The San Francisco call., 1913-07-19
Secretary Denounces Mayors
Who Tolerate Red Flag,
but Reference Appar-,
emily Is to Boston
GUARD IS SENT TO
QUELL RIOT IN CITY
Cabinet Member and Cot
terill Leave the Banquet
Room Arm in Arm

American flags upon the front of the
building
Two policemen smiled complacently
upon the wreckers.
The sailors tore the signs from the
front of the building and broke them
furniture and books out into the street,
but the policemen promptly stopped
them.
WOULD HUNT DOWN I. W. w.
There were demands that the In
dustrial Workers be hunted down. and
a young civilian in a white suit tried
10 induce the party to go to the head
quarters of the moderate socialists in
an old church in Olive street near Sew
epih.
Another self appointed leader led the
party toward the old Unitarian church
in Seventh avenue near Union street.
which had just been vacated by the
! moderates
As the naval men were crossing Pike
street at Sixth they were overhauled
by an automobile full of policemen,
headed by big captain. who told the
sailors that II they did not disperse
lie would arrest every one of them.
The policemen, by maneuvering.
separated the men in uniform and
scattered them. no handling OF them
was necessary.
The men shouted to the police:
"SAVING YOUR CITY"
Your mayor won't do anything TO
protect the flag. so we are saving your
city"
A young civilian, who had been en-
deavoring to incite the sailors, kept
shouting to them to "go and get Mayor
CotterilI."
No arrests were made.
A second party of men from the
Pacihc reserve feet attacked the big
Industrial Workers headquarters in
. washington street in the southern part
OF the city.
The contents OF the building were
dragged into the street and bonfire
made Of them.
At the time OF the rioting. Secre-
% tary Daniels was dining on the cruiser
. West Virginia, the guest of Admiral
Reynolds.
Shortly before last midnight Secre-
. tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. ad-
dressing a banquet given at the Rainier
club in his honor, spoke In tribute to
the American flag and took ccasion
10 praise the attitude of the mayor of
Boston. who stopped a red flag parade.
"No PLACE FOR RED FLAG-
The red flag has no place in this
country" he said. "and believers in ii
have no place in this country. A mayor
who does not enforce the law against
the red flag is not it TO hold Office, and
people who believe in the red flag
should be driven from the country
E. Mr. Daniels then passed on to a eu-
.logy of President Wilson, and closed
his address amid great cheering His
red flag remarks occupied only q min
ute, and those who observed him close
~ say that he had no intention of max
ing his remarks apply locally.
However. word was passed about the
street today that the secretary had
made a long address devoted to the
two flags and had urged that all be-
1evers in the red flag be driven out of
the country
It was also declared that he had made
direct attack on Mayor Cotterill, who
sat directly Dehlnd him.
The fact is that the mayor accompa-
MED the secretary from the banquet to
the Press club reception and has been
with the secretary during much of his
, stay.
It is believed that Mr.. Daniels had
no knowledge of any local controversy
over the red flag.
FREE SPEECH PERMITTED
During the administration Of Mayor
3 George F. Cotterill all street speakers
have been given full license to speak
as long and as loud as they chose, pro-
vided they did not block traffic and did
not display the red flag.
The Industrial Workers of the World
have held meetings every night at
three public squares. The meetings
have been generally orderly.
Mayor Cotterill has been assailed in
the newspapers and otherwise for per-
mitting public speaking by the Indus
trial Workers, but he has insisted that
the meetings did not violate the law
During the potlach hundreds of men
from the Pacific reserve feet received
shore leave, and yesterday many SOL
diers from Fort Lawton and Fort Flag
Ter We're at liberty
A number OF soldiers and sailors got
into a fight with men attending an In
dustrial Workers meeting in Wash
ington street last night and three SOL
diers were beaten-two of them sew
erely enough to require dressing OF
their wounds at the city hospital
Their injuries were not serious, how
ever.
Portland Mob Fights Police
PORTLAND, July 1s.-when Sheriff
Tom Word attempted to halt a soap
box orator in one of the city parks
tonight a mob of several hundred gave
resistance.
squad of plain clothes police and
deputy sherifs rushed to the aid of
the sheriff and presented a phalanx
OF police billies in an endeavor to quell
the mob.
The mob was broken eventually, but
as the sheriff started for the court with
the prisoner. George w. Reese, the
speaker, the mob gave pursuit.
Five men were arrested SIS result
OF the disturbance.
Fire on TamaIpais and Muir Woods
The trains and hotel service are not
impaired. Now is the time TO take the
famalpais trip and realize the magni-
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