Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-19
VOICE OF UNION LABOR
Addresses at Reception of San
Francisco's Mayor.
SCHMITZ MAN OF THE HOUR
Sentiments of Samuel Gompers, Head
of Federation.
SCHOOL QUESTION DISCUSSED
Attitude of Frisco Toward the Japa
nese misunderstanding
to Solve Problem.
sCHMITZ MAN OF THE HOUR
SCHOOL QUESTION DISCUSSED

dSHcS anu anu De d Uetlef, STedlcE
and more magnificent city than ever. and
she is not going to be built by Japanese
workmen, either."-Mayor Eugene E.
Schmitz.
They the Japanese) are a menace to
California and are particularly a menace to
our school system.'-D. P. Oliver, jr.. men,
Der of the San Francisco school board.
THE workingmen of San Francisco have
put the entering wedge in the Asiatic ques-
ton that we have been hitting at for years.
james O'Connell. president of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists
LAS vast and intelligent body of Amer
leans, you have the right to freely express
yourselves in all matters Of moment to this
sinew."-Chas. w. Darr, attorney.
IF the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans
will not remain in their own countries, they
must be kept out of ours. Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Federation
of Labor.
These were some of the sentiments ex-
pressed last night at meeting of the Cen
trail Labor Union of this city at Typo
graphical Temple, and the expression pro-
voked tumultuous applause. The business
of the session was suspended at the point
where Mr.. Emmett l.. Adams of the inter-
national machinsts had described Speaker
Cannon as a tyrant to permit of the recep-
ton of Mr.. Eugene E. SchmitZ, the labor
mayor OI san frdnClSCO, MS associates,
President Gompers and the international
president of the machinists, James O'Con-
nell.
The entrance of the distinguished labor
men was greeted with cheers Mr.. James
l.. Feeney. president of the bookbinders,
moved that the rules be suspended which
was done, and Mr.. j. H. Brinkman, presi-
dent of the central body, babe the visitors
welcome on behalf of the 25,OOO organized
wOrkingmen of the District Of Columbia,
who, he added, had been denied the right
to vote. but We're, nevertheless, patriotic
Americans.
Mayor Schmitz introduced.
After being presented to the big audi
dence Mayor Schmitz declared that he felt
proud of the record San Francisco has
made for trades unionism.
''She is the best labor union town on the
globe he said, land in the building
trades there is no 'scab organization The
workngmen are banded together so
strongly that almost every fight they have
engaged in has been won. Any organiza-
ton that does not stand for the advance
ment of mankind-fOr the building up of
something's bound to go to pieces in a
few years. The man who tolls is the man
who creates something. He is the bone and
Sinew of our country.
After the great catastrophe that over
took our city there were 100000 in the
bread line. Millonaires, capitalists and
wage-earners were all in it and rubbed ell
", i
had hoped that this would last, but when
the edge wore off the catastrophe the same
old conditions came about
1T is said in the west that we do things
on big scale. You had a big fire in Bal
timore and bigger one in Chicago, but it
remained for San Francisco to furnish the
biggest fire the world has ever known"
In conclusion, Mayor SchmitZ said there
were GOOOO organized workmen in San
Francisco. who are ready to fight for and
defend their principles. He described Presi-
the labor party and said he was beloved
by the toilers from Maine to California.
Mr.. oliver on School Issue.
David Oliver, jr., a member of the San
Francisco school board, described the &C
ton of the board in segregating the Jap
anese from the schools of San Francisco.
and declared that in doing so the board
had only followed out the state law which
provides for the segregating of Chinese,
japanese and all Mongolans and Indians.
I'VE had believed the Japs We're Mon
golians," said Mr.. Oliver, but have just
made the discovery that they are Modes
and Persans. We had to take long jour
however,, He then described a recent oc-
currence in Frisco where Jap. addressed
an lrishman as Monaghan.
The speaker declared the Asatics are a
and California in particular, and said the
question would be solved in large measure
by the millions of organized workingmen.
Other Speakers.
President James O'Connell of the Inter-
national Machinists was the next speaker.
He said it was unpopular for a man to
carry union working card in his pocket
at the time Mr.. Schmitz was elected mayor
of San Francisco, but a great change had
come over that community. He praised the
manner he had COPIED with the great earth
quake situation and handling the
Asiatic matter
MIR. Charles W. Darr was introduced by
President Brinkman as tried friend of the
workingman. He said the workingmen of
Washington are engaged in "a noble work
in freely expressing their sentiments in ia
vOr of and against legislation in the Dis
trct." He lauded them for opposing that
form of slavery or abridgment of human
rights which is adroitly concealed beneath
the term prohibition
Yours is the greatest citizens organiza-
ton in the District of Columbia he added.
You have the right to act the produc-
ers and not the drones. You are criticised
for everything you do. Your opponents are
organized"
their actions be governed by conserva tism
and fair play. and said they bad done so.
He concluded that should they follow along
those lines they would always be winners
President Samuel Gompers was presented
to the audience and received ovation,
which continued several minutes.
Bless you. my CHI ldren,' he exclaimed,
and there was a further outburst of ap-
plause.
He said the central body of WASHINGTON
was i'm the presence of a great man. and he
made this declaration in spite Of all Mayor
SchmitZs traducers In all human history
il had never produced q crisis but it also
produced man to deal with it.
Man of the Hour.
"The man of the hour when San Fran
cisco's crisis came was Eugene Schmitz its
| union labor mayor. In central labor unions
the delegates do not discuss politics in its
peanut sense, but in it's highest spheres for
the veal of mankind. Congress is now dis
GUESSING propositions that were discussed by
la Dor unions a decade ago. The PROPOSE
tons the labor unions are discussing now
our statesmen will discuss twenty years
hence. 1t is part of the policy of labor
unions 10 lead in thought and elevating in
fiuences.
Mayor Schmidt has been referred to as
the man who met great crisis. Do you
think his traducers will confess that it Is
his principals and not the man whose down
fall they seek? j want to :peak of the I'd
street car strike in San Francisco. 1t lasted
nine days. and in all that nine days not
dollars worth of property was destroy ed
and not drop of blood shed. Why? Simply
because the mayor did not call on the troops