The San Francisco call., 1910-05-12
LABOR OPENS WAR
upon RED HAYES
Mayor Dawson of San Jose TO
Be Nominated for Place
in Congress
Issue Made in Municipal CAM
paign Advances Date Set
for Beginning Fight
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH

n, by forcing the union labor issue
in the San Jose municipal campaign, J.
Q. HAYES has served no other purpose,
he has managed to make organized la
bor's opposition 10 Congressman E. A.
Hayes an open fight several weeks in
advance Of the date set for the un-
masking Of the antf-Hayes guns.
I was enabled nearly six weeks ago
10 announce that Mayor Dawson of San
Jose was the programmed candidate for
republican nomination to congress from
the fifth district The program in
volved, first, the reelection of Dawson
10 the Office of mayor of San Jose and
the election Of Walter G. Mathewson
as councilman at large to step into
Davison's shoes when the latter should
resign TO take up the congressional
hght.
PLANS TO DOWN" HAYES
Organized labor's interest and par
ticipation in the pact 10 down Hayes
was formally confirmed for me yes
terday by one OF the highest officia Is
Of organized labor in California. For
reasons that appear 10 me TO be suf-
fcient that official shall be nameless for
the time He said:
Your original announcement that
Mayor Dawson would be the union
Ia Dor republican candidate against
Hayes was correct. 1t is the pro-
gram. We are going to elect Davi-
son mayor of San Jose and then we
are going to give him the republican
nomination for congress over Hayes and
elect him.
Our leaders have been advised, in
confidence of course. that Congressman
Red Hayes does not subscribe TO Edi-
tor Black Hayes attacks upon Wal
ter q. Mathewson and union labor. We
heard something to the same general
effect recently when Red repudiated
Blacks attacks on the republican ma
chine We are going to elect Mathew
son councilman at large in San Jose.
He is going to be mayor and Dawson
is going TO be congressman
WATER on BOTH SHOULDERS
If Black" Hayes had not made
Mathewson and union labor domination
an issue In the San Jose campaign, or
ganized labor would have opposed
Red Hayes. The fight on Mathewson
has served only TO put the fight in
the open earlier than planned and to
stir up the bad blood which has been
turning dark for long time
The bigwigs OF organized labor de-
clare that the Hayes brothers. in team,
have disprOved the political saw about
the impOssibility Of carrying water on
both shoulders. They say that while
Black" was soaking union labor men
RED sent several tons Of his speeches
10 the Asiatic exclusion league. The
speeches were properly franked and all
the league was expected to do was the
clerical work incident to their dis
tribution in a manner designed to do
the most good for the cause-and
HAYES.
BILLS FOOD FOR GULLS
They say that Hayes has introduced
but one bill At the request of the ex-
clusionists- That bill was for the eX-
tension Of the provisions Of the eX-
clusion law TO the Japanese. and, ac-
cording to labor men, no attempt has
ever been made to get it out Of com
mittee.
They say, too, that Hayes bill pro
viding for an educational test for ad-
mission OF aliens introduced in De-
cember and another introduced in
February excluding aliens not fitted
for citizenship were food for gulls. The
latter was officially. denounced by the
exclusion league.
II is also given out that the name
OF Red" Hayes was not properly in
cluded in the list Of lecturers for the
exclusion league for this year.
Quite apart from the merits of the
controversy, the interesting fact is that
organized labor, which has elected
Hayes TO congress three times, and
once over recognized labor leader, is
out 10 retire him now and has the CO.
operation OF the republican machine.
SAUCY SLAPs AT LEAGUE
The Acknowledgement leagues lead
ers and candidates received several
saucy slaps yesterday. The castiga-
fion was formally administered by Nat
Ellery's executive committee. That
committee decided. by resolution, that
the leaders Of the Lncoln-Roosevelt
league were insincere; that they had
violated the spirit of the direct pri-
mary law; that they had held secret
conferences. and, finally, that Hiram
W. johnson and John D. Works had
never proved their loyalty to the prin-
ciples promulgated by Lincoln and
Roosevelt
Johnson and Works were the only
candidates fortunate or unfortunate
enough to get their names into the res
olutions adopted by Ellery's committee,
but 1t resolved that it was heartily
tired and disgusted with machine pol
itics and the domination Of the states
governmental affairs by machine pol
iticisns."
CAMPAIGN TOUR PLANNED
lL may CbHeOle Int lbd6 utIc 10 KNOW
that they received three times as much
denuncistory attention as did the un-
named machine candidates and that
Curry and Stanton failed to get even an
inferentisl mention. Besides resolv-
ing, the committee decided 10 send a
copy Of its resolutions to every repub-
lican voter in California
II was announced that Ellery would
open his campaign in San Francisco
about June J. He is expected to spend
two weeks in this city and then start
on an automobile tour OF the state. A
subcommittee is charged with arrang-
ing for automobile relays from Siski-
YOU TO San Diego. George W. latter
son of stockton was elected president
Of the committee; Roscoe Hazard of
san Diego, vice president; W. H. Fra
ser Of san Francisco, secretary
urer. and John Kelly Of Sacramento,
sergeant At arms.
MACHINE PLANS CHANGED
Alden Anderson has notified Man
ager Frank W. Bilger that he will not
return from Los Angeles until the end
of the week. The change in Ander-
sons schedule will result in the post
ponement of Herrin's conference with
his lieutenants, which is expected TO