The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-04-19

was started Dy EXpIeSs DTlNeTS CuIOu
No. 927 over the handling Of a small
heap OF baggage al Ferry Building. A
| few heads were broken, 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 II 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 and walters TO serve scab team.
sters or teamsters' employers
brought out the cooks and walters.
The butchers and meat cutters refused
10 handle meat destined for unfair
restaurants. The combined Employ.
| ers' Associations put up a 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
| H1NhelS. nc IAAlhAA% u AUS SsCANSN
It's position in unambiguous terms, and
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still. II was only San Francisco
Hegans intrigues were mastery. and
Daylights campaign steadily devel.
oped. The powerful fighting organi.
zaticn known as the Pacific Slope Sea
mans Union refused TO work vessels
4 10 At urhich Ha
handled by scab longshoremen and
freight handlers The union presented
It's ultimatum, and then called a strike
THIS had been Daylight's objective all
the time Every incoming coastwise
vessel was boarded by the union Off.
Gals and its crew sent ashore. And
with the seamen went the firemen, the
engineers and the sea cooks and
waters Daily the number OF idle
steamers increased. II was lmpossi.
bic 10 get scab crews. for the men OF
the Seamen's Union were fighters
trained In the hard school OF the sea.
and when they went out II meant
blood and death 10 scabs. This phase
OF the strike spread UP and down the
entire Pacific coast. until all the ports
were filed with idle ships. and sea
transportation was at a standstill. The
days and weeks dragged out, and the
strike held. The Coastwise Steam
Navigation Company and the Hawaii.
an, Nlcaraguan. and Pacific-MeXican
Steamship Company were tied up COM
pletely. The expenses OF combating
the strike were tremendous. and they
were earning nothing. while daily the
situation went from bad TO worse. I'M
I'll peace at any price" became the
cry. And still there was no peace,
until Daylight and his allies played out
their hand, raked In the winnings and
allowed a goodly portion OF cont.
nent TO resume business
Daylight's coming TO civilization had
not improved him. True, he wore
better clothes. had learned slightly
better manners, and spoke better Eng.
lish. But he had hardened. and at the
expense OF his oldume. whole-souled
geniality. Even his human affiliations
were descending. Playing lone hand
contemptuous Of most Of the men with
whom he played, lacking In sympathy
or understanding OF them, and certain
~ independent Of them. he found 1T
tie In COMMON with those TO be en-
countered, say al the Alta.Pacific. In
point OF fact, when tho battle with the
steamship companies was az its height
and his raid was inficting lncalcula
bic damage on all business interests
he had been asked 20 resign from the
Alta. Pacific The idea had been rath
| er 10 his liking, and he had found new
quarters In clubs like the Riverside
organized and practically maintained
by the city bosses.
One weekend. feeling heavy and de
| pressed and tired OF the city and III
| ways. he obeyed the impulse of {
| within that was later 70 play an impor
| tant part In his life. The desire {,
| get out OF the city for a Whit OF coun
| try air and for change OF scene wa
| the cause. Yet. to himself. he mad,
the excuse of going to Glen Ellen 70
J the purpose Of inspecting a brickyart
which Holdsworthy had sold him. HI
n spent the night In the little countr.
hotel, and on Sunday morning. astrid,
a saddle horse rented from the Glel
q Ellen butcher. rode out Of the village
q The brickyard was close at hand OF
u the fat beside the Sonoma Creek
D. Resolving to have his fun first. an
to look over the brickyard afterward
q he rode up the hill. prospecting for
q way cross country TO get TO tn
n knobs He left the country road a
8 the FIRST gate he came to and cantere,
d through a bayfield,. The grain wa
o. waist.high on either side the wagon
e road. and he shifted the warm arom
% Of It with delighted nostrils. AT tn
d base OF the knobs he encountered
ID tumble-down stake-and-rider fence.
10 He tethered the horse and war
II dered on foot among the knobs. Thei
D tops were crowned with century-ol
d spruce trees, and their sides clothe
D. with oaks and madronos and nativ
70 holly. But to the perfect rsdwoods b
1onRod thu ANAL but deem canyon the