The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-19
THE NEW DEspOTlSM.

THE NEW DEsPOTlSM.
The American people are getting
their fill of the tyranny of labor unions
run by men of foreign extraction and
assuming a greater power than the
law confers upon any official of the
government save in time of war.
Since a blackmail feature has begun
to appear in labor strikes and boycotts
and a reasonable feature in the at
tempt of certain labor organizations
to demoralize the militia, the feeling
that the time has come to stamp out
this new form of despotism and give
American individualism a chance, is
growing apace among intelligent citi-
Zens. The same power that crushed
the Molly Maguires and cut the claws
of the knights of Labor may be trust
ed to deal with the usurpation which,
in the name of Amer:nanism, is estab-
fishing a system of authority over Ia
Dor and capital alike which is as for
eign to American ideas as is govern
ment by Turkish trade.
Already the campaign is beginning
with Pittsburg as headquarters.
The Post of that city says: Accord
ins to well matured plans, not only of
the great railroad corporations of the
country, but of the larger investors of
capital in building operations, there is
likely to be a general cessation of
building operations during 1904, which
will make that year memorable to the
trades interested. The statement of
one of the largest contracting con-
Germs in the country connected with
railroad construction work is the ba-
sis for the assertion that at least
s1S0, 900 900 worth of building opera tons
proposed for 1904 have actually been
called off and plans have been recalled.
sit is also said by the same authority,
so far as known, there will be nothing
in the shape of new work undertaken
the coming year, and when the pres
ent contracts are completed a period
of waiting will ensue. 1t will be
waiting for the general labor situation
to settle down, and the end of the
fractional wars and strikes that have
almost destroyed confidence in build
ing. The same information is that
the Pennsylvania, which now has
enough improvements under way and
or $5O,OOO,OOO during 1904, has decided
to withdraw all of these plans ard do
nothing further with them until there
is a more placid condition of the labor
market.
Information given out shows that |
in New York alone there is at least |
$50. 600 600 of new building for 1904 in
volved in the general plan of with
drawal In Chicago, where the labor
troubles have been continuous for
months, it is said that more than $780,
100000 of new work has been aban-
doned.
.In this city Henry Phipps has de-
clared that he will not turn another
stone in the city except where opera
lions have already been started. The
delay in the extensive improvements
contracted by H. c. Prick is stated to
be due entirely to the unreliable state
of the labor field and a. similar condi-
ton is stated to exist with the H. w.
Oliver improvements not already be-
gun"
Hawaii has a distinct interest in
this matter as we have among us a
Russian walking delegate-living lux
uriously at the best hotel and repre-
senting the american Federation of
Labor who says that his organiza-
ton will stop the coming of japanese
field hands here and compel the Ter
ritorial planters either to employ
white men-who refuse to do planta-
ton work-or negroes, who would visit
us with the dangerous social condi- |
lions of the South. This brings the
prevailing issue to a local head and !
shows us the kind of provocation |
which is ranging American citizens on
the Mainland into ranks of self-de- |
Tense.