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New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Backed by the Public

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"The strong sentiment of the com
munity is favorable to the open
shop" continues Secretary Zee
handelaar. "All the commercial,
financial and industrial interests;
have literally assisted in maintain.
ing it, any amount Of money tta'
has been needed having been fur
nished most cheerfully to close t.,
gates of the city against the pre-
fessional agitator and the pestife,
GUS walking delegate.
"But at no time has one of OF,
members taken advantage of open
shop conditions to deprive the wage
Garner o. his privilege to earn good
returns for honest efforts. The open
shop in Los Angeles does not mean
low wages and longer hours, but it
does mean that every man or woman
has the opportunity to earn a. live
lihood at rate of pay consistent
with his or her skill and effort.
"The very fact that non-union
workers in this city receive the
same pay as union men precludes
the statement by organized labor
that open shop conditions mean un-
fairness to employees. Open shop
conditions have prevented many
strikes here and have resulted in the
resumption Of work in a short time
after strikes have been declared, be-
cause when the union men on a Job
have undertaken to tie it up by
striking there have generally been
enough non-union men left to keep
business going. Practically all the
strikes in Los Angeles have failed
because Of their unpopularity"
/. II. Rice, president Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton, declares that wage carncrs in
Los Angeles have prospered to a
greater extent than those in cities
where the closed shop prevails. He
says this statement Is proved by
tho vast number of Individual saw
ings accounts In the banks and by
the large percentages Of working
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Membership Dwindling

At the conclusion of the war the
union membership in Los Angeles.
which had grown to a point some
where between $4,000 and 10000, be-
gan dwindling, and to-day it is be-
lieved to be not greater than 10000.
One Of the things that hit it hardest
was the collapse of a strike which
started on the Pacific Electric Rail
way last summer and spread to the
Los Angeles Railway, hitting the
great interurban line and the city
streetcar system almost simultane-
ously.
Early in July, 1918, the platform
men of the Pacific Electric system,
an interurban extending its trackage
to cities sixty miles from Los An
geles, called strike at z o'clock one
evening, between 700 and 800 train
men going out. Within three hours
a Federal court injunction had been
issued which forbade strike leaders
talking to members of their union,
enjoined strikers from setting foot
on interurban property and in vari-
Gus other ways made the strike a
huge fasco. Because the interurban
was engaged in hauling materials to
shipyards and government posts and
was conveying government ship
builders to and from work, the cars
were Immediately guarded by armed
marines riding all trains running
East, to the army balloon school on
the east and Fort Macarthur to the
southwest. The strike fzzled out in
a few days.
Disgruntled because Of this fall
ure, the platform men Of the Pa
cifc Electric line enlisted the SYM
pathies of the Los Angeles Railway
trainmen last summer and together
they called a strike the day after
the Pacific fleet concluded its visit
to Los Angeles harbor. This strike
reduced the Pacific Electric's force
Of trainmen to 10 per cent Of nor
NAL and the other line was cut to
40 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Printers Make More

The advantage of working in a
free field of labor is exemplihed
strongly by the fact that printers
are able to make more money in Los
Angeles on the piecework system
than they can make at the union
scale either in Los Angeles or San
Francisco. The scale in Los An
gelcs for union printers is SO cents
an hour. Open shops pay from "a
cents to $1.18 an hour, depending
upon the ability of the printer.
Hand composition on the piecework
system brings 10 cents to Is cents an
hour over the union scale. Drawing
pay according to the number Of ems
they set, linotype operators in open
shops at Los Angeles earn from $50
to $40 \ week, putting In forty
fivs hours to tho week, ~ = rule,
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Refused to Bid

eve regret we are unable to make
bid, according to the plans and
specifications as furnished by you,
for the erection Of a building for
the Brownstein-Louis Company, to
be erected at Figueroa and Eighth
streets, Los Angeles. We are un-
der obligations not to discriminate
between union and non-union men.
We have always worked under open
shop conditions in this city, and
since we are pledged 10 these con-
ditions it would be impossible for
US to contemplate any work that
calls for contractor must use union
labor on the work. If it is possible
to work out situation where all
men may be employed at the dis
cretion Of the contractor, whether
union or non-union, then we shall be
pleased to receive your further COM
mands."
"The open shop is more than a
principle in Los Angeles; it has be-
came religion" says Mr.. Zeehan-
delaar, "and being the leading force
in maintaining Industrial freedom it
champions both sides Of the ques-
ton, insisting upon fair treatment,
fair wages and good working con-
ditions before it gives it's moral or
financial support to any industrial
enterprise"
The truth of this declaration was
brought to public notice less than
eighteen months ago, when the head
Of large transfer company which
was facing the prospect Of strike
rushed to the Merchants and Manu-
facturcrs Association for protec-
ton, only to be informed that it
would have nothing TO do with his
affairs until he revised his pay
roll 10 such m extent that the men
Ia hin employ would recs!vo what
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

who entered the store or allowed
members Of their family to do SO.
To prove that the unions did not
even give their own organizations
their moral support, the proprietor
Of the store in question piled it's
windows full Of hundreds Of bolts
of calico and advertised that on a
certain day it would be sold at what
was regarded as a bargain price
On the day of the sale all the calico
was closed out before II o'clock in
the forenoon.
Gave Up the Fight
Since the families Of laboring men
are the greatest users of calico, or
we're in those days, it was assumed
that the working classes were dis
posed to patronize the store, union
or no union, so the boycott col
lapsed, and after three laborious
years, during which oceans of money
were spent in resisting the open shop
principle, Hay left the field in de-
feat. The establishment against
which he instituted the boycott has
since grown to be one of the city's
largest and most substantial depart
ment stores, and much Of it's pres
tige Is attributed to the publicity
1t received during that campaign.
Tho only big strike that was ever
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

help as ditch diggers, window wash
ers, car cleaners, section hands,
teamsters of a certain grade and
miscellaneous assortment of gen.
eral help.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
H. RICE, president of the
Merchants and Manat-
fdcturers Association of Los
Angeles

from the Hawaiian Islands diverted
the shipment to Los Angeles harbor
because it feared that longshore-
mems strike in the Bay district
might interfere with the unloading
of the cargo, and the whole shipment
was absorbed by Los Angeles and
the surrounding territory.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Stipulated 'Union Work"

Turning out overalls and SHIFTS,
the Brownstein-Louis Company pros
pered nightly during the war and
a few months ago decided to erect
a new factory building to cost prob
ably $800,000. Members of the I'M.
and NJ" say that the firm wants to
play to the unions in order to sell
more workingmen's garments, but
the fact is that the new factory is
to concern itself largely with the
making Of high grade cotton and silk
shirts. And this is the most recent
developments.
The architect in charge of the
building job invited all the big con-
tractors in Los Angeles to submit
bids. In the invitation, members of
the Master Builders Association
say, there was a line which said
Contractor must use union labor on
the work"
There was somewhere in the in
vitation clause which said that non
union men could be used if union
men could not be obtained. Mem
bers Of the association knew that
union men could be obtained
that they probably would be shipped
in for such job-so they called a
meeting and unanimously decided
that they would refuse to bid On the
job SO long as the Objectionable
clause remained in the invitation.
The Winter Construction Company
expressed the sentiments of the
other members Of the association
when it addressed the following let
ter to John Parkinson, the architect,
on Nav 6:
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Back to Open Shop

Night service on both lines was
declared off for three weeks, and in
that time the two companies trained
enough new motormen and conduc-
tors to replace all the strikers who
did not return to work, and both
strikes collapsed, despite the fact
that trainmen Of the Salt Lake
Line, Santa Fe and Southern Pa
cific tied up all local transportation
in sympathetic strike for ten days,
interfering with traffic as far away
as Sacramento, Tucson and El Paso.
Brotherhood officials finally got the
steam trainnen back to work and
the other strikers found other kinds
Of employment.
During the war 119 bakeries in
Los Angeles signed up with the
union, and yet the bakeries held the
price Of standard loaf of bread
down to IA cents when it went high
er in many ess.ss. President Rice,
of the Merchants and Manufactu-
rers Association, has just completed
an arrangement through which all
but twenty-five Of these bakeries
have gone back to the open shop
basis. The twenty-five shops adher-
ing to the union principle are small
establishments, some Of them only
working from one to three men.
while the open shop bakeries are all
large plants, some working scorea
Of men.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

really lost in Los Angeles was the
brewery strike in May, 1910, and a
San Francisco brewery was respon-
sible for that defeat. After the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation had succeeded in holding
Los Angeles brewers and saloon
keepers in line for the open shop,
the San Francisco brewers kicked
over the traces and saved the strik-
ers by declaring that they did not
dare help the Los Angeles brewers
maintain the open shop, because if
they undertook to do such thing
their numerous saloons and whole
sale houses in the Bay City would
be boycotted by the unions. They
admitted that they had no particular
interest in open and closed shops,
since their concern was largely
owned by English capitalists who
didn't care how they ran it so long
as they produced big dividends.
The metal workers struck that same
summer. After a long and bitter
struggle, during which considerable
strong-arm work was resorted to,
many of the union metal workers
returned to their old jobs and the
places Of others were filled. This
strike was never officially declared
off, but it interfered with the metal
industries for only few months.
Passed Anti-Pieketing Law
It was during this strike that the
city of Los Angeles enacted it's anti
picketing ordinance, which since has
been adopted by quite a number
of other cities, principally in the
West. The Los Angeles police and
superior courts at that time began
Furnishing strikers who stepped be-
yond the bounds Of law and order,
and judges are even now frequently
called upon to issue injunctions
against strikers. Several United
States District Court injunctions
were issued against strikers during
the war. Organized labor in Los
Angeles County sets out in every po-
litical campaign to defeat judges
who issue injunctions against Of
fensive strike leaders, but being
sadly in the minority it never at
tains the desired result.
Organized labor enjoyed its great
est popularity in Los Angeles dur
ing the war. In those days laborers
joined the unions because they be-
lieved that Federal wage adjustment
boards would grant them liberal
awards to keep them at work, but
when the United States Shipping
Board and a few similar govern
ment bodies declined to grant ap-
parently unreasonable demands hun
dreds of union cards were torn UP
and thrown away.
A shipyard strike which extended
from one end of the Pacific Coast to
the other broke out in Los Angeles
over just such an issue, but after
about 10000 shipbuilders had been
out of work for three months most
Of them decided that the government
wasn't coming through" and re-
turned to their jobs to receive good
wages and lay away money with
which to pay for their homes.
1t was after this strike was broken
in Los Angeles that a San Francisco
shipbuilder sent several Of his ves-
sells here to be finished. At about
that same time San Francisco com.
mission house which had an entire
'boatload Of pineapples coming in
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

draw lots after taking their places
and one out Of each group of eight
was to wait on tables. Within twen-
ty-four hours the walters compro-
missed with their employers, accept
ing an increase in pay and forget
ting about their demand for recoe-
milton Of their union.
The one business that has grown
faster in Los Angeles than any other
line of industry has been the manu-
facture of women's ready-to-wear
garments. Upward of thirty such
factories have sprung up here, en-
ploying more than $500 skilled
workers. Another business which
has grown by leaps and bounds is
the overall, jumper and shirt indus
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
A SCENE IN the business
4 district of Los Angeles

the association regarded as p +
wage. The strike did not ma
terialize.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-01-29
MINOT and VICINITY

Walter Bangs and Henry F. Dooley,
secretary of the Wilhston CONNER
cial club, were in the city last night
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Ely will leave
for Minneapolis the last Of the week
to spend several days 1t the autO
show.
Swan Goranson, So, dishwasher at
the Madison cafe, Fargo, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with Z
razor.
Bob Feehan, who is attending St
Thomas College in st. Paul, is spend
ing his two weeks winter vacation with
relatives in Minot.
Geo. FAIRIES, publisher of the Will
liston Herald. one of the best weekly
papers of North Dakota, was in Minot
Tuesday attending the Elman con-
cert.
Mrs. J. Vchulek, Fifth street N. E,
left Monday for Waverly, Minnesota,
in response to message conveying
the sad intelligence of her sisters
death.
Mrs. Ora Browning and A. Hall
charged with illegal Capitalization in
Fargo, forfeited their $500 cash bail
and bench warrants have been issued
for them.
Mrs. B. J. Haaland, sister of Mrs.
L. Enger, and Mrs. Clyde Smith, who
have been guests at the Enger home,
departed Monday for their homes in
Valley City.
Palmer Lunde, 35, of Buxton, N. D..
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who had gone to Fareo to attend the
funeral Of his sister, Olga, q flu vic.
tim, became i'll from over exerti0n and
died from heart failure.
C. B. Bach, as guardian of the estate
who was adjudged insane, will hold q
sale Of Roteliuk's personal farm prop
erty at the livery barn ct Sawyer
Saturday afternoon, Jan. 81, at 1 o.
H. L. Haskell, North Main street
merchant recently received an order
for two pairs of Wear-U-Well shoes
from Hesston, Kansas, which DEM
onstrates the value of advertising
we'll placed, with a paper thAt has q
general circulation.
Chief Justice A. M. Christianson
gave an interesting and inspiratiOnal
address at Masonic meeting held in
Towner recently. If the Judge. the
Advocate aptly remarks, she is real
man, plain, kind, whole-souled, and
interested in the brotherhood of man.
w. X. Simmons manager of the
basement department of the Fair
store has resigned his position with
the Fair and left Sunday for Lewis
town, Montana, where he has accepted
similar position with the E. G.
Sweitzer Mercantile Co. Mrs. Sim
mons and the family will remain in
Minot until spring when they will join
Mr.. Simmons.
A foreigner who comes to these
shores and enters into conspiracies to
overthrow the government should be
%z tL, 1xyhn
came and no time wasted in doing it.
But a native born American who will
enter into like conspiracies should be
sent a long distance further and not
given an opportunity to return via
Mexico, as hot as that country is.
John e. Truax of Langdon informs
US that his holiday trip took him to
Columbus, Neb., where his daughter,
Constance, lives. Her husband, Rev.
w. l.. Baker, former Minot minis
ter, is the pastor of an Episcopal
church at that place. Columbus is re-
ported as being very pretty place
with population Of about 5000 and
as this was the first time that he had
visited there for a number of years
his holiday trip proved pleasant one.
A party of eleven from Velva ar
rived in Minot Tuesday afternoon to
attend the Mischa Elman concert that
evening, as follows: Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Welo, Miss Agnes Moe. Miss
Marguerite Moe, Miss Annabelle Nor
ris, Miss Alice Morris, Miss Julia
Fryer, Miss Irene Rode, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Francis and Mrs. R. R. Lhotka,
Of Sidney, Mont, who is guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis. The party in
cluded a number of school teachers
at Velva, the schools in that city be-
ing closed early in order to allow them
to make the train.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Fox of Towner
are the guests of DR.. and Mrs. j. T.
Newlove this week arriving in time
to join them in celebrating their 21st
wedding anniversary. The Newloves
were married at the Fx ranch near
Towner and upon each anniversary of
the happy event the two families
gather to honor the occasion. Mr..
Fox is one of the earliest pioneers Of
northwestern North Dakota and for
years has been one Of the most ex-
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tensixe ranchers in this section Of the
state. OF late years he has become
interested in blooded stock and has.
some of the finest stock in the west.
Mike Rabinette Of New Rockford
was apprehended by Sheriff Sten:by
last Monday evening, and . hearing
held before Justice Dresser the next
day. He is charged with holding up .
number Of poker players = couple OF
months ago, and appropriating gil Wis
IDLE cash from the players table ~
the end Of q gun, the enterprise net
ting him over $500 of real American
money. He was bound over to the dis
trict term Of court which will con-
vene in February, his bail being fixed
at $1,000, which he was unable to fur
nish, and he is therefore lodging with
tie sheriff until his trial can be had.
DR.. G. Roy Ringo returned We'd
ncsday evening from two months
sojourn at various places along the
Pacific coast. In company with Mrs.
Ringo who is spending.the winter with
relatives at Medford, Oregon. the doc
tor, spent the greater part of the time
at Los Angeles, where he says the
climate has been ideal this winter. In
Oregon, he says, the only snow they
have to speak Of was early in the
season when they experienced an I'M
usual snowfall, the snow being so
heavy that immense damage was done
to fruit and shade trees, thousands of
trees being practically crushed by the
weight of the soft snow which lodged
in the branches. The cold thruopt
Oregon was the worst that section
has ever known. At Los Angeles
they met Gov" Bond and other dis
tinguished North Dakotans. Dr..
Louis Kane, son of John Kane Of this
city, and former Minot boy, is one
of the successful practitioners in Los
Angeles. DR.. Ringo says that Los
Angeles is crowded with tourists and
much difficulty is experienced in find
ing suitable accommodations for them
ali. Mrs. Ringo and sony will remain
at Medford, Oregon, until spring be-
fore returning to Mot.
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COUNTY LINE.
f,ss.U.- IN 1OCn


Miss Sofia Bauer is working at the
Geo. Lindsay home since week ago
last Monday.
Clarence and Mary Halgrimson have
been taking care of their uncle's, Mr.,
Luccason, store at Blajsdell for the
past two weeks, while Mr.. Luccason
is visiting in Minnesota.
Arne Engen was at Hartland last
week Tuesday on business, returning
on Wednesday.
Some of the members of the Kick
apoo Orchestra practiced music at the
l. M. Dilley home last Tuesday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Dilley left for
Wisconsin or Michigan today Tues
day., where they expect to make their
future home. Don had been working
for I. M. Dilley for the last four
months.
In letter from our old time friend
and neighbor, James Johnson, now Of
Silverton, Ore, Mr.. Johnson says in
part that he sometimes gets the 'Nback
to the farm" fever and il he ever goes
back ia, farming it will be North Da-
kota for him. He further says that
they had snow storm and cold snap
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rocor%l, ,.,ha,, eorro%h;uo mo tyvo feet
~ no. al in th;rtv henrs. and ther
ten haInu which csusad much dam.
$50 ~ fru;t and ve0etahles. hotb
, -. and stored III savs there L
q r~mcS r"ttannass nniiad ~ ant there
thst l. would maIe q doc sick. me
sIn,;rhtv dollar IL cons;Sered above
ava,.,,th iro aisa sama M r. ,,sed Ia
10 II North Dakota lin was : del.
ouata ~ tho f;rst state n. PIT. con.
vention . ! Fargo a few vears AFRO from
th;s section and ha T. still q staunch
s,,nnorter ~ the LEAGUE.
Tba I Charlson sfore was robbed
Tor the third time in \ little over q
month last week TMeslav NIGHT We
understand that the rohber or robbers
were tracked to Berthold and one man
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D .J Ny ,.e r pna,,, W." 81. sa,;aroi J.vs
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u n l@S.. 100 ohar Mic olive c.vonorrb
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t sums - 9 c+ar1av 1' t''
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~ w;fb he work 1T nrasent -
h,,nnh of +ba vopnrS foIls swan
s,,ndav aftarnoon and ayan;no ~ The
Chas Rrown home
Granpe was not we'll attended last
s.tnrJay night on .ccount ~ the CO.
Sare ,uastber ne WE those
ant had pood time We exnect State
Master r M Williams IN from ,Des
Laos On Saturday Ian 31st who will
install the newiy elected officers for
the ensuing wear All memhers and
Others who wish to unite with rs are
urged to attend this meet;nr
"
Jan. 26, 1920.
Banker Henry Schoenrock Of San
ish, who is interested in large flock
of Sheep here, has been here for a
week attending to business matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Brown, Silas
and Alma Engen, Melvin and Clicord
Hansen, Willard Kincannon, Mark
Handy and Miss G. Hunter and Olive
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Mrs. .Red" MeCrill win Gene - Hes
bands Aid. w.

Mrs. Ward Merrill, wife Of "Red"
Merrill. charged with murder Of Jail
or Ernie Thompson, writes from d.
monton, Alta, where she hae bsea ~
inR sinceT her release from the county
jaIl, that she is arranging to leave for
Minot soon to aid her husband, who
will put up as strong . defense %
possible. Mrs. McCrill is said to be Q
bright and rather attractive woman
who under ordinary circumstances
would have made good wife for the
right kind Of a man. There Is no
question as to her loyalty to her crim-
inal husband and she will leave no
stone unturned to assist him. ~,