The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-19

handle tho question BE- nov in pf1pu
of formation The contention m San
Francisco be- that with tho present
wage scale. me present hours aud au
outrageous system of limiting ou'ItI
all competition d. out ol the question
not only with tbo East but with 11
coast cities as well Naturally This
city has deep interest iu the ,ul
come of the contests in these coast
cities. particularly Los Angeles
In the Los Angeles contest extreme
violence has been the order of the
day ID is claimed that if the union
men there mad been left to themselves
there would have been no trouble, and
that the regular visits of troublemakers
from San Francisco nave served 10
keep them at fever heat Not only
were the men who struck subject to
orders Of the San Francisco labor lead
ers, but about 1900 roustabouts have
been enrolled as members of the uni.
ons on strike, and some OF these do
not know a lathe from a threshing ma
chine OF a machinists hammer from
bucksaw The object of the enroll
ment il is said, was 10 gather i'm
more turbulent characters and to
make an additional excuse for collect
ing strike benefits These have amount
ed to twenty-five cents a week from
every man and woman in every union
willing to be coerced to that extent
Other unions have voluntarily given
larger amounts.
The strike has the sanction of Sam
uel Gompers and most OF the time he
has had a personal representauv. on
the ground, an unfrocked minister
named Stuart Reid This man is
shrewd and eloquent and his haran
CUES have done a great deal to keep
the strikers together and fired with
enthusiasm.
The spirit of violence at first evi-
denced itself by beating administered
, to the men at work. Growing holder
the strikers made an attack upon the
free workmen who were employed on
the Alexandria Hotel Annex, the con
struction OF which is on the open-shop
! principle. An accident had occurred
and Jim Jeffries nephew, young free
I M
falling beam. The incaudous remark
of woman caused a row which rapid
! ly became a riot. The union mcn
were apparently ready, for the nipple.
ments they used in this fight were
short crowbars and beer bottles filed
with sand. Several policemen were
very badly hurt, one having his skull
fractured, while a workman had three
ribs broken.
The ultimate argument is always
dynamite. Previous to the explosion
in the Times Office an attempt was
made to blow up the Hotel Alexandria
Annex by the use of seventeen sticks
of dynamite. A few days after this
more dynamite was discovered on the
Los Angeles Hall of Records which
is being erected by free workmen on
the open shop principle.
In every instance union officials
have stated that the dynamite so found
had been placed there by owners or
contractors forthe purpose of creating
public sympathy. In the case of the
Hotel Alexandria Annex the man who
had placed the dynamite was caught
by the police. He was an ex-union
man but just then employed by far
mer and had purchased the dynamite,
he said to blow out tree stumps, which
is the same purpose expressed by the
men who bought the dynamite that
was exploded in the Times building.
The man is still in jail.
During the course of the strike Los
Angeles passed and enforced an or
dinance against picketing. There are
at the present time between 500 and
500 union pickets in pail or out on
bail. The case of Karlsen was given
precedence and went to the Court of