THE BRASS KNUCKLES ARGUMENT AGAIN.
[From the Oakland Tribune, a union paper.] POLICE JUDGE CABANISS, in San Francisco, fined a picket for the Stablemen's Union $25 for carrying a concealed weapon. The convicted man was arrested, with two other pickets, as he was advancing on a non-union stable employee. On his person was found a pair of brass knuckles. Another had a piece of gas-pipe on his person. The third was equipped with a monkey-wrench, a useful implement in mechanics, but decidedly irregular as an argument between union and non-union stablemen. Members of the union paid the fine of the convicted picket. On the same day this occurred a member of the Piano-movers' Union was badly beaten up by several men whose talk and actions indicated that they thought him a non-union man. The officers of the Teamsters' Union said the outrage must have been committed by "sympathizers," but there was no denunciation of the miscreants. This farcical pretense will deceive no one who does not deliberately close his eyes to facts and logical inferences. Whenever a union striker is arrested for assaulting a non-union man, the union hires an attorney to conduct the defense, furnishes bail, and puts up the fine in case of conviction. On the other hand, there is no official denunciation of the assault, no expression of sympathy for the victim. If the assailant be unknown to the victim or the police, he is dismissed as "a sympathizer." One may read the moral as he runs.