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PLACE YOUR MONEY WITH THE
Local Voice of the
AMERICAN
FEDERATION
OF LABOR
on
VOL. 6—No. 49—Price 5c.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1925.
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Jackson, Tenn.—The annual conven-
tion of the Tennessee State Federation
of Labor will be held in this city be-
interest.
Mr. Magee was introduced
13, 1925, President
presiding.
A communication
New York.—The Federation Bank
is preparing to celebrate its second
anniversary with a “birthday party.”
The principal speakers, it is stated
will be Governor Smith and William
Green, president of the A. F. of L.
The bank closed the first quarter of
1925 with.-resources that total $9,100,-
000.
Guaranty Building &
Loan Co.
You may bring to your office and put in a frame
A motto as fine as its paint,
But if you’re a crook when you’re playing the game,
That motto won’t make you a saint.
You can stick up the placards all over the hall,
But here is the word I announce:
It is not the motto that hangs on the wall,
But the motto you live that counts.
FREE PRESS MENACED
BY BIG ADVERTISERS
CHILD LABOR FRIENDS
CARELESS WITH TRUTH
COMPENSATION BILL
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
WOULD GAG PROTESTS
AGAINST PEN LABOR
Interest Is Rife Among the Schools in
Selection of May Queen.
LOW WAGES PAID
HUSBANDS FORCE
WIVES INTO INDUSTRY
Galveston, April 13, 1925.
The regular meeting of the Galveston
Labor Council was held Monday, April
secure converts to their cause.
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INJUNCTION WILD MAN
IS PITIFUL SPECTACLE
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UNION PAYS BENEFIITS.
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STATE UNIONS TO MEET.
Bellingham, Wash.—Bakery workers
in this city have organized and affili-
ated with the trade union movement.
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UNION BANK PROSPERS.
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g "Do it now,” and you linger and wait; g
If the motto says "Help" and you trample men down; g
5 If the motto says "Love" and you hate— $
S You won’t get away with the mottoes you stall, $
§ For the truth will come forth with a bounce, g
g it is not the motto that hangs on the wall, g
§ But the motto you live that counts. S
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State Federation of Labor was receiv-
ed and filed, as also was a communica-
tion from the Dallas Central Labor
Council relative to the visit of the Dal-
las trade trippers to our city.
A communication from the department
of labor United States Employment Ser-
vice asking information about municipal
improvements and highway construction
was received and filed.
A communication from the A. F. of
L. calling attention of labor organiza-
tions to the popular use of prison made
brooms and asking members of the Am-
Delegates to the Southwestern District
Playground Association convention in
Houston April 17-19 will be entertained
in Galveston Sunday, according to an-
nouncement made at the meeting of the
Playground Association Tuesday after-
noon at Ball High School. The three
Galveston playground supervisors, Mrs.
Elma Pearl, Mrs. William Childress and
Miss Nell Miller, will attend the sessions.
The plan of entertainment for Sunday
has not yet been decided. Over 200 del-
egates are expected.
Considerable interest has been evinced
in the nominations for May queen in the
various schools, according to report made
by V. H. Ungar, representing the execu-
tive committee for the children’s oleander
pageant Monday, May 11. Voting will
start Sunday by means of the coupons
published in the daily papers and will
end April 30. The nominee receiving
the largest number of votes will reign
as queen, with the next eight serving as
princesses. No funds are to be collected
for this selection of queen.
Sixteen organizations will take part
in the parade, according to the entries
made so far. Entries are to be made not
later than May 1. Valuable cash prizes
will be given.
Attendance reports for the playgrounds
were given as follows by the various su-
pervisors: Adoue, 1,007 girls and 1,719
boys; Menard, 1,024 girls and 1,300 boys;
Lasker, 1,170 girls and 1,464 boys. The
opening of the swimming pool at the
Morris Lasker Playground last week was
attended by over 100 boys.
A new piano was purchased for the
Lasker Playground as a surprise for the
children. It was decided to co-operate
with E. S. Levy & Co. in holding a mar-
ble tournament, if the approval of the
playground commission was obtained.
F. F. Boyd, chairman of the park and
playground commission, announced that
plans are under way to secure a double
tennis court for the Lasker Playground.
Mrs. O. L. Cragen was elected to mem-
bership to represent the Parent-Teacher
Association of the Alamo School.
Gus A. Amundsen Jr. presided at the
meeting.
from the Texas
Che Union Review
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
Martin Ohnstein
Chicago.—Last year organized street
car men in this city paid $227,090.22 in
benefits. This includes funeral, dis-
ability and old age pensions, collec-
tions for sick members and funeral ex-
penses.
New York, N. Y.—The main reason
why corporations split up high priced
shares of stock is to disguise profits,
says the Magazine of Wall Street. An-
other reason for “this form of melon
cutting’ is to attract buyers who can
not afford high-priced stocks.
By issuing a larger number of stocks,
thereby reducing the price, profits can
be spread over a large area without at-
tracting general attention.
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BAKERY WORKERS UNITE.
New York.-—Carl C. Magee, editor
of the Albuquerque (N. M.) State-
Tribune, told a luncheon gathering at
the Advertising Club that as result of
his experience in journalism he be-
lieved freedom of the press is menaced
by the threats of modern business to
withhold advertising from papers
which print news unfavorable to their
Charleston, W. Va.—Thousands of
unorganized miners in this state joined
in the observance of John Mitchell
day, under the auspices of the United
Mine Workers of America.
President Green of the A. F. of L..
spoke to meetings at Morgantown and
Clarksburg that were marked by large
delegations of non-union miners. At
Cannelton another meeting of record
size was addressed by President Eas-
ton of the state federation of labor
and district officials of the mine work-
ers.
John Mitchell day commemorates
the establishment of the miners’ eight-
hour day, but on this occasion -it served
to inaugurate the campaign to union-
ize West Virginia. This movement
will be carried into guard-controlled
Logan and McDowell counties.
The anti-union operators are appeal-
ing to their employes to ignore the
union. In advertisements published in
the Fairmont press, they say:
“You can work in safety. The peo-
ple of the valley stand behind you in
your efforts to make an honest living. .
You can depend on the state police and
county and city authorities, who are
actively enforcing the law.”
To this advertisement the union re-
plies:
“You can strike in safety. The gov-
ernor, the county authorities, the state
police, and all well-thinking, intelli-
gent and respectable citizens of north-
ern West Virginia will protect the
miners, their wivec and little children
against the thugs and gun men im-
ported into West Virginia by anti-
union coal operators to intimidate, as-
sault, coerce, browbeat and hurder our
people. ”
UNIONS TO CONTEST
PICKETING DECISION
Des Moines, Iowa.—The state legis-
lature has abolished contract labor and
established the state use system. The
surplus convicts will be employed by
the state highway commission upon
public highways and in state parks.
Organized labor is jubilant over this
ending of the exploitation of convict
labor by private contractors. Here-
after, prisoners will manufacture goods
for the use of state institutions and be
employed in the building of good roads
and the beautifying of parks. The agi-
tation for a state-owned cement plant
will be renewed by organized labor.
mothers into bread-winning activities
according to a cross-section study of
the status of the 8,500,000 women
bread-winners in this country by the
federal women’s bureau.
The report shatters the popular “pin-
money" delusion that women for the
most part are transients in the wage-
earning ranks, and that they will with-
draw from this field as soon as they
enter matrimony.
“Such a theory is undermined by
facts and statistics,” the report says.
“For example, of the women included
in this study, over three-fifths were 25
years of age and over.”
The survey was based on 1920 cen-
sus figures showing the family status
of nearly 40,000 women gainfully em-
ployed in four widely separated cities
—Passaic, N. J.; Jacksonville, Fla,.;.
Butte, Mont., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
“As conclusive evidence that marri-
age does not necessarily mean a ter-
mination of the bread-winning activi-
ties of women, stands the large pro-
portion of the women, more than one-
half of those included in the study
who were or had been married.”
Almost four-fifths of all the gain-
fully employed women who were or
had been married were maintaining a
home and over nine-tenths of those
with wage-earning husbands were car-
ing for the household in addition to
the performance of bread-winning oc-
cupations. Over one-half of all the
bread-winning matrons had children
and two-fifths of the mothers had
BUREAU RULERSHIP
AIDS CONTROL BY FEW
Washingiton.—The claim that the
federal child labor amendment gives
congress exclusive power over child
labor is “an amazing assertion,” de-
clares Rev. John A. Ryan, D. D.
writing in the Journal of the National
Education Association. The assertion
is contained in a pamphlet written by
James Emery, attorney for the Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers
“Anyone who takes the trouble tc
read the proposed amendment will find
a direct contradiction of this charge in
the language of the second section,”
Dr. Ryan said.
“It is there expressly stated that the
power of the several states over child
labor remains unimpaired except to
give effect to congressional enactments.
The only power taken from the states
by the proposed amendment is that
of maintaining less adequate laws than
those which might be passed by con-
gress. State laws which agree with
the federal statutes, or which set up
higher standards, will continue to have
force and validity.
“Industrial conditions are sufficiently
similar throughout the country to jus-
tify a uniform and universal minimum
of legislative standards. Children in
all parts of the country are sufficiently
alike to need a uniform minimum pro-
tection. No one will seriously contend
that the standards set up in the two
federal laws, which were declared un-
constitutional, gave too much protec-
tion to the children of any state.
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PRISON LABOR ENDS;
STATE USE INSTALLED
as “ an
ginning May 4.
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should be allowed “missionaries”
Washington.—Chief Justice McCoy
of the District of Columbia supreme
court has quashed the oil indictments
against former Secretary of the Inter-
ior Fall, Edward J. Doheny and son
and Harry F. Sinclair. The indict-
ments charged bribery and conspiracy
to defraud the government in connec-
tion with the leasing of Teapot Dome
and Elk Hills naval oil reserves.
The indictment was nolled on a
fine technical question. The court held
that when the senate took the oil cases
out of the hands of the department of
justice and required the appointment
of special counsel by President Cool-
idge, the attorney general and assist-
ants lost their right to be in the grand
jury room.
When the grand jury was consider-
ing the indictments a special assistant
to the attorney general was in the
room. Justice McCoy said that this
violated the secrecy of the grand jury.
While the government announces
that the decision will be appealed, it is
: believed that the statute of limitation
, will operate in most of the charges,
and that this ends the criminal cases
I against the oil men. Federal Judge
Kennedy of Cheyenne is still consider-
ing the evidence submitted to him in
the government’s civil suit to annul
the oil leases.
“There is something radically wrong
with the economic situation in the
country,” continues the report, “when
so many mothers with a husband liv-
ing in the family circle presumably
as chief supporter, are undoubtedly
forced’to engage in gainful labor.
“It is obvious that many of the
problems connected with bread win-
ning wives and mothers would be dis-
sipated if the husbands and fathers
were to receive a wage adequate for
the family needs.
“Undoubtedly such an economic re-
organization would mean the with
drawal of a considerable proportion
of homemakers from the ranks of
bread-winners.”
The report declares that double em-
ployment of these mothers—at the
home and the factory—undermine each
community and in- the final analysis
weaken the strength and prosperity of
the nation.
Attention is called to the large num-
ber of single women and of married
women with husbands incapacitated
who are compelled to enter the wage-
working ranks.
“In many cases,” it is stated, “the
burdens of such women would be less-
ened if there were more general recog-
nition of the fact that frequently wo-
men are the sole support of families
and have as great a need as do men
of a wage rate sufficient to cover the
cost of living for dependents.”
Phoenix, Ariz.—Governor Hunt has
signed the workmen’s compensation
bill, which creates an industrial com-
mission of three members. The com-
mission will enforce all laws for the
protection of life, health, safety and
welfare of every employe where such
supervision is not otherwise delegated.
A state compensation fund is created
for the purpose of insuring employers
against liability in personal injury
cases. The rates of compensation shall
never be lowered nor any industry
eliminated except by initiative refer-
endum.
As the bill includes changes in the
state constitution, it will be submitted
for popular approval next September.
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TEAPOT DOME LESSEES
ESCAPE ON FINE POINT
erican labor movement to support the
union label in the broom industry the
same as in other branches and depart-
ments of industry.
With regrets the council accepted the
resignation of our former secretary, Bro.
J. O. Satterwhite. His successor will be
elected at some future date.
In the absence of Bro. Arthur Parr,
Bro. John Criss reported the non-parti-
san political league again functioning,
and ready to carefully consider all poli-
tical questions referred to it by the Coun-
cil or in any way affecting the organized
wage workers.
There being no further business to
come before the Council it adjourned at
9 :30 p. m. Respectfully,
H. S. CONKLIN,
Secretary Pro Tem.
W ashington.— The failure of men to, babies under five years of age.
secure a living wage forces wives and The effect on children and the home
by such a situation, the report says,
“justify perturbation on this score.”
East St. Louis, Ill.—If congress were
in session it would be possible to ac-
quaint the nation with methods em-
ployed by Federal Judge English, now
being probed by a congressional com-
mittee.
During the shopmen’s strike, this
I judge was an injunction wild man. He
was in the front rank of law and order
defenders. Daily the newspapers
printed long accounts of his table-
thumping denunciations of working
men who dared to strike.
Now, English whimpers before his
probers that he did not know his son
received interest on money belonging
to bankrupt persons. This money was
deposited, on the order of English, in
a bank in which his Son was employed.
This champion of law and order was
forced to admit he was a director of
a bank in which he ordered funds of
bankrupts deposited.
He was shown to be intimate with a
referee in bankruptcy, whose fees
swallowed the assets of bankrupts
leaving nothing to creditors.
With his mumbling and pleading of
ignorance of the law, English presents
a different picture from the days when
he would terrorize workers.
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GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
credited with having given the senate
investigating committee the “lead”
that connected former Secretary of the
Interior Fall with Teapot Dome by
calling attention to Fall’s sudden pros-
perity in New Mexico. The discovery
of the $100,000 loan and the “little
black satchel” features of the probe
followed.
Editor Magee is now under $2,500
bail pending final decision by the
state supreme court on contempt
charges against him. Twice he has
been sentenced by Judge Davis J
Leahy of Las Vegas, N. M., on con-
tempt charges, but was pardoned by
Governor Hinkle.
In his address to the Advertising
club the editor declared that the idea
of the freedom of the press is a funda-
mental part of Americanism.
“There is,” he continued, “a modern
trend on the part of those in a posi-
tion to dominate business to say, ‘We
will exercise influence over the press
through the business we control.’
“Many times in my editorial career
I have had advertising men announce
their decision to withdraw advertising
from my papers because some of the
news I printed ‘didn’t, sell pants.’
“Until recently New Mexico labored
under a most abhorrent form of tyr-
anny based on the political power of
the judges. Members of one party
were invariably sent to jail if there
was a shadow of evidence against
them; members of the other party went
free We must get courts out of poli-
tics and send the judges back to the
cloistral calm of their judicial cham-
bers.
“In the past, newspapers were li-
censed by government and men went
to prison to establish the freedom of
the press that was established secretly
in cellars and garrets.
“We must maintain this liberty free
from judges and business domination
if we are to pass on the heritage.”
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MORE “YELLOW DOG.”
Chicago.—Members of the United
Leather Workers’ International Union
were discharged by the Chicago Belt-
ing Company because they refused to
sign a “yellow dog.” This concern
manufactures leather belting. The
management insists that employes
agree to surrender their right to be
members of the Leather Workers’
union as the price for employment.
The United States supreme couri
upheld this vicious contract that is
based on the necessities of a worker
and his family. Courts have invari-
ably held that a contract is void where
it is secured through duress. The
“yellow dog” operates through the
meanest form of duress, but it is de-
clared legal by the highest court in
the land.
Tacoma, Was.—The local central la-
bor council has called on other central
bodies in this state to join in a cam-
paign against the recent anti-picketing
decision by the Washington supreme
court.
The executive officers of the A. F.
of L. will be asked to take such steps
as are necessary to secure Washing-
ton workers the rights accorded them
under the Clayton Act.
The decision was made in the case
of a Seattle theater. A court in that
city refused to enjoin picketing, but
this was reversed by the state supreme
court, which held that picketing it
unlawful.
The United States supreme couri
has upheld the principle of picketing,
though ruling that courts have the
right to designate the number of pick-
ets a union may assign.
In the case of American Steel Foun-
dries versus Tri-City Central Trades
Council, decided in 1921, the supreme
court said that the limiting of one
picket at each factory gate “is not
laid down as a rigid rule, but only as
one which should apply in this case
under the circumstances disclosed by
the evidence and which may be varied
in other cases.”
The court said that the unionists
Chicago, Ill.—The increase of bu-
reaucracy in government is destroying
the capacity of citizens to meet the
duties and obligations of citizenship
declared Senator Borah* of Idaho in a
speech in this city.
This growth of bureaucracy was re-,
ferred to by the speaker as “the re-
morseless urge of centralization” that
will eventually make government by
the few possible.
“It is often charged,” Senator Borah
said, “that there is a conspiracy some-
where in this country, well organized
and subtly active, to bring this gov-
ernment more and more under the
control of the few, under the domina-
tion of great wealth. Whether such a
purpose consciously exists or not, we
do know that such is the natural trend
of all popular governments.
“But if any such scheme does exist,
with what Satanic glee the conspira-
tors must witness the willingness of
the people to centralize all power at
the capital and place the whole ma-
chinery of government in the hands of
a few. How easy becomes their task
when with local self-government de-
stroyed and the states reduced to mere
geographical expressions, the reins of
power are, by our cowardly surrender,
placed in the hands of a few hundred
men. Let it not be forgotten that local
self-government is the citizen’s citadel
of political power. Dislodged from
this, he becomes a political tramp, the
helpless victim of arbitrary rule.”
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HOW PROFITS ARE HIDDEN.
Lansing, Mich. ■— Representative
Odell has introduced a bill in the state
legislature which would jail and fine
any person who agitates against con-
vict labor goods.
This proposal recalls the demand
of pro-slavery congressmen that no
petition against slavery be read to the
national law-making body.
The Odell bill would make it a
criminal offense for anyone to speak
against the convict labor system or
to urge that commodities manufactured
under this system be boycotted. Vio-
lators of this law would be liable to a
fine of not more than $1,000 and from
two to ten years’ imprisonment.
A person is liable to draw a life
sentence, however, as “each day’s vio-
lation of this provision shall constitute
a separate offense.”
Every phase of agitation against
convict labor is covered. Free speech
and free press are denied, and in ad-
dition, the attorney general of' the
state is empowered to secure an in-
junction against anyone who speaks
or writes in opposition to the evil,
or who advises that convict-made
goods be boycotted.
The bill also provides an easy meth-
od for securing some judge that may
be friendly to the convict labor ex-
ploiters, as proceedings may be started
in any county where one of the “con-
spirators” reside, or where the “of-
fense” was committed, or in the county
in which the state capitol is located.
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