The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-09-28

Pledged to exterminate organized
labor just as they have fought every
decent and progressive movement
that ever baked their lust for power
and profits, the Chamber of Com
merce of San Francisco is already as
good as whipped in its million-dol-
lar open-shop sampaign.
Although the Law and Order
Committee" has succeeded in lining
up every big advertiser and whipping
the newspapers and the small mer-
chants into line through fears of boy
colt, labor's strength has proved
equal to the test To-day some of
the biggest employers in San Fran
cisco are denouncing the attempt of
their associates 10 throw the city into
a civil war that would cause untold
bitterness, suffering and tragedy.
San Francisco has Mayor a mil
1ionaire ship owner and capitalist who
was put there by the same business
men who now urge anarchy and vio-
lence as a means of driving the work
ers to their knees. Mayor James
Rolph, Jr., was business mans
candidate" In his first campaign he
defeated a union labor candidate, and
he owes nothing to organized labor
except as a good citizen whose bust
ness interests cannot blind him to the
rightness of labor's cause.
To-day Mayor Rolp is lifting his
voice to denounce the Chamber of
Commerce campaign and the would
be industrial autocrats who started it.
And because labor with the aid of
men like Rolp and Rudolph Speckles
is too strong for them, their, attempt
to line up by intimidation and coer-
cion, the entire business community
in a relentless war of determination,
is marked for failure.
Here is what Mayor Rolph had to
say about the Chamber of Commerce
campaign in public speech in San
Francisco Remmebr that he is one
of the biggest employers of labor in
San Francisco, man who had had
more dealings with the unions than
any of the Law and Order" commit
teemen, and that his only interest in
unionism is that of human and
progressive citizen. Rolph was not
even a self-made man. He never
worked with his hands or carried a
union card To-day he controls some
of the most important shipping inter
ests in the Pacific. Always he has
been the idol OF the city's people
and a San Franciscan above every
thing else. To no man is the welfare
of his native city matter of great
er concern.
Said Mayor Rolph:
ain San Francisco at this moment
strong effort is being made in GER
tain quarters to destroy organized
union labor.
q predict the failure Of this move
ment
"I am sure that not even a con-
siderable minority of our people is
in sympathy with any campaign to
destroy organized labor, a movement
which would precipitate wasteful
and distressful struggle which settlers
nothing, brings no good to anyone,
and divides community for years.
"The public is informed. however,
that this campaign is not an attack
on organized labor
"Most opponents of organized la
Dor declare that they do not wish to
destroy the unions.
"They would permit the unions to
exist If they conhne themselves tc
the functions of benevolent societies
visiting the sick and burying tht
dead, but they must not attempt tc
deal with the wages or conditions o.
employment or interfere with the in
alienable right Of every man to worl
whether he belongs to union or not
According TO this school o
thought every man has an inaiien
able right to work.
"But let any man seeking employ
ment 60 into any shop or factory
relying upon his inalienable right 4
work, demand a job. He will sooi
find that his inalienable right to worl
IS nothing but group of words, am
that about the only inalienable righ
lie has is the right to starve.
"We need in this community NOR
men Of vision and insight, men VIII