstracts for the {1ands he wishes now to relinquish togeth- er with the recorded ‘deeds for the same. INVESTIGATION IS PROMISED. Land Commissioner Binger Hermann has written a long letter of instructions to the Register and Receiver of the land office at Redding, Cal. about this proposi- tion in which several significant passages occur. In announcing that the applica- tion: cf Walker is denied, Commissioner Herann writes: “From this action of this office in de- clining thus to cancel lieu selections, it must not be understood that the reg- ularity or validity of such selections have been in any wise determined, as proper action will be taken thereon in the due course of business and such investigations had as the condition of such selections warrant. Therefore on the matter of the protests mentioned, herein, due action will be taken thereon in the regular order of business. Give due notice thereof and advise Thomas B. Walker of his right of appeal.” A great stir has been caused here by the attention that State Mineralogist Lew Aubury of California has directed to the use of dummy locators to take up timber and mifneral claims in California. The Susanville land office has been tem- porarily put out of the business of mak- ing of land entries, pending an investi- gation of the methods pursued by those who are getting large land holdings in the district into their ownership. Hun- dreds of thousands of acres are repre- sented in claims of one sort or another that have been filed in a period of a few months, Aubury is making an investiga- tion in three California land districts, the Government co-operating, the districts being the Susanville, Marysville and Red- ding. Aubury is expected to substantiate the statements that have been forwarded by him to Washington by the production of testimony obtained on the spot. ¥ PROTESTS OF MINERS. The definite statement in the communi- cation from Land Commissioner Her- mann to the land officials at Redding, Cal., about Walker's application, that an investigation will be had by the Govern- ment, promises that all averments con- cerning the methods of Walker, and pos- sibly of the Diamond Match Company and other large combines that are inter- ested in California lands, may be sub- ject of careful and thorough inquiry. The protests against the land selections in the Redding district that have been made by Thomas B. Walker come from minere. Walker’s letter requesting that he be permitted to withdraw sets forth that: “These lands, being within six miles of mineral claims, I did, in,accordance with the requirements of the department, ad- vertise and post notices on the various Continued on Page 2, C(;lumn 3. 'antiiued on Page 2, Column 5. . GOVERNMENT WILL AT ONCE INVESTIGATE e e e KATHERINE TINGLEY’S POINT LOMA SCHOOL High Priestess of the Universal Brotherhood Gives Uncle Sam a Chanee by Making Appeal. e HH ratH 8 /4 3 .“ e N/ e ERINE TING erhood Diego are to be made subjects of inquiry by organizations devoted | to the welfare of children. weeks ago Mrs. Tingley sought| to have admitted at New York| nearly a dozen Cuban children| for transportation to her Point Loma school. to the Government, and the little ones will be returned to their | homes. +— . HE purposes and general| conduct of Mrs. Katherine A: Tingley’s Universal Broth-| institution near San| A few | Protest was made | | VIEW OF THE | T LOM | - — = 1 “PURPLE MOTHER” AND HIGH PRIESTESS OF THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD'S RAJA YOGA SCHOOL AT ’ POINT LOMA, SAN DIEGO. COUNTY, AND THE INSTITUTION WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE IN ALL ITS VARIED RAMIFICATIONS. T S 3 termining whether or not the Tingley wculd do the work, and would do it thor- Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.— Given the opportunity by Katherine A. Tingley herself, who has appealed the case of the ‘“Lotus Buds” to the Treasury Department, and impressed by the revelations already made, the United States Government has taken steps: to- ward a thorough investigation of ‘the Tingley institution at Point Loma, Cali- fornia. This will be conducted by Gov- ernment officials entirely independent of the Investigation proposed by the New York and San Francisco socleties for the prevention of cruelty to children. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has taken a personal interest in the case, and no sooner was the appeal of Mrs. Tingley recorded at the department to-day than he immediately ordered a thorough inves- tigation. Mrs. Tingley's appeal comes through regular channels in the immigra- tion bureau of the Treasury Department and takes exceptions to the decision in New York by which the Cuban children are to be deported. It was forwarded by Commissioner Willlams in New York to Commissioner General of TImmigration Sargent, in Washington. Sargent was out of town, and Secretary Shaw him- self at once took charge of the matter. The decision affecting the deportation was made on the ground that the Cuban children would become public charges. Mrs. Tingley has appealed for a rever8al of the judgment on the ground. that she 1 can prove that they will not become pub- lic charges.: The investigation of the Gov- ernment will be for the purpose of de- school can care for the ‘“Lotus Buds.” But 4 wide range of investigation will be taken, for it will be necessary. for Mrs. Tingley to prove beyond a doubt to the Government officials that she can proper- {1y take care of the children, and in this respect the Government will be able to make a thorough examinafion of the character of the institution. Now that the case has been brought to the attentfon of the Government, making it vossible for Government action, the revelations published have been given consideration by the Government officials. All the charges of cruelty to children In charge of the officlals . of the Tingley school will be thoroughly sifted in tae Government investigation. .On this, as well as other features charged,.will de- pend the Treasury Department's decision as to whether or not the children can be properly cared for. If the Government finds that the char- acter of the school is altogether bad, that the habits and customs :there are’ not such as to conduce to the proper bring- ing up of children, or that any acts of cruelty are practiced, the New York de- cision will be sustained, while it will re- main for the authorities of the State of California_ to make use of the evidence produced with a view to wiping the school out of existence. It was said by officials of the Treasury Department to-night that no special of- ficers would be sent from Washington to conduct the investigations, but that of- ficials of the department in California ovughly. - COURTS AN INVESTIGATION. Mrs. Tingley Also Demands the Pro- tection of the State. 8AN DIEGO, Nov. 13.—Mrs. Katherire Tingley of the Universal Brotherhood has received word from New York to the ef- fect that the Gerry Soclety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty te Children will seud a representative to California for the purpose of aiding similar socleties in this State in tigp institution of proceedings to have the children removed from the Raja Yoga School at Point Loma. Mrs. Ting- ley in a statement published in a mern- ing paper says she courts the most searching investigation, and has applied to the State authorities of California ask- ing for a commission to investigate the Raja Yoga Scheol at Point Loma. She demands the protection of the State, not only in the interest of the school, but in the interest of the State of California and in-justice to the Mayor and other officials of San Dlego, who have indorsed the Raja Yoga School, and she begs imme= diate attention to her request. General Matos Is Very IIL WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, Nov. 13.—General Matcs, chief of the ‘Venezuelan revolutionists, and his son ar- rived here this afternoon in a small boat. General Matos is very {ll. His landing was witnessed by a considerable crowd. There were demonstrations of & varied character.