START MICROFILMED 1985 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY GENERAL LIBRARY BERKELEY, CA 94720 COOPERATIVE PRESERVATION MICROFILMING PROJECT THE RESEARCH LIBRARIES GROUP, INC. Funded by - THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION Reproductions may not be made without permission. re —— LT g——— TITY. ————. Ll ———— ep ee eet THE PRINTING MASTER FROM WHICH THIS REPRODUCTION WAS MADE IS HELD BY THE MAIN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CA 94720 FOR ADDITIONAL REPRODUCTION REQUEST MASTER NEGATIVE NUMBER ¢5.2909 AUTHOR: Pardee, George Cooper; 1857-1941. TITLE : Pardee on labor. . PLACE [Cal 1fornia | | DATE [1902] VOLUME caLL Fez MASTER 95- NO. 13/7 NEG. NO. 3209 ee ASO GORE Ay#SNHIEREEE=2=T2. = z jet 178 rpg | lw ca Nw 'BANC SH A000038 proces oe ea sper ———I OU = 7 Pardee, George Cooper, 1857-1941. Pardee on labor : the Republican candidate for governor, Dr. George C. Pardee defines his position on labor organization : a refutation of some of the stories which political enemies have put in circulation. [California : s.n., 1902] (San Francisco : Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden Print). 8 Pp. 2 port. ; 24% cm, Acq:66600340 05/15/84 C — — 1. Campaign literature, 1902-- Republican--California. 2. Labor and laboring classes——-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. 840520 4, 840515 CU-BANC SF /BAN } A* 84-B2196 ro- Vo — a Bn A i a se eG Sew Qo Ge am— FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CA 94720 JoeNO. 8/6 03/76 DATE e 85 REDUCTION RATIO 8 DOCUMENT "SOURCE THE BANCROFT LIBRARY 4.5 50 jz [lz 18 zz 122 Oo A o 22 E oO | I l= Ii fleL fi MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL 1010a (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) | | | LLL LED LL Jie peng | 1 ! ! l | HTT CL AA ARR | Pardee on Labor THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR DR. GEORGE C. PARDEE Defines His Position on Labor Organization —————————— A Refutation of Some of the Stories which Political Enemies have put in circulation. Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden rie mo; ces Print, 508 Clay St., S. F. Extracts from Speeches by Dr. Pardee LABOR’S RIGHT TO ORGANIZE The President of these United States, Theodore Roosevelt, addressed a convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen the other day; and, as is usual with that foremost American citizen, he said, what we can always expect him to say, the right thing at the right time. And in the course of his speech he used the following language: “I believe emphatically in organized labor. I believe in organization of wage- workers. Organization is one of the laws of our social and economic development at this time.” Thus spoke President Roosevelt, the highest type of American man- hood. And, borrowing his words, I too “believe emphatically in organ- ized labor.” For I am firmly of the opinion that the laboring man has as much right to organize as has any class of his fellow citizens for the better- ment and the amelioration of his condition. I do not hestitate to say that upon the betterment of the condition of the working people depends the future welfare and perpetuity of this nation.—From speech in San Francisco, September 15th. BETTER WAGES, SHORTER HOURS I am glad whenever an American workingman can add one dime to his daily wage. I am glad because I know that with every increase in his wages he is able to add more comforts and more luxuries to his home; that his wife and children will be better housed, better fed and better clothed; that then his children will be sent longer to school and thus become better and more intelligent citizens, from whom will come the future great men of our country. For it is a fact, well known to all of us, that our greatest men, our Lincolns, our Garfields and our McKinleys, spring from our common people. And I rejoice when the laboring man is able to cut down the time that he spends at his daily toil. I rejoice because I feel that every minute he is able to cut off from the time he spends at his workbench can be given to his own uplifting and the, betterment of the condition of his family—that most important basis upon which is erected the superstructure of our American institutions. 4 I feel that the more time a man can give to his wife and children, the better that man, that wife and those children will be. And the better men and women and children we have the better it. will be for all Americans and the more enduring and” glorious will be the Ameri- can nation. Therefore, I say I am glad when the workingman adds one dime to his daily wage, and I rejoice when he cuts off another hour from his daily toir.—From speech in San. Francisco, September 15th. LABOR’S DEBT TO REPUBLICAN PARTY What has the Republican party done for the laboring man? Has any- one forgotten how under the administration of President Cleveland the wheels of industry stopped throughout the land, and the busy whir of loom, of spindle, and o1 forge, was stilled? The furnace cooled; the mills shut down, and ruin, misery and want seized hold upon our people. Who does not remember the Relief Committee and the public sub- scriptions to relieve the distress of those whom a Democratic adminis- tration had deprived of work and made hungry and homeless? It was the sight of these people and the great distress that then pervaded this whole land that placed in the Presidential chair that great ruler, that good citizen, that devoted husband, and that man of men, our martyred President, Wm. McKinley. Has anyone forgotten how, under his beneficent rule, the fires under our coal furnaces again were lighted up; how the factories again opened their doors, and again echoed with the resounding clangor of their moving machinery, while from their wide-open, hospitable doors, there streamed at close of day happy throngs of contented men and women rejoicing in their regained prosperity and bearing back to their well-filled larders the empty dinner pails that they had taken with them, filled to the brim, when they walked, laughing and jesting, to their daily work? This is no idle tale.—From speech in Oakland, Sep- tember 5th. AMERICANS HONOR LABOR Show me the American man who is ashamed of the fact that his father or his grandfather was a workingman and I will show you a degenerate American, unworthy of the proud heritage left him by the heroes of Bunker Hill. My father was a cooper (and a good cooper, too) in his early life, and was never ashamed to tell of it. Many of ° my closest relatives are farmers and mechanics, and neither they nor I feel ashamed of it. And many of my closest friends, men whom I have known all my life, with whom I went to school, whose children are playmates and schoolmates of my children, who call me by my first 5 name, are workingmen—and neither they nor I feel ashamed to tell of it.—From speech in San Francisco, September 15th. THE PICKHANDLE STORY Dr. Pardee’s Vigorous Refutation of a Charge Made by His Enemies On the evening of September 29th, Dr. George C. Pardee addressed a large number of railroad employes at the Santa Fe shops in San Ber-: nardino. While he was speaking, some one called out, ‘How about the ‘pickhandle’ story?” to which the Republican candidate replied as follows: ) Ce 0d 1 am glad you spoke of that. 1 am mighty glad you spoke of that thing. lf there is one thing more than another that a good American should hate, it is to lie; if there is one thing more than another that a. good American should rejoice in, it is to knock a lie silly. In ’94, as you know, there were bitter hard times. As I said before, I was Mayor of Oakland at that time. We were working upon our streets from 300 to 400 of our own citizens, our own flesh and blood. All of a sudden Mayor Ellert of San Francisco sent over to us 650 Coxey Armyites. They came to Oakland and I met them at the ferry and asked them, “What are you going to do?” They said they were going to Washington. I asked, “How long are you going to stay in Oakland?” They replied, “Over night.” I said, “Very well, come over here,” and I took them to the Mills Tabernacle, a large building, and gave them supper, and I lodged them over night and gave them break fast the next morning. If you will pardon me for saying it, it cost me more than $100 to do it. The next morning I said, “Are you ready to go?’ They said, “No, we are not ready; we want to stay another day.” So then the citizens, the Chief of Police and others got up a subscription and paid for their supper that night and their lodging that night and their breakfast the next morning. Then I went and said, “Are you going to-day?” And- they replied, “We don’t want to walk.” “What do you want?” I asked, and they answered, “We want a train of cars.” I communicated with A. D. Wilder, who was superintendent of the Southern Pacific, and he said it would cost $900 to send these men from Oakland to Sacramento in a train of passenger cars. “We can’t pay that,” I said, “What will you charge for a train of freight cars?” He said $200, and we got up a subscription and sent them off from Oakland on a good, clean train of freight cars. The night they left they went and looked at the cars and then came j back and in their peculiar way they said they would be d——d if they 6 would ride in freight cars from Oakland to Sacramento. I replied, “You have got to leave town. We have from 300 to 600 people of our own to take care of and you have got to leave.” The leaders said to me, “If you make a show of force so that we can get our men out of the Tabernacle and get them on the train of cars, we will go.” So we called out the fire department and, according to the agreement with the leaders of the Coxey army, called them out and surrounded them with sixty men (and there were something like 600 of the Coxeyites) and they marched to the train. There were no pickhandles, no engines playing a hose. Some of the poor fellows were dirty and ragged and ought to have had a bath, but they did not get it. But there were no pickhandles, no fire hose, no blows struck and not a drop of blood shed, and I am glad here to nail a lie before you—as infamous a lie as was ever told about any American citizen. This is the state- ment of facts with regard to the Coxey army. Do you want more Coxey armies? Do you want a return of those times that made it not only possible but necessary to have Coxey armies? You don’t look as if you did and I don’t believe you do. But if you do, vote the Democratic ticket and you will get it just as sure as you are standing in this building listening to me. Remember ’94 and ’95 and '06 and be careful. As we say in most of our lodges, “Black balls reject and white balls elect.” Be careful how you ballot and cast white balls for the Republican ticket. When any fellow talks about pickhandles and accuses the Mayor of Oakland in ’93 and ’94 and ’95 (and I was the fellow) of using pickhandles you tell him—and if you are afraid of getting into a fight you just tell him that I told you to tell him— that he is a liar, and if he wants any fight to come to Alameda county and he will get it. (Great and continued applause.) SPEECH MADE A HIT Pardee’s talk went straight to the mark and it was with a tremen- dous cheer from the shop men that the nominee dismounted from the temporary stand. sa = Why the Examiner Will Not Support Franklin K. Lane !From the Examiner, September 3, 1902.) THE EXAMINER WILL NOT SUPPORT FRANKLIN K. LANE. SACRAMENTO, CAL., September 2. EXAMINER, San Francisco: It is stated here today by several delegates to the Democratic State Convention that the failure of your paper to mention Franklin K. Lane in its leading editorial this morning means that perhaps the Examiner does not regard him as a McNab man and therefore would support him if he were nominated for Governor. Will you please remove all doubt in this regard by declaring specifically where you stand as to Mr. Lane ? JOHN FLANAGAN, Delegate to Democratic State Convention. Certainly Mr. Lane has been for months and IS NOW THE PERSONAL CANDIDATE OF GAVIN McNAB. McNab is the avowed enemy of Labor Unions. The Examiner is the friend of organized labor and therefore will not support Mr. Franklin K. Lane if he is nominated. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 1902 Governor Lieutenant-Governor DECTOLRIY ..icvevirvinsirvitnesrns Chas. F. Curry of San Francisco Controller E. P. Colgan of Sonoma Treasurer Truman Reeves of San Bernardino Attorney-General U. S. Webb of Plumas Surveyor-General Clerk of Supreme Court................ Frank C. Jordan of Alameda Superintendent of Public Instruction T. J. Kirk of Fresno Superintendent of State Printing W. W. Shannon of San Francisco Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....W. H. Beatty of San Francisco F. M. Angellotti of Marin Lucien Shaw of Tos Angeles RAIT.ROAD COMMISSIONERS. CHEE DIET. on. iden ei sa a ainsi eiel chebe musk A. C. Irwin of Yuba Second District Adam Andrew of San Francisco Third District MEMBERS OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. First District Lewis H. Brown of San Francisco Second District Alex Brown of Calaveras Third Dietrict........ovovvveeeveenneanens..sA. G. Myers of Siskiyou Fourth District Frank Mattison of Santa Cruz REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. rh ARNE A J. N. Gillette of Humboldt Second District Frank L. Coombs of. Napa Third Distriet..cc.covccvriinstcsens .Victor H. Metcalf of Alameda Fourth District Julius Kahn of San Francisco Fifth District Eugene F. Loud of San Francisco Sixth District J. C. Needham of Stanislaus Seventh District Eighth District END OF TITLE "END OF REEL. PLEASE REWIND.