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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914.
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St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 29.—At the re-
quest of the Waiters’ Union, the
Central Trades and Labor Union has
gone on record against the candida-
cy of Judge Grimm, who issued an
injunction against these workers but
a short time ago. In favoring the
resolution, one of the waiter dele-
gates read a portion of the order
which, he declared, meant “nothing
short of advising any one whose
place of business was being picketed
of being justified, legally, to take a
gun or a club and relieve his prem-
ises of any pickets.”
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9 Pounds Cream Meal........25c
9 Pounds Fresh Grits........25c
A. F. of L. News Service.
Butte, Mont., Oct. 20.—The Mon-
tana state supreme court has ruled
that the civil authority is above the
military, and that the state national
guard, now maintaining martial law
in this city, has no right to punish
for insurrection or other law viola-
t ions. The decision was rendered in
the case of Daniel Gillis, who was
tried for rioting and convicted in the
military court of Butte. The court
ordered that he be dealt with ac-
cording to law, and held that th
governor is authorized to detail the
militia merely to suppress insurrec-
tion.
way to save the characters of the
drama from destructin, a god called
the deus ex machine was let down
from above to save them. Evident-
ly unions, according to Judge Hig-
gins, are of the nature of the deus
ex machine—mere expedients that
can be let down from above. This
concept of organization explains hie
assurance that the wage boards and
the compulsory arbitration system in
Australia are promoting rather than
hindering “effective labor organiza-
tions.”
From those who view the labor
movement from within the ranks of
the workers and who have had long
and intimate experience with condi-
tions in Australia, the opinions of
two Australians have recently come
to us that are of great importance.
Mr. P. H. Hickey, general secre-
tary-treasurer of the United Federa-
tion of Labor of New Zealand, on
June 20, 1914, wrote to us:
“Let me say that I have read
from time to time of your strenuous
opposition to compulsory arbitration.
Believe me, if you could see the curse
it is in this young country with all
its ramifications and oppression and
repression, your antagonism woul
be even greater. Here it is simply
crushing the heart of labor, and un-
less the repeal of some of the legis-
lation is not swiftly secured in the
direction of giving the right to the
workers to use their organizations in
the direction of the majority see fit,
I am much afraid the result will be
chaotic in the extreme.”
This from New Zealand, that has
been heralded as the land of no
strikes that had solved the problems
of industrial peace and justice! New
Zealand, the “land of industrial free-
dom,” passed a law Dec. 11, 1913,
that provides a fine of twenty pounds
($100) or three months’ imprison-
ment for workers found guilty of
picketing!
Th police of New Zeland, the “land
of the workers,” have most brutal
methods of arresting strikers. Two
arrest one man, turn him upside
down, thus compelling him to walk
on his hands to the police staton.
A. F. of L. News Service.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 29.—The In-
ternational Hodcarriers, Building
Common Laborers’ Union of Ameri-
ca, has been successful in affiliat-
ing two large local unions in Brook-
lyn, N. Y. The aggregate member-
ship of these organizations will
number over 1,000 members and is
a splendid acquisition to this organi-
zation.
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with his head bumping on the stones
at each forward movement. It is
called “frog marching.” Strikes have
not vanished from New Zeland, but
they have been made criminal. In-
dustrial peace and freedom are not
yet established in that country.
Rather state interference hs re-
strained the progress of democracy
in industry.
In Australia state regulation of
the problems of the workers takes
two forms, compulsory arbitration
and wages boards. The same prin-
ciple of unfreedom underlies both.
The conditions of service are determ-
ined by outside authority, with pow-
er to enforce compliance.
Judge Higgins approves the prin-
ciples underlying wages boards leg
islation, but finds some results to be
criticized. He admits that wages
boards may be dominated by the em-
ployers and that competition of
wages boards do not assure indus-
trial justice or industrial peace
They may solve some problems but
they cause others. Read any issue
of any Australian paper for proo
that legislation can not abolish
strikes. (
Progress must depend upon the
people. It must come from within,
not from without; from below, no7
from above. The test of the effec-
tivness of Australian legislatior
lies in whether or not it militates
against individual initiative anc
sense of responsibility.
Mr. Albert Hinchcliffe, a membel
of the Australian Printers’ Union
and of the parliament of Queens
land, recently made a trip through
the United States and visited the
headquarters of the American Fed
eration of Labor. In discussing this
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Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 29.—Attor- ;
ney General Webb has ruled that the <
pending universal eight-hour law,
which will be voted on by the peo- l
pie of this state next month, isun- ’
constitutional because it applies to ,
all kinds and conditions of labor in- ' 1
stead of being restricted to certain •
classes. He says the courts of the
state and the United States have
held such laws constitutional only <
when they had specific reference to
some occupation in which it was 1
shown that long hours of labor det- 3
rimentally affected the welfare of
the individual and the best interests I
of the state. Otherwise they con- : 2
flict with that section of the four-
teenth amendment to the federal ।
constitution which declares that no 4
state shall deprive any person of "
life, liberty’ or property without due
process of law. , I
The attorney general cites numer- : ,
ous state and United States decisions I
in his opinion, which covers thirty- a
seven pages of closely typewritten
matter. He goes somewhat exten- 1
sively into the question of what a <
state can do under the police power, ]
declares on economic grounds an :
eight-hour day is justifiable and per- «
missible under the constitution of “
the state and nation, but denies that '
it can be enforced where it is a blan- ,
ket measure such as is advocated in a
California.
The proposed law aroused bitter I
opposition among farmers, fruit <
growers, ranchers and lumbermen in -
this state. ।
Walter E. Dunn, author of the .
proposed law, has writeen a vigor- "
ous defense of the law, and disagrees
with Attorney General Webb. '
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A.F. of L. News Service.
Washington, Oct. 29.—The immi-
grtion bulletin for July, 1914, pre-
pared by the bureau of immigration,
under the department of labor, has
just been issued. It shows that dur-
ing the month in question there
were 60,377 immigrant aliens ad-
mitted to the ports of this country.
Heading the list comes the Hebrews,
A. F. of L. News Service.
Duluth, Minn., Oct. 29.—In com-
menting on the workmen’s compensa-
tion act, which has been in force
one year, Judge Cant of the district
court, says the law has reduced the
number of personal injury suits in
this county nearly 45 per cent.
“During the first six months after
the law became effective, there war
no noticeable difference in the num-
ber of personal injury actions
brought in this country,” said Judge
Cant. “The last six months, how
ever, I would say there has been a
decrease of from 15 per cent to if
per cent in the number of such
cases.”
mined the effectiveness of labor or-
ganization by making he workers
look to outside agencies for bettei
conditions and had thereby stuntec
the initiative and growth of organi
zations. Like Mr. Hickey, he saic
it had taken the heart out of the
movement.
In a sympathetic magazine inter-
view with Judge Higgins he is re-
ported to have asked: “But why de
your American trade unions prefel
the bludgeon of the strike to th
modern rifle of arbitration and con
ciliation?” If Judge Higgins, had
visited the headquarters of the trade
union movement of America he
would have received the answer to
his question.
The fact that he has failed to get
the viewpoint of the trade unionisi
does him no credit. Like Judge Hig-
gins, Mr. Hugh Lusk of New Zea
land came to the United States
about fifteen years ago as an evan-
gelist of compulsory arbitration.
When he came again some years
later he had revised his judgment.
Judge Higgins may live many years
longer, and if he does he will re-
vise his modern rifle epigram.
The opinions and theories of such
men as Judge Higgins are seized
upon by magazines and will-o’-wisp
thinkers because of their literary
usefulness. They know nothing of
the real lives and problems of the
workers. Though they may mean
well they hinder the cause of the
workers.
America’s workers prefer the
strike, or better still, the right to
strike, because it stands for free-
dom and the right to work out their
own welfare, because it is the neces-
sary safeguard of free workers who
can entrust to governmental agencies
the right to determine when and how
they shall work or consign them to
prison cells. If freedom does not
exist in the shops and in the mines,
then the workers can not be free,
The strike is the symbol of indus-
trial freedom; therefore America’s
workers refuse to exchange it for
any other method of protection.—
A. F. of L. News Letter. ,
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There are two methods for secur-
ing for workers wages and working
conditions in accord with ideals of
justice: One, to place upon the
workers themselves intiative and re-
sponsibility for working out their
own welfare; the other, to place in-
itiative and responsibility in some
outside agency, either private or
governmental. The first method is
based upon democratic principles,
the other upon paternalistic.
Australia and New Zealand have
been experimenting with the patern-
listic method for a number of years
.md their experiences are of more
han passing interest. The recent
visit to our country of one who for
years has been in touch with the
public affairs of the commonwealth
f Australia and who is president of
the commonwealth arbitration court,
has again brought renewed interest
in that system. Judge Higgins has
een a member of the court during
the greater part of its existence and,
as is to be expected, approves of the
court and its policies. Numerous
•magazine articles have given prom-
inence to his views. His is the
viewpoint of one who looks at the
labor movement and labor problems
from the outside. He has no con-
ception of the labor movement as a
iving force that the workers have
created out of their necessity—a
vital, normal thing that is their very
own and has grown out of their live:
and environment. He has a legal
conception that unions must exist
because the whole system of com-
pulsory arbitration rests upon re-
sponsible unions. “Should it be nec-
essary, the attorney general is giv-
en authority actually to create a
anion,” he naively stated. In the
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Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 29.—“Dis-
ease Prevention Day” was observed
for the first time in this city by a
street pageant that marked a formal
declaration of. war on insects, ver-
min and germs of all kinds.
Disease in all its forms was hunt-
ed out and brought into the light of
public condemnation and war to the
death was urged against flies, rats,
insects and all the array of germs.
Specially strong forces were enlist-
ed against turberculosis.
Fifty floats from health and char-
ity organizations, together with
elaborate trade displays, proved fea-
tures of the parade. .
The state board of health was
represented by three floats. All of
them were grewsome spectacles, de-
picting the deadly work of insects,
vermin and germs on the health of
the community.
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JULY IMMIGRATION REPORT.
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with 12,182, and then comes South-
ern Italians, 6,684; Germans, 5,271;
Polish, 5,092; English, 3,427;
Greeks, 2,551; Magyars, 2,158, the
balance coming from thirty-three
other countries. Among the trades
it is found that among the number
were 1,055 seamstresses; 1,891 tail-
ors; 621 miners, 592 mechanics, not
specified, the balance coming from
miscellaneous trades, with a total in
this section of a trifle over 11,000.
In the unskilled there is recorded,
servants, 8,184; farm laborers, 7,741;
laborers, 7,266; the balance being
only partially specified, with a total
in this class of 26,506. Those claim-
ing no occupation, including women
and children, totals 21,717. In the
distribution of these immigrants for
the month the greater portion went
to the following states: New York,
18,855; Pennsylvania, 7,174; Massa-
chusetts, 4,649; Illinois, 4,636; New
Jersey, 3,167; Ohio, 2,830, the bal-
ance being distributed among the
other states in the union. There
were debarred during the month un-
der consideration 2,382 immigrants,
the largest proportion, 1,257, being
debarred because of a likelihood of
their becoming a public charge.
There departed from the various
ports during July 28,601 emigrant
aliens. The immigratien figures this
month show the smallest number of
immigrants since January and Feb-
ruary of the present year, when 53,-
150 were admitted in January and
56,115 in February.
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Washington, Oct. 29.—“I am
■ forced to confess that Texas is one
of the three states of this union 1
have never visited, and if the affairs
of my office will permit it is my
intention to accept the invitation.”
This was the answer of Secretary
of the Navy Daniels to the request
of the newspaper men of Texas tha
he be their guest of honor on Nov
10, which has been designated as
Press Day in the week’s celebration
of the completion of the Houstoi
ship channel.
The beautifully bound and intense-
ly human document which the No-
Tsu-Oh press day committee sent t
Washington was presented to Sec
retary Daniels this morning in his
office in the state, war and nav,
building. In a very brief but very
forceful and striking address, Rep-
resentative Eagle formally present-
ed the unique invitation, a bounc
volume of individual letters of the
Texas newspaper men.
Mr. Eagle spoke of the jubilee .anc
its playtime for the people of the
state.
He told of the progress of Texas
and dwelt upon the importance and <
significance of the ship channel.
Told Secretary of Texas Esteem.
In closing he told of the desire of
the Texas editors to show their esti-
mate of a member of their craft whe *
had been honored with a place ir
President Wilson’s cabinet by the
cordiality of the greeting they
would extend to him at Houston and
added: “These personal letters wil
touch your heart I know, and let
me say here for all of Texas—not
alone the newspaper men—that we
want you with us.”
Accompanying Mr. Eagle were the
Texas representatives from the
southern part of the state whose dis
tricts are interested in deep wa *
improvements, Congressman Bur-
gess of the rivers and harbors com-
mittee; Congressman Dies, Congress-
man Slayden, Congressman Game
and Congressman Young.
Walter S. Gard, staff correspond
ent of the Houston Post, represent-
ed the Texas newspaper men.
Wants President to Come to Texas.
Following the presentation of the
invitation, Secretary Daniels chattec
with his callers for a few minutes
He had just returned from a week’:
tour, making campaign speeches ar
he will be out on the stump until the
election. After that he will come t
Washington to clear away accumu-
lated work and then, if it be possi-
ble, will leave here the night of Sat
urday, Nov. 7, for Houston.
He did not try to conceal his de
sire to visit Texas, repeatedly de
daring his disappointment over th
fact that he has never been withir
her boundaries. It is certain he will
come unless unforseen official cor
plications prevent. Whether the
secretary will send a torpedo boat
flotilla to Houston will not be de-
cided until later.
Invitation Displayed at Press Club.
Just before the conference ended.
Secretary Daniels seated himself at
his desk with the Houston invitatior
open before him and was photo-
graphed with the Texas congress-
men grouped back of his chair. He
then directed that the invitation be
displayed at the National Press Clul
for a few days in order that the
Washington newspaper men might
see it.
When Representative Burgess left
the secretary’s office, he went di
rectly to the White House, where he
urged Secretary Tumulty to arrange
a trip for President Wilson that wil
bring him to Texas, if not during the
Houston jubilee, at least some time
during November.
Suggests a Visit by Sea With Rest
With the view to giving the presi-
dent a complete rest, of which he
stands in great need, Mr. Burgess
suggested that he go by boat t
Galveston and thus secure the bene
fits of sea air and complete seclu.
sion. He could return to Washing-
ton in this way or by rail, as he
might choose, but such a trip would
enable him to visit Texas and othe
Southwestern states that have no7
had opportunity of entertaining hin
Secretary Tumulty took the sugges-
tion under consideration, but said
the president had not yet indicated
what he expected to do after con-
gress adjourns.
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