The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1915 Page: 6 of 12
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30,1915.
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Port Arthur Representative of The Labor Dispatch, T. O. Riley.
Address, The Labor Dispatch, Port Arthur, Tex.
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Chairman.
FAIR BUSINESS FIRMS.
Port Arthur Light and Power Company
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representative.
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THE PLACE OF VALUES
606 Houston Avenue
Port Arthur, Texas
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FAIR BLACKSMITHS.
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Plumbing & Sheet Metal work
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SHOP PHONE 236
RES, PHONE 344
PORT ARTHUR
GOLDBERG COMPANY
FAIR CONTRACTORS.
Port Arthur, Texas.
509-11 Procter Street
The Stillwell Height Market and Grocery
The Fashion
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Phone 833
937 Houston Ave.
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Schade’s Racket Store
New Store
NEW LOCATION
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Local
Ger-
Secretaries are requested to report
changes or errors to the Port Arthur
Secretaries Are Requested to Report
Changes or Errors to the Port
Arthur Representative.
They Were Unable to Do the Work
and Some Unfair Concerns Have
Lost Fine Contracts Because the
They Were Too Slow.
That’s what you will find the electric light for the
summer months. No cleaning, no annoyance, and the
most and bast light with the least heat.
Then you have the current ready for your iron or
fan, both big aides to the modern housewife.
Let us demonstrate the advantages.
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two weeks for the different fair com- No. 464 of Palestine, Tex., who was a
panics in the oil fields will employ all delegate to the American Federation
of the members of local No. 305. Good of Labor convention from the boiler-
WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF
LOCAL MEETINGS.
C. KRAMER LUMBER
COMPANY
Everything
the
Ladies
Need
Clothing and Furnishing for Men and Boys.
Shoes for the whole family.
SCHEDULE OF PORT
ARTHUR MEETINGS
New Stock. All kinds of Handy Articles
that save you money.
237 PROCTER STREET
Coal, Dry Oak
and Pine
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
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C. B. Sullivan.
Mr. C. B. Sullivan, for years a resi-
dent of Port Arthur, and a man who
Carpenters.
J. A. Lawler.
W. T. Youngblood.
Chas. A. Stewart.
J. H. Silliman.
Peter Boa.
C. J. Hill.
J. Hooka.
H. C. Dalley.
MeDaniel & Son.
W. L. Jamea.
Wants to sell you Groceries and Meats at living prices.
Give us a trial and be convinced.
FAIR BARBER SHOPS.
G. B. I. U. of A. Local 641.
Floyd Avdrus, 400 Procter street.
Arts Barber Shop, 810 Procter street.
City Barber Shop, 413 Procter street.
R. S. Lazenby, 416 Procter street.
Leenee Meloncon, 208 Procter street.
Wm. Schnell, 204 Procter street.
Gem Shaving Parlor, 883 Austin avenue.
J. E. Baker, 334 Austin avenue.
Clayton Buchanan, 323 Austin avenue.
Metropolitan Barber Shop, 528 Aust’u ave.
Owl Barber Shop, 430 Austin avenue.
Samuel Solomon, 584 Houston avenue.
H. B. Richardson, 630 Houston avenue.
J. A. Viator, 706 Houston avenue.
Won Ludwig, Jr., 1606 Houston avenue.
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INTERESTING NEWS NOTES
FROM THE BOILERMAKERS.
TELEPHONE 83
So. 7th St, between Texas and Kansas Avenues
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.
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Port Arthur Food and Coal Co.
H. B. Smith, successor to E. W. Watson
FAIR BAR LIST.
Bartenders’ Union, Local No. 783.
Manhattan Bar, 409 Procter street.
Office Bar, 449 Procter street.
Dick Schultz, 343 Procter street.
Old Barbee Saloon, 300 Procter street.
Missouri Bar, 200 Procter street.
San Antonio Bar, 280 Procter street.
Railroad Exchange, 100 Procter street.
Depot Exchange, 101 Procter street.
Crystal Bar, 440 Procter street.
Opera Bar, 301 Austin avenue.
Newport Bar, 827 Austin avenue.
Charlie’s Bar, Austin avenue and Fifth St.
Jefferson Bar, 500 Sixth street.
City Bar, 448 Houston avenue.
Sazarac Bar, 636 Houston avenue.
Mint Saloon, 646 Houston avenue.
American Bar, 700 Houston avenue.
Green Tree Saloon, 1606 Houston avenue.
Jack’s Saloon Bar, 1800 Houston avenue.
Marble Heart Saloon, West Seventh street.
Charlie Meyer’s Saloon, Mulligan Point.
240 meets every second
mania Verein at 7 p.m.
tary, 145 Eighth street.
Bakers and Confectionery Workers’
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PORT ARTHUR BOILERMAKERS
PRACTICALLY ALL ENGAGED
BY FAIR CONCERNS.
VICTOR VICTROLAS
ON EASY PAYMENTS
CROWELL & GIFFORD
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.
FAIR PRINTING FIRMS.
Typographical Union No. 389.
Port Arthur Printing Company, 420 Fifth
Street.
Lone Star Press, 27 Realty building.
Lakeside Press, 680 Procter street.
Port Arthur Record, 636 Procter street.
Evening News, 428 Waco avenue.
ELECTRIC AND TELEPMONE
COMPANIES.
I. B. of E. W. Leeal <19.
Electric Censtruetien Company, 41T Pros
ter street.
Electric Supply Company, 331 Procter at.
South Texas Telephone Company, eermee
Sixth street and Waco avenue.
the Curtis Bay district near Baltimore,
Md.; strictly union job. The job be-
ing done by our members in Preston,
Idaho is about completed and we ad-
vise any brother intending to go that
way to take some other route, as there
is not any other work in that section.
Work in Miami, Ariz., is quiet and ont
much doing. Sugar Creek, Mo., is
also quiet, while the K. C., Mex. and
Orient Railway have increased the
force of boilermakers at Wichita, Kan-
sas, more now t han in the history of
the Orient. The Reeves Brothers are
running a scab job in Ringold, Texas,
with bush whackers on the job.
Mr. Peter Gossman, former foreman
for the Riter Conley Co prior to the
strike, was recently canned and is now
working as assistant foreman for
Scab Dailey on the Treadwell Co. job.
James Dolan who was brought to
Oklahoma from Warren, Ohio shops
to handle the scab jobs at Norfolk,
has been returned to the shop in War-
ren, not being able to gather the scab-
ies together to the satisfaction of this
bum outfit.
As far as the so-called Tank Biuld-
ers’ Organization, chartered under the
state laws of Oklahoma in November,
1914, we take pleasure in stating at
this time that said organization which
he know and believe was organized
for the purpose of fighting organized
labor in the oil field has apparently
blown up; its purpose being served it
Saturday in
“CaI and examine the
Hass and most econo-
mic I od and gasoline stoves
made. We are anxious for
you to see the new ship-
ment just in.
international organization,
the best interests of the city at heart,
asks the support of all citizens in the
election for city commissioner at the
polls tomorrow. His past record as
a business man is unquestioned, now
in business for himself, he is confi-
dent that he is capable of holding the
office to which he aspires. If elected
Mr. Sullivan will apply all of the time
necessary to the office, and assures all
of the voters that he will give all of
the people a square deal in all mat-
ters connected with the commission
and is in favor of the people knowing
all of the transactions of the officials
of the city government.
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“FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM”
and also was a delegate to the Port
Arthur convention of the Texas State
Federation of Labor in 1913, has been
made shop foreman of the boiler shop
at Mart, Tex.
In a recent contest for election of
financial and corresponding secretary
in Osage Lodge No. 592 of Tulsa, Ok.,
Brother R. A. Leahy was elected to
the office, receiving the highest vote,
having forty-two votes over the near-
est opponent and there being six can-
didates in the race. A regular elec-
tion was held and printed ballots were
placed in the hands of the voters and
election booths placed on ' all jobs
where our members were employed, so
all could vote.
the oil game and now h ave a contract
for tanks and refinery appliances in ■ holds property in the city, and has
Vice President John J. Dowd of the
boilermakers is busily engaged in an
organizing campaign in the greater
port of New York.
John Dick, international district or-
ganizer, is trying to organize the men
at a large refinery job at Martinez,
Cal., where work is being done by the
Lacey Iron Works of Los Angeles.
Brother Dan Mahoney, who was ac-
cidentally injured by falling from a
Santa Fe train in Fort Worth, is get-
ting along nicely, according to the re-
ports from the city and county hos-
pital of Fort Worth.
Brother Fred J. Altazin, who was
accidentally shot March 24th in Cush-
ing, Ok., is recovering rapidly. While
the wound was serious, we are glad
to report he will recover.
A number of. our Canadian lodges
are conducting a campaign through
the columns of the official journal fa-
voring the referendum and recall.
Its progress will be watched with
interest by the members.
Chairman Walsh and the industrial
relation committee, who recently met
in Chicago, took evidence several days
on the Illinois Central, Pere Marquette
and Harriman strike istuation, but
have as.yet made no official report of
their findings.
The new emblem buttons being of
smaller size, which are now being
placed on sale by the international
lodge have found great favor with the
membership and large numbers have
been sold and are being worn by our
members throughout the country.
Brother Wade Graham of Lodge
Unfair Concern Has Same Old Story
For Low Wages
Portland, Ore., April 29.—“Fighting
for freedom” is the reason the firm of
Lipman, Wolfe & Co. gives unionists
for not recognizing organized labor.
The workers ask this concern to pay a
living wage, and the claims of “free-
dom” are punctured by the publica-
tion of rules governing the Associa-
tion of the Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Em-
ployes, which provides: All employes
shall belong to the association; all
dues arid assessments shall be deduct-
ed in the office from the salary of
each member, and that only heads of
departments shall hold office in the
association.
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Following is a partial list of firms
and individuals in Port Arthur who
are listed as fair to organized la-
bor. Other names will be added as
they are obtained:
Port Arthur, Tex., April 29.—-The
strike situation in Port Arthur district
looks so good to the members of Lodge
No. 305 that already they are begin-
ning to figure how much longer the
scab companies will be able to linger
before they die. The fact that the
Gulf Refining Company has taken
work away from the Reeves Brothers
Company, which they had contracted
for and was unable to get out on ac-
count of poor mechanics and the poor
class of work done, assures the en-
tire membership that they held the
correct dope on this company all of
the time. While they put up a great
bluff at doing the work, very little
real work was accomplished and much
that has been done will have to be
gone over before it can be put in
service by the Large Refining Com-
Company. This is one class of work
that must be done properly or a great
amount of oil will be wasted through
leakage; also work poorly done will
not last as long as work that has the
proper workmanship to erect, and aft-
er the company spends several thou-
sands dollars for one of the large
storage tanks they expect it to be
finished in first-class condition.
The fact that this company was the
real starter of the strike that has now
been on for months, as the officials
of the Reeves Brothers, through Geo.
Reeves, acting as chairman of the
combine that was established for the
purpose of declaring for the open
shop, having to give up work them-
selves which 'they can not get away
with, leads the membership to ti e
positive belief that all of the other
companies in the combine are not in
any better shape and the hot weather
coming on will put on the finishing
touches to the fight and the big bat-
tle will be all over.
Out of 100 union obilermakers and
helpers that went out on strike in
Port Arthur there are hardly twenty
members now on the strike rolls and
new work will open within the next
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BDeutser, Prop. Port Arthur, Texas
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Schedule of meetings in Port Ar-
thur:
Tonight: None.
Saturday: Stage Employes 532.
Sunday: None.
Monday: Timbermen, Plasterers
445, Bricklayers 17.
Tuesday: Carpenters 610, Trades
and Labor Council.
Wednesday: Coopers 203.
Thursday: Women’s Label League.
Bartenders’ Local 723 meets second Sunday
of each month in Eagles’ Hall at 10 a.m. Paul
Cosberque, secretary, care Manhattan Bar.
Barbers’ Local 641 meets last Monday of
each month in the City Barber Shop. L. B.
Griffith, secretary, 413 Procter street.
has become extinct. The combine
said the Boilermakers wouldn’t fight.
They have now changed their minds
and have become to believe that fight-
ing is one of the assets the union men
had in store that they had not counted
on, and which must be recognized.
The battle is ours and the death of the
combine is assured.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 305,
L. G. REEL,
1(441)
country, and our members are making
great gains from every angle. The
Magnolia Petroleum Company will
build a 5,500 barrel takn in Teague,
Texas, just as soon as the steel ar-
rives and it will be a union job. In
the Cushing oil field the Kennicott
construction Company of Chicago
Heights, Ill.; the Graver Tank Com-
pany of East Chicago, Ind.; the Kan-
sas City Construction Company of
Kansas City, Mo., and the United
Iron Works of Iola, Kan., have been
awarded contracts for additional 5,-
500-barrel takns in the field and have
increased their forces materially. The
Kennicott Construction Company has
several weeks’ work on their job in
Indiana Harbor. The Bartlett Hay-
ward Company, whose specialty is gas
holders and appliance work are now in
reports are had from all over the makers’
Secretaries of the Unions Affiliated With Port
Arthur Trades and Labor Council
Barbers’ Local No. 641, L. B. Griffith, 413
Procter st.
Bakers’ Local No. 240, H. Blanchard, 145
Eighth st.
Boilermakers’ Local No. 305, T. O. Riley, P.
O. box 683, rooms 4 and 5 Smith Bldg.
Bartenders’ Local No. 723, Paul Casbergne,
care Manhatten Bar.
Blacksmiths’ Local No. 348, G. L. Ahysen,
544 Fifth st.
Carpenters’ Local No. 610, A. F. Way, P. O.
box 872.
Car Repairers’ Yocal 598, J. A. South, 319
Fifth st.
Clerks’ Local No. 1083, Wm. Gerbens, 727
Procter st.
Coopers’ Local No. 203, T S Dear, 347
Fifth st.
Hotel and- Restaurant Employes’ Local No.
755, J. B. Franklin, care.Fuller’s Cafe.
Electrical Workers’ Local No. 639, T. Top-
liffe, 629 Fifth st., P. Q box 412.
1. L. A. Local No. 538, E. B. Rich, P. O.
box 30, 347 Fourth st.
Machinists’ Local No. 823, Wm. Papka, cor.
Eighth and Mobile ave.
Musicians’ Local No. 615, C. P. Haines,
1333 Sixth st.
Stage Employes’ Local No. 632, Chas.
Gorin, 2728 Procter st.
Sheet Metal Workers’ Local No. 301, V.
Arny, 533 Fifth St.
Painters’ Local . .o. 328, Wm. Whelply, P. O.
box 495, 1919 Seventh st.
Women’s Label League Local No. 287 Mrs.
Frances Hounslea, P. O. Box 677 620 %:
Queen boulevard.
Timberman’s Local No. 638, C. B. Maitre-
jeau, P. O. box 114, 2401 Eighth st.
Structural Iron Workers’ Local, W. B.
Coughlin, general delivery.
Machinists’ Local 823 meets ourth Thursday
in Hartford building. Wm. Pafks, secretary.
Eighth street and Mobile avenue.
Longshoremen’s Local 538 meets second and
fourth Thursday in Labor Hall. Al Rich, sec-
retary, postoffice box 442.
Longshoremen’s Local 440 (coolred) meets
second and fourth Mondays in colored Odd Fel-
lows’ Hall. C. E. Freeman, financial secretary,
124 Eighth street; Lee Crain, recording sec-
retary, Sabine, Tex.
Retail Clerks’ Local 1083 meets first and
third Mondays in K. o C. Hall, Wm. Gerken,
secretary, 727 Procter street.
Car Repairers’ Local 498 meets second and
Fourth Wednesday in Carpenters’ Hall. J. A.
South, secretary, 317 Fith street.
Boilermakers’ Local 30 meets second and
fourth Tuesday in Labor Hall. T. O. Riley,
secretary, postofice box 683.
Coopers’ Local 203 meets first Wednesday
of each month in Eagles’ Hall, T. S. Dear
secretary, 347 Fith street.
Stage Employes’ Locad 532 meets first Sat-
urday of each month in Hartford building.
Charles Gorin, secretary.
Electrical Workers’ Local 639 meets second
and ourth Thursday in their own hall in the
Hartford building. G. B. Butterworth, secre-
tary, postofice box 412.
Cooks’ and Waiters’ Local 755 meets first
and third Wednesdays in Labor Hall. J. B.
Franklin, secretary, care Fuller’s Cae.
Musicians’ Local 615 meets second Sunday
o each month in K. of C. Hall at 10 a.m. C.
P. Haynes, secretary, 1333 Sixth street.
Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers'
Local 328 meets second and fourth Wednesdays
in Labor Hall. Wm. Whelply, secretary, resi-
dence 1919 Seventh street; phone 758 green ;
postoffice box, 495.
Timbermen’s Local meets grst and third
Mondays in Labor Hall. C. B. Maitrejeau,
secretary, postoffice box 114.
Carpenters’ Local 610 meets every Tuesday
in their own hall, 310 Sixth street. A. F.
Way, secretary, postofice box 872.
Wo i an‘s Label League Local meets first and
third Thursday in Electricians’ Hall. Mrs.
Francis Honnslean, secretary, postofice box
677.
Blacksmiths’ Local 44 meets second and
fourth Thursdays over Noack’s shop. G. L.
Ahysen, secretary, 628 Fourth street.
Sheet Metal Workers Local 301 meets first
Friday of each month in Labor Hall. V. Amy,
secretary, 533 Fifth street.
FAIR RESTAURANTS
I. C. and W. Local No. 775.
Fuller’s Cafe, 405 Procter street.
French Cafe, 422 Austin Avenue.
City Bakery, 341-43 Procter street.
FAIR BAKERIES
Bakers and Confectionery Workers, Local 240
City Bakery, 341-43 Procter street.
Leader Bakery and Grocery, 145-47 Procter
street.
Lone Star Bakery, 806 Procter street.
White Way Bakery, 532 Austin avenue.
Model Bakery, 1536 Houston avenue.
Motion Picture Local
Picto Theater.
Pierce’s Theater.
Elks Theater.
few
I. B. ef B. and H. Leeal, 141.
G. J. Neaek, 369-11 Fourth street.
J. P. Briggs, Dallas avenue, betweon Proe-
ter and Fifth etreeta.
Gulf Refining Company’s shopa.
J. T. LaRese, Austla, between Proeten
and Fifth.
W. H. McCord.
Fred Drunagie.
C. W. Gorin.
H T. Hightower.
J. A. Jarratt.
C F Peveto.
Secrest Construction Cempans.
E. T. Granger-Leslie.
J. A. Paschal.
Painter*
Edwin D. Dodge.
Conrad Schleidt.
J. B. Paulus.
J. A. Prschal.
H. C. Dailey.
Concrete.
Knapp & Secrest, Latimer building.
Emil Nelson, 628 Houston avenue.
W. C. MeGrory, 448 DeQueen building.
Coughlin, Gen’ Delivery. •
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