Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 4, 1905 Page: 4 of 4
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Ladies’ fine embroidered
Fine worsted, serge and
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handkerchiefs,
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Men’s madras
shirts at ...............
In Hosiery
Ladies’ fine ribbed
hose, 25c value.s.
Boys* heavy ribbec
school hose, 25c va
hand turned tan
shoes at.................
Ladies’ fine shirt
waist hats at...........
Fine woolen
waists at.........................
Nice colored lawn
waists at............................
Men’s, Women’s and Childrens
Shoes
all-wool suits
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All Progress make, rang-
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Wool Jeans
per yard..........
DISPARITY IN NUMBERS OF WAGE-
WOAKIRS AND EMPLOYERS.
10-4 bleached sheet-
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ing the desired surplus.
When men toll ten hours per day
and wish to reduce the time to eight
they are frowned upon as unreason-
able.
The eight hour workday should' be
the universal law and unbroken rule
There are the Zion hne
Laces, now selling at 50c
on the dollar.
The Toiler’s Burden.
Don’t lose sight of the fact thatthose
who do not work are fed, clothed and
housed by those who do work; that
they ride on flowery beds of ease, upon
the backs of those who toil, and that
the worse than useless breed is rapidly
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The man who expects as great re-
turns from a ten cent union as he does
from a well financed organization is
first cousin to the dunce who thinks a
stagecoach should make as good time
as a fast express train.— Fobacco Work-
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Absolute power may not safely be
trusted in the hands of any man or
set of men, whether robed in black or
purple, whether sitting on the bench or
on a throne.
He Weut.
Beek Agent (entering)—Madam, I
have a work of art to show you. It is
a book. Lady of the House (reopening
the door)—And I have a work of art
to show yod. It is a landscape.
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How Fortunes Are Made,
Lawson has revealed enough to show
that the “captains of industry” are
mean, low, sordid tricksters who will
lie and steal, betray their accomplices
and do everything that is dishonorable
and disreputable. That is the manner
in which every great fortune of mod-
ern times has been accumulated, and
taffeta, the 1.00
kind for....................
An Endless Chain.
Capital cannot be usefully applied if
it does not take care to keep up its ex-
ploitable material—the working men
and women—to be exploited over and
over again.
52-inch mohair Sicilian
black and all colors KQ.
regular price 85c forey •
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SECOND WEEK SALVAGE SALE!
Open Shop Taeties Fall.
The blacklisting of open shop tactics,
pursued by the master builders, has
proved a great organizer for the build-
ing trades unions. Instead of driving
members from the unions large num-
bers of nonunion men in the building
trades applied for membership in the
unions —Shoe Workers’ Journal.
A Sure Way.
Mabel— I wish I knew some way to
make George forget me, for I can nev,
er marry him. Henry—Have you trtea
plending him money?—New Orleans
dmes-Demoerat.
Three Special Lots
We hold the crowds on
the greatest offerings we
ever had.
consideration of their
of honest labor ought to satisfy the
most exacting demands, yet more is of-
ten required. Working overtime, where
the ten hour system is the custom es-
pecially, is an imposition on the health
and general well being of any man.
Nevertheless employers require this
added hardship without extra remuner
ation.
in some of the large towns that pro-
fess to be organized this exhaustive
method is the rule, though fortunately
organization in other places has estab-
lished the eight hour rule and oxtra
pay for overtime.
The march of progress will yet prove
the vietory of brotherhood. -
The laboring man presumably loves
his family as dearly as the man of
wealth and leisure loves his. He is as
happy and proud of his children’s at-
tainments as the father whose children
never fear want; but, however richly
endowed with natural gifts, cultivation
is necessarily limited for them. Pres-
sure of circumstances forces them at
an early age from the school into shop
or office.
They must become producers. A cer-
tain amount of surplus capital is re-
quired to maintain the leisure classes,
and the tolling majority must furnish
it
Colorado has broken the record of
denlovable aopdifogg. ‘Phe mest tyran-
The cigar makers’ unions of Ohio
have notified their representatives in
congress that they are opposed to the
lowering of the tariff on cigars coming
to this country from the Philippine
Islands.
A conference of governments for the
protection of workers against accidents
has been called to meet in Switzerland
next May.
As a result of the referendum vote
recently taken by the members of the
United Garment Workers of America
the date of the next convention, which
was to have been held in Toronto in
August, 1905, has been changed to take
place in August, 1906.
The English Cigarmakers’ union has
won a complete victory in its strike
against the English branoh of the
Amerfea tobacco dust.
nieal slavery coula not more compieve-
ly victimise labor. A system that con-
centrates capital and generates pau-
perism cannot hope to end in anything
short of revolution and reconstruction.
Where seven shall toll in ignorance and
destitution that one may revel in idle-
ness and luxurious extravagance strife
and dissatisfaction are the natural re-
sult.
Labor has many justifiable griev-
ances, but altogether has shown itself
just and patient We may not solve
the nation’s problems nor relieve the
industrial situation of the evils that
cry out for remedy, though mind and
heart shall ever thrill with sympathy
for the world’s burden bearers. Ever
shall our influence by word and deed
be directed to the promotion of a
brotherhood that shall ultimately bless
the world with peace. Though a part
of humanity must always bear all the
burdens, brotherhoods will relieve the
oppression that labor finds more aggra-
vated every year. Pauperism will de-
cline as the trusts decay. Through
brotherhood alone will peace and pros-
rights and wrongs and interests, they
might assist each other in times of dis-
tress, financial or otherwise; they
might make provision for the widows
and orphaus of deceased members; they
might lend encouragement and support
to the man who has failed and desires
to begin anew; they might educate each
other up to broader and more liberal
views and gain a glimpse of those wide
fields of human hope, endeavor and
happiness which lie beyond the narrow
bounds of business interests.
More than this, they might meet on
equal terms with unions of employees
and discuss with mutual forbearance
their separate rights and common in-
terests, to the vast profit of both, and
thus breathe peace on the chaos of in-
dustrial strife.
But, alas, it appears that no such
beneficent purpose actuates these em-
ployers’ associations. Like the newly
formed unions, they are spoiling for a
fight. “The task of the employers’ as-
sociation,” the president of the Manu-
facturers’ association is quoted as say-
ing, “is to pull up, root and branch, the
un-American institution of organized
labor as at present conducted.”
All this antagonism springs from the
spirit that inspired the slave owner be-
fore the war. "No -one shall tell me
how to run my business/’ says the
masterful employer of white laber to-
day, nor was the owner of the black
labor of the south ever dictated to by
his "help.”
There was no interference with
wages, hours or conditions of servitude.
Ne weTkieg Qelegete east He bajedul
rather than the exception. Ten hours
One case II-4
blankets, silk
blue, pink anc
red border............
Keeping- Them Guessing
We surprise you with
that great line of men’s
Blue demin cottonade Re
and pants goods........... e•
Pure Air Im Mines.
Changes in the Michigan mining law
are being considered by representatives
of Michigan operators and a commit-
tee from the United Mine Workers of
America. The present law is not suf-
ficiently comprehensive, it is said, and
provides for little else than the ap-
pointment of an inspector, whose duty
it is to gather statistics. One proposed
change contemplates more stringent
regulations regarding the supply of
pure air in mines.
Wen She MIght.
An old German historian of Tubin-
gen describes an attack by the French
in 1674 during which eighteen persons
were killed by the exploding of a
mine. A soldier’s wife was thrown
the distance of an acre. She was not
hurt, the chronicler adds quaintly,
“but she scolded terribly and was in
a very bad humor.”
Boys’ wool pants, would
sell anywhere for 29.
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Austin, Texas, Feb. I—The past week
has been a very busy one in legislative
circles and the* labor representatives
have been very busy with committee
hearings, both in the House and Senate.
Ever measure championed by labor is
being stubbornly opposed and the com-
mittee hearings have been spirited and
interesting.
The hearing on the "Assumed Risk”
bill has has been concluded before the
Senate committee but a report has not
yet been made. It is very probable that
the bill will be referred to a sub-com-
mittee to draft some kind of compro-
mise measure.
The Switchlight bill will probably
get out of the Senate Committee today
or tomorrow. Thus far the Cotton
Belt is the only road that is opposing it.
Judge Perkins, whorepresents this road,
asked for a hearing and it may be that
he will withdraw his opposition in view
of the action of the other roads.
"The “Full Crew” bill was passed to
engrossment in the House Monday and
will pass the House finally this week and
go to the Senate, and from present in-
dications will be the first of our meas-
ures to become a law.
A hearing was had on the Telegra-
phers’ bill before the House Committee
on Labor last Friday night. Attorneys
for four or five of the railroads were
present and put up a strong fight against
the bill. Our side of the case was so
clearly presented, however, that the
committee reported the bill by a unani-
mous vote. This bill is intended to pre-
naaow aeross ins masters tnzesnesa.
No eommittees sought audtences, and
no grievance was reresse. There
wes uething to dimeuss or arbitrate.
Tbose were ideal conditious for men
who would not be dietated to, but for-
temmtely they can never eome ngaia.
It is the master’s desire to dominate
which i at fault, for he aims not only
to run his own business, but to dictate
terms of employment, which is the
business of the employee, and the mas-
ter feels aggrieved when he fails to
have his will, and fall he must with
free men.
The policy of running one’s own busi-
ness will have to be abandoned unless
the employer is willing to allow the
employees to run theirs.
The free man must have freedom to
dispose of his labor to the best possi-
ble advantage. He is not dictating,
but exercising the ordinary rights of
the seller, when he demands for his
labor such terms as to him seem just.
Every seller of merchandise does the
same. But the buyer of labor seems
to think it impertinent when the seller
refuses to sell unless the terms are
fair. “Dictation,” shouts the would be
buyer; “I won’t be dictated to!” when
the truth is that he is trying to dictate
to the men whose labor he proposes to
buy.
The first essential to absolute mas-
tery by the employer is the open shop.
We have always had open shops. The
textile mills both north and south are
open shops. The long hours and low
pay of the little children show that
the employers brook no dictation from
the employees. The sweat shops are
open. The teamsters of Boston ran
1 table lot elegant AA,
colored lawn waists Wv
36-inch all linon Ke
lawn,regular 40c for LeC
36-inch guatanteed black
One case 11-4 gray wool
blankets, blue QA A7
and red border.....eLe4k
The Cnpitalint and <b* Laberer Stuina
In the Same Relation to Eaeh
Other na Did Master and Slsve of
Former Days.
“Consumer and Producer” is the sub-
ject of an article by Margaret Scott
Hall in the Carpenter. The writer
states that it has been estimated that
there are seven times as many wage
earners in America as there are em-
ployers. She says in part:
This is said to be a free country, but
the average capitalist and the average
wage earner stand in the same rela-
tion to each other as did the master
and slave of former days. With time
and progress the methods and terms
are changed, and now, for the sake of
euphony, we say boss Instead of mas-
ter and hands instead of slaves.
If mental development or self cul-
ture should be desired by a laborer, perity become the heritage of the Amer-
while it might be looked upon as a lean people.
laudable ambition, its realization is Brotherhood will broaden the eharl-
impracticable for lack of leisure. Many ties of mankind, awaken the dormant
bosses do not hesitate to say that men- sympathies of those who have seemed
tai cultivation unfits one for service as to be without- piety and kindle the
a hireling- spark of divine love in humanity un-
The consumers of surplus capital re- til the chill of selfishness shall be
quire a laboring class, and the less warmed away.
fitted this class is for self culture or In- When the influence of brotherhood
tehlectual enjoyments the more useful has made itself manifest in church and
it is in its capacity to serve in produe- state, hate and hypocrisy will dimin-
ish and men as brothers will help in-
stead of blame each other.
Nonproducers will cease to be drones,
and those who labor and are heavy
laden will find rest. The spirit of broth-
erhood will cast out bitterness and in-
justice.
vent accidents caused by incompetent
train telegraphers by preventing any
man fillingrsuch an important position
until he has established his fitness before
a board of experts. The railroads will
not employ an engineer or conductor
until he has passed a satisfactory ex-
amination, but will employ a telegrapher
without any examination, and it is a
matter of common knowledge that ac-
cidents caused by the latter are disas-
trous. The fight against this bill will
likely be erried on to the floor of the
House, but we are very hopeful.
The Miners’ Bill has brought on one
of the hottest fights of the session.'
Pratically every mine operator in Texas
was here Monday to oppose the bill,
Edw. Cunningham, first vice-president
of the Texas Federation of Labor, and
also an official of the United Workers,
was here, as was also A. Campbell of
Bridgeport, Robert M’Kinnon of Thur-
ber, Andrew Johnson of Lyra and>noth-
er miner from Strawn. The case for the
miners was handled by Attorney Wray,a
very able and astute lewyer of Fort
Worth.
At the outset the operators were in-
clined to oppose every part of the bill,
but as the hearing progressed and the
fairness and justice of the measure was
made ciear they shifted their position
and centered their efforts to kill the
clause appointing a mine inspector.
Among the union men who visited
Austin this week are Joe Proebstle, In-
ternational Secretary Brewery Workers,
Cincinnati, Joe Braden, San Antonio,
T. W. Dee, Galveston, F. W. Habel
Dallas. Bros. Proebstle, Braden and
Habel are here to attend a license bill
in the House tomorrow.
WALTON PETEET.
Ammwede thae Bveedoz of the Press
and Bight of Free Speeeh.
On© wd as to injunetions. The ia-
tarrenttan ef judges in qulty in labor
dsputes has proved again what every
human experience has taught, that no
man or set of men can be trusted with
unrestricted authority, writes Henry
Sterling in Labor Clarion.
I do not pretend to be competent to
discuss the legal aspeets of the issue of
labor injunctions. I cannot tell wheth-
er or not the courts have exceeded their
vested authority by this new and un-
heard of use of the writ of injunction,
but these few things I know:
The injunctions are a false pretense,
claiming to be for the protection of
property, when the world knows that
their effect is to defeat a strike and
they are sought for that purpose.
They invade the freedom of the press
and the right of free speech and deny
completely the right of trial by jury,
with all its decent safeguards for the
protection of the accused.
They deny to respected workmen the
right accorded to a common thief.
They effectively silence the trouble
makers.
If our government should continue
on its present course toward abso-
lutism courts of equity will flourish and
injunctions abound. But, if perchance
we turn again to the ideals of the fa-
thers of liberty and equality before the
law, equity jurisdiction will be abolish-
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misses’ raincoats eleeU embroidery trimm'dLeC
Boy's l fir
sweaters.....50c, 25c, IvV
500 pieces Red Seal A.
F. C. & Bates’* new
spring gingham 1
per yard........................ 1
Very finest sheer RA,
white lawn waists......eUC
They Miaht Meot en Equal Venma
Their Empleyees asa DZneuns Mu-
tual Rights and Intevestm — The
Bane of Monopoly.
The most important movement in the
economic world today is the new policy
of organization adopted by the employ-
ers. Rapid as has been the recent
growth of the labor unions, the coming
together within the last two years of
citizens’ alliances and manufacturers'
and employers’ associations has been
much more remarkable.
There is, there can be, no reasonable
objection on the part of the workmen
to unions of their employers, providing
always that such unions are kept with-
in proper bounds. Probably no serious
effort will be made by the workmen to
break up such organizations so long as
they are properly conducted and do not
make unreasonable demands and do
not injure the property, invade the
rights or interfere with the business of
the workmen and do not allow them-
selves to be led or controlled by dan-
gerous agitators or loud mouthed dema-
gogues.
Employers’ unions, conservatively
managed, have before them a broad
You’ll find over 2,000
pairs ladies’, men’s and
children’s shoes at ridic-
ulous prices.
Misses’and ladies’ AA,
dongola shoes at..... Lev
Ladies’ narrow widths
After the Quarrel.
Sha—There is just one little bit of
millinery that I desire more. He
(crossly)—You needn’t say any more.
I won’t buy it for you. She—Don’t
be afraid. You’ll never get the bill
for it. Rs a widow’s bonnet.
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for $7.50, special
open shops until recently on a basis of
$8 per week for sixteen hours per day.
j There are two distinct classes of em-
ployers of labor—one class that holds
; some form of monopoly and one that
। does not. The latter class, for lack of
; a better name, may be called legitimate
business men.
। The former, the monopolists, are the
. vampires which suck the lifeblood out
of both the legitimate business man
and his workmen.
The deplorable feature of the present
policy of the legitimate employer is
that be consorts with the vampire in
an effort to subdue the workman and
foree the workmen to submit to a low-
er rate of wages and a lower standard
of living.
Feeling the pressure of keen eom-
petition, he turns against his employees,
joins the cry against the unions raised
by the common oppressor and is bring-
ing destruction upon himself and his
workmen.
The only salvation is for the legiti-
mate business man to unite with the
workingmen in a common assault on
' all forms of monopoly. These once de-
stroyed, there will be no lack of profit-
able business and no idle labor.—Henry
Sterling.
Men’s worsted and cor-
duroypants, Cl Oil
$1.50 values at......el.UU
Men’s clastic sus- 1 A,
penders, at..................... IUC
1 counter of narrow
widths men’s Q1 A
shoes................................el.UU
General Butchery
Wash Goods, Silks and Woolen
1 lot of checked nainsook
regular 10c quality 5c
1 lot of colored lawns
regular 10c quality 5c
Today we’ll give you a few more surprises. ’Twill be in seven stocks where the big lots are more interesting.
40-inch white lawn 1 Qe
regular price 15c for 1UV
36-inch henrietta, black
and all colors, regu- A.
lar price 35c, for........ Lev
32-inch Persian lawn,
regular price 20c 1 Ai
for.....................................................
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