The Washington herald., 1910-12-04
CHAPTER x. lContinuedl.


4 T was not much OF a blow at first A Christian En-
deayor convention was being held in San Francisco
and Il row was started by Express Drivers Union
No. SD over the handling of small heap OF bag
gage at the ferry building. few heads were
broken a score of arrests made and the baggage
delivered. No one would have guessed that behind
this petty wrange the fine Irish hand of Hogan,
made potent by the Klondike gold Of Burning Day
light II was an insignificant affair at best-Or it
seemed But the Transfers Union took up the quar-
rel, backed by the whole Water Front Federation.
Step by step the strike became involved refusal of
cooks and walters TO serve scaO teamsters or team
sters' employers brought out the cooks and walters
The butchers and cutters refused handle
destined for unfair restaurants. The combined
ployers' associations put up solid front and found
facing them the forty thousand organized aborers of
San Francisco The restaurant bakers and the
bakery wagon drivers struck, followed by the milk
ers milk drivers aud chicken pickers. The building
trades asserted their position In unam5guous terms
and all San Francisco in turmoil
But still it was only San Francisco Hegan's in
trigues were mastery. and Dayllghts campaign stead
lily developed The powerful fighting organization
known as the Pacific Slope Seamen's Union refused to
work vessels the cargoes OF which 10 be handled
by scab Iongshoremen and freight handlers. The
union presented its ultimatum and then called
strike This had been Daylights objective all the
time. Every incoming coastwise vessel was boarded
by the union officials and its crew sent ashore. And
with the seamen went the hremen the engineers and
the sea cooks and walters Daily the number of idle
steamers increased 1t WAS impossible to get scab
crews for the men Of the scamens union were fight
trained in the hard school of the sea. and when
they went cut it meant blood and death to scabs.
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tire Pacific coast until all the ports were filled with
idle ships ard transportation at standsti.
The days and weeks dragged out and the strike held
The Coastwse Steam Navigation Company and the
Hawaiian Sicauguan and Pacific Mexican Steam
ship Company tied up completely. The expenses
Of combating the strike enormous and they
were earning nothing. while daily the situation went
from bad 10 until peace any price" became
the cry. And stl there was no peace, until Daylight
and his allies played their hand raked in the win
nings. and allowed goodly portion Of continent TO
resume business.
Ii noted in following years, that several lead
ers of wOrkmen built themselves houses and blocks
Of renting flats and took trips the old countries
while Immediately, other leaders and dark
horses TO political preferment and the control
Of municipal government and the municipal moneys
In fact, San FranciscO's boss ridden condition
due in greater degree to Daylighrs widespreading
battle than even San Francisco ever dreamed. For
the part he had played, the details of which were
practically all and guesswork quickly leaked
out. and in consequence he became much execrated
and well hated man. Nor had Daylight himself
dreamed that his raid the steamship companies
would have grown 10 such colossal proportions
But he had got what he was after He had played
exciting hand and won. beating the steamship
companies down into the dust and tightening the
pockets Of the stockholders by perfectly legal meth
DDS, before he let 60 OF course in addition to the
large sums of money he had paid over his allies had
rewarded themselves by gobbng the advantages
which later enabled them TO loot the city. His ALI
with a gang OF cutthrOats had brought about a
lot OF cutthrOating. But his conscience suffered
twnges. He remembered what be had heard
an old preacher utter-namely, that they who
by the sword persisted by the sword. One took his
chances when he played with cutthroats. and his
Dayllghts, throat still intact That was it,
And he had won. 1t was all gamble and between
the strong men. The fools did not count They
were always getting hurt; and that they always had
been getting hurt was the conclusion he drew from
what little he knew of history. San Francisco had
wanted war and he had given II war. II was the
game All the big fellows did the same, and they
did much worse, too.
Don't talk to me about morality and civic duty"
he replied to a persistent interviewer IF you quit
your job tomorrow and went to work on another
paper you would write just what you told to
write It's morality and civic duty with you;
the job 1t would be hacking up a theving rail-
road with-mOrallty and civic duty / suppose Your
price my son, is just about thirty per week That's
what you sell for But your paper would sell for
bit more. Pay il It's price to-day and it would shift
It's present rotten policy 90 some other rotten policy
but it would never let up morality and civic duty.
And all because a sucker is born every minute
So long the people stand for IL they'll get 1t good
and plenty. my son. And the shareholders and busi
interests might well shut up squaWking about
squeal out Of them when they've got the other fellow