The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-01-05

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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 a solid front,
and found facing them the 4 10000 OR.
gantzed 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. abd
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still. 1t was only San Francisco,
Hegan's intrigues were mastery, aAd
Dayifght's campaign steadily deydE
oped. The powerful fighting orga1i.
cation known as the Pacific Slope Seh,
mans Union refused to work vessels
the cargoes OF which were to TIE
handled by scab longshoremen AMID
freight handlers. The union ~presenteRd
Its ultimatum, and then called a strike.
This had been Daylight's objective all
the time. Every incoming coastwi4a
vessel was boarded by the union Off
cials and its crew sent ashore. Arid
with the seamen went the firemen, TIL G
engineers and the sea cooks AMID
walters. Daily the number of idEe
steamers increased. 1t was imposki.
Bile to get scab crews, for the men tf
the Seamen's Union were fighters
trained In the hard school of the sda,
and when they went out 1t meant
blood and death to scabs. This phaEe
OF the strike spread up and down the
entire Pacific coast, until all the potts
were filled with idle ships, and s}ea
transportation was at a ~standstiIl. Tlhe
days and weeks dragged out. and the
strike held. The Coastwise SteaIm
Navigation Company and the Hawaii
an, N~icaraguan, and Pacifc-Mexichn
Steamship Company we're tied up cohn.
pletely. The expenses of combating
the strike were tremendous, and they
were earning nothing, while daily the
situation went from bad to worse, un-
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 a goodly portion Of a CONT.
nent to resume business.
Daylight's coming to civilization had
not improved him. True, he were
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.souled
geniality. Even his human Affiliations
were descending, Playing a lone hsid.
contemptuous OF most of the men with
whom he played. lacking in sympathy
or understanding of them, and cert9in.
ly Independent Of them, he found hit.
tie In common with those to be en-
countered, say at the Alta.Pacifc. In
point OF fact, when tho battle with he
steamship companies was at its height
and his raid was inflicting incalcula.
BILE damage on all business interests.
he had been asked to resign from the
Alta Pacific. The idea had been rath-
er to 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 andIlde.
pressed and tired of the city and Its
ways. he obeyed the impulse OIL n
within that was later to play an impor.
tant part In his life. The desire TO
get out OF the city for a Whit of c5up-
try air and for a change OF scene Was
the cause. Yet, to himself. he made
the excuse Of going to Glen Ellen for
the purpose Of inspecting a ~brickyard
which Noteworthy had sold him. He
spent the night In the little country
hotel. and on Sunday morning, astride
a saddle horse rented from the Glen
Ellen butcher, rode out of the village, /,
The brickyard was close at hand on
the fiat beside the Sonoma Creek.
Resolving to have his fun first, and
to look over the %brickyard afterward,
he rode up the hill, prospecting for a
way cross country TO get to the
knolls. He left the country road at
the first gate he came to and cantered
through a bayfield,. The grain was
waist-high on either side the wagon
road. and he shifted the warm aroma
of It with delighteA nostrils, At the
base Of the knobs he encountered a