The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-12-01
HARTMAN
NEXT MAYOR
SOCIALISTS EXPECT TO WIN
LOS ANGELES ELECTION
AGAINST THE COMBINED
FORCES-EVERY SUPPORT
Err OF THE OLD ORDER OF
THINGS LINED UP FOR THE
"GOO-GOOS."
(By National Socialist Press.) J

| Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 1.-Driven to
desperation by the irresistible onslaught
of the socialists, the "old guard" is
standing in the trench fighting desper
ately for life.
Nothing short of a miracle can save
us from the impending political cata-
clysm-the socialists are about to over
whelm the combined strength of our
party" said a good government" Off
cial at the Union League club last night.
"Los Angeles is in a terrible predica-
ment with woman's suffrage and social
ism.
| The Otis papers bitterly fought woman
suffrage until the last hour and now
they are pathetically pleading with the
women to 'save the city from the awful
calamity of socialism" by voting for the
gang of graters that are in power at the
present time What the Times really
| fears is that the socialists will win and
with them the workers will be able to
repeal the anti-picket law and take the
police department out of the hands of
the NJ. and M.
In addition to this Otis is interested
in certain land and water grabs that
will be stopped if Hartman and the So
cialists are elected.
One of the features that complicates
the campaign is the fact that a prohibi-
| tion referendum is to be voted on at the
election on December s. This referen-
DUN has not become an issue in the
campaign but it bids fair to do so be-
cause the liquor interests have been so
i'll advisd as to crowd the affair forward
in full page advertisements in the daily
newspapers: This will force the
churches into action and prohibition may
be taken up by the good government
people as last resort.
Since the old guard has taken hold of
the management of the campaign the
saloons have poured. money into the
Golfers of the ''good government" or
ganization. As opposed to this the bar
tenders union stands solidly for the So
cialst ticket The bartenders have more
| friends than their employers. The dan
ger to the liquor interests is that the
workers may resent the action of the big
brewers and distillers in donating inn
mense sums to the campaign fund of the
exploiters.
A feature of the campaign that has
been power is the socialist theater
street. Motion pictures are shown at
!, this place and the latest sensation is a
series of pictures showing scenes along
Owens river aqueduct depicting the i'm
mense dam in course of construction in
the lands owned by Otis, Earl and 9th
ers of the plunderbund. The picture
shows a private aqueduct to carry the
water to Chatsworth park, where it will
be impounded in another reservoir on
|
In half dozen places stereopticans
are working several hours each night
! flashing on screens news that is sup
pressed in the daily papers.
/ On half dozen news wagons" on
the streets, socialists are selling litera-
ture in quantities hitherto undreamed of.
81 am selling one dollar books now fast
er than I could give them away a year
ago" said a literature agent who has
disposed of 2,000 copies of book
against war.
i Senator Winfield Galord of Milwau-
kee, Charlotte Perkins Gilman of New
York and ]. Stitt Wilson, mayor of
Brekeley, are among the latest speakers
added to the list.
Lincoln Steffens, who is in Los Ange-
les for the Mcnamara trial, declares
there was never political campaign con-
Quoted with the completeness, vigor and
enthusiasm as the one now carried on
! by the socialists.
! At meetings unadvertised, where sim
Pile announcements have been made, 49,
900 persons turned out. At the first
meetings scheduled for Charlotte Per-
kins at Temple auditorium for o'clock,
a remarkable scene was enacted. Doors
We're opened at $3.50 p. m. and twelve
minutes later $500 persons were seated
in the auditorium. Six thousand were
/ sent to six theaters and halls nearby
and many thousands stood in the streets.
That same night twenty meetings were
held in outlying halls and at nearly
every one of them overflow meetings
were held in the street.
"Good government" meetings are poor
ly attended despite the flaring advertise
ments and wild appeals for attendance.
OF course this proves nothing con-
clusively and it is admitted socialists
are universally given to attendance at
meetings. They will vote but will they
have enough to carry the electionf
Never have daily papers gone to such
extremes in lies and villifieation. With
the exception of the Scripps paper every
newspaper in Los Angeles is sending up