The San Francisco call., 1908-07-23
WOULD GIVE HFRRIN
union LABOR VOTE
Tom Finn and Lieutenants Are
Working TO Aid Machine
in Primaries
Strive TO Repeat in August the
Scurvy Trick They Played
in May

Redelivery TO Herrin Of seven assem-
blymen, three senators and the repuoh-
can delegations from seven districts
through the manipulation of the union
labor vote is the purpose Of the men 10
whom the union labor voters Of san
Francisco have intrusted the manage
ment Of their party affairs.
Hoping that their victims have for
gotten the scurvy trick played on them
in May, Herrin's chairman Of the union
labor county committee, Tom Finn, ana
his leUtenants are eXerting every Ell
fort again 10 use union labor as a ran
road catspaw in the coming primary
elections.
Thanks TO their ability to trick union
labor voters, Chairman Tom Finn,
"Budgy" Nelson, Sammy kohlman, Nc
Beban and Louis Stroll managed to de-
liver six assembly district organlza-
uons 10 Herrin in the May primaries
With the cooperation OF Paul Fratessa
and Sammy Beckett. assemblymen by
virtue Of union labor nominations. and
votes, the Finn Nelson combination fur
nished all but three Of the San Fran
cisco votes cast for the Herrin candl-
dates and the Herrin program in the
Sacramento convention.
TREACHERY GAINED OTIS VOTES
Every delegate elected to the Sacra-
mento convention through the efforts or
the chairman of the union labor county
committee and the other benehciarles OF
union labor confidence and votes was
voted for labors chief enemy, General
Harrison Gray Otis. who was slated by
Herrin for delegate at large to the Chi
CagO convention.
Herrin and Otis would have received
no votes from such labor strongholds
as the twenty-ninth. thirtieth, thirty
third, forty-fOurth and forty-hfth as
Eemb!y districts had Z not been for the
party treachery of Finn, Nelson and the
other champions" Of labor, who want
only labOr's votes.
The Finn-Nelson Herrin strikers de-
livsred six union labor districts to Otis
by inducing union labor party men not
on the register TO register as republi-
cans, and a considerable number Of
those who registered before the Devlin
registration law became effective, TO
vote in the republican primaries.
Tom Finn. chairman Of the union la
Dor county committee, working under
fhe direction Of Johnnie Lynch, who had
not severed his connection with the
bank commission. but had undertaken
10 discipline ASsemblyman Peter J. Kel-
ly, directed the union labor delivery in
the tWenty-eighth, twenty ninth and
sisted by Louis Stroll, turned the trick
IN the fOrty-fOurth and fOrty-fifJh dis
tlicts Mic Beban, who was a deputy
sheriff under Tom O'Neu and one of the
directors Of the union labor campaign
of 1907. was the man behind the gun in
Jhe forty third.
No FIGHT IN THIRTY-THIRD
There was no fight in the thirty-third,
and consequently Fratessa was not COM
"..aH n-H.-
porters TO make possible their betrayal
al the hands Of his delegates
Tom Finn sent Edward Havens Of the
twenty-ninth and T. J. Sullivan of the
thirueth TO the Sacramento convention.
These men, elected by misled union la
Dor voters. were the first and second
men respectively TO vote for Harrison
Gray OTIS.
Fratessa. union labor assembly1nan.
made the slate which resulted in the
election Of Michael O'Connor. William
II kOunts, James J. Ryan and John T
Pidwell. These four were the next
names added to labors roll Of dishonor
on the Sacramento tally sheet. Pidwell
drew the additional honor Of nominal
ing for delegate at large that other
distinguished friend of organized labor
Michel Henri de Young. Harry Arnold
and Edwin Pease of the thirtv-ffth
district cannot be charged 10 labor vote
manipulators and Frank W. Burnett
belonged 10 Fred Eggers, but aside
from these three men every San Fran
cisco vote cast for Otis was cast bv a
Finn Nelson man. or a man who owed
his political preferment to union labor
voters. sammy Beckett, union labor
assemblyman from the thirty-efghth,
A X Daggett from the forty-second
Beban's delegate; p. F. Rathjens. from
The torty-third; Nelson's man Hilliard
from the forty-fourth, and Marini from
the fOrty-f fifth and, to complete labor's
shame, Nelson himself voted for Otis.
Representative Of organized labor
who were bending every energy to
prevent the election Of Otis were
laughed TO scOrn by the bogus repub-
lican- union labor men from san Fran
cisco. Union labor had been used
used by the men it had made big
enough to do Herrin's dirty work.
SAME MEN ARE BUSY
The same men have been busilv on
gagged in the same work ever since the
registration for the Nav primaries
closed. Tom Finn. who wants the nm
ion labor senatorial nomination in the
seventeenth senatorial district com
posed Of the twenty eighth and tvven-
Iy-ninth assembly districts. expects no
opposition within his own party. Every
union labor man in the district whose
LeElSLTdLl0n + Inn COulQ influence is on
the register as a republican. It IS not
20 be believed that the great majority
Of these men are apprised Of the true
reason for their registration as renub-
licans. They have been told that their
votes are needed in the republican pri-
maries 10 further the interests of the
union labor candidates to be nominated
later
Many Of the union men OF Finn's dis
trict, as well as in the other districts
realize fully what was done to them bv
Finn, Nelson ct al, IN May and have
either changed their registration 70
union labor, or are determined 10
avenge the wrong done them in the
spring by voting for anti-Herrin re-
publican delegates in August. The fact
remains, though, that Finn has caught
a large number Of unthinking union
labor voters in his republican net, and
he and the railroad machinists are
boasting that union labor Will be used
70 deliver the districts and their dele.
gates to Herrin and his candidates.
UNITE FOR RATIFICATION