Show PRESIDENT Or OF ASIATIC EXClUSIONISTS I He Is Widely Known and Wields Great Power in Labor Circles on Coast San Francisco Doc Dee 25 Olaf Olaf A. A as pr president of ot the Asiatic Exclusion league Is one of ot time the most widely known mown labor leaders In tho the west west- He lie came camo to America from Crom Norway Norway Nor Not way when whon 15 Iii ears years old His college cour o was finished in Minnesota an and ho he later taught school in several oral middie middle middle mid mid- dle die western towns town While editor of ot a small mall country paper In a n deal ol In ing lag the sale of ot the publication ho was isas convicted upon a charge churgo o of or forer forgery forger and wa was sentenced to the time penitentiary In Minn for two years cars but was wn r par pardoned before his lila term torm ex cx- cx Arriving ln in San Francisco r went to work as a cement workers workers' helper and became secretary of tho timo union P. P When H. H McCarthy I organized time the Building Tra Trades es coune council I of San Saim Francisco fifteen years ago was made mado secretary and aurl later given Iven the same came position with the State llull BuildIng Building Build Build- Ing Tr council Besides his duties as secretary moe edited an Industrial Journal known as ng Organized Labor 4 Ho lie was t treasurer r of or the strike fund In th the strike of or the In Los Anele's Angeles Angeles An An- geles ele's which was wal In pro progress ress when the building of oC tho the Los Angeles Times w was wan destroyed ed He lie was the prime primo mover in inthe inthe the time organization org of or the tho Asiatic exclusion sion sian league some years ears ago ngo and his control of this or organization has gisen him him great reat po power er among laboring men amen menon menon on oil the coast on Ai San Si-in Francisco Dec Dee There S There Is no doubt In in my mind but that in an appeal of nf this case to a Do fair air tribunal the time de defendants defendants de- de e- e will be ie speedily lI acquitted This mis t statement was mn made e today h by P. P II McCarthy former mayor maor of or San an Francisco co and president ent of tho time BuildIng Build Build- lug InS Trades council of California the organization of or which Olaf Olat A. A Tveit f aloe moe one of oC the mon men convicted con In In Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In today toda is secretary Labor in California believes in the Innocence of ot these men McCarthy continued continued con on Untied and I think that I speak authoritatively au au- nu- nu when I Sit say time the they will ivill re receive receive re- re ceic the time support of the ot of this through h all their troubles Those of us UK who timo ha have boon been more intimately inti inti- mutely associated with T a anti Clancy have ha Implicit faith ralth In them T l and Clancy Chine won were convicted con upon the thc testimony of oC Ortle Ortie 1 1 g. lc the time Informer |