The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1914 Page: 4 of 12
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Things are awfully dull in Sulphur,
Greenville is about the same;
Rather punk in dear old Dallas,
Sherman now has lost her fame.
On the hog is Corpus Christi,
Things are jarred in Wichita.
They’are beefing in Fort Worth
That the times are mighty raw.
Not much doing in Amarillo,
it’s the same in Angelo,
Coin don’t rattle in El Paso
As it did some years ago.
Work is scarce around Austin,
All through Texas it is slow;
And there is absolutely nothin’
in the city of Waco.
Quiet times down in Cleburne,
Houston and Galveston, too;
In San Antonio tney are howling:
There is little work to do.
In the face of all such rumors
It seems not amiss to say
That no matter where you’r going
You had better stay away.
—Geo. Smith of Fort Worth Carpenters’ Union.
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Consider the effect Electric Delivery
Service will have on your business. Its dig-
nified appearance gives you greater pres-
tige with your old customers—it will at-
tract new trade for the same reason.
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Let us give you further facts regard-
ing Electric Delivery Service.
NO MATTER WHERE YOU’R GOING, YOU’D
BETTER STAY AWAY.
you began making amends.
Make up your mind that you will have noth-
ing but label goods, and then start out today by
asking for the label on the first thing that you
buy.
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 21, 1012,
at Postoffice in Galveston, Tex., under Act of March, 18.9.
THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1914.
A RE not most of your orders—the or-
/ Y ders you care most about—given
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wagon boy? The average customer sees
very little of your store—but all of your
customers see a great deal of your delivery
wagons. Your store is modern. Why not
have the most modern vehicle equipment
also, when it means so much to you?
See Your Delivery
Wagon More Often
Than Your Store
The Fort Worth Carpenters’ Local has pro-
duced a poet, or perhaps the dull times are re-
sponsible for it. Anyway, here it is:
five years ago.
The working .man applying in any of the Morris
banks for a loan must secure the signature of two
friends. All three are then investigated by the bank of-
ficers. If it is found that they are trustworthy the
loan is granted at the legal rate of interest, this being
deducted when the money is paid over. On a loan of
$100 the borrower actually receives, perhaps, $94. The
gross sum he obligates himself to pay back in weekly
installments of $2.
There is no pledge, no collateral in the transaction.
The interesting, gratifying and important thing about
it is that the loan is made altogether upon character.
It is first the character of the borrower, and 'second the
character of his sureties, that secures the accommoda-
tion. The, borrower and his friends must be workers,
earners, of course, but they must also be men of steady
and industrious habits. In short, they must have as
their principal backing the asset of good reputation.
In Detroit, as in all great industrial centers, men
are too often compelled, when driven to necessity, to
pay usurious rates for money. Everywhere the poor
man is at a disadvantage in dealing with the profes-
sional small money lender, and once in debt for money
so borrowed it is often only with great difficulty and
at great sacrifice that he can extricate himself. The
Morris system strides far beyond the state pawn shop
and other agencies so far designed with the view of
helping without humiliating the deserving toiler. It
places him, as far as interest is concerned, on a level
with the average business man, meets his peculiar need
by accepting a return of the principal in small install-
ments, and leaves his sense of independence unim-
paired.
Wherever these banks have been established
they have proven successful institutions. The
fact that there will soon be thirty of them estab-
lished in various parts of the land is proof
enough of this statement.
The small borrower is willing and anxious to
pay his just debts to a bank of this character,
for he feels that he is only paying what is
right, and there is no goading to drive him to
desperation.
Almost fifty years ago, forty-nine to be ex-
act, Abraham Lincoln saw the United States as
it is today, and at that far distance he issued a
most prophetic warning to the people of the
nation, advising them against the too high re-
gard of capital and declaring that such action
was tending toward reversion to an aristocracy.
His statements, thoroughly plain, are as time-
ly now as the day there were made. They fol-
low:
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that un-
nerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. As a result of war, corporations have
been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
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Many of us recall the recent speech of Gen-
eral Superintendent Stephens of the Railway
Mail Service in which he attacked the Borah bill
to prevent the “speeding up” of postal em-
ployes, saying that he would summarily dis-
miss any employe caught signing a petition
urging the passage of this bill.
Senator Borah has issued a most scathing
reply to Superintendent Stephens, in which he
defends the measure that he himself introduces
and at the same time takes the side of the
hard working postal employes and the workers
of other lines of business wherever a “speeding
up” system has been employed. In part Sen-
ator Borah said:
A man loyal to our institutions, sensitive in the slight-
est degree to the admonitions which come to those who
would see them preserved, will respect the rights of the
humblest and most dependent as quickly as the rights
of the strong and powerful. One who would brutalize the
feelings of those who can not, except at great cost,
protect their interests, is to be distrusted, for he pos-
sesses neither the sense of justice nor the conception
of manhood indispensible to a trusted employe of the
government. These men are under him; they are at his
mercy. The civil service law would be futile to protect
them. For entertaining such narrow, vicious and vin-
dictive feelings there is no falsehood he would not
father, no slander he would not propagate to bring them
within the rules of the civil service and within the pale
of his splenetic and revengeful purpose. (
If there is one argument which stands out strongly in
favor of this bill, it is that these men are to be speeded
up and tested under the supervision and gaze of a man
who seems to think that they are slaves and subjects,
the despised dumb cogs in a vast machine, to be worked
to the limit and when broken to be kicked into a junk
pile as refuse and waste.
Describing Stephens, Senator Borah said?
A mere petty, impudent, time serving, slavish, coarse-
grained, cowardly attache of bureaucracy; an arbitrary,
bullying vicious and unconscionable over-employe of the
government.
Following the Stephens threat at Indianapo-
lis Senator Borah received many letters from
clerks who had signed the petition asking that
their names be withdrawn because they feared
dismissal. Senator Borah refused to insert
these names in the Congressional Record for the
reason that he did not want to subject these
men “to the surveillance and to the impudent
interference of this tyrannizing satellite of
bureaucracy.”
It was only after a long and hard fight
waged by the A. F. of L. that the Lloyd-Lafol-
lette bill was passed which gives to the postal
employes the right to organize and petition
congress as they were doing in signing the pe-
tition to have the Borah measure passed. If
Superintendent Stephens succeeds in putting
through his “speeding up” system (a regular
stopwatch method) he will have destroyed
every advantage that the clerks formerly en-
joyed through this right, as he will have pre-
vented/them petitioning congress, no matter
how urgent their need.
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Every consumer of Galveston (and every
citizen is a consumer) has a chance every day
to boost the union label; to do something that
will help. You may ask for the union label day
after day for months without once obtaining
label goods from that certain merchant, but
every time you ask for it you have helped the
cause. And, when you persistently ask for it
and then go elsewhere to find label goods, the
retailer is certain to feel the effect and in the
end himself begin demanding the label of the
jobber or wholesale firm from which he buys.
Many of our stores handle good lines of union
mde articles. Some of them handle little else.
What do you suppose caused these merchants
to buy union label goods? Surely not their
love for the cause of unionism nor their belief
in its principles, although some of them may
believe in the teachings of the unions. They
have stocked up with union label goods because
many of our truly earnest union members have
asked for the label; have demanded it, and have
refused to buy unless they could buy label
goods. They have stocked up with the union
made goods because they can sell them to their
union patrons and because they could not sell
Although congress has not yet adjourned at
this writing, there is little probability that any-
thing other than an attempt to pass cotton leg-
islation will get before the present session. In
the time that has been spent waging a losing
fight to obtain some benefit for the cotton pro-
ducers, much good legisaltion could have been
cared for.
Almost the entire nation, except our con-
Oue Year......
Six Months....
Three Months. .
Mine owners and operators of Colorado are
still refusing to listen to reason in ny form
and by their arrogant attitude are prolonging
and making more bitter the trouble in the min-
ing districts of that state. Their refusal to ac-
cept the peace proposal of President Wilson has
caused much comment in the labor and un-
prejudiced press of the land and has brought
them criticism from fair minded people of the
country. Some of the big dailies of that state
who cater to big business interests have at-
tempted a justification of the action of the coal
barons, but it has been a half-hearted attempt,
for the president’s proposition took as much
from the claims of one side as from the othei.
The conditions suggested by President Wilson
would force the operators to observe the Colo-
rado state laws which provide for eight hours
work, regular pay days and freedom of the
miners to trade where they choose. These were
some of the principle grievances of the miners,
but not all of their grievances were included in
the peace proposal. However, the miners im-
mediately accepted the proposal and the owners
turned it down.
Had it been the other way around, with the
operators accepting the peace proposal and the
miners holding back, the “business newspapers”
of the land would have given this matter their
most prominent positions and scored the toilers
for the unreasonable way in which they were
holding out.
President Wilson has deemed this trouble of
such vital importance to the nation that he has
given it his personal attention in the hope of
bringing about a truce, but the mine owners,
by their refusal to accept his proposal, have
shown that they care nothing for the interests
of the country at large; that they had rather
continue the trouble than accept peace.
prejudices of the people until all the wealth is aggre-
gated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more. anxiety for the safety of our
country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God
grant that my forebodings may be groundless.
Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a refuge
from the power of the people. In my present position,
I could scarcely be justified were I to omit to raise a
warning voice against the approach of the returning
despotism. It is not needed nor fitting here that a gen-
eral argument should be made in favor of popular in-
stitutions, but there is one point with its connections
not so hackneyed as most others to which I ask brief
attention. It is assumed that labor is available only
in connection with capital, that nobody labors unless
somebody else owning capital, somehow by the use of
it, induces him to labor. Labor is prior to and inde-
pendent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could not have existed if labor had not first ex-
isted. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves
higher consideration. I bid the laboring people be-
ware of surrendering the power which they possess, and
which, if surrendered, will surely be used to shut the
door of advancement for such as they, and fix new dis-
abilities and burdens upon them until all of liberty shall
be lost.
In the early days of our race, the Almighty said to
the first of mankind: “In the sweat of thy brow shall
thou eat bread,” and since then, if we except the light
and air of heaven, no good thing has been or can be en-
joyed without first having cost labor. And inasmuch as
most good things have been produced by labor, it fol-
lows that all such things by right belong to those whose
labor has produced them. But it has so happened in all
ages of the world that some have labored and others
have, without labor, enjoyed a large portion of the
fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To se-
cure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or
nearly as much, is a worthy object of any government.
It seems strange that any man should dare to ask a
just God’s assistance in wringing bread from the sweat
of other men’s faces.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the peo-
ple who inhabit it.
The economy of Electric Delivery is
another big advantage. Electric Delivery
Wagons are 100 per cent faster than horses
—20 per cent to 50 per cent cheaper to
maintain. In fact, Electric Delivery Wag-
ons are less expensive than any other type
of vehicle.
You can depend on an Electric to work
every day, in any weather—only reason-
able care is required. Any of your employes
Subscribers who change their address, or fail to get
their paper regularly, should immediately notify this
office, giving both old and new addresses. _____
Phone 4700
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gressmen, seem to realize the urgent need of a
literacy test as applied to immigration to this
country. At various times both branches of
congress have realized this need and by good
majorities passed such a measure, but never
have both branches agreed on any one literacy
test law and we are still without such.
Daily our prospects for a heavy immigration
resulting from the war being waged across the
Atlantic grow, yet we are not preparing against
this. Unless we can get congress to speedily
enact suitable literacy legisaltion We will be
forced to allow thousands of illiterates to enter
this country every month.
The American Federation of Labor has
worked more than eighteen years for the pass-
age of such an act and is still insisting on con-
gress passing the literacy test. Do your part
by urging upon your senator and representative
the importance of enacting such a law.
Wagon—it is so simple. Fire risk is done
away with—stable space and stable worry
are saved. You really owe it to yourself to
investigate Electric Delivery—it has so
many advantages for you. 4
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If you are not one of the unionists that has
helped to bring about this condition you- have
neglected your duty toward the union that has
helped you so much, and it is high time that
The anti-union sentiment of business men of
Stockton, Cal., which so suddenly sprang up in
that city, is losing ground rapidly. When the
bosses got together in what they termed a
Merchants, Manufacturers and Employers’
Association” and declared for the open shop a
very serious state of affairs was brought about,
for they declared for the nonunion shop, which
meant lower wages, longer hours and the loss
of union recognition in every way.
The bankers backed up the other bosses, even
to the extent of refusing to lend money to an
employer who did not share the views of the
other opponents to unionism. The union men
presented a solid front and waged a stubborn
fight. They have so far successfully resisted
the nonunion plans and the lines of the bosses
are weakening.
Every line of business there has been crippled
as a result of this fight and the business men
are weary of their fight.
Michael Casey, an active unionist of that city,
attended one of the meetings of the bosses, and
his brief report, which follows, very clearly out-
lined their reasons for antagonizing organized
labor:
The speakers had a great deal to say about the non-
union shop, which they term the open shop. From these
speakers I learned what the open shop means. They
told the audience that the “open shop” means more di-
vidends—more money for the employers at the expense
of the employes. Yes, they spoke truly, so far as they
went; but they did not tell the whole truth. They might
have added that, the open shop means long hours and
small wages and insanitary working conditions and
more poverty and sickness and suffering, for that is
what the open shop really means.
Mr. Casey might have added to his report
that the open shop meant the loss of everything
that the workers have gained in the last half
century, everything that organized labor has
gained after hard fighting, everything that
they have done to uplift humanity.
Everywhere the loan shark depends for his
living upon the misfortunes of the poor and
’ needy. Many municipalities have waged
strenuous wars against the very existence of
the loan shark and loan offices, but despite this
; warfare on them the usurious money lenders
1 continue to exist in almost every locality. If
every community would work on the system
that is being advocated in Detroit, the downfall
of the loan shark would be speedy. Comment-
ing upon this system, the Christian Science
Monitor of Sept. 23 says:
' It is purposed to establish a working man’s bank
. under the Morris system in Detroit. Behind it, if
present arrangements shall be consummated, will be
the Industrial Finance Corporation of New York, or-
। ganized in June of the present year by a group of
wealthy philanthropists with a capital of $7,000,000.
■ Only as to certain changes intended to meet peculiar
. conditions will the Detroit institution differ from sim-
ilar banks organized or in course of organization in
L other cities. These, it is expected, will soon number
more than thirty. The bank after which they are all
modeled is located in Norfolk, Va., and was founded
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YOUR FRIEND OR RELATIVE might win that 1915
Hupmobile. Send in her name today.
Contest Manager, The Labor Dispatch Phone
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, huraceex
or reputation of any person, firm or corporati '> "Hi""
may appear in the columns of the Galveston L. . • 0
patch, wil he gladly corrected upon its being b) ought ""
the attention of the management. ____
SPECIAL NOTICE.
If subscribers do not receive their paper by Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock, kindly phone 409 not later than
5 p. m. and same will be sent by special messenger.
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quickly learn to operate an Electric
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Office 212 Tremont Street.. Phone 409.
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1914, newspaper, October 30, 1914; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447655/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.