Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-03-14

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 and 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 I
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still, it was only San Francisco.
Hegan's intrigues were mastery, and
Daylights campaign steadily devel
oped. The powerful fighting organi
cation known as the Pacific Slope Sea
mans Union refused to work vessels
the cargoes of which were to be
/ handled by scab longshoremen and
| freight handlers. The union presented
its 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
cials and its crew sent ashore. And
with the seamen went the fremen. the
engineers and the sea cooks and
walters Daily the number of idle
steamers increased II was impossi-
BILE to 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 1t meant
blood and death to scabs. This phase
OF the strike spread up and down the
entire Pacific coast. until all the ports
were filled with idle ships. and sea
transportation was at standstill. The
days and weeks dragged out. and the
strike held The Coastwise Steam
Navigation Company and the Hawaii
an. Nicaraguan. 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
til 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 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 old-time, whole-soulet
genialty Even his human affiliations
\ were descending. Playing a lone hand
| contemptuous of most Of the men witt
| whom he played, lacking in sympath,
| or understanding of them. and certain
ly Independent of them. he found III
tie in common with those to be en-
! countered say at the Alta-Pacific. II
point of fact. when the battle with tn
steamship companies was at its heigh
and his raid was inficting incalcul;
| bile damage on all business interests
Il he had been asked to resign from tn
i Alta-Pacific. The idea had been ratl
. err to his liking. and he had found ne'
" quarters in clubs like the Riverside
organized and practically maintaine
I by the city bosses.
y One weekend feeling heavy and d
pressed and tired of the city and II
ways. he obeyed the impulse of
within that was later to play an impo
tant part in his life. The desire
get out of the city for a Whit of cou
try air and for a change of scene W;
! the cause. Yet. to himself, he mac
the excuse of going to Glen Ellen f.
the purpose of inspecting brickyal
which Holdsworthy had sold him. /
ow spent the night in the little COUNT
hotel. and on Sunday morning. astriC
saddle horse rented from the Gl,
ec Ellen butcher. rode out of the viNag
ed The brickyard was close at hand {
of the fat beside the Sonoma Creek
on. Resolving to have his fun first. al
Nv. TO look over the brickyard afterwar
nd he rode up the hill, prospecting for
It's way cross country 10 get to Il
in knolls He left the country road
ias the first gate he came to and canter
md through al bayfield,. The grain W
I'M waist-high on either side the wage
the road, and he shifted the warm aror
to of 1t with delighted nostrils. At I
Ind base of the knobs he encountered
his tumble-down stake-and-rider fence.
lies He tethered the horse and We
1t dered on foot among the knobs. Thu
be- tops were crowned with century-C
md spruce trees. and their sides cloth
om- with oaks and madronos and matt
iole holly. But TO the perfect redwoods
,nged the small but deep canyon Il