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i.i:\i:i: \i. mix.
M irk Ant hony says in Sh a re s
Julius Ca.-sar at. That immortal ad
dress before ib.c bier of Caesar. :
“3-iu* evil that men do lives alter
them, the gois, is ott interred with
Jhrir bones".
It would be improper in any no- :
lice of the d ;Uh of the publisher
of flu l.os Angeh-s Times to fail to ■
recognize that he has left not only
California, but till the Pacific ( oast
a somewhat poisonous legacy of
hate.
The Times openly espoused the
cause of anti-unionism. Otis frank
ly defied organized labor. The Times
vras a non-union paper and he
preached right strenuously the gos
pel of the open shop.
His paper lias been in the lime
light for jetrs and has been heartily j
hated by labor both for its venonted
unfairness and tor its unfailing
hostility to unionism.
But Otis was more or less the
creature ot renditions in I.os Ange
les. and that lie helped not a little
to build up that city, it would be
absurd to ioubt tor one instant.
An explanation of conditions in
Uos Angeles w ill explain Otis.'
Othewiso hi., freakish nature will
appear just a freak when as a mat-;
- ■ r of fact he was some thing of a
...ir .-wd and calculating business j
’.wan evil in bis extraordinary light
with organized labor.
The supreme interests in Califor
vi,a were the real estate intt rests,
it has been in real estate that most j
of those engaged in getting the
sK'.her man's money away Iron, him
go' rieh. Now Los Angeles .vas a
fine field tor the real estate shark j
and to sell his land and to make ■
Los Angeles grow two tilings were,
essential.
First of all there would be the
ov essity of attracting there bus
iness firms of some magnitude and
an immense number of "hone build-J
trs", instalment plan purchasers,
unfaPing source of revenue 'o tin*
sharks. Secondly a campaign of ad-,
vi nising was a prime essential of
this program.
Otis and the reel ■ "'••fitly
enough that to build up a bill of
ilttai lions it .vat es entiul that tins
. . interests hi firmly p"r weed
that the wag* ■auditions "left no
thing to lie desired", that low wages
,,rc vaile I tor tin belle,it of the Ims- 1
ities interests, that facilities wete
large at cl that the dominantc of o
gauizid labor that prevailed it, Sati ,
Front isi e and whic h had givetc that
■ ji\ a somewhat bad name among j
«*rnplovers us.-oi iations would never
bnon,' au at-•otr.plishcd 1 at t i’l I*os
Angeles.
The Times was at once I lie great ^
ra i ms of such advertising and also'
tht n "ales wher *hv the unions were
vi> be prevented front rising in spite
oj everything to power in Los An
geles.
The arrogant policy of Otis wit li
mn doubt suited his disposition.
His sympathies wore solely with the
rial estate men, the employers, the
bit; mess intercuts generally. Not
Hu otis shrink from antagonizing
lYn n.ost powerful ot the orgauiza
iions. He even fought the typo
graphical union with all liis might
and maintained his own school for
■printers whence he ol tained an tin
failing source of supply for his
papers.
The result of this was that Otis
Leva no* the very center of the
■m,rm between labor and capital
r.vnd to bis dying day. such lie re
mained in Lrs Angeles.
None of the unions which fought
otis made any head way against
bun. He bucked all their opposi
tion and thrived upon it. not because
be was right. but because they*
lacked solidarity
Th legacy which Ot is left behind
then was one ol well defined and
A'itt'T antagonism between many in
„os Anf.'-It's ami the labor organiza
ions. Yet Otis himself must have
tbserviil the fact that not withstand
ng all his efforts and all his per
>onal success, the labor organiza
ions si < tired a foothold and can
inuetl to grow as the city grew.
Almost all the troubles of the
date of California may be traced di
•ectly to the activities of the real
'state groups in that state. The war
tetweri the state and the Japanese,
he acute labor struggles, all of
hese have been brought about l>\
.he arti.hy of the real estate inter
>sts attending to what they consider
heir int■ rests.
Los Angeles has grown. To that
growth it is true. Otis and his
linue ei real estate sharks and la
tor hah rs have contributed in a
measure. What they <io not see is
Lhat it would have grown in any
event and had another policy other
than that boosted by Otis anil the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso
ciation I.. Dursued it might have
grown stiil greater. Its location is
favorable to such a growth; it lias
opened its-It like a flower to re
rei\e tie- motion picture industrj
and this within the past few years
has b.. the main cause if it ; phe
nomena! growth.
Its climate, its proximity to Mex
ico. i s general attractiveness assur
ed it of a future ai d if the real
estati men had he- n content to
allow the city and the district to de
velop under favorable unionist con
ditions. it would have resulted in be
ing one of Hu bis* cities along tin
coast.
The fact was overlooked by Otis
ilia! a well paid laboring class,
skilled and unskilled is the topmost
asset of any location. It me;, ts a
tremendous purchasing power and
it means in that a great stimulant
to manufacturing as wel a; the mer
chandising. The n erciiaand the
manufacturer live off the consumn
ti;e capacity of the people to tlie ex
tent that it is impossible io com
plete the turn over of productive
labor until the manufactured article
realizes its value i rented b;. labor,
in tiu- point of reaching its lieu! de
stination, tlH> consumer.
Hard tilings have been said about
oiis. especially during and sitae iho
trial of those connected with the
Los Angele.i T imes explosion, an in
ciiient whereit. a vet there is much
misiery which will never now be
cleared up. There lias never been
an> explanation offered as to the dy
namite explosion which is alleged
io have been the cause of the
wreck wrecking the building as it
did. There was not enough dyna
mite to more than cause a slight
explosion even according to the tes
timony of M’Manigal. There lias
never been an explanation olfered as
to the fact that when the explosion
on erred men were transferred tc
another building where a battery ol
linotypes was ready with the torches
hot under them and the molten me
tal ready for work.
That (he capitalist element in Los
Angeles insisted upon sending all tc
the penitentiary who were directlj
involved by their detectives is now
a matter of history although there
exists grave doubt as to the guilt ol
either Schmidt or Kaplan in anx
way.
Ho all these things as they max
Labor owes a debt of gratitude tc
the Otises that attack the movement
They light in the open, and in tlie
■ lisp-ration and the ferocity of thal
tight they reveal the facts of the
class struggle beyond peradventure
They reveal all the secret intricacies
of the capitalist power, the capital
ist abuse of the courts and the capi
tall si misuse of the detective agen
cies of the land. And in doing tbit
they compel organized labor to real
ize that organized labor has nothin):
lo lore and everything to gain b\
combatting the forces opposed to il
in the open.
It is when Labor gets down to
cases that Labor realizes its own
power. That power has nothinr to
gain by secret meetings, by signs
grips or pass words. That power has
nothing to fear when it cond lets it
self in the open and meets its ene
mies more than half way.
Otis played a winning game right
along when he fought Ui ■ unions
which returned the fight in secret,
and it may be said generally speak
ing there is loss to be feared from a
man like Otis, openly antagonistic,
than there is from the fair spoken
but hypocritical friends who pre
tend to be what they are not
In the industrial struggle, as far
as labor is concerned. it is not
money that counts; it is class solid
arity ; organized numbers; unity
and general united action. It is
the craft union with its hole and
corner meetings, with its high and
mighty officials, its regalia, its grips!
its countersigns and signs that plays
right into tHo employers hands. Th
organization that makes all workers]
members and fellow workers, that
employs no such man-separating de
vices as arc employed by the craft :
unions, the 1 gucy of anofher Indus
trial epoch. tHat will not fear aj
thousand Otises nor a million 1
Burns.
The real power of labor is its
massed solidarity. I'pon that th
agent provocateur will propagate1
his evil ideas in vain. All the world
will be free to enter and hear the
union discussions, and the possibil
ity ot a capitalist frame up, political
or economic, will be non-existent.
Otis, with his savage enmity to
organized labor and his complete
intolerance of all working class
rights, with his unending misrepre
sentations and his vile calumnies In
his papers, proved the virtue of
open unionism ar.d the real strength
of economic solidarity. The ques
tion is whether the workers will
realize to the full the benefits that
are to be received from such a po
licy.
About Otis private character the
less said the better. About the dead
say nothing except what is good,
said the Latin proverb. In any event
it wiil do no good to resurrect the
evil that dead men were in the
flesh, however it may be regretted
that the evil than men did lives
after them No man has been so
fitly appraised by Senator Hiram
Johnson or the brilliant editor ot
the Iconclast at that time as has
been Otis. Scorching words of
scathing denunciation a whipping in
the flesh with rods dipped in vitriol
would not exioriato the flesh more
cruelly than the terrific lashing to
which Otis was subjected. Now he
is in his grave. He is entitled to
un accounting no more from his
friends or from liis enemies
MAGNATE KILLS
HIMSELF; GRIEF
OAKLAND. Cal.. Juiv ;M.— I>. C.
Schofield, the president ol'tlie stand
aril Oil Co. of Cadfo: nU. a subsidi
ary company of the original Stand
ard Oil, killed himself today by \
shooting his brain away.
Schofield who lest his wife a short;
time ego. the late \Irs. Schofield
hating succumbed to typhoid fever, j
lias been brooding over bis loss ever
since ami his grief could not be j
overcome.
Very prominent in oil circles an
effort was made to get him to inter
GIlliAT HIIAT.
CHICAGO. July 30.—The long |
overdue heat wave showed ut> at '
last yesterday when 111 wars regist
ered for a record starter and the
sultrim-ss almost unbearable. Water
i n sorts by the Lake and palm gard
ens did a roaring busines. but the
suftering in the poorer sections has
become intense. The heat today is
I again terrific uni the entire middle
| west is sweltering under it Many
deaths directly traceable to sun
stroke are reported in this city lo
day while the records or other cities
also show many fatalities due to the
heat.
The weather man promises a con
tinuance for several days yet and
the suffering is intense.
est himself in large undertakings
but tliese failed to rouse him.
STK.XMKH IA)ST.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 30.—
The steamer Del Norte is reported to
be ashore at Point Arenas ami it is
stated will he a total loss.
Latest reports trom the wrecked
steamer say that the Del Norte’s
crew are all safe and that no ilves
will he lost, all on hoard having
been saved. The steamer went
ashore in a heavy and misty gale.
It is believed that the boat was of.
its course at the time of its running
on the rocks off the point.
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