United labor bulletin., 1910-11-24

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strong that day in the build
ing. What was it. you miners? Was 1t
dynamite or was 1t gas? Every one of
them knowE that II the shot had been
sufficient to shoot q hole up through
three stories it would have shattered all
the walls about it and driven hole in
the ground.
A month after the explosion took place
the most interesting fact that happened
was the turn of the public opinion. We
all thought it would have driven the
public mind away from the labor move
ment. We were afraid it would. This
is most important thing we have met.
OF the first jury picked after the calam-
ity eight men spoke out as they had
never spoken out before. They said they
were opposed to the ordinance. Never
had that word been spoken in jury
room before that day They said the
ordinance was a bad thing to have in
the city, that they would not convict
under it any man for picketing If he did
not resort to violence. Our juries are
much easier to get thai before the ca
lamity The reason is that Otis has been
SO aggressive and SO bold that the pub
lie has been sickened by his assaults.
Read his papers. There Is scarcely a
decent man on the Pacific coast whose
character that fiend has not deliberately
stabbed He has stabbed in the back
whenever they crossed his pathway,
mercilessly and without care. He has
tried to torture every man who stood for
anything that would benefit the COM
munity.
AS protest the trades unions con-
cluded to hold a parade about four
weeks after the calamity. They got all
the trades unions out One union with
1000 members had 1,4O0 of them in line.
That night $4,000 men marched in the
streets of Los Angeles. They started on
Wall street, marched five blocks west to
Main, mile north to Temple street, a
mile and a quarter south to Ninth street,
a mile west and south to Fiesta park.
and when the head band of the parade
was marching into the park the end had
not yet left Wall street, the place of
formation. Labor had wrapped its arms
in and about that great city, with power
to crush it at its will, yet in walking
through that city there was not voice
raised, not a cheer; nothing could be
heard but the tramp. tramp, tramp Of
$4,000 determined men. Scarcely ban
ner was seen. Now and then question
mark. On and on they marched into
that great park, to great amphitheatre
there, 30 feet from the level to the top
and thousand feet across. When they
came in there 1t ceased to be cheer
it was an upheaval of human power.
Then when the hour was over, the chair
man said, BE careful, do not hurt any
one Go out quietly as you came in
And they organized in line and marched
out. Not man was arrested, not a child
was Lurt, not a woman was hurt. and
they dispersed as quietly as they gath
cred.
And these are the dangerous citizens
of Los Angeles! These men have metal
in them. The time for organizing that
city has arrived. The men are there.
The Frisco boys have put up 100000
and we come today to ask your support
throughout the country. II we do not
get it the movement in Los Angeles will
go down, the Frisoa unions will be
crushed and the movement will be at an
end on the coast. You must make Los
Angeles the battle-ground where the vic
tory of the Pacific coast will be won.
One hundred thousand dollars have
been sent to Los Angeles by the loyal
union men of San Francisco. Hundreds
been sent to Los Angeles by the
loyal union men of San Francisco
Hundreds of dollars have been sent
by other coast cities; and several
hundred dollars have been sent from
Denver-by the Brewery Workers or
ganizations; but this is not enough tc
finance the struggle that is now on
Ordinances are being passed by which
the union men may be both prosecuted
and prosecuted, and hundreds of dollars
are used for defense in legal way. and
thousands more is needed to sustain
those on strike and to prosecute a Wig
orous campaign of organization.
There is more behind the fight on the
coast than just merely winning the
strike now in progress. The Pacific coast
is one of the most delightful spots on
earth. Portions of it are well organized
and are a paradise for the working man.
Laws have been enacted and are being
enacted that make it possible for the
laboring men to exist in Civilized
manner and to enjoy the pursuit of hap
piness.
Il II the fight is lost-and 1t is likely to
be unless the union men of the East
send the ammunition of war, money
Los Angeles, the most beautiful city. in
the world, will be the most thoroughly
unorganized city of the world.
When this is accomplished, Los An
geles will furnish base Of operation
for attack on San Francisco, and this
great industrial city, rebuilt in few
months by union labor on the sight OF
the city which was racked by quake and
swept by fame, will be swept by indus
trial strife, and union labor will be
fought by its relentless enemy-capital
Until that great city which is now con-
trolled by union labor will be bound
hand and foot" by the ever reaching