The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-01-12

tho city, tkere stands here like senti-.
neIs upon watch, there stands here tho
figure Of Union Labor. And; the men
and women who built this city, who
inhabited it, and who hoped that their,
children> and their children's children
| would inhabit it after them. are deter
mined that San Francisco shall not be
built by scabs.2. These men and women
are determined that when this town
rises, more glorious, more respondent
than human thought ever imagined she
| would be, that the foundations will be
good, honest, decent work from the
| first course Of the foundation to the
very cap-stone Of the corner:
Ladies and gentlemen, they and you
| are to play the game of life in this
town, and we don't want to debar any
man from the game. We don't want
| to debar any man from coming here to
San Francisco, be he rich or poor, be
| he pauper or millionaire to play the
game of life here. But this thing we
are determined upon, and that is that
every man when he comes in must pay
for his chips.
Tho Buzzards Of Wealth.
But there are in America today,
banded together, those whose ambition
| is, not to get rich, for that may be
| noble am ition, but the ambition that
| is cursed to scripture as one Of the sins
that cry to Heaven for vengeance, and
that Is the ambition to get rich quickly
by grinding the faces Of the poor.
You know who those buzzards are.
Those millionaires, those corporations,
those syndicates that are looking down
here with their greedy eyes to see
something to pick and tear, and only
that you are there to warn them off,
let me tell you San Francisco would
have been in their hands long ago.
They must get rid Of you if they are to
succeed. Therefore, do not wonder that
lph Spreckels can gather a hum
| dred thousand dollars. He could get
tomorrow-he could get tomorrow
! say, hundred million dollars if he
| could guarantee that Union Labor
would be- crushed in San Francisco.
"And they are doing their best to
crush it. They are doing their very
best to crush it. They learned that
| a frontal attack Is not successful at
tack in modern warfare. They have
| learned that they have got to get
| around on the TANKS, they have learn
| ed that they have to get into the So
cleties, that they have to sow this un-
| Ion with hate, to breed dissention in
| that union, to create suspicion every
where, to set union man against union
man, to set organization against Or
ganization, and then, when you all
stand apart, when you are all looking
at one another, all suspecting one an
other, all asking, How much were you
bought for?-when they are all doing
that, then it is easy for them to rend
your unions asunder.
Crowds Rally for schmitz.
"if you men had not come here to-
night, if your brothers had not crowd
ed tho streets, if they had not blocked
the ferries, if they had not crossed
over to Oakland to welcome the man
who, whether he be right or whether
no be wrong, was put into office as the
representative Of Union Labor, let me
say to you that tomorrow would :, see
the beg'nning. of the end Of unionisn,
| in SAN Francisco. And. that Is the
chief reason the principal reason am
here tonight. I decalre to you, men
and women. when it first came out that
the newspapers wanted you to snub
Mayor SchmitZ and they urged you not
| to go down to meet him, made the
resolution in my mind that if there
was not another man in San Francisco
to shake his hand at the ferries I
would go down there, even if 1 had to
walk on my knees the whole length
of Market street.
Under No Obligation to Schmitz.
Il have said already that am under
no. obligations to Mayor Schmitz. 1
may be conceited if I say it, but
| Mayor Schmitz is under far more obi.
cations to me. I have never asked
him for anything for me or mine. Only
one thing I have asked him for-I ask
ed him the first time I met him after
MS election, l asked the last time I
saw him before this great earthquake
had hardly passed away,and that was
40 not care what your political appoint
ments are or what your political tao
tics are, that is a matter Of politics,
and l do not claim to be a politician,
but one thing do demand Of you and
one thing I will hold you accountable
for, and that is that when the term of
your office comes to an end the un-
ions of this city must not be in a
worse position than they were on the
day when you entered upon the duties
of the mayors office.
"And It Is because ! believe that
through Mayor Schmitz today they
are striking at the unions ! come to
impIore and beseeeh you Union Labor
men and Union Labor women to stand
together shoulder to shoulder, knee to
knee, and to tell those who have tried
to buy you and who hav tried to
brighten you down by open force that
now they cannot get you to give UP
this thing, they cannot destroy you for
the purpose Of breaking down your
solidarity, for the purpose Of leaving
you weakened and disunited before tho
great pIunderine league that would
fatteh upon the remains Of San Fran
CISCO"
Mr.. Union Man:-Notity your print.