San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
COULD NOT DELIVER
The Goods So Writes a Union
Man.

Man.
To the Daily LIGHT:
The union labor organizations OF
San Antonio have at last demon
strated the fact that they cannot,
and will not be longer dictated to
by a coterie Of worn out, second
hand political strikers. This was
proven in the recent election by
the defeat Of the Callaghan ticket,
against which, with but few ex-
ceptions, organized labor voted
solid. And why, since an item in
the Express before the election
stated that the Trades Council
Auxiliary association, represent
ing some sixteen or eighteen union
labor organizations, with a total
membership Of thirteen or four
teen hundred, had endorsed the
Callaghan ticket? Nothing could
have been more misleading, and
was given out without the consent
or knowledge Of the various organ
izations, il what has since been re-
vealed to me by large number Of
its members be true. The men,
bers of the so.called Auxiliary rep
resented nobody but themselves,
and when we refer to the endorse
ment Of the Callaghan ticket by
more than thousand voters it
presents a strange contrast to the
membership OF the Auxiliary,
which never mustered more
than forty men after the first meet
ing, when the organization was
perfected. II the Auxiliary associ-
citation was created in the special
interest of the Callaghan ticket and
to rake in Doodle for the Logging
committee it never served it's pur-
pose. That is to say, "Kunzie"
never delivered the goods, because
those without, as we'll as nearly
all of those within the Auxiliary,
flew the track and voted for Elmen-
dorf after sober second thought
had taken possession Of their
reasoning powers. But let it be
understood that the labor organi-
cations represented in the Trades
Council had nothing to with this
fake affair, and some of them will
likely demand an explanation Of
their representatives in that body
why the name Grades Council"
was deliberately prostituted to
serve personal ends in a question
able transaction by annexing its
name to what most members be-
lieve to be Doodle play, into
which a few unsuspecting men
were roped.
Thus 1t will be seen that the
labor organizations did not en-
dorse and work and vote for the
Callaghan ticket, but a so-called
Auxiliary representing not even
the views of one-fourth of its indi-
vidual members, or less than a
dozen men, did so. What re.
Enumeration, il any, the Logging
committee Of which KunZie was a
conspicuous member, received, de-
ponent sayeth not, but it is under
stood that he had designs
on the clerkship OF the re-
corder's court, and energetically
aspired and perspired to the covet
ed soft billet. With such elevated
thoughts coursing through his
brain and down his spinal column
the idea Of organizing the AuXilia-
ry seized him, and no time was lost
in shaping matters to that end.
The organization perfected he pro-
posed the appointment Of COM
mittee to wait upon Judge Gala
CHAN and Mayor Elmendorf and
ascertain which Of the two gentle
men had the heaviest leaning to-
ward the laboring classes. Ofcourse
Kunzie was the chief spokesman OF
the committee, and it is said he
reported back to the Auxiliary that
Callae han was the man; that he
promised to grant everything
asked Of him, while Mayor Elmen-
dorf refused to turn over his office
to the committee il elected. AT
any rate the report was swallowed
with considerable salt and reluct-
ance, but only to break away and
not be bound by the action of a
committee whose recommendation
savored very much Of the "sell-out"
brand. 1t is but just to say that
the union labor organizations took
no dish whatever in the Kunzie
Auxiliary political fiasco, and when
he used their names he did so upon
his own responsibility. He is now
a back number, and never again
wilfhe be able to discover a man
who will trot in his political class,
because they are averse to being
led into political traps, and will
lob uDOD apu politipal achama