The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-07-31
GENERAL. OTIS.

Mark Anthony says in Shakespeare Julius Caesar at that immortal ad- dress before the bier of Caesar, -the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft inferred with Iheir bones
 It would be improper in any no- lice of the death of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times to fail to yerognizc that he has left not only California. but all the Pacific Coast somewhat poisonous legacy of hate.
 The Times openly espoused the cause of anti-unionism. Otis frank lv defed organized labor. The Times was a non-uniou paper and he preached right strenuously the gos- pei of the open shop.
 His paper has been in the lime light for years and has been heartily hated by labor both for its yenomed unfairness and for it's unfailing hostility 10 unoEism.
 But Otis was more or less the creature of conditions in Los Anee- les. and that he helped not a little TO build up that city, it would be absurd to doubt for one instant.
 An explanation of conditions in Los Angeles will explain Otis. otEewise his freaksh nature will .a9pear just freak when as mat ger of fact he was some thIne ot a ..1rawd and calculating business saan eyon in his extraordinary fight cath organized labor,
 The supreme interests in Calitor- ,ja were the real estate interests. 1t has been in real estate that most of those engaged in getting tine e,}ber mans mouey away from him go rich. Now Los Angeles was a dnc field for the real estate shark and to sell his land and to make Los Angeles grow two things were essential.
 First of all there would be the 0S.ressitv of attracting there bus iness firms of some magnitude and an immense number of "hone build CTS. instalmert plan purchasers, unfailing source of revenue to the sharks. Secondly a campaign of adj vcrtising was a prime essential oi this program.
 Otis and the rest sJw easily enough that 10 build up d bill ot attractions it vas essential that bus 5noss interests be firmly p"rs laGcd that the wage conditions "lett nos 3hmg to be desired", that low wages prevailed for the benefit of the bus mes interests. that facilities were large and that tue dominance of O. --auized labor that prevailed in san Franciscc and which had given that city somewhat bad name among employers associations would never Become an accomplished fact in Los Angeles
 The Times was at once the great r1cans of such advertising and alsc the II cans whereby the unions were 7n be prevented from rising in spite o1 everything to power in Los An seles.
 The arrogant policy of Otis with uu, doubt suited his disposition His sympathies were solely with the real estate men, the employers. the business interests generally. Nol did Otis shrink from antagonizlne ihe most powerful of the organiza- lions. He even fought the typo graphical union with all his might and maintained his own school iol printers whence he obtained an un' failing source of supply for his papers.
 The result of this was that Otis became the very center of the saorm between labor and capita and to his dying day, such he re nained in Los Angeles None of the unions which fought D,is made any head way against hl1n. He buckcd all their opposi' dA2n and thrived upon it, not because be was right, but because they lacked solidarity.
 The legacy which Otis left behind then was one of well defined and bjtter antagonism between many in