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NUMBER 14
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1915.
VOLUME V.
HAVE FREE SPEECH RIGHT HOSPITAL ORDINANCE UP
AROUSED
SACRIFICE IS COMMON PEOPLE ARE
Hats, shoes,
been
j “orders.”
Yager there prevails the most odious
jumpers, shirts, pants and shoes.
are
mercenary
mont street.
was chairman
SCRAP AT HAVANA
And When It Is All Over We Will.
(Continued on Page 12)
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Lower Court Judge Found Officials of
Federation of Labor Guilty of Dis-
obeying His Orders When They
Appeared at Public Speaking
International Typographical Union, ।
having attended many conventions of
that
Gov.
Combination of the Rich Has Started
a Decidedly Anti-American Methou
of Maltreating the Workers Who
Have Joined Strikers’ Ranks
Galveston, April 1.—G. K. Jorgen-
sen of this city and his brother, H. N.
Jorgensen of Dallas, left Wednesday
laws at the Providence, R. L, session
of the I. T. U. last year, and at the
He
on
American Bank
_and--
Trust Company
21st and
Market Streets
WORKERS ON STRIKE ARE NOT
EVEN PERMITTED TO TAKE
STAND AT GATHERINGS
21st and
Market Streets
overalls and suits.
Weatherington’s: Hats and
alls.
A. P. Norman,
Vice President.
t and
rich
Rican
being
A. P. Norman,
Vice President.
MISS EVA GOLDSMITH CANVASSES THE
LOCAL MERCHANTS TO FIND THOSE WHO
HANDLE PRODUCTS BEARING UNION LABEL
I
American Bank
-. .and . --
Trust Company
C. W. Clawson,
Cashier.
C. W. Clawson,
Cashier.
ASSISTED BY LOCAL COMMITTEE, UNION LABEL WORK IS
STARTED IN GALVESTON AND UNION MEMBERS
WILL BE INFORMED WHERE THEY CAN BUY
EVERYTHING BEARING THE LABEL.
W. L. Moody, III
President
BANKERS
Unincorporated.
BANKERS
Unincorporated.
Auditorium Filled to Overflowing and
Interest in Unionism Ran High
During the Sessions
INDORSE FREE
SPEECH RULE
a
PORTO RICANS
ARE OUTRAGED
HEAVY ROUTINE
DOCKET WAS UP
SAYS WORKERS
ARE PATRIOTS
A. F. of L. News Service.
New York, April 1.—Officers of the
Carpenters’ unions charge contractors
on street car construction work in this
city with forcing workers to pay $2.50
before they can secure employment.
BIG MASS MEETING
WELL ATTENDED
duty toward the institution. So far as • principle which we all invoke and de-
I can see, the Labor Temple property pend upon. It will be a long time be-
I
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FARMERS TO CO-OPERATE
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DUST CAUSED DISASTER
rights that were striven for by the
two men in the case just decided are
rights such as any Allentownian may
some time desire and to which he has
H. Blankfield: Hats, shoes, pants, '
shirts, hose, jumpers, overalls, knitted ।
underwear.
again ask,
! their rights. Had they gone up there
2108 Market. not been decided in this manner by
Hub Cigar and News Stand, 501 Judge Groman.
Tremont street. I “The speakers who were arrested on I
E. Samuels Cigar Store, 306 Tre- the square last summer were within
Scotch Woolen Mills: Suits, collars,
the increase in values in this district
during the past ten years has been
most phenomenal. While at the pres-
ent time there is a temporary lull in
business, none will deny that this pro-
perty will continue to increase in the
future as it has done in the past.”
A. W. (Booth) Thomson, of Cleve-
land Typographical Union No. 53, has
been selected by the Printers as their i
candidate in the Los Angeles Labor
Temple European Tour contest. Thom-
son is a well-known member of the
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FIGHT FANS LEAVE
FINES OF MEN WHO SPOKE IN
PUBLIC “AGAINST ORDERS”
HAVE BEEN REMITTED
anti-American reaction instilled
pushed on by certain combined
Spanish, American and Porto -
ment left labor to the
. whoever could grapple
throat.
“Is it any wonder, we
' clear. It did not go farther than the
that organization as a. delegate.
Wonder About It
A. F. of L. News Service.
London, England, April 1.—“The
struggle between men and women will
be concluded in favor of women. We
shall be wondering why so many peo-
ple made such a dreadful fuss about so
simple a matter of plain justice,”
writes Arnold Bennett in a discussion
on “Sexes of the War.” He predicts
the increasing independence of women
because of her advent in the industrial
field made necessary by the war.
TO SEE
of the committee
mercies of
it by the
ing agricultural workers have
treated by public officials:
“We do emphatically declare
under the administration of
coats, raincoats. The only firm handl- , settled once more for its people. The
West Virginia Catastrophe Is Laid to
Explosion of Dust in Mine
A. F. of L. News Service.
Hinten, W. Va., April 1.—An explo-
sion of dust following a “blow-out”
shot was responsible for the disaster
on March 2 which cost the lives of 111
men in the Layland mine, according to
a verdict of the coroner’s jury. The
jury did not attach blame to any one.
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MUST PAY FOR JOBS
is a valuable one. It is close in and
ties, overalls, suits,
aprons.
Leopold & Shafer:
, and taken soap boxes that were used
Temple stock, and is making arrange- ' by other speakers on those nights and
ments to enter a candidate in the Eu I provoked.riots; or had they broken
ropean Tour contest. They purchased forcibly into the religious meetings
240 shares. Secretary H. P. Moore, of that were being simultaneously con-
pose community buying clubs will be
organized. Storage facilities have been
appointed to direct the movement. The
farmers announce that their. prelim-
inary moves will be cautious, and that
, +• • . - the co-operative idea will extend to
present time is serving as chairman of ,, . 11 . .
_1. ... .. 1 . . . ; other sections of the state,
the committee on vocational training,;
I Maurer, of the State Federation of
over-:
। Labor, and C. W. Ervin $50 each for
9
COMMISSIONER SHAY ANNOUNC-
ES THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR
WATERWORKS DEPARTMENT
jumpers and
privileged classes, which
supported by their own
San Juan, Porto Rico, April 1.—
The Central Labor Union of this city
has passed the following resolution
because of the manner in which strik-
W. L. Moody, III
President
In Defense of These Workers Apple-
ton Declares They Undergo as
Much Privation as Avy one Else
On Account of War
made clothing and wearing apparel,
and the list of stores handling union
made tobaccos, as furnished by the
committee and Miss Goldsmith to date
is as follows:
Stores Handling Union Made Goods
Bon Marche: Overalls, aprons and
jackets.
E. Goerlich: Suits, hats, overalls,
shoes, shirts, aprons.
Sakowitz Bros.: Belts, hats, shirts,
Terre Haute Workers Already Have
Ground for Site
A. F. of L. News Service.
Terre Haute, Ind., April 1.—The
Central Labor Union owns a piece of
property on which it proposes to erect
a labor temple. The purchase price
was $9,000 and a debt of but $2,500
lies against it. In addition, $21,000
has been pledged for construction
work, but this will not be started until
the _ entire estimated cost is in sight.
One of the features of the labor tem-
ple will be’" a mammoth auditorium
capable of accommodating the largest
conventions.
Star Clothing House: Suspenders, speaking on the public square, against
created at that convention, which com- ■
mittee will make its report to the Los
Angeles convention in August.
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PREDICTS EQUAL SUFFRAGE
ENGLIS H TRADES UNIONISTS
ARE GIVEN HIGH PRAISE BY
FEDERATION SECRETARY
HUTCHINGS,
SEALY,
& co.
Allentown, Pa., April 1.—The Morn-
ing Call of this city .gives hearty in-
dorsement of Judge Groman’s rule in
setting aside the recent decision of
Mayor Rinn, who fined President
Los Angeles, Cal., April 1.—The
beautiful auditorium of the Los An-
geles Union Labor Temple was filled
to overflowing with enthusiastic trade
unionists Wednesday evening, March
24, the occasion being a mass meeting
to afford labor an opportunity to en-
ter protest against recent utterances
of men connected with interests an-
tagonistic to organized labor, and to
give detailed information relative to
Labor Temple affairs.
The meeting was one that will long
be remembered by those present. In-
teresting addresses laudatory of the
efforts being put forth by the Board
of Directors to clear the Temple of,
debt were made by men prominent in
the movement, and an open defy hurl-
ed at the enemies of labor.
A number of organizations adjourn-
ed their meetings and attended in a
body. An interesting feature of the
meeting was the entrance of two hun-
dred members of the Beer Drivers’
Union, and the announcement made by
one of their members, Mr. Ford Roth,
that the organization had passed a
resolution in the meeting just closed
to the effect that their social fund be
drawn on for money enough to pur-
chase two shares of stock for each
member.
A number of individual members of
the many-organizations present at the
mass meeting subscribed for varying
amounts of stock, and the Labor
Temple’s European Tour contest was
given renewed impetus.
The Los Angeles Musicians’ Union
No. 47, A. F. of M., made a further
investment in Los Angeles Labor
monarchical press, and hypocritically
fed by the most reactionary officials
of the government who are leading the
most insiduous tyranny and oppres-
sion against the poor laboring peas-
ants all over the island to please the
big corporations.
“The American Federation of Labor
and its representatives on the island
are just now the object of persecutions
and are ordered to get down from
speakers’ stands while meetings are
being held. All this outrages and re-
pugnant violations of free speech and
meeting are done with the purpose of
intimidating the poorest agricultural
workers and compel them to go back
to their work with the impression that
the rght to strike is a crime.”
American Federation of Labor Or-
ganizer Santiago Iglesias secured ad-
vances for agricultural workers at
Yabucca and Maunabo. Hours have
been reduced to nine per day and'
wages raised to 80 cents a day. The
former rates were 50 and 55 cents.
At Ponce a meeting of strikers was
broken up by the police and many
workers were beaten. At this place
Organizer Iglesias declared: “The po-
lice could not be placed in an impartial
and independent position while having
their quarters in the premises of trie
sugar mills and plantations while
sleeping, eating and drinking with the
bosses and while using the horses of
the sugar mill owners under the pre-
tense of guaranteeing the properties.”
Iglesias and other unionists were
arrested and placed under $2,000 bail.
They have protested to Gov. Yager.
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TO OWN LABOR TEMPLE
Galveston, April 1.—Aided by •
local committee of enthusiastic sup-
porters of the union label, Miss Eva
Goldsmith, Label Editor of The Labor
Dispatch, has started her task of as-
certaining just how many retail deal-
ers of this city handle union made ar-
ticles and products, and just what each
one of these dealers carries in stock.
The list as Miss Goldsmith finds it will
be published each week in The Labor
Dispatch, giving the name of the firm
together with the list of articles bear-
ing the label that can be bought at
that particular store.
As yet this list is incomplete. Other
names will be added to it as' the label
committee gets the necessary informa-
tion, and any merchant or dealer who
carries goods with the union label
whose name does not appear in this
list will confer a favor on The Labor
Dispatch by telephoning this office.
The committee will then call on that
store and get a full list of the union
made articles carried.
As soon as the full list is made up
a special department will be set aside
in The Labor Dispatch each week con-
taining this full list of the names of
merchants carrying union made goods
and the goods that each carry. Mem-
bers of organized labor then can very
readily refer to this table for any-
thing that they wish to buy and know
exactly where such articles may be
found.
Every day the demand of union men
for union made articles whether of
clothing, food or tobaccos, is becoming
more universal. Already the demand
here is great, and as soon as all of
the members learn just where they
may get the union made articles that
are necessary, the demand for and
purchase of union made articles will
become much more noticeable.
The list of stores handling union
HUTCHINGS,
SEALY
& co.
Established 1854
John Sealy H. O. Stein
Sealy Hutchings Geo. Sealy
Following Stands
Queen Cigar Store, 2105 Market. the fullest right. But there would have
Midway Pool and Billiard Parlor, 1 been a cloud on his title had this case
Those methods have fallen because
shirts, hats, caps, underwear, hose, ' they deserved to have fallen and Al-
ties, suspenders, garters, gloves, lentown will be a finer city for having
jumpers, overalls, belts, cuffs, over- some fundamental American principles
London, England, March 27.—The
government is conferring with trade
union officials for the purpose of
avoiding further industrial disputes.
Right thinking English men and
women are supporting the workers’
claim for consideration and attempts
to charge the unionists with being
“inefficient” and “unpatriotic” have
failed.
The workers’ view has been voiced
in a first page editorial, published in
Reynolds’ Newspaper, an influential
publication of democratic ideals, un-
der the caption, “The Real Traitors.”
The editor says:
“The workers have labored superhu-
manly in the national interests; and
what have they seen happening around
them? First, they saw the railroad
shareholders safeguarded by a govern-
ment guarantee of full dividends based
on the rate of a record year; they saw
the bank secured at we know not
what a colossal price to the taxpayer;
they saw the shipping interests helped
by the government in regard.to insur-
ance; they saw contractors being given
huge prices for work that was a dis-
grace.
“All round them they saw the com-
mercial and financial interests, they
saw money, receiving help from tne
national coffers, and for themselves
they listened to continual appeals for
patriotism and sacrifice. Then, as if
the open scattering of national wealth
among the profiteers was not enough,
there came the conscienceless throt-
tling of the workers by the food and
fuel exploiters; and still the govern-
Established 1854
John Sealy H. O. Stein
Sealy Hutchings Geo. Sealy
The Morning Call says, editorially:
“Judge Groman’s decision rang
ing a full line of Bell Brand collars
and shirts.
Union Made Tobaccos Sold at the
Dr. E. B. Kenner Would Establish
Emergency Hospital—Jitney Ordi-
nance Given Reading and Discus-
sion; Many Petitions Received
that labor has become suspicious and
sullen? National aid is brought to any
financial interests that stands in need
of support, yet, when the workers de-
mand a long looked for increase in
wages these financial interests are
horrified.”
issue in hand, the right to assemble
in this particular place, but he let it
be known informally that he is an
American to the core and that in his
judgment any one who meddles with
the rights of free speech and free as-
semblage is treading on dangerous
ground.
“America is the antithesis of Russia
and yet Russian police methods were
adopted in this city last summer, lead-
ing up to the Maurer-Ervin case.
fore Allentown will again hear it
questioned.”
Produce Selling Business Will Be Run
by the Producers
A. F. of L. News Service.
New Orleans, La., April 1.—The
State Farmers’ union has arranged to
conduct a produce selling business in
this city. The ultimate object is di-
rect shipment from the producer to
the consumer, and to aid this pur-
the Musicians, in commenting upon ducted, then they would have been in-
the deal, said: terfering with others’ rights and ar-
“Had we given closed attent on to rest would have been right.
Labor Temple affairs in the pLst we i “Progress has come through agita-
no doubt would have taken this action ' tion. The Anglo-Saxon has established
ere now. We have held a block "lthe fundamental principle of freedom'
stock in the temple for a long time । of assemblage, speech and the press
and have always endeavored to do our and it is un-American to fight ' this
“2 Gardner —
Lbrar,
rijc a a nor Dispatcl
Official Organ of the State Federation of Labor, Galveston Labor Council, Galveston Building Trades Council, Port Arthur Trades and Labor Council,
Beaumont Trades and Labor Assembly and Affiliated Unions.
J. Schornstein: Ties, shoes,, over-
alls, pants, shoes, jumpers and gloves.
The Fair: Shoes.
Sam J. Williams: Hats, Collars,
ties, suspenders, belts, gloves, over-
alls, suits made to order, caps, jump-
ers and underwear.
Robert I. Cohen: Suits, overalls,
shirts, hose, ties, suspenders, hats, col-
lars, men’s gloves, jumpers, aprons,
garters, ladies and men’s shoes.
Baxter & Wilson: Hats and Caps.
card wagon on a part of 24th' street
was asked by Paul Verkin. This was
declined as the city does not rent any
section of any streets, according to the
board and the city charter. The chief
of police was also instructed, in this
connection, to remove peddlers and
venders from the sidewalks.
Two petitions for underground gaso-
line tanks were received and referred
to the proper comimttees for recom-
mendation.
Citizens on Avenue S% between 43d
and 45th asked that that street be
leveled up for them. The matter was
referred to Commissioner Sappington.
A lengthy “jitney” ordinance was
read by City Attorney Royston and
discussed. It provides for fees for
operating such busses and places cer-
tain other restrictions around their
operation, including insurance of oc-
cupants and pedestrians against acci-
, dental injury. It will be passed at the
next regular meeting, giving the pub-
lic an opportunity to appear with ob-
jections or suggestions before final
action is taken.
' Reports of the city assessor and
collector, city secretary, city health in-
; spector, building inspector, chief of
1 police on prisoners, chief of police on
; finances, plumbing inspector and
other city officials were received and
' filed.
' The dilapidated building committee-
reported eleven buildings that should
be torn down. The owners are to be
i notified to appear before the board at
the meeting two weeks from today to
discuss these matters before final ac-
tion is taken.
Permission was given B. Tiernan to
night for New Orleans from which
place they take steamer to Havana to
witness the Johnson-Willard bout
there next Monday.
Mr. G. K. Jorgensen who is a great
lover of first class boxing has attend-
ed all of the principal prize fights of
recent years and says he has no inten-
tion of missing any of them if it is
possible for him to attend. While in
Havana he will remain for a short trip
over the country and will probably be
away from Galveston for several days.
London, England, April 1.—“If
patriotism means quiescence under ex-
ploitation and provocation, the answer
to the question, Ts the Trade Unionist
Unpatriotic?’ is in the affirmative. If
it means sacrifice in the common in-
terest, then the answer is just as em-
phatically in the negative.”
The above is one of the many vigor-
ous sentiments expressed by Secretary
Appleton, of the General Federation
of Trade Unions, in a public' statement
defending organized labor from the
many charges made against it, here
and in America, because of insistent
demands for higher wages.
The unionist continues:
“When the price of bread nearly
doubled, meat and fish went up from
20 per cent to 40 per cent in price.
Coal, the product of our own country,
and not seriously affected by outside
influence, went from 24s to 38s per
ton, and all other necessaries rose cor-
respondingly. Every man had every
woman had an indisputable right to
demand from those who were pro-
ducing commodities and making pro-
fits advances in wages commensurate
with the advances in food prices.”
Galveston, April 1.—An exceedingly
heavy docket of routine business was
given consideration at the regular
weekly meeting of the board of city
commissioners Thursday evening,
among them the proposed jitney ordi •
n:rce, the repea'ing of a section of
the hospital ordinance, and numerous
petitions of citizens.
Dr. E. B. Kenner asked that the sec-
tion of the present hospital ordinance
providing that no hospital shall be
erected within 300 feet of a school
building be repealed. He stated that
Galveston now needs a centrally locat-
ed emergency hosiptal. The board ap-
peared in favor of making a provision
whereby such a hospital can be estab-
lished. The matter was referred to
Dr. Sappington and the health depart-
ment for investigation and report.
The Texas Nu Fuel Company offer-
ed the city a proposal to use the city
garbage, making it into fuel. The
communication was received and filed,
it being understood it is to be brought
up again later.
The matter of granting franchise
for switches on Avenue F, asked for
by both the G. H. and H. and the
Southern Products Company was re-
ferred to the special meeting of the
board for next Monday afternoon.
The Galveston Art Gallery asked
for space on the fourth floor of the
new municipal building for a perma-
nent exhibit. The board postponed
action on this matter until the building
is completed.
Permit to operate a picture post
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