The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-23

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Daylight's feroc.oas brutality.
He was like q big bear rniding .
beehive. and. regardless CT the ssinxx.
he oostlratsly persisted In paving fos
the honey. He gr1tfec his teeth ard
struck back. Beginning with q raid OF
two s;sanship companies. II develop
ed into . pitched battle with q city.
state and continental coast lfns Al
lied with him. On \ splendid salary.
with princely pickings thrown In. was
a lawyer. Larry Hogan. . young Irish.
man with a'repu.ation 10 make. and
whose peculiar genius had been un-
recognized until Daylight had picked
up with him. II was Hogan who guided
Daylight through the intricacies Of
modern politics. labor organization.
and commercial and corporation law.
II was Hogan. prolific OF resource and
suggestion. who opened Dayiight's
eyes to undreamed-of possibilities in
twentieth-century warfare: and IT was
Daylight. rejecting. accepting. and
celebrating. who planned the cam
paigns and prosecuted them. With the
Pacific coast. from Puget Sound TO
Panama. buzzing and humming. and
with San Francisco furiously about his
ears, the two big steamship companies
had all the appearance of winning. II
locked as If Burning Daylight was be-
ing beaten slowly TO his knees And
then he struck-at the steamship com.
panies, at San Francisco. at the whole
Pacific coast.
It was not much Of q blow at first.
A Christian Endeavor convention was
being held In San Francisco, row
was started by Express Drivers Union
No. 927 over the handling Of a small
heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A
few heads were broken, a score of ar
rests made, and the baggage was de-
livered. No one would have guessed
that behind this petty wrangle was
the fine Irish hand of Hogan, made
potent by the Klondike gold of Burn
ing Daylight. 1t was an insignificant
affair at best-or so 1t seemed. But
the Transfers Union took up the
quarrel, backed by the whole Water
Front Federation. Step by step, the
strike became involved. A refusal Of
cooks ana walters to serve scab team
sters or teamsters' employers
brought out the cooks and walters
The butchers and meat cutters refused
to handle meat destined for unfair
restaurants. The combined Employ
ers' Associations put up solid front,
and found facing them the 10000 or
ganized laborers of San Francisco.
The restaurant bakers and the bakery
wagon drivers struck, followed by the
mixers, milk drivers and chicken
pickers. The building trades asserted
its position in unambiguous terms, and
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still, it was only San Francisco.
Hegan's intrigues were mastery, and
Daylight's campaign steadily devel
oped. The powerful fighting organi.