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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, Californian, "that we have one set of right for the ciiizen holding positions anof power and money value, and INE ly pay? Turning to the wages of mechanics as distinguished from the wages of other employees of the government, FIGURES GIVING STRENGTH OF ARMY AND NAVY. Mr. Llvernash charged the administraa Just to favor tion with unwillingness wage for mechanics when an advance All of tha s Battleships and of wages would have the possible efMost of tho Cruisers Wore fect of stimulating wages In kindred Built in England. n Indusemployment in great CONGRESSMAN LIVERNASH CONDEMNS THE PRESIDENT. Hie "Open Shop" Policy Showe to Organterne Hoetility ized Labor. First-Clas- In- non-unio- trial plans. It Is not easy, writes E. J. Harrison lie cited the experience of the meSan to the A WuHhlngton special United States the chanics employed in from Toklo to the London Mall, to Francisco Examiner dated April 4th, naval gun factory at Washington. information on the pres-e- secure precise Califorfighting strength of the Jauan-ea- e of Llvernash Representative army. In view of the official retinia in the house of representatives tocence, but some figures given by Baday delivered a message to the counsil Hall Chamberlain In tbe last editry for the people who toll for their tion of hla "Things Japanese may be dally bread. Te emphasised the hostilaccepted as approximately correct: ity of the Republican party and the Men with the colors (first to third "hired are president toward those who consideration year), 150,000; first reserve (fourth to and the favoritism and seventh year), 150,000; second reserve administrashown the by invariably (eighth to twelfth year). 150,000; totion to those who do the hiring." tal 450,000. Of these some 8,000 or Representative Llvernash unsparing9,000 are officers. In 1901 It was estily condemned President Roosevelt for mated that those liable to conscription his expressed friendliness for the "open service throughout tbe country numshop In private employ, as well as In case bered 539,282. Until 1873 privates were government service. In the Miller to as recruited from various feudal fiefs, its applithe executive order, Just men the to but thereafter the conscription syscation directly employed by auwas an official tem was Instituted, and has gradualand government, thoritative declaration for the "open ly been developed. Today all Japanese male subjects from 17 to 40 are hostile and shop generally intensely to the labor unions of America,' this liable to military service. order was seised upon by employers The organisation is composed of active, landwehr, depot and throughout the country and used as a The first named Includes serbludgeon against trades unions. With full knowledge of the effect of his vice with the colors, and with the words the president has permitted, Mr. first reserve, the former lasting three Llvernash said, the continued use of years and being obligatory on all his expressions as a weapon against males who have attained the age or not been and he has labor; 20, and the latter lasting for four organised friendly enough to union men to utter years and four months, obligatory on one syllable In modification of his orall who have finished service with der. the colors. The landwehr, or second Speaking for labor, organised and reserve lasts five years. The depot unorganised, Mr. Llvernash protested service, first and second, lasts eight against the unvarying repression apyears and eight months. The first plied to the tollers when they sought comprises those who have not been Justice at the hands of the adminisenliated for actual service, and the tration of the officials and he referred second those who have not been ento the cases of the letter carriers and listed for the first. The landsturm Is the machinists of the government navy mission, wherein the commission de- divided Into first and second diyards, who had been denied the right clared for against visions, the former including those of petitioning congress by President workmen. And Immediately who have served In the landwehr and Roosevelt as an usurpation of the right after so quoting he aald: T heartily the first depot service, and the second of citizens rights which were guaranapprove of this award and Judgment of those who have not been through the teed by the constitution and never be- the commission appointed by me," and other services. fore invaded. Three squadrons of cavalry are. alon "Thla commiswrote. he further The arraignment of the president besion was dealing with labor organiza lotted to a division, there being about gan with a declaration that he had tlons in all. While It la admitted working for private employers. thirty-nin- e suffered his administration to disreIt Is. of course, mere elementary de- on all hands that the Japanese Infangard the constitution in its protection cency to require that all governmental try is nearly perfect, the same cannot of the poor and the house, unable in departments shall be handled In ac- be said of the mounted arm of the serthe exercise of their citizenship, had cordance with the principle thus clear- vice. Not only Is there, a dearth of permitted the secretary of the navy ly and fearlessly enunciated.' good horses, but the Japanese is a to stand for an unreasonable wage to Thus Mr. Roosevelt threw tbe great conspicuously poor rider always has mechanics In the service of the weight of hla office In favor of the been and doubtless always will be. and to embarrass them In open shop in private employments. His seat Is wretched, and he usually their Just compensation for their toll, He the appears ill at ease when his mount expreaesd satisfaction with bad sanctioned the failure of three of commission's award as affecting pri- begins to trot So far the efforts of his cabinet officers to enforce the Chi- vate Industries and that award was the riding school have not succeeded nese exclusion laws against the em an open shop' award. He pronounced In effecting appreciable Improvement ployment of Chinese seamen on Amer- that 'open shop award fearlessly and and In war with Russia tbe Japanese ican ships; had himself declared In the clearness of Its atatments of prim would be well advised to avoid all favor of the "open shop" In private inclple he deemed advisable. cavalry engagements. dustries, to the grievous Injury to "Had he confined himself to a state There are six batteries of field arlabor unions throughout the country, merit of the law aa affecting govm-m- tillery In each division, though I beand In various other ways had maniemploy, he would have been ful- lieve that under the expansion profested coldness toward the lowly, twelve more batteries were filling hla plain duty. Had be coupled gram whatever the warmth of his mere with that statement an expression or recently added. The artillery, chiefly words when addressing public gatherpersonal friendliness for the labor employs the "Arina ka gun, and the In ings. union, he would have been doing some- fantry a modification of the earlier "For the protection of his party thing of distinct value to society; but Murata rifle. Japan possesses two chiefs In their neglect of h multitude of wen he announced the' laws aa It af arsenals, at Toklo and Osaka reunderpaid department employees,' fects government employ In the Ian. spectively. The former turns out said Mr. Llvernash, "he issued his ex gunge of Intolerance or discrimination small arms and cartridges, and the ecutlve order of January SI, 190S, foragainst and, worse yet, latter guns, projectiles, etc. There are bidding all subordinate department he goes far out of hla way and powder factories at Meguro. Itabasht, why employees from directly or ' Indirectly expresses hearty approval of the 'open Iwahana An UJ1, and an arms workasking congress to better their condi- shop' policy as applied to private em- shop at Mojl. The Toklo arsenal In tions. That order was a clear violaployment, he discloses an active and 1901 employed 2,064 operatives and the tion of the federal constitution. It was bitter hostility to trades unionism and Osaka arsenal not quite so many. a bold attempt to deprive a host or he should be treated from sea to lea The facilities afforded for military American citizens serving the governas the most dangerous education are ample. The local miliment In humble stations of their con man of his time, Inasmuch as his bru- tary preparation schools at Toklo, stitutional right of freedom of speech tally curt announcement has, by ren Sendai, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima and and freedom of petition. Theodore oon of hla station, become a gospel Kumamoto each admit about fifty stuRoosevelt never had n shadow of au- from which .a multitude of haters of dents each year, and give a general thority for depriving citizens working labor unions are preaching destruc- education and military training to for the United States of the right to tion of the tremendously valuable boys who aspire to become officers. ask for better wages. Their right to movement whereby the unlona uplift These Institutions are connected with ask congress for any desired change the millions who toll. the central military preparatory school of law was and Is as deeply rooted ns Mr. Llvernash thereupon analyzed which trains cadets for the various human rights can be, and the despotic the "open shop policy, showing It to corps and admits about 200 students and arrogant order whereby he sought be nothing less than a policy promo annually. The Toyama Gakko, or to overrun the great rule making the tlve of backed by the military training school, trains stuhumble and mighty equal in the mrit-t- foes of unions an the enemies of 'the dents from the Infantry corps in tacof freedom of speech and freedom masses. He defended unionism as a tics, shooting, fencing and gymnastics. of petition, will be remembered by his great safeguard of public welfare and The term Is from two to seven months tory to his lasting discredit. direct aid to equitable distribution of and the number to be admitted Is anMr. Llvernash then took up the u a wealth, comfort and enlightenment, nually determined. At the top stands the administration had made of the and declared the highest duty of citi- the staff college, which enables young executive order and showed that the zens of the republic to be In these officers of distinguished ability to orders hnd been used as a club to re- times to protect them in their mission study the hlrfier branches of their buke workers for the government who of progress. profession. There are. besides, numerhad dared to exercise their citizenship After further discussion of legisla- ous schools devoted to special subIn driving out of public life Roosevelt tive disregard of the Interests of the jects, such as the and engiartillery pets unfaithful to the tollers. plain people, the Callfornlnn spoke of neering school, the military field arAttention was then invited to the congress and charged and proved that tillery shooting school, the military circumstances that, side by side with the majority party in the present con- forts artillery shooting school, the the Intolerance of the executive to po- gress had been hostile to the people military gunnery, and mechanics litical activity of workmen serving the who work and are unduly friendly school, the paymaster, surgery, veterUnited States in subordinate places, toward the parasites who control inary surgery and band schools, etc. has steadily been a direct compliance enormous fortunes. The punitive and disciplinary syson the part of the president toward He closed by expressing faith In tbe tem la highly elaborate and a detailed members of his cabinet taking the multitude, faith that sooner or later description would not be interesting. In stump prosecution of the partisan they would see things at Washington The military criminal procedure was ends of the Republican orgnnlaxtlon. about as they are. so seeing, drive from first drafted In 1983 and In 1888 amend Has It come to this? asked the power those neglectful of their welfare, ed ns at present. The court mnrtlnt nt They are not aa well paid aa other mechanics working for the government In Washington and they have desired a moderate Increase enough to bring their pay to the level of the other mechanics in Washington. They had to get permission from tha administration before they could ask congress to give them the Increase and when this permission had been granted they found that the secretary of the navy had written to the house committee on naval affairs advising against the Improvement of their condition. "The secretary of the navy," said the speaker, "professed to be against the Increase because the increase would be a discrimination In favor of the gun factory workmen aa against workmen engaged In navy yards outside of Washington and he very well knew that employees of the gun factory in the District of Columbia are skilled mechanics and particularly therefore entitled to special compensation. The simple truth appears to be that he wished and yet wishes to Bethleprotect the great hem and Midvale gun plants from possibility pf being obliged by a discontent of tbelr workmen to advance wages notoriously inadequate." Next Mr. Llvernash discussed the 'open shop" policy of the president. He quoted from the letter wlrtten by the president, July 14, 1903, to Mr. concerning tbe Miller case. In hla letter," he said, "the president quoted that paragraph of the judgment of the anthracite coal com- says: - non-uni- on Cor-telyo- non-uni- land-stur- u, on nt . nt anti-uni- m, er on m. and to enforce the military code already mentioned. If the origin of the modern Japanese army la anonymous in that, although obviously adapted from the German model, It cannot be traced to any one Individual, the evolution of the navy, on the other hand, is of peculiar interest to Englishmen because the true founders of Japan's sea power were undoubtedly of that nation. I need not recall the splendid services rendered by such officers as Lieutenant Ilawes of the royar marines, who taught gunnery on hoard the Prince of Hizena vessel, the Ryujo Maru. In early Meijl days; the naval mission headed by Commander Tracy, royal navy, in 1867, and the second mission headed by Commander Douglas, royal navy, in 1873. which remained six years in Japan. It la true that the oldest dock yard at Yokosuka was built by French naval architects about forty years ago, but in the construction of her modern fleet Great Britain has easily played the major role. The battleships, the Ashal, tons; Mikasa, 15,862; Hatauae, 15,240; Shlklahlma, 15,088; Fuji. and Yashlma, 12,517, are all the work of English yards. From the aam0 source emanated four of the six first-clabatcruisers, three second-clasecond-clatwo cruisers, tleships, four third-clacruisers, one first-claone boat, and no less dispatch gunboat, nineteen second-clas- s than gunboats and torpedo boat destroyers. The total tonnage of shlpri In commission and reserve la now almost 270,000 tons. The personnel on active service is 81,879, of whom more than 1,700 are commissioned officers, 830 cadets, 631 special warrant officers and The first and 5,802 warrant officers. second reserves comprise 6,267 officers and men, or a total of some 87,646. The naval stations are Yofour first-clakosuka, Kure, Sasebo, and Malzuru, of which Kure, on the Inland sea, la tha chief, possessing aa it does a magnificent arsenal. A fifth station at Muro-raIn Yeso, will shortly be estabfirst-cla- aa r 1904. 7, was established In 1872 and la emofpowered to deal with all criminal fenses committed by combatants and JAPAN'S COMPLETE other set for citizens holding the places of subordinate authority and beggar- APRIL 15,-4- 43 12,-64- 9, Mi ikttt n mi sonant loctori ia yaw A iawiy or oatt-4kit will floor M'l wkoic oy. yeonaca. Tko 4w. Lonjley, Low& Alexander brand of stiff and soft hats are ultrafuh-ionab- lc hats in the latest blocks. They are fast-color shape-holdi- ng hats. . 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