The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-01-12
UNION LABOR. HOLDS
SCHM|Tz IS VICTIM
Mayor Of San Francisco, Member
Of Musicians Union, Defended
By His Comrades. :
Official Organ of Musicians Union
Reviews Record of Prosecuted
Frisco Mayor.

GRAFTON Of Musicians Joins with the
large number Of independent news
papers of America in declaring that
the Mayor of San Francisco Is the
victim of a we'll planned conspiracy.
In discussing his record it says:
I'm the annals of the history
of the municipalities of the United
States, the present situation in San
Francisco stands unparalleled. When
the wires flashed to the world the
| awful catastrophe of April 18th,
1906, and the succeeding days OF
the added horrors of fire, that
threatened the destruction of the
entire city, there doomed up out
of the horrors of fire, ruin and
riot the most magnificent figure of
the age, namely, Mayor E. E.
Schmitz.
"Traducted and villifed as no
man ever had been before, des-
cribed> as weakling and a tool,
in fact a degenerate who never
would be able to meet crisis of
any kind, he showed at once that
he was the right man in the right
place.
! Beautiful San Francisco in ruins;
100000 people without food or shell
ter; ghouls and 1ooters plying their
nefarious trade; chaos everywhere.
This was the time to try mems
souls. How we'll he met it, the
records, cheerfully subscribed to by
his bitterest foes, show
! Never was a great an awful crisis
met and disposed of with such
vigor, intelligence, determination
and absolute equity.
Order was brought out of chaos
by promptly organizing all avail
able. Ghouls and hooters were shot
down without mercy. Order was
maintained. Resources within reach
were husbanded and future supplies
provided for. The 100000 homeless,
starving people were cared for, fed,
sheltered and guarded. While the
city was still being devastated by
fire, kilograms were sent to the
east inviting architects to submit
plans for a new and greater San
Francisco. Plans were made for the
supply of material to rebuild the
new San Francisco amid the fear
full conclusions caused by the blow
ing UP of buildings by dynamite to
stop the further progress of the
flames. All this was being done,
by, through and under the super
vision if Mayor Schmitz. His mag
niflcent physique stood him in good
stead in those trying times. He
seemed ubiquitos where he was
most needed, day or night. He was
l q o6 mi of ho
came in contact with. The drain
upon his mental and physical re-
sources must have been of the most
trying. Not one in 100000 could
have gone through such test
without complete break down.
After months of continuous labor
he sees his beloved city assuming
normal shape. The great crisis
is thing Of the past He feels
that he needs "a rest, he feels
he has earned it. He determined
to go abroad. He scarcely leaves
the shores of his native land, be,
fore his enemies are at work. His
vacation is scarcely begun, when he
learns that during his absence five
indictments have been brought
against him by the packed Citi
zens' Alliance Grand Jury, and the
report had gone abroad, industri
| ously circulated by that old journal
istic harlot, the associated press
that he planned his trip to Europe
to escape from the result of such
indictments, knowing that they
were about to be made. His reply
\ was his immediate return, to face
his accusers, cutting off his needed
vacation by six weeks. Without de
lay sped on to the city of which hi
is chief magistrate, to meet his &C
, cusers face to face. Guilty mel
don't act like that. His arrest IL
presence of his beloved wife OF
his way to the jurisdiction of tn,
, court that indicted him was not on
: ly unnecessary, but an insult tina
1 every manly man, and womanly wo
l man should resent. 1t was altogeth
er unnecessary, and even If he wa
not entitled to that consideration
, his good wife should have beef
I spared the agony Of such bruta
humiliating and needless exhibition
4 Of authority.
What crime has Eugene E
! 0SAH1tA CO"uACt0u CuS1C Adhc0 LII
Y the target of a certain element II
the commpnity? He is a membe
of organized labor. A bona fid
one, not make believe one. Eu
gene E. Schmitz has never take!
his withdrawal card from the unto,
of which he is member He /
still an active member. The me-
that controlled the destines {
San Francisco previous to the adven
of Mayor Schmitz represented tn
exploiters of the masses, and the
: are determined at any cost, to agat
control. They have everything O
their side, but the common peopl,
The courts, the corporations, the bi
q cinches in favor of big steals, TIL
n money power, vested rights Ito 70
y the people, all these, and few more
+ some of them calling themselves rel
: resentatives of organized labor, ar
against schmitz, but the commo
people, that form the pedestal upo
= which stand the few arrogant rel
~ reSentatives of the tVested Rights