The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-02-02
A CONSPIRACY UNPARALLELED
IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN

the United Railroads Corporation is
being protected by Heney, Burns and
their grand jury. How much OF the
$1,000 the United Railroads contrib
uted we are not at this writing in
formed.
The twelfth fact is that Rudolph
Spreckels testified on the stand that
Abe Ruef came to him two or three
years ago with a proposition to call
carmen's strike in order that tho
city bonds might be bought at sacri-
fee, when every one knows that the
carmen have the most refractory Union
in San Francisco and the most suspic-
ious Of political interference, while the
conditions under which the San Fran
cisco bonds are to be sold are such
that no strike, no earthquake; no fire,
can lower their selling price by one
cent. The object of the testimony was
to discredit the Garments Union and
to affect the Board Of Arbitration now
in session.
The thirteenth fact is that the pro-
cesses Of the grand jury were used to
advertise to the world that the Labor
Union administration Of San Francisco
was reeking with graft. The fiddler
was to be arrested in New York and
dragged in chains across the continent
as warning to all other 1ddlers to
resin their bows and nothing else.
The fourteenth fact is that President
Roosevelt followed this elaborately
planned disgrace Of the Labor Union
Mayor Of San Francisco by a vigorous
denunciation In his message Of Cali
fornians in general and San Francis
cans In particular for their treatment
Of the Japs. He declared that the
Union mben were afraid Of the Japs
because the Japs were better workers.
The fifteenth fact is that Secretary
Metcalf after hurried and superficial
Investigation, went home and corrobor-
ated his royal master by saying that
/ the trouble was due to the Labor I'm
ions and the Labor Union administra-
ton.
The sixteenth fact is that the men
Of the bar, the men Of the pad and the
mon OF the wad are drawing out the
effect Of the Indictments by denying
Mayor Schmitz that speedy trial which
Is his right under the law. A secret
society, composed chiefly of barists,
padists and wadists, notorious for it's
interference with the processes of the
law, an interference growing with
startling rapidity Of late years in San
Francisco, owns the prosecutor Spreck-
els and the Judge Dunno.
The seventeenth fact Is that the
Japanese are pouring into California at
thousands a4
One does not need to be genius to
put all these facts together. They
point to a great conspiracy extending
all over the country, from Washing
ton to San Francisco ito destroy utterly
the presumption Of the workingmen in
daring to aspire to any share in the
government Of their country. Notice
how carefully everything. is worked up
to ALLEVIATE public sympathy. What
more powerful advertisement Of the
Wickidness Of Labor Unions could be
given than the sight of Schmitz in
handcuffs on the docks at Hoboken and
the sheriffs OF half dozen counties
struggling for his corpus? How better
sow distrust in the minds Of the East
ern toilers than by representing their
brethren here as flying from Justice in
th1rty-two different directions? How
more quickly stir up resentment In the
great neutral body Of voters beyond
tho Rockies than by an authoritative
description Of our wicked treatment Of
the heroes Of Port Arthur because
they are more sober. more Industrious
than the vile hoodlums Of California ?
How better disorganize labor in San
Francisco than by testifying that the
Unions were merely pawn on a poll
tician's chess board.
OF truth 1t Is a pretty plan: it's
only defect Is that 1t is too pretty. too
elaborate. The worktngman Is not al
together a fool. He can see as far
through stone wall as his fellow. It
behooves him, however, to watch. and
to watch closely. The tonguesters, the
pensters and the wadsters are in a,
corner and are fighting for their pock-
cts.