The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-12-05
PRINTERS BELIEVE
otis HAS COLD FEET
PUBLISHES THREE ISSUES OF HIS
PAPER WITHOUT ABUSE.
Dfscontinucs TRADE Against Organized
Labor for u Time. Printers Union
Very Much Alarmed About the Dis
respect Shown By the General who
Crossed the Rubicon. No Character
Defamation.

Los Angeles, Dec. 3.-(Special Cor
respondence). Harrison Gray Otis
organ, the Los Angeles Times, has
turned over a new leaf. The last three
issues have not indulged in a single
characteristic TRADE against the claw
1essness of trade unions or other pet
subjects from the pen of the Rubicon
crosser.
If Friend Harrison does not quit car
carrying water on both shoulders we
Will commence to lose faith in his
Warl1ke qualities. His record as bull
~ braggart and blusterer was con-
ceded to be 18-karat fine, and his long
suit was always supposed to be the
defam ming of anybody's character who
dared to oppose the "ginerals" pet
ideas
Scores Of men of irreproach able
character and high repute have been
forced to "kow-tow' to this charac-
ter assassin; women in all walks Of
life have been made to feel the cow
ardly sting Of his venomous pen: labor
organizations have been maliciously
misrepresented because they differed
from the views emana ating from the
rat stronghold; but for the pas
three days no characters have been as
sailed, no alleged scandals have been
aired to the public, and no mention
has been made in the columns of the
Times that the working people are
sending the nation to the "demnition
bow vows"
We really feel hurt at the inatten-
tlon shown us the past three days, and
emphatically protest against this neg
lect Three whole days devoted to
heavy editorials on subjecJ5 foreign to
the usual TRADES against the workers
has discouraged us immensely. And
all this in the face Of the marvellous
growth Of organized labor in Southern
California.
1t cannot be-no, it cannot be-that
the warrior bold has had an attack of
cold feet since Hearst's Los Angeles
Examiner is on the eve of publication.
True, the Examiner people have been
received with open arms in the terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico,
while the cities in Southern California
in the vicinity of Los Angeles that
have always been considered the
strongholds of the Times. have already.
for the Times by p1edgihg their sup-
port to the newcomer.
In this city, the headquarters Of the
executive committee of the parry
sites, it is really pitiab1e to note the
desertions from the rat Infested
hulk known as the Los Angeles Times.
Now. we contend, in all fairness, it
is not just to desert an old man in his
dotage, who has devoted the best years
of his life to breeding discomfort
among the classes Is it possible the
,'brigadier' is in such dsfavor with
those whom he has forced into sub
mission through his bulldozing me-
thods that they are now going to be
the first to plant Il good swift kick
the part OF his anatomy where it
will do him the most good?
Undoubtedly, the effective work be-
ing done OIL the foreign advertising of
the Times. through the various Anti
Times committees all over the country,
has timed the fighting blood in the
veins of the editor of the Times. The
returns from the bombardment of let
ters on foreign advertisers have been
opcO11r1~ino-