Galveston Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 11, 1914 Page: 4 of 12
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The Garveaton Labor Dispatch, Saturday, July 11,1914
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Every day’s delay means so much
more hot, temper-destroying iron-
ing the old-fashioned way.
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| Had we more congressmen as zealous in the per-
formance of their duties as Representative Buchanan,
or even had we several state senators and state repre-
sentatives as earnest in their endeavors to protect the
working men of their state, scores of beneficial meas-
ures would be the result and that within a very short
time. We are ready to give all credit to this repre-
sentative, who has proven true to his trust, and to
any other who after being elected will truly represent
the people after he has secured their vote and been
obligated as their representative in matters of govern-
ment.
At least a few of the officers and men of the Colo-
rado state militia have a little conscience left, for thir-
ty-five of them have tendered their resignations to
General Chase. These soldiers gave their reasons as
being opposed to the actions of their associates at
Ludlow. There were no doubt many others who felt
obliged to respond when called out for strike service,
but who were at heart in sympathy with the outraged
miners.
fourth on grain and cotton respectively. Never hav-
ing been even first-class city farmers, they do not
understand this plank and to cover their ignorance in
the matter they aie forced to call in the old argument
that "he is a socialist,” believing that the real farm-
No one denies that the union label is the strongest
weapon of defense in the hands of the laboring man
today. Use it for all it’s worth. Demand the label
everywhere and help yourself and others at the same
time, for only through united work will the label ever
be brought to its proper place.
Is your local doing its part toward the Labor Day
celebration that will be held this fall? Are you in-
dividually doing your part?
Every local organization of the city that is affiliat-
ed with the Central Body has a representative on the
Labor Day committee. Many of these committeemen.
are attending every meeting and are giving much
time and attention to the forthcoming celebration, in
Strikes us that if Mr. Ball was really so cock-sure
of election he d pull in those forty spellbinders he has
had scattered through the state for a good many days.
They must be quite an expense, even to Lumber King
Kirby and his henchmen.
Another piognant feature of the present campaign
is that Farmer Jim alone addresses about as many
people in one crowd each evening as do all of these
oiators in their combined rallies and gatherings.
Laboring men of the state who hold poll-tax re-
ceipts and most of them do—should not think that
this eternal prohibition agitation is the only thing in
1 exas politics today. They should remember what
Ball has done for the corporations before and then
imagine themselves in a state made dry through sta-
tutory prohibition as a platform plank and with the
railroads and big corporations guiding the governor’s
hand.
Many of the most conservative men of the state__
men who have made a study of scores of political sit-
uations in Texas—are today saying that the election
of Ferguson is assured. They point out thtt in 1912
when Ramsey ran on practically the same platform as
now advocated by Colonel Ball, Mr. Colquitt was able
to defeat him single handed by a majority of forty
thousand votes.
The only flaws that those hypocritical antis headed
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ordei that it many be as successful as they can make
it. Some are not giving it the attention they should.
The Labor Day celebration is going to be held, and
it is going to be a success whether you do your part
or not. We want to make this the biggest celebration
of the kind that was ever held in this section, and we
believ e that the basis for such a celebration has al-
ready been laid by those who are properly doing their
work. If you want to be able to feel proud of the
event, you should be willing to do all that you are
called upon to do by this committee, whether you are
a member or not. If you are not a member, do your
work inside the local of which you are a member, for
by encouraging and aiding your committeeman much
good can be accomplished.
In e\ ery organization there are men who do not
attend the iheetings, who do nothing to advance tne
organization, who, in fact, just belong for the good
they may get out of it, and yet who complain of the
way the others run the organization. Above all, don’t
be one of that crowd in the matter of the Labor Day
Celebration, for that is the one most important event
of the year for our people, and any lack of success in
carrying it out must be borne equally by all organ-
ized labor of this city. Should it be a failure, you
must take a share of the blame that by rights should
fall to the few who did not work, but when it is a
success, as it is sure to be this year, you will have no
right to a share in the praise.
It is necessary that the laws needed shall be passed
by congress for many reasons. We have seen that
although Colorado has admirable laws designed for
the protection of the workers in many instances,
these laws have not been upheld by the executive of-
ficers of that state. It is more easily possible for the
governor of a state and his assistants to become the
tools of the giant corporations than it is for officials
of the national government. We have learned from
If subscribers do not receive their paper by Monday
morning, kindly phone 409 between 9 a. m. and 5:30 p. m.
and same will be sent by special messenger.
If you are not a regular attendant upon the meet-
ings of your local it looks to others as if you were
seeking to gain the benefits of the organization with-
out doing your part toward strengthening it. Come
out to the meeting and get interested in the move-
ment before it leaves you too far behind.
Representative Buchanan showed himself on the . --------
side of humanity by employing every congressional D- arence us ey can find in Ferguson’s platform
tactic in securing the passage of this bill that he 1S What they term his socialistic ideas, but which are
Congressman Buchanan, a member of the. labor
group, and formerly president of the International
Structural Iron Workers’ Union, has won his battle
to amend the laws for better protection to building-
craftsmen in the District of Columbia, the house of
representatives suspended the rule and passed the
bill he introduced by an overwhelming vote.
The law that this congressman has introduced is a
model for its purpose—the protection of life and limb
to workers in the erection of buildings. All scaffold-
ing and platforms will be required on test to bear four
times the maximum weight that might be put on them
in the course of work and the inspector of buildings
shall immediately be notified by the workingmen of
any defect or weakness that may be apparent. This
information is to be treated as confidential.
Strict regulations are provided for the running of
elevators and hoisting machines and it shall be un-
lawful to use these unless the holes on each floor be
closed to a height of six feet. False floors are provided
for on every floor.
In arguing for the passage of the Clayton bill in
the United States senate just as it has been passed
in the house of representatives, President Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation of Labor says:
“At no time in labor’s long struggle for relief from
trust classification, has the prospects for success been
brighter. The American people are beginning to ac-
cept the workers’ viewpoint that there is a difference
between them and their product.
"While the house of representatives has accepted
this viewpoint by passing the Calyton bill, the fight
to exempt labor unions and farmers’ organizations
from trust legislation is not won. Every force at the
command of ‘Big Business’ is now centered on the
senate and its judicial committee, which has the Clay-
ton bill in charge.
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Colorado that the state laws 'will not be as strictly
enforced as would the national laws. Another thing,
nation-wide laws would cover every state, protect the
toilers of every section alike, and prevent some states
from being lax in their enforcement while others were
strict.
Under existing conditions in Colorado, despite the
laws of that state which have been on the statute
books for years, thirty committees have investigated
the strike and yet none of them have been able to ef-
fect a settlement—none of them have succeeded in
restoring order or even in securing the enforcement
of those protective measures which are laws in that
state. Were there national laws governing the situa-
tion order would have been had much earlier and
matters never would have reached th’e present con-
dition there.
A detailed history of this Colorado strike, from the
beginning to the present time, would furnish basis
for half a score of bills to be submitted to congress
next fall, which if enacted into laws would prevent a
repetition of such murders and atrocities in the event
of future strikes of this size. The problems that con-
fronted the workers there will confront them else-
where in strike time unless laws covering the situa
tion are passed.
deemed so important and his filibustering finally re- , • . , J I -
suited in an agreement whereby the bill was passed hroughout the South since the end of th civil
under a suspension of the rules. iz: the renta of faun lands for one-third and
A good many arguments have been made against
the workmen’s compensation acts of various States in
the past. Some of the reasons assigned have been lit-
tle short of foolish, in fact, most of them have been
that way, but there has been one cause assigned that
has done real harm to the compensation act and its'
supporters. That has been the claim that the act
compels the employer to pay for the employe’s care-
lessness. This argument was used in California and
elsewhere with good effect. It has been used in Texas
and is being used'today in an effort to defeat improve-
ment and perfecting of our present liability act.
There never was a more untrue statement than this,
for the employer of labor is the last man in the world
to suffer when extra money must be paid out, whether
it be for raw materials, insurance against fire and j
storm, or insurance against accidents to his machinery
and his employes. He simply adds it all in the cost
and then re-figures his profit. First the wholesaler
pays this difference, then he in turn takes it out on the
small jobber. Next the retailer is taxed a little extra
on each small order and finally the consumer pays the
actual cost.
We know, and so does everyone else know, that the
vast majority of the consumers are laboring men and
their families, so in the end the working man is paying
for the greater portion of his own insurance against
accident, but he is being protected.
Just a little very simple reasoning will show anyone
that most of the arguments that are advaned by the
enemies of compensation are as ridiculous as the state-
ment that the employer is forced to pay for the em-
oye’s carelessness.
All business today is seeking efficiency. The high-
est efficiency on part of employes and operators
means the maximum business and maximum profit
from that enterprise, whether it be ordinary mercan-
tile or factory. Scientists have spent much time
studying this problem, for the hours of work and rest
have everything to do with efficiency.
It has been shown that students in school who at-
tend classes and lectures for six days show a general-
ly regular and natural decline in their nerve reaction
each succeeding morning through the week untd it
is lowest on the sixth day. Then comes the rest and
odiversion of Sunday, and again on Monday morning
die students are normal again.
Other tranches of work have been studied and the
same effects in greater or lesser scale have been notod
without exception. • The greatest difference is that
the more monotonous the work the more rapid the
decline in nerve reaction each succeeding day, for
there is a stjmulous in learning something new each
day that is not manifest with the clerk or factory
operative that toils at the same endless task from be-
ginning to end of each succeeding day.
Most of the investigations as to amount of work
and rest needed have shown that, not only is one
full day of the seven needed for rest, but where the
hours are long an additional holiday is needed in the
middle of the week.
The need for this extra holiday is most apparent in
summer months, and most of the stores of the larger
cities have an almost universal half holiday for their
clerks and employes some time during the week.
Many firms of this city have taken up that practice,
and those who have done so have found that it is a
paying experiment, for it has added greatly to the
efficiency of their employes throughout the week.
A tired clerk is not a highly efficient salesman, is
not capable of converting into a pleased customer the
new patron that has dropped into the store, and those
who have tried it know that the half day each week
that their store is closed has in the end cost them
nothing in total business done.
)ut of the deepest sorrows have come the greatest
lessings. This has applied to nations, communities
d individuals and there is no reason that it should
, apply to organizations of workingmen. The out-
:n es that have been committed on the laborers dur-
i he Colorado strike have shown us what laws are
needed for the proper protection of the work-
ing; i of the country and we should begin at once
seeku.; the enactment of these needed laws by the
United States Congress.
“In a leading editorial recently the New York Tri-
bune attacked the labor sections of the Clayton anti-
trust bill, taking issue with everyone who favors the
measure from the President on down, and in its un-
just attack shows the desperate straits in which ‘Big
Business’ finds itself and the way it will slander pub-
lic officials who insist in doing their own thinking.
“The Tribune editorial referred to is a fair exam-
ple of the methods used by labor’s opponents. It says
in part: ‘I he senate judicial committee would not
be true to the traditions of an honorable past if it did
not submit to a citical examination the dark lantern
compact between Mr. Gompers and the administra-
tion, embodied in the Clayton anti-trust bill. * * *
The secret desire of many democratic leaders is
doubtless to make Labor the beneficiary of the sort
of class legislation which congress slipped into the
sundry appropriation bill, expressly forbidding the
prosecution of labor and agricultural organizations
violating the Sherman law. If the president and his
party want to set up class distinction between law-
breakers, they have the power to do it. But they
should do it courageously and openly.’ %
“To offset this campaign of untruth, bluster, cy-
clone and terror, every member of the trade unions,
railroad brotherhoods, farmers’ organizations, and
their sympathizers, should immediately communicate
with their senators. Indicate to them the need for
permitting labor to exercise its normal activities with-
out being classed with a barrel of oil, through inter-
pretations by the courts.
“Show them that the spokesmen for greed do not
represent the justice-loving sentiments of American
citizenship.
“Insist that the senate pass the Clayton bill, as
passed by the house, at this session.”
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Detetctive Burns, who since his one famous case
has been devoting much energy to keeping himself
in the limelight through the newspapers, has been
ousted from the International Association of Chiefs
of Police. 1 he action was taken at the convention
of the association at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in
throwing this detective out of their organization the
chiefs attending took occasion to show up some of
the tactics he employed.
Chief of Police Beavers of Atlanta, Ga., said: “He
was in my city on a murder case recently. Before he
produced any of the so-called evidence he claimed to
have uncovered to the courts, the prosecutor or the
police, he went about the country peddling the infor-
mation to the newspapers with a view of gaining no-
toriety for himself. He lost no opportunity of scor-
ing the police officials who had been in charge of the
case.”
All of which is quite characteristic of Mr. Burns.
He has done everything he could to keep himself be-
fore the public, especially before the employing pub-
lic, and at one time his agencies sent broadcast let-
ters declaring that they could furnish any boss with
a member of any union who would work alongside
the other men and give him daily reports of their ac-
tions and utterances.
The Chiefs of Police have done well in ousting him.
They went further and demanded that he remove the
insignia of their organization from his letterheads and
threaten to use the courts unless he complies with
their orders.
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