The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-04-28

arranged for the last act in the bitter
war of determination of trades union
ism in which the contemplate Otis
and the Manufacturers Association
are engaged. The actors have re-
bearsed their parts until they are
letter perfect. The supernumeraries
have been taught to say 'yes" or mo-
at the right time. The villainous per-
petrators of the dynamite outrage
will receive the hemp as the punish
ment of their crimes, a revolted pub
lie will turn and rend trades union
ism on the Coast to tatters, and the
curtain will go down with Otis in
raised high to heaven, while with the
other he grips sword dripping with
blood drawn in holy cause.
That is the plan mapped out by
those who are bending every energy
toward wiping out the union move
ment. 1t will fail as other plans
have failed, just as the plot against
the lives of Meyer, Haywood and Pet
tibone failed 1t will fail because the
trade union movement in this coun-
try does not use the bomb and the
bullet as weapons either of offense
or defense. But as the great conflict
which had its elimination in the
memorable trial at Boise, Idaho, COW
cred many weary months of struggle
and suffering, so will the present in
dustrial battle on the Pacific slope
bring anxiety and suffering before it
reaches its end and labor emerges
with victory upon it's banners.
Each move in the campaign of Otis
and his band of wreckers follows so
closely the moves of the mine owners
and Pinkertons in the Western Fed
Grafton troubles that there is no
strikingly original act-one that
stands out by itself as unique. The
same old dynamite outrages. plant
places, spiriting away of suspected
perpetrators, discovery of large guam
titles of explosives on premises con-
trolled by the suspects.
ehind every general attack upon
organized labor upon the Pacific coast
stands Harrison Gray Otis. To un-
derstand then the animus of these
attacks, one must understand Otis.
What manner of man is he? For
thirty years he has fought unionism
with a bitterness and malice almost
incredible. The only coed union to
his way of thinking has been a dead
union. Unable to see one iota of
good in trade unionism, he has as
sailed the organizations of working
men at every turn. The columns of
his personal organ, the Los Angeles
Times, have reeked with slime and
hatred and venom. Nor has unionism
been the only object of his attack.
His little soul has apparently hated
every reform movement, every move
ment toward the betterment of man
kind There is scarcely man of
prominence on the Pacific coast who
has stood for decency in public af-
fairs, that has not been the object of
his vituperation. He has stood for
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citizens as they would hate snake,
and yet feared for the same reason
they would fear snake-for the
venom of its fangs. Governor john
son of California summed the man up
in these words:
"In the city in which l have come
we have drunk to the very dregs the
cup of infamy; we have had vile Of
ficials: we have had rotten newspa-
pers; we have had men who sold
their birthright; we have dipped into
every infamy; every form of wicked
ness has heen ours in the past; every
debased passion and every sin has
flcurished. But we have nothing so
vile. nothing so low, nothing so de-
based. nothing so infamous in San
Francisco, nor did We ever have, as
Harrison Gray Otis. He sits there In
senile dementia, with gangrened
heart and rotting brain, grimacins
at every reform, ehattering impo-
tently at all things that are decent,
frothing. fuming, violently gibber-
ing. going down to his grave in snarl-
ing infamy. This man Otis is the
one blot on the banner of Southern
California; he is the bar sinister upon
your eseutcheon. My friends, he Is
the one thing that all California looks
at when, in looking at Southern Cali
fornia. they see anything that is dis
graceful, depraved, corrupt and pu-
trescent-that is Harrison Gray
Otis"
> A little over a year ago Otis and