The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-30

| Iy paper, as follows:
The press ot San Francisco while
reasonably free in its news columns.
has been vels delicate in its editoriai
comment on the strike situation. The
reader of San Francisco paper. liN-
! ing out of town. would get the ide;t
that everything is lovely in the city
THAT the defamation of the latest
| comet is of more Importance TO the
farmer than q box car. In a wcrd
there is conspiracy on the part I
| the press to create, in one place, the
| idea that there is no strike n oln
| Francisco. ana, in the other place, that
| there is riot and revolution in the
town A remarkable exception to this
rule is noted in the Examiner. That
paper has on different occasions print
ed powerful editorials on the LABOR side
of the existing controversy. The latest
of these, published under the caption.
What the Position of the Employers
/ Asso, iation Means" follows:
| The pinch of the lockout is beginning
| to be felt in San Francisco. In the
| northern Coast towns which are sup
piled by steamer, supplies are very
scarce. Many of the canneries in San
Francisco being shut dow, the farn,-
erS are deprived of their best market
for fruit. of which enormous quaint
ties are rotting, and such as is being
| marketed is oniy selling for one-haiE
it's value. The steamship line plying
| between here and northern ports has
ceased operations entirely. Shipments
| of wheat are at StandStiil. Coal is
very scarce in San Francisco. and DE
| coming more difficult to obtain every
day. Before long it is probable that
some of the light and power companies
| will be put to great straits for fuel.
The streets of San Francisco are prac-
| tically unprotected by police. Cne
| stabbing and two highway robberies
| took place within two blocks of Lolita $
Fountain during the past three nights.
| Many crimes are going unreported, the
police for reasons of their own, sup
| pressing information about them II
| these dreadful conditions had been
| caused by a strike in any trade, the
| farmers, retail dealers and public gen
| orally would be very apt to denounce
| the strikers, unless their demands were
| founded upon absolute necessity. But
| the condition of things is San F'rancls-
co is not due to a strike; it is due to. Il
| lockout The transfers HAD a unIon
and that union had an agreement with
| the master draymen. The master draE-
men were ordered by the Employers.
| Association to break that agreement
! with the teamsters under penalty of
1 forfeiture OF tnelT business, Inc EIfn-
| ployers' Association that made this
| threat had the power to ENFORCE II, as
their members receive most of the
goods hauled by the draymen OF san
| Francisco.
| Now in discussing this question, We
| want the public to understand thor
oughly what the position of the En-
ployers' Association means. Supposing
| they had said to the draymen: ',yuu
tShn oil
men who drink. and large number
of the transfers who were addicted
| to the use of liquor were discharged
| the matter would have ended there
| If they had even gone further ami
| ordered the draymen to discharge all
| of their employees who We're less than
| five feet nine inches in height no one
| would have interfered. But if they
had ordered the draymen TO discharge
al of their American teamsters or their
German teamSterS, every one would ex-
pect that the Americans and the Ger :
| mans of the city generally would In
lsome way express their disapprovaI
against their fellow-countrymen Or.
supposing they had ordered the iray-
men to discharge all of the men In
their employ who belonged to the Ro-
man Catholic faith, would not every
Catholic in San Francisco feel it was
his duty to rally to the defense of
his co-religionists? We will answer
these questions in the affirmative Ev-
cry man worthy of the name will sc
to the defense of his race ! nd his re-
ligion. even though he is not particu-
larly devout toward one or patriotic
| toward the other
When the Employers Association or.
dered a lockout of the teamsters in tht
employ of the draymen. the Employ.
ers' Association threw down the gag,
II Lee hot L.
the unions of San Francisco would bs
unworthy the name of men, would b,
coWardly beneath the contempt of tbs
meanest people that ever lived, If the,
: had not rallied to the defense of theil
fellow workers, who were denied tn;
: right to engage in legitimate avoca
ton simply because they believed II
the principles of unionism. No one cal
d POSSIBLY take exception to this preSen
tation of the case. 1t is obvious i
= men of the unions do not stand by eacl
other they will be destroyed in detail
| In order that there may be no possible
| ground for misunderstanding this sit
uation. we will say that the unim
peached record of everything that ha
taken place, and every document tina
has emanated from the Employers AS
ISOLATION shows that the employers
purpose from the outset of their or
ganization was the destruction o
unionism in San Francisco.
We ask, do the people of San Fran
cisco intend to look on idly while thi
battle between the allied wealth of tn
7 wholesalers and the allied forces o
unionism continues? Do the people 0
San Francisco intend before taking an,
action to wait until the trade of tn
port is destroyed? If they do, we war;
them that they may make up thei
minds to a long siege. The uni6ns cal
keep up their battle for many months
So can the members of the Employers
Association. Most of the latter mad
enormous sums of money by chargin,
the government the highest prices 70
the poorest quality of supplies sent t,
the Philippine Islands. Many of then
!! made fortunes out of the charter o
ships to the government at prices
which would have justified their indict
ment for treason, and they are nearl,
all of them in a position to lose tn.
profits of business for several months
OF course, the Employers Association
will go to pieces sooner or later, AM
leave its supporters in the lurch w,
base this assumption on the record o
the past. Five times within the las