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Captain Robert Dollar of San Francisco, dean of American ship owners, appeared in New York, and made several speeches stamped with his incisive personality. A Scotsman by birth, the self-made magnate of American Pacific Shipping, the leader of the unsuccessful right against the La Follette Seamen's Bill, he is still, although nearly 80, the eager champion of an American privately owned merchant marine...
...favor of labor unions. But I am desperately opposed to the leadership that labor unions have been having." San Francisco was formerly " the biggest and best labor union city in the world." But now it has open shop, because five years ago the unions tied up tne entire port. They resorted to violence. The result was that a million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There...
Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
...movement to make New York the seat of the 1924 Democratic National Convention is meeting with strong opposition from Cleveland and San Francisco. It seems to be a matter of money, principally. The Democratic National Committee has a deficit of $176,000-legacy of the terrible 1920 campaign. New York is said to have offered the committee a bonus of $500,000. San Francisco has put up $250,000 as inducement. It is not known what offer Cleveland has made; but the Mayor of Cleveland has publicly declared that he considers Cleveland the only possible place in which a Convention...
...San Antonio--I. S. Kahn '00, 432 West Magnolia Avenue, San Antonio...