Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-25
SAN FRANCISCO IS
REAP|NG WAGES
OF SIN
Strikes. Doodle Trials. Fire
and Earthquakes
Are Its Woes.
TELEPHONE GIRLS STRIKE
LAWLESSNESS RIDES CITY

San Francisco May 25.-with re-
building operations almost entirely
suspended because or a series of
strikes and with large majority Of
the city officials fighting to keep out
of the penitentiary. San Francisco is
confronted today by a condition bor-
dering upon anarchy
Mayor Schmitz is on trial for ex-
tortion. Sixteen of the eighteen super
visors are confessed boodlers. The
chief of police. the president of the
board of public work and virtually all
other heads of departments are either
under indictment for grating or are
awaiting in dread the time when RAN
dolph Spreckels and Francis ]. Heney
will swing the grand jury drag net
their way. Only the big stick" which
the graft prosecutors are holding over
the indicted supervisors is saving the
city from utter iawlessness.
Some OF FriscO's Troubles.
Here are few of the troubles that
beset San Francisco:
Mayor, supervisors and a majority
of the other officials and heads of de-
partments fighting to keep out of the
penitentiary.
Not a street repaired since the
earthquake and fire or last year.
Not a public building restored. the
city's business being transacted in
frame shacks for which outrageously
by the boodling supervisors.
No effort made to provide for the
rebuilding of the city on artistic lines
with widened streets or other i'm
provements, which were promised.
Every resident affected directly or
indirectly by strikes involving $4,000
men.
Street cars operated I'm daylight
only and only those from the western
residence district patronized because
OF assaults upon passengers in other
sections. A large force OF extra po-
lice lines each street along which cars
are operated to give semblance of pro-
lection to passengers and non-union
crews.
No Faith i'm the Police.
Commercial bodies of the city en-
gagged to watch the police and report
refusals to make arrests. Also large
corps of attorneys to prosecute Offend
ers in police courts and keep tab upon
police judges. Strike sympathiZers.
besides assaulting many passengers,
apply vile epithets 70 women who ride
Laundry workers have been on a
strike two months and bachelors are
doing their own washing.
Breweries closed by strike by en-
ployes.
Telephone girls on strike and tele-
phonic communication almost impOs-
sible.
Iron workers, electrical linemen and
other unions on strike and walters
submit a new schedule OF wages.
Alleged attempt by cabal indicted
millionaires to seize reins of city gov
ernment, by written authority from
Mayor Schmitz.
Tax rate to be increased 20 cents
on 800 because of eXtravagant dis
tribution of public funds among fav-
Nff4.a tore .t1 ftsf 4 ~
boodling officials.
These or similar conditions may
continue until the end of the year
when the present municipal admins
tration win retire from office.
After the Unions Now.
The precipitation of "A fearful in
dustrial struggle I'm this city is throw
ing down the gauntlet to trades unions
| by declaring a gigantic lockout of the
| thousands of building craftsmen en-
gagged in the work of rehabiltating
San Francisco for a long time hung
I'm the balance, was decided this after
noon at a meeting of the princip~.
| builders and contractors and pre-
| sentatives of the manufactures. Sew
| eral speakers declared that the only
| solution of the continual industrial
strife and labor troubles I'm San Fran
| cisco was the open shop" and urged
| immediate fight upon the unions, q
| fight to the finish without quarter
by the cessation Of building operations
as far as those i'm the meeting could
| control it until the employees
would be glad to return to work al
! wages that builders and contractors
and other employers could pay with
out loss to themselves.
Agitators and the eXOrbitant de-
mands Of the unions, IL was asserted
was the cause of the present cohdi-
tions in San Francisco and the only
way To secure industrial peace was "a
| break the backbone" OF unionism.