Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 26, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 4, No. 22.
fied as being opposed to the old mo-
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.
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Bricklayers’
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Labor Council will meet in reg-
delegate is urged to be present, as bus-
THE PLUMBERS.
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
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HOUSTON LABOR NEWS.
BARBER’S UNION, NO. 74.
last, President
good, almost
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government parties,
fast losing ground in
To every Citizen
of Galveston and
Galveston County.
Fort Worth, Oct. 20.-—The members
of the Building Trades Council on one
side and the members of the Builders’
Exchange bn the other are expecting
what will be done, but it is understood
that there is a division of sentiment
, among them on this important ques-
ular session Sunday
Deems in the chair.
The attendance was
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Labor Happenings of General Interest Throughout
the Uhited States Showing ProgressJAmong
the Various Unions
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Large numbers of Japs are being
hired in ritish Columbia. to work in
the mines of the Yukon at the rate of
$1 per day. This is about one-fifth of
the rate commanded by white labor in
the Klondike district within recent
times.
Galveston Journal
Official Organ of the Labor Unions and Central Bodies of Galveston.
Chicago, of which the late President
McKinley was an honorary member,
placed a fine of $1 on every member
not marching in the late funeral pa-
rade.
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We do not have a meeting this week,
but we are trying to keep something
doing all the time; and by the way we
think that the way to build up a strong
union is to keep something doing all
the time. We have learned already of
some good being done among the bar-
bers from the report of the. delegates
to the Council, and if all the laboring
people would stand shoulder to shoul-
der we would soon settle this thing
called unfair.
We understand that the barbers at
Stiner’s had a badger fight last night,
SrArm Labor Press:
and that the president pulled the string.
It is a good thing he was not next, _
or the laugh might have been on the
other fellow. But as it is the president
does not seem to feel well today.
The barbers at the Rice are in a ter-
rible fix. You ought to see them try-
ing to work while the painters are dec-
orating the shop.
The Twentieth Century is having
some new signs painted.
We understand that all of the shops
in the Fifth ward are going to consoli-
date into one big shop.
When you see Bro. Maultry ask him
what makes him so sleepy.
All members seem to be working now
and doing well, with prospects of add-
ing more members in the near future.
EX-PRESIDENT.
were elected and initiated.
The union unanimously
The Metal Polishers’ international
reports ninety union factories working
nine hours. Twenty-three new locals
have been organized since the last con-
vention. A referendum vote is being
taken to decide whether the interna-
tional shall be divided into three sep-
arate unions.
narchichial or
Capitalism is
Italy.
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Auditing committee, Deems and
Shanahan, reported the financial con-
dition of tne union to be in Al order.
Bro. Walker, employed at Wilcox’s
GALVESTON, TEXAS, OCT. 26, 1901.
the McKinley funeral day as a day of
mourning, have been reinstated and
the threatened strike averted.
The Plumbers Union had a good at-
tendance at their last meeting. All the
members seem to take lots of interest
in the union.
The Plumbers are all working, and
there is work here for more plumbers
if they were here, but there is lots of
work all over the State, and that is
the reason we can not have more
plumbers in Houston.
Our congenial Bro. Davis left here
some five weeks ago, and went to
Beaumont to work, but soon came
back. Instead of getting full oil, I
suppose he got full of something else
—malaria I suppose; and of course
Bro. Davis is a good actor’ when Tie
has a big mitt. But leaving jokes aside,
Bro. Davis is a good union man from
every standpoint, but he had to come
back to his battling grounds to get a
drink of Buffalo bayou water.
Bro. Geo. Limroth was out to the
last meeting, and we are always glad
to meet a good old whole-souled fel-
lows like eorge; in fact the Georges
all seem to be all right, and we have
a bunch of them in our union. I think
so much of the Georges, and Henry
George especially, that I wish my name
had been George.
At a regular meeting of Laborers’
union 8012, held at 9 a. m., Sunday,
Vice President Thomas Donohue oc-
cupied the chair. Various business
was transacted and an election was
held to fill vacancies in the office of
president, for which G. E. Hardy was
chosen, and of corresponding secre-
was reported sick. The sick commit-
developments in the next week or so , tee was instructed to take care of the
which will have a bearing of some im-' brother.
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A cable from Rome says in register-
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and masons’ union of
action. The members of the Exchange . .,
c,.. . , tarv, to which place A. J. Wadley
do not make an official statement of I 1
uo - " , was elected. Thos. Donohue con tin-
ues as vice president. Bro. W. M.
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The Bartenders’ union met in reg-
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Nearly 5000 colored workers em-
ployed in the Southern tobacco factor-
ies are members of the Tobacco Work-
ers’ union.
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portance on the labor situation in this
city.
As has heretofore been stated, a
committee of the Building Trades
Council has been appointed to confer
•with the contractors looking to an
agreement for arbitration of the dif-
ferences brought about by the strike
of the painters and the plasterers. The
carpenters who are members of this
committee have talked to the master
painters on the subject, and at the
next meeting of the Builders’ Ex-
change, a member of the committee
will go before the Exchange to pre-
sent the question, and get some official
every member being present and the
interest was unanimous and enthusi-
astic.
Bros. Dock Carter and Joe Isbell
both organized an unorganized work-
ingmen throughout the state to sever
their connection with the old political
parties and stand free to support can-
didates nominated directly by and
from the ranks of the working class.
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At the last meeting of Chicago
Typographical union action was taken
looking to the celebration of the fifti-
eth anniversary of the organization,
which will be reached next June. The
printers’ union is recognized as one
of the great bodies of the city. Its
age places it in the pioneer ckass,
while the activity of its membership
is a matter of history.
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Because they refused to work with
a. ncn-union man. 150 men employed
in the assembly department of the
Singer Sewing Machine company’s
works at Elizabethport, N. J., went
on a strike one day last week.
tween the carpenters and the contrac-
- tors, and the personal influence of
the carpenters will have much to do
with the question.
The work on the Wheat building is
progressing, and soon the plasterers
will be needed. At present all union
plasterers are out, demanding $5 per
day. When the plastering is to be
done it is desired that the differences
existing should be settled, and influ-
ence will be brought on this line.
At the last meeting of the Building
Trades Council, the colored laborers’
organizauon was suspended. Each or-
ganization having representation in
the council must pay a monthly per
capita tax. The colored laborers had
a strike and their union became in
arrears for its per capita. Being in
arrears for two months, the union be-
came suspended by constitutional pro-
vision. At, the meeting Monday night,
an efort was made the reinstate the
union, and by a vote of those present,
it was defeated. thus leaving the
union out altogether. The union will
make an appeal to the national coun-
cil on the subject. It is said in some
circles that an effort is being made
to confine membership in the Trades
Council to skilled labor only. If this
is successful it will result in putting
the white laborers’ union out.
Matters are shaping quietly, and
the impression prevails that some-
thing will be done within a short time
which will have an effect on the situ-
ation. No one can be quoted on the
subject. .
Bro. W. S. Wray resigned his posi-
tion as treasurer and Ben Brooks was
appointed to act temporarily.
Bro. Wm. Carwill is now employed
I at the Kentucky Turf, corner 11th and
Main, with Mr. J. B. Strong.
Buttons emblematic of the order
were distributed to all members pres-
ent.
endorsed {ing electors every workingman quali-nine hour day and an advance in
tion, especially as to the painters.
Some of them are not in favor of sub-
mitting the questions to arbitration
now, as the settlement by this means
has been so long delayed.. Others want
to reach an adjustment of the differ-
ences. The carpenters have the strong-
est organization and will bring all the
influence they can to bear upon the
contractors. Without the carpenters,
neither, side can move, as the strength
of the carpenters’ union is greater
than the others. The carpenters are
in the majority as to numbers, they
have the all-important work in the
matter of a building, and they can
control. Harmony has existed be-
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A new law in the state of Washing-
ton prohibits the working of any fe-
male clerk or assistant more than ten
hours. This applies to hotels, restau-
rants, and stores, and will necessitate
closing stores at 6 or 7 p. m.
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The conference of Messrs. O’Connell,
Thomas, Lynch, Kidd and other union
officials with the Dayton Manufactur-
ers’ association was without result.
The Dayton bosses are determined to
smash unionism, and they are pushing
their organization into other towns
with a view of making it national.
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The miners of France are actively
preparing for their great national
strike, which is to be inaugurated soon.
A sensational report says the miners
are arming and will brook no interfer-
ence of troops. They demand legisla-
tion in their behalf and will also strike
against a scab union that the opera-
tors are forming to destroy the bona
fide union. (
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The Salamander Association of
Boiler and Pipe Coverers has secured
indorsement for its annual agreement
from the Brooklyn board of delegates,
the Building Trades Council of Man-
hattan and the Enterprise Association
of Steam Fitters. The agreement pro-
vides for eight hours and arbitration
of disputes, the board to be composed
or two employers, two members of the
union and a neutral fifth party select-
ed by the four.
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A Youngstown, Ohio, dispatch says
that the puddlers who were discharged
at the Girard mill of the American
Steel Hoop company because they did
not work on the 19th ultimo, observing
wages. In fact, all trades are said to
have bettered their condition. Street
railway employes, without striking,
have changed their hours irom twelve
and fourteen to ten and ten and a half,
and wages have been advanced from
13 1-2 to 18 cents per hour.
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The labor of the country constitutes
its strength and its wealth, and the
better that labor is conditioned the
higher its rewards,-the wider its oppor-
tunities and the greater its comforts
and refinements, the more sacred will
ba our homes, the more capable will be
our children and the nobler will be the
destiny that awaits us.—-William Mc-
Kinley,
LOCAL J. B. I. U. NO. 228. ’
Met Monday night. A quorum, not
being present, meeting was postponed
until next Monday night, at which time
we will hear from Bro. Louis Watson,
our delegate to the international con-
vention.
The recent fire at the Hutchins
House threw five of us out of employ-
ment. Three have been successful
in securing jobs. Bro. Chester is lo-
cated at James Slaughter’s, J. D. Jack-
son and Bro. Joe Brown at Sam Wil-
son’s; also our old proprietor, Ed
Banks, is located with Wilson. Bro.
Perkins and Bro. Perry have not yet
secured places.
Miss Irene Tucker of Ponchatoula,
La., is visiting her cousin, Miss M. Pen
darvis, at Mrs. Stopples, 1703 Caroline
, street.
Silk weavers of Paterson, N. J., are
forming an independent labor party.
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Belfast.. Ireland, bakers’ wages have
been increased.
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St. Paul mason’ tenders have with-
drawn from Building Trades Council.
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Supreme court of Pennsylvania has
declared that injunctions against trade
unions are legal.
ular session Monday Night. Every
The annual convention of the Illin
ois Federation of Labor convened at
Joliet on Tuesday and remained in
session four days. There are 900
unions in Illinois wikth an estimated
membership of 150,000 most of whom
were represented in the convention.
A committee investigating the prison
labor question reported and it is said
that this question was the important
one and received the consideration of
the convention A good roads meas-
ure also received some consideration.
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. New York Central Federated Union
recently instructed its delegates to
the State Federation of Labor to work
and vote for a resolution calling upon
Shelby as financial secretary and Er-
nest Johnson as sergeant at arms.
There was a good attendance and the
meeting showed an earnest desire for
harmony and progress. The union
is in a healthy financial condition and
expects to quadruple its membership
in the near future.
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Local No. 339, Carpenters and Join-
ers, met Friday night in regular ses-
sion.
On account of the heavy rain but
few members were able to reach the
hall and all important business was
postponed until last night’s meeting.
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During 1900 the Iron Molders’ union
of North America paid its members in
sick benefits alone the sum of $102,-
935.
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in New Orleans, since the victory of
the machinists, the blacksmiths and
blacksmiths’ helpers have secured the
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St. Louis Trades Assembly, by a vote
of 114 to 54, again called upon its pres-
ident to resign because he invited
democratic politicians to make speech-
es on Labor Day.
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Experts from the federal department
of labor are investigating the condi-
tions of home life among the working-
class of New York.
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New York custom upholsterers have
gained the eight-hour day and a mini-
mum wage scale for all the members
of their union.
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Farm laborers of Indiana recently
went out on a strike, after forming a
union for higher wages and shorter
hours, and won.
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A report from Pittsburg says promi-
nent union officials will demand to
know why the American Federation of
Labor officers did not support the steel
striks.
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Dee, T. W. Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 26, 1901, newspaper, October 26, 1901; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1416435/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.