The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

san FRANCISCO RESOLVED Not TO
ENDURE IT AGAIN.
Ten Sesrs ~ . Congo Tyranny Has strained
Timid Patience to the Breaking Point
Examples or the OutraGes Bsrne
In the Recent street Gar strike.

In the Recent street Gar strike.
A man got on a scab street car at the
intersection Of two Of San Francisco's busi-
ness streets. He started to walk under the
iron framework OF one Of the buildings
going up there when a union label bolt
heater on an upper story leaned out and
sprayed his head and shoulders copiously
with tobacco juice.
Does this sort OF thing 20 on here9" the
ma ked citizen asked Of a policeman who
lounged against q pile Of cement and who
had Witnessed the baptism Of condemnation
unmoved. The policeman shifted a cigar
cite to one corner OF his mouth and put
a drawing question:
We'll. what you gunno do bout IL. kid?'
The anointed Of union labor. who had
himself stood in the bread line after the
fire and who was revisiting his city for the
first time since the ruins cooled, told yester-
day OF what the tobacco spray was sig
~niicant In San Francisco at the present
f., time. Much That has happened and that
is now in course Of heppening in the Western
city has been invested with a durable news
value for the Fast because OF the jealous
policy OF suppression which the newspapers
and the financial agents OF the struggling
city have fostered. Many Of the incidents
and phases OF the union labor siege and the
municipal confusion nave been kept on the
telegraph wires. The belief is that their
publication would hurt San Francisco.
When that city was visited by bubonio
plague and Chinatown was Guaranteed
some years ago nothing was said OF ii there
and the East received magniied and dis
torted reports from frightened tourists.
The present censorship of the history OF
San Francisco's dark days has proved as
retroactive as in the case Of the Chinese
sickness. San Francisco is feeling the sus-
picion thai exists in Wall Street and the
fact that the city is fighting the domination
OF union labor as well as OF bribers and
boodling city officials must be the public
property Of the Fast as we'll as OF California.
A few weeks ago. when, at the dictation
Of District Attorney Langdon and the
graft prosecution. which he represents.
DIR. Edward Taylor was chosen by the plant
boodling supervisors to AL the office OF
| Mayor. made vacant by the conviction OF
Eugene Schmitz, one Of the San Francisco
papers hastened a man up to Sacramento
TO secure an interview with Walter
| Macarthur, leader Of the Seamen's Union,
upon the fitness Of DIR. Taylor to rule
MoArthur's gracefully worded submission
TO the tenure Of Taylor was featured in
large type.
This incident ~epitomizes the labor sltua-
ton, which is at the same time the all
embracing business and social situation OF
the city. Had Macarthur repudisted the
selection OF Taylor his words would have
been printed in even larger type. for they
would have been the sigma! OF fresh revolt
on the part OF organized labor. from
the Chicken Pickers Union up to the inner
circles Of the Building Trades Council.
When Gen. Funston, in charge Of the
Federal troops at the Preside, said that
he would not allow his men to march
OF July parade for fear that they would
be insuIted, he was dashed viciously by the
Hearst organ OF union labor. When the
preeident of q eamen's union SAID mat the
new Mayor could &c ahead he was praised
as a right minded citizen. conscious OF the
exigencies Of the moment
For Macarthur of the Seamen. Mccarthy,
car OF the building trades; IVtettnoe.
organizer OF the a~nti-Japanese alliance;
Cornelius, president OF the Carmen's UnioD'
and a few Of lesser calibre form the star
chamber Of the city's industrial activity:
At their nod men go to work: at their nod
they strike. San Francisco business men
have not dared in years TO oppose this
star chamber for long. Because Patrick
Calhoun OF New York, who Is at present
under indictment on the charge Of bribery.
has been the only employer ana repre-
sentative Of capital in San Francisco VINO
has dared to defy the labor machine since
the earthquake, and has dared successfully
he has become the champion OF the business
men. His non-union car operatives wear
buttons in the lapels OF their coats, stand
Pat Calhoun
Calhoun has broken the back OF the car
mems union against the combined oppo-
sition Of every union labor man in the city.
the entire police force from chief down 20
the newest roundsman, corrupt police
Judges and packed juries. On the hrst day
that he ordered cars run after the strike
had been declared several union sympa-
thiZers were shot dead. After that the
Governor OF the State threatened to call out
the militia at the first repetition oil violence
and the striking carmen began a campaign
OF terrorism and forceful persuasion unique
in the records of labor wars
Union label drays and express carts were
put on lines parallel TO the trolieys being
operated by strike breakers. All union
men were commanded TO ride on these carts
under penalty OF a heavy fine. An incident
was recorded wherein the little daughter OF
one Of the striking carmen took a street car
because she wanted to get 70 a drug store
in a hurry: her mother was very ILL., her
father was fined 500.
At the ferry building where the street car
llIlfH nave tlcu Nhc "''o Df"
lines centred also. The passenger OIL the
Oakland boat used 10 have, and now has toa
lesser degree, the choice Of taking q -soab"
car and being assaulted with obscene epithets
from the drivers of the union buses, despite
the presence Of a policeman. or OF sitting on
the edge of a narrow seat in the buses and
jolting over the torn streets for twice the
fare demanded by the railroad.
Early in the strike San Franciscans were
subjected to the picket system. That
meant that striking carmen would stand at
the ~populous street corners and ash for the
names and addresses Of those getting on
the cars. Many who thoughtfessly gave
the information complained TO the police
later that their windows were broken al
night or that filth was put in their milk bot
ties in early mornings. Some OF the pickets
armed themselves with cameras. As they
snapped persons alighting from the cars
they vouchsafed the Information that these
photographs were going 10 the "scabs' gal
lery." That WAS enough to keep nervous
women at home,
On Howard street in what used to be the
tough district before the fire a truck driver
deliberately drove alongside ol one OF the
unfair" cars whose windows had all been
removed TO prevent breaksge by stones.
n with blasphemous revilings threw
handfulR of fifth nNar the ahOuldars nj aeV-