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THE PROHIBITIONISTS CREED
WHY WOMEN NEED THE VOTE
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many an aching heart that though the
help will come too late to save that
the table, the death rate in 1910
27.8 and that among whites 15.9
awake to this fact, that their knowl-
edge of children, their love of children
and their hopes and ambitions for the
future of their children is the very
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announce that “Americans
do this class of labor.”
length of trains, and conclude their
statement as follows:
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HEROIC ACT REWARDED
BY DENIAL OF LIABILITY
A. F. of L. News Service.
Albany, N. Y., April l.—The reason
1,000.
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PASS OPTIONAL PENSION BILL
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no direct legislation
the full crew law will impoverish the
railroads or impair their resources, created to administer the law,
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TEXAS TENANT FARMERS CAN-
NOT GET OUT OF DEBT
port of the compensation commission,
which has just been submitted to the
legislature.
_ state’s organic law might be
changed. Unionists favored this pro-
them- ; posal.
teaches them that their employment,
hazardous at best, may be made safer . the
child may have thrown around it by
the state the protection which you in-
dividually would want for your child.,
then indeed would every mother be a
suffragist, because mother love is not
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State Fund in New York Charges Con-
siderably Less for Carrying Risk
Than Private Companies
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optional, it being held that the state
for a constitutional convention that
factor which is most needed in our
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Straw or Felt Hats—the shape you ought to wear is
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SAM J. WILLIAMS.
this law, in view of
rocking chairs to prepare
and insist that in justice to
governor’s inau-
The Galveston Labor Dispatch car-
ried this news item in its last issue.
“In an address to the local central
body, Dr. Frances Bradley of the Na-
tional Child Labor Bureau said:
“Sixty-five per cent of the deaths
the act denies
their hungry children. And they wil
no more insist on their sisters staying
in rocking chairs while sixty-five out
of every hundred of children who die
are lost needlessly, than they woul
find their sisters in rocking chairs i
sight of helpless, starving children.
But before we have the mothers of
Texas represented in our law-making
body, the women of Texas will have to
realize a personal responsibility in the
matter. They will have to realize the
waste in human life that they could
save. It will have to come home to
other public service
New York Legislature Passes Law
Permitting Employment of Aliens
Whenever Citizens Are “Not
Available”
Massachusetts Senators Oppose All
Such Proposals
A. F. of L. News Service.
Boston, April 1.—The state senate
has rejected two proposals for a con-
stitutional amendment providing for
the initiative and referendum in Mas-
sachusetts. This disposes of the ques-
tion for this year, unless the senate
Railroad Trying to Fool Public With
What They Term “Extra Crew
Law” Now Being Considered
A. F. of L. News Service.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 1.—Represen-
tatives of the railroad brotherhoods
have issued a statement in defense of
the full .crew bill which railroads are
The rates in the state fund in July
last were 8 1-2-per cent less than the
government today in order that every rates made by stock companies, and
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A. F. of L. News Service.
Albany, N. Y., April 1.—Labor is
not satisfied with the new alien labor
law passed by the state legislature,
which provides that aliens may be em-
ployed on public works when Ameri-
can citizens “are not available.” The
word “available” makes the new law
virtually permissive instead of manda-
tory, as it is capable of many inter-
pretations.
The old law made it illegal for con-
tractors to employ aliens on public
works. This was upheld by the state
court of appeals and the decision cre-
ated consternation among contractors
who pay from $1.25 to $1.50 and then
A. F. of L. News Service.
Rochester, N. Y., April 1.—Trade
unionists are selling stock in their
Labor Temple association, and an-
nounce that building will begin in
the near future. The site is free front
debt.
for hostility of insurance companies
A. F. of L. News Service.
San Francisco, April 1.—At a meet-
ing of the Typographical union the po-
sition of its job scale committee was
indorsed and a demand made on em-
ployers to negotiate the wage rate as
a whole instead of considering sections
of the scale with separate groups of
employers.
auempung lu repeal, anc wmen tney AEc-
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designate as “an extra crew law” for , Indianapolis, April 1.—The gover-
the purpose of misleading the public, nor has signed the Sare workmen's
The workers show the necessity for compensation bill, passed by both
the increasing houses of the legislature. The law is
gation of unionists who opposed the
bill, took this position:
“We say we are as much entitled
to the protection of the government a
men holding state positions and hav-
ing political aspirations. We say i
is a crime to deny a man willing tr
work that privilege because foreigners
can be secured at a lower wage.”
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State Employes Get Pay This Way
After 15-Year Fight for It
A. F. of L. News Service.
St. Paul, Minn., April 1.—By the
narrow margin of one vote the senate
passed the semi-monthly pay day bill,
which was passed by the house several
days ago. The measure has been urg-
ed for fifteen years and has been suc-
cessfully resisted by railroads and
shows that deaths
as compared with
Believe as I believe, no more, no less;
That I am right, and no one else, con-
fess;
Fell as I feel, think only as I think;
Eat what I eat, and drink but what I
drink;
Look as I look, do always as I do,
And then, and only then, I’ll fellowship
with you.
on January 1 were further reduced,
> so that they now average 20 per cent
below the insurance companies’ rates.
In addition to this lessened premium
a selfish love but an unselfish love
Once bring it home to the mothers
that sixty-five out of every one hun-
dred of their children who die, die be-
cause they, the mothers, are not rep-
resented when our law-makers are
gathered together, and anti-suffrage
orators might hold forth on every cor-
ner making their appeals to women o
leisure not to use any of that leisure*
to help her sister has not the leisure
to help herself, but they would make
• no impression, because the mothers 1
A. F. of L. News Service.
Boston, April 1.—in a talk before
several hundred members fo the Busi-
ness Women’s club of this city, Prof.
Earl C. Barnes said:
“Women, to be economically inde-
pendent, should live lives of intelli-
gence and self-respect. That means
that she should not spoil the jobs of
the rest by working for a small wage.
Any woman who does a piece of work
should say: ‘This piece of work is
worth so much,’ and secure the price
she asks.”
provides schedules for the payment to
beneficaries for injuries to workers.
Methods of insuring against losses
those employers who desire to come
under the law are also provided.
distribution is considerably
among whites.
“Undoubtedly,” says the
men and women who are doing such > 50,000 having juvenile courts. The
work as Dr. Frances Bradley of the i monthly rate is $10 for the first and
National Child Labor Bureau, realize $5 for each additional child. The
the necessity of mothers for the bal-1 limit is $4,000 per annum per county,
lot, and whenever the mothers them-' Pensioning is not mandatory.
gural message, was rejected 17 to 7,
and the other, based on the petition
of organized workers, was defeated by
a no-record vote.
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LABOR TEMPLE IN SIGHT
“freedom of contract.” This was an-
swered by Senator Jones, of Duluth,
who said: “I claim that unless the
employes are organized there is no
possibility of real freedom of contract,
and it is significant that the organ-
ized men on all the railroads have
strongly advocated the passage of this
bill.”
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MINNIE FISHER CUNNINGHAM.
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to protect her own children. The wo-
men in the rocking chairs” I quote '
from an anti-suffrage speech, the
“Women on the pedestal.” I quote
from countless anti-suffrage speeches
to protest against the added responsi-
bility of the ballot. But what mother,
who has sat out the dim watchless
of the night at the bedside of a very
sick child, anxiously asking herself
Figures Presented Industrial Relations
Commission Show the System That
Works Against These Toilers
A. F. of L. News Service.
Dallas, Tex., April 1.—At the land
hearing by the United States indus-
trial relations commission Prof. Leon-
ard, of the University of Texas, gave
the commission figures from his in-
vestigations “tending to explain how
the credit system in vogue made it
impossible for tenants to get out of
debt on many farms.” He testified
that some land owner co-operate with
their tenants for the purpose of build-
ing up good estates and that on such
farms tenants usually are prosperous.
But, he said, there is a class of
land owners who practically compel
their tenants to keep moving to other
farms by driving hard bargains, and
another class who exact ruinous rents.
Tenants on these two classes of farms
seldom get enough money ahead to
pay cash, but mortgage their next
year’s crop for living expenses.
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PAPER MAKERS JOIN UNION
whites, are relatively more numerous
for malaria, tuberculosis of the lungs,
pneumonia, and whooping cough;
whereas for measles, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, cancer, appendicitis, and
violent deaths, noticeably suicide, the
to control the conditi m.s which cause ,
that heartbreaking state of affairs, heart ache, it were still a task well
Then who is so interesting in the mak- worth while to help save some other
ing of those laws and the enforcing of! woman’s heart from pain. And so tne
those laws as the mothers of children ? appeal of suffragists is not to the
It is a well known fact that laws are selfish but to the unselfish side of hu-
made as the voters demand and are en- man nature. We do not cry “You are
forced as the voters insist, and it re- comfsortable, so why bother about
mains for the mothers of children to otherst" Quite the contrary. We urge
awake to the fact that on this particu- you if you are comfortable to help
lar score they are being guilty of ; those note quite so comfortable. If
neglect which is causing the death of you have been able to surround your
sixty-five out of every hundred of the child with individual conditions which
babies who go, leaving a desolate have saved him from being one of the
mother heart behind. uselessly’, needlessly, sacrificed, then
On this point all women should be give a compassionate thought to the
on common ground. The motherhood child whose protection must come from
•of the race. And no women should the state and to the mother who is
turn a deaf ear to the cry of her helpless to protect her child. Come
sister though she be so fortunate as out of the rocking chairs into the
not to have had to contribute any of world and help save the children of
her heart’s dearest' possession, her the world from needless death. Let us
children, to that awful and unnecen- meet on this common ground, the duty
sary sacrifice of sixty-five out of of the women of the race to care for
every one hundred deaths. It is a the children of the race, and together
noteworthy fact that the appeals of , work to place, the ballot, the most ef-
the anti-suffragists are all directed ; ficient weapon of defense that civili-
toward the selfish side of human na- ' zation has yet devised in the hands of
ture. । the mothers for the protection of the
The ardent anti-suffrage orator calls children.
aloud to the women lapped in luxury
who can afford endless time and care
late, dividends have been allowed to
policy holders on the first six months’
experience, ranging from 15 per cent
to 50 per cent according to the ex-
perience in the several groups. The
expense of the administration of the
state fund has thus far been paid by
the state, but this experience indi-
cates that the fund may7 be made
self-sustaining after July 1, 1915.
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PASS SEMI-MONTHLY BILL
selves and their families, a system
which promises that result, having-
been adopted, should be continued. The
trainmen of Pennsylvania hold that
the saving of the lives of men is more
sacred than the saving of gold and
silver.”
selves wake to its value in their work
they will assure the responsibilities
as simply and as naturally as they
have the care and nourishment of the
children which are theirs. They will
no more consider clinging to their sel-
fish ease” in the rocking chairs” than
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A. F. of L. News Service.
Nashville, Tenn., April 1.—The
house has concurred in the senate
Let sink the drowning if he will not
swim
Upon the plank that I throw out to
him;
Let starve the hungry if he will not
eat
My kind and quality of bread anc
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‘Twere better that the sick should die
than live,
Unless they take the medicine I give;
’Twere better sinners perish than re-
fuse
To be conformed to my peculiar views,
Twere better that the world stand still
than move
in any other way than that which I
approve.
—The Lamar Sparks, Lamar, Colo.
Dear Editor: I thought you might
want this for the paper.
A FRIEND.
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DECREASE IN DEATH RATE
AMONG NEGROES
uniform laws throughout the different
states are necessary to prevent this
waste. In some localities infant mor-
tality is as heavy as one in five, and
this is almost unbelievable.”
Almost unbelievable! Indeed it is.
And quite unbelievable in the face of
such a statement given out by an ex-
pert, one who has studied this subject
and knows it thoroughly, quite unbe-
lievable is the fact that certain gentle-
men claim to oppose suffrage for wo-
men on the ground that it will be a
detriment to the home! If sixty-five
out of every hundred babies who die,
die unnecessarily and laws are needed
A. F. of L. News Service.
San Francisco, Cal., April 1.—Be-
cause Peter Mihaica lost his life while
attempting to rescue a fellow em-
ploye, who had been caught in a cave-
in of a sewer ditch, the general con-
tractors on the work resisted payment
of damages under the state liability
laws on the ground that deceased “was
guilty of wilful misconduct.”
The state industrial accident com-
mission refused to accept this brutal
defense, and said:
“Such conduct is not misconduct,
much less, wilful misconduct. The
action of the deceased was humane
and wholly commendable. Even though
he deliberately exposed himself to the
danger of injury and death, his action
cannot be said to be wilful in the
sense of being stubborn, perverse or
as evidencing a state of mind opposed
to the orders or instructions given
him, or as opposed to the action that
reasonably should have been taken by
him, both as a fellow-employe and in
his official capacity as assistant fore-
man.”
Federal Statistics Show that From
1900 to 1910 There Was Decrease
of3.4 in Every Thousand
A. F. of L. News Service.
Washington, April 1.—A decrease
in the death rate among negroes
throughout the United States of 3.4
per 1,000 population occurred during
the decade from 1900 to 1910, accord-
ing to a bulletin issued by the Fed-
eral census bureau. The report em-
bodies the first complete statistics
concerning negro mortality compiled
in this country.
In the fifty-seven cities included in
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2,1915.
among children are unnecessary, and they would refuse to rise
. . . constitution debars a mandatory pro-
There is no merit in the claim that ic;on A , ,
..... - - - Vision, A state industrial board is
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live. They would not cut off their
sources of revenue. But experience
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FULL CREW LAW
would make it known so quietly, so
gently, but withal so firmly that they
need and must have the ballot for the
protection of their children, that no
sensible person would think of denying
them so reasonable a request. Truly,
on questions touching the welfare of
her young, has the English poet said
that “The female of the species is
more deadly than the male!” And that
is why you will find every person who
(for a reason) disapproves of compul-
sory education, but does approve of
child labor, urging the “women in tne
rocking chairs” to sit tight and not
do a thing to help put the ballot into
the hands of the mothers whose chil-
dren are being let to die for lack of
proper protection from the state. Well
they know that industrial considera-
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tarian considerations by the majority
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know that what is “good for business,
will stand in its proper relation to
what is good for children. That if the
mothers of Texas voted never’ again
would a much needed child labor law
perish on the calendar while preced-
ence was given to a law to protect
little shrimp and oysters and fish! The :
Many Workers See Benefits and Add
Names to the Rolls
A. F. of L. News Service.
Fitchburg, Mass., April 1.—As a
result of open meetings the Paper-
makers’ union of this city is increas-
ing in membership. Officers of the
International Papermakers’ union, to-
gether with other organized workers,
are assisting, and the advantages of
trades unionism are presented in a
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