The San Francisco call., 1910-03-07

their tears, prom
ising not to forsake them. The jour
neymen were told to hurry in OF
the bogy man would get en- Ihey
hurried. With barred heads they WY
messed the unveiIing of the uplift-
Was any night work done on that
church? Not so you could notice IT.
The next afternoon no day work was
being done. Not a man reported on
the job p. II. had come into his cWn.
Master of the situation, P. III. sat upon
a fence munching a nail Between
bites he informed church and state that
there was nothing doing until they
agreed to the revised rules. The sur
render was complete. More men were
hired-the organ loft was finished on
time and i'm the daytime.
I've heard that conditions are not
what they should be in America"
unused P. H. one momentous day. Don't
let me detain YOU" cried his employer.
You are too good a man to keep. I'll
release you from your indenture." And
so at the age of 16 P. II. came to
America. stern in his purpose to better
conditions generally and P. H. McCar-
thys condition particularly, or muss Up
the map.
Chicago was chosen as the field for
the trial flights of the uplift There
were no unnecessary delays. Within
d year he had launched the united
brotherhood of carpenters and joiners
OF America upon the sea of organized
labor and himself. aged II. into the
maelstrom OF American politics. Take
it by and wide. there was some launch
ing in Chicago upon that August day
carpenters is the greatest labor organi-
zatien in the world today Some jeal-
Gus persons contend that P. Fl. is not
the greatest man in the world Of or
ganized labor or politics Let them go
their envious way. The fact remains
that P II. has made the giants of
organized labor back up and apologize
every time they have attempted to
squelch him. The further fact remains
that right now he is making the Herrin
political bureau sit up. speak and
jump through.
Chicago offered ample opportunity
for the exercise of a well oiled upIift
but through an oversight on the part
of P. H.. only indifferent pickings for
the uplifter. P. H. overlooked the ne
eessity of employing his upIift to ele-
vate himself TO the head of the move
ment he had started 1t was a cruel
but profitable experience. Also it was
the last overlook of the kind that can
be charged to p. H.
In 1886 our hero had acquired the
right to vote in, person and checked the
uplift to San Francisco. Twas a stub
born SOIL requiring years of prepara-
tion In 1894 P. H.. organized the San
Francisco building trades council Some
body was president of it for a few
minutes History does not know his
name. In 1901 P. H organized the
state building trades council. He was
its first president and is president to-
day He has made the labor movement
IN California. He says he would not
exchange his Office of president of the
building trades council for the presi-
dency of the United States.
The uplift has gone up against a
strenuous game in San Francisco. But
1T has always been backed by an un-
quenchable faith in it's ultimate accom-
plishment and the same brand of
Ialth IN the lad who has run it. That
upIirt has beaten down powerful enc
mics 1t has raised p Fl. over seem
ingly insurmountable obstacles. II has
raised wages and shortened hours for
thousands of laboring men and ever il
has continued to raise P. III.
Conviction and Willingness to mix
1t with all corners have been valuable
adtuncts in the uplift game. And p II
was ever d man of convictions. When
he believed that the tariff was an in
lauitous institution and that democracy .
had deed in fee simple to all the Jobs
in San Francisco. P. H. was a democrat.
Anon his convictions were radically
stirred and P. II. was a republican.
Again the scene changed. The union
labor party swept everything before il.
Theoretical convictions never stood "A
dead mans chance in a mill with prac
tical demonstration. The p III uplift
was a practical old uplift 1t permit
ted the union labor party to Join hands
with it, On the second flying start in
lifted P. H. into the highest office in. the
gift of the people of San Francisco and
a fair proportion OF the union labor
party into connection with the public
payroll
1t is your privilege TO disapprove of
p. H. You may do that and be blessed
as far as P. Fl. is concerned. He ad
mits that he would rather fight than
eat and that after a long fast. And
after all this is beside the question
P. II. Mccarthy has lifted himself bv
his own bootstraps from the station of
apprentice boy to the post of auto
cratic leadership over great army of
men-red blooded men, too. He is the
incarnation of applied energy He has
the faculty for organization in an ex-
traordinary degree and far better brains .
than his enemies are willing to admir-
He is n two fisted fighter ana thi~.,-
job is too big for him to tackle. He
may not make the best mayor San
Francisco has ever had He Is the
first mayor that can say he made him
self mayor.