The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916.
Richard Rumbold
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SPECIAL NOTICE
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Roasters of Fine Coffee
Galveston, Texas.
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UNION SHOP
Chicago
Teachers’ Board from enforcing the Loeb
Phone 755
210 2 1st St,
Galveston
TEACHERS! FREEDOM THROUGH ORGANIZATION.
312 22nd St.
Galveston, Texas
Phone 9 1 1
21 st and Postoffice
H. Koester
W. H. EUBANK
W. W. DIBRELL
Galveston,
312 Center St.
Galveston
Everybody s Drinking
MOORE & GOODMAN
Lumber and Mill Work, Laths. Shingles and Mouldings
29 and 30 Church and Winnie St.
Telephone 166
. every
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to all.
oppor-
ble step in preparing our nation to protect itself in
sphere and activity; to see opportunities and to
itself of these opportunities for the best interests
The first step toward this purpose are to afford (
DRUGGIST
33rd and H
The penalty for violation of the new regulation of
the school board -was dismissal from service or lesser
discipline as the Board in its discretion might deter-
mine.
James B. and
Charles J. Stubbs
LAWYERS
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PEANUT BUTTER
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We Cater to the Particular Man
Elder’s Barber Shop
HOT AND COLD BATHS
Suits Cleaned and Pressed
G. H. & H. R. R.
Sunday Service * Houston
Lv. Galveston Lv. Houston
Model Laundry
Dry Cleaners Extraor-
dinary.
Phone 78 or 79
All Cars in the City Pass the Doer
JOHN KRALJ. Prop.
Specialty ef Fish and Oysters
PRICES VERY REASONABLE .
Four Seasons Restaurant !
Phone 573
Editr and Pablisher.
rheke 4M.
Blue Label Coffee i
WHY NOT YOU?
Save the Coupons
Sold by all Grocers
SKARKE’S
Bar-Lunch Room
315-17 20th St.
Phone 4457
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aMaa •m Galvestea, Tez., under Act ef March, 18T9.
VISIT
Bank Saloon
for cold beers, fine wines, liquors
HUMPHREY D: BOYD
2101 Postoffice St.
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Galveston Model Dairy
Phone 984 706 23rd St.
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• nutritious barley and hops used in its
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2 beverage toat will prove an ideal body
* builder a food and tonic in one.
Pelican Bar
(Formerly Aquarium)
Featuring cold stein and first class
goods. I am the guy who put free
in free lunches. W. T. ELLIOT, Prop
Ice Boxes, Refrigerators and
McDougall Kitchen Cabinets
All kinds of Household Goods, Trunks
Suit Cases and Bags
Kerpel's Furniture Store
Moving Wagons and Storage Rooms
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC!
Monday, March 13 we moved our banking busi-
ness to corner 22nd and Mechanic Streets tempo-
rarily while our bank building is undergoing ex-
tensive repairs. 5
SOUTH TEXAS STATE BANK
who determine the character and influence of the schools
The A.F. of L. in the name of all the workers of America
welcomes the American Federation of Teachers in the
fold and the bond of unity and fraternity of the organiz-
ed labor movement of our Republic. We earnestly hope
for a thorough organization of all teachers and the pro-
gress and success of the new national teachers’ federa-
tion; that it may bring light and hope in the lives of
America’s educators; to give and receive mutual sym-
pathy and support which can be properly exerted for
the betterment of all who toil and give service__aye for
all humanity.
business or pleasure, eemand a con-
structive tonic.
Your dealer will supply
you with this brand if
you will ask for it.
made in our own Sani-
tary factory; quality un-
excelled. Packed in fi-
bre pails, large, medium
and small glass jars.
GUNTER HOTEL
San Antonio Texas
Absolutely Fireproof. Modern—European.Summer Rates
$1.00 to $3.00 per day
A HOTEL BUILT FOR THE CLIMATE.
PERCY TYRELL, Mgr.
Brewing Co.
Noliquor sola or delivered at any place „L
of intozleaRisg'aq
I SAM J. LITT oca gm
In •JACI M. LVK i
I J. LEVY & BRO I
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SM—ME* s
There existed in the city of Chicago at the time the
rule was adopted three strong organizations of teachers
affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. These
teachers’ unions had rendered a practical service to all
the teachers of Chicago in securing for them increases
in salary and in forcing collections by the city of back
taxes which through trickery some big interests had
rule. The
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into a habit—We Pay 4 Per cdntSaving can be cultivated
The Bank of Satisfactory Service.
Tens Baah « Trust Co.__Market at 22
LUTHER, The Hatter and Cleaner
Ladies’ and Gents’ Hats Cleaned and
Blocked. Panamas a Specialty.
606 Tremont All Work Given My Personal Attention. Phone 2536
The Primary Election Saturday, July the 22nd has
come and gone. And from a general stand point of the
plain, humble voter the results were not satisfactory.
The voting strength of organized labor was not strong,
in truth it was hardly 50 per cent of what it should
have been, however, every misfortune, disaster or mis-
calculation can be turned to profit if we but will square
our shoulders, look our enemy in the eye and go to it
again, with a determination to rectify our mistakes,
make good our weak points and win.
The year 1917 will be an enormously important one
politically for the working man and his family, for many
reasons ,two of which stand out like the Bolivar light
house at this time—first; should submission hold its
lead we will have a red hot prohibition election about
the 27th of July. Second, we will be called upon to
select or re-select our mayor and city commissioners for
the next term of office and if what we hear at this
early date can be given credence there is a strong move
on foot to put a straight organized labor ticket in the
field. The Dispatch is of the opinion that this will be
done, some political children wise beyond their years,
will tell that it can not be done, that the laboring man
will not stick together on election day, others will say
that the big men of the community will not permit it.
that they will spend a barrel of money to defeat- the
labor ticket.
Well, The Dispatch wants to say right now, and we
are glad that it is early so that it can sink in; in ans-
wer to the first knock, that organized labor will stick
together on election day or any other day, provided,
however, you give some proposition upon which they
feel they can fasten onto. The working men of this
fair city looked upon the Labor-Commerce Ticket idea
with no small amount of suspicion, they did not have
much faith in the workability of labor and capital har-
nessed to the same plow, and it is needless to say that
the brothers who fought the Labor Commerce Ticket
are today growing fat on satisfaction.
Answering the bugaboo that the big interests of Gal-
veston will not permit a labor ticket to be elected, The
Dispatch points without fear of contradiction to the
last election, every ounce of political, social and com-
mercial pressure was brought to bear to put Mr. Steve
Sgitcovich over, with out avail, and when one bears in
mind that Mr. Sgitcovich was acknowledged to be, even
by his political enemies, the ablest and most qualified
candidate, either on or off the Labor-Commerce Tick-
et, and also that if available money could have brought
home the bacon, Swift, Amour, Morris, in fact the en-
tire PORK PEERAGE of America would till this good
day be working their finger nails off.
Let’s start a propoganda, the object of which shall
be; first, pay your poll tax; secondly, pay it early; and
last but by no means least, use it during the year of
1917 for the best interest of your own kind of people.
7:50 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
9:10 a. m.
1:30 p. m.
5:15 p. m.
•8:45 p. m.
TRAINS-
We have at a'l times a complete line of
Books. Stationery, Pictures, Magazines
and Globe Warnicke Bookcases. We
are agents for Eastman Kodaks and Sup-
plies. Let us develop and print your
Kodak Films. We make you beautiful
enlargements from an ordinary kodak film
Purdy’s Book Store
2217 Market St.
Am erreneous reflectien open the standing, charaetec, er repu-
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Me eglemms ef The Labar Dispatch, will be giadly eameiai upez
lb belmg breught ta the attentien ef the management.
“But he never would believe
that Providence had sent a few
men into the world, ready booted
and spurred to ride, and millions
ready saddled and briddled to be
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evaded. From these revenues teachers’ salaries were
paid. These organized teachers became the defenders
of the rights of all the teachers.
The effect of the Loeb rule was to deny teachers
the right to voluntary association in organizations that
would insure to them their rights and their protection.
The teachers’ unions of Chicago were voluntary or-
ganizations and were expressions of the desires and the
thoughts of those tachers. Under the constitution of
this Republic free citizens have a right to unite in in-
stitutions that have a legal right to existence and which
conduct their business legitimately. Under the law a
union of workers is a legal institution.
The working people of Chicago are directly interest-
ed in public schools and in public school teachers be-
cause these are the institutions that educate their chil-
dren. They are interested in the welfare of public
school teachers and have always manifested a willing
desire to assist in bringing about better conditions for
teachers as well as better conditions for all other wage-
earners. There is a distinct advantage to the teachers
from affiliation with the organized labor movement
which makes its just demands effective ' x
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But there has always been a barrier that has sepa-
rated the teachers from other wage-earners and, in fact,
has prevented the teachers from seeing their own prob-
lems clearly and from engaging in a practical solution
of their problems. This barrier has been the erection of
a caste, setting the tachers apart simply as a sort of
professional group” and yet leaving them without the
means of self-protection, relying entirely upon “benevo-
lent paternalism.”
Teachers have been made to feel that they are
working for the very high purpose—a purpose closely
connected with the life and development of the nation,
and this idealism as to their service should prevent
them from attacking their own problems in a practical
manner. Blinded by sentimentalism and conventions
they have not concerned themselves with their own ma-
terial welfare.
However, a change has been coming. Teachers have
come to realize that material welfare, wages, the pro-
tection of their physical and mental energy, the insure-
ment of time for their own development and recreation
are fundamental and are necessary to the performance
of the better, higher service. They have come to real-
ize that their fundamental problem is economic and must
be worked out by the economic organizations.
There is a nation-wide movement toward organiza-
tion of teachers in teachers’ unions. The reactionary
opponents of the teachers in New York City, in Balti-
more, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in Cincinnati and
other places.
Last September, for the protection of the teachers,
High Grade
Plumbing and Gas Fitting
Automatic Heaters & Soda
Fountains A Specialty /
Phone 4881 3923 Ave. O.
Cash or Credit H. E. Malitz
Gets it at
education must be a powerful, live agency; that school
life must be vivified and made a real force that deals
with real facts and conditions in the word-a-day world.
School regulations must become natural—adapted to
child life in all its phases. There must no longer be a
boundary line fixed between the school and the com-
munity but rather the school must be part of the com-
munity life. Such a change is a fundamental step in
that subject which is now occupying the foreground in
national thought—national preparedness.
Educational institutions that will develop the men-
tal and physical energies of the boys and girls of our
nation and will train them to be aware of practical
problems and conditions, able to deal with these things
to the best advantage of all, will be the greatest possi-
an injunction was secured restraining the
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mev efcresses.
Patronize Home Industry
Entitled to patronage of organized labor
Union Bakery
3 Loaves for 10c
Texas Star Bakery
23rd and Winnie L. S. Giusti, Prop
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M. SCHREIBER
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A e’gleek, kindly phone 409 not later than S p.m. and same will be
ss by epoelal mesvengr.
Crystal Ice
Cream Parlor
Soda Water, Ice Cream, Ices, Home-
made Candies
H. L. CHAPMAN, Prop.
418 Tremont St. Telephone 3463
Last year the Chicago Board of Education adopted
what was known as the Loeb rule. According to this
rule, teachers of the public schools of Chicago were for-
bidden under pain of dismissal to have membership in
labor unions or organizations affiliated to labor unions
The rule instructed all teachers then holding member-
ship in such prohibited organizations to comply with
the new regulation within a period of three months,
and to furnish satisfactory evidence of such compliance;
provided that no person would be employed in the fu-
ture until that person had made a statement in writing
■ that he or she was not a member of prohibited organi-
zations, and that teachers then employed should not be
eligible, for promotion, advancement in salary or trans-
fer from school to school until a satisfactory written
statement was filed to the effect that the eacher was
not affiliated with either a labor unino or an association
connected with a labor organization.
School Board tried to have the injunction dissolved and
their appeal was carried to the appellate court of the
state. That court on the first day of May, 1916, denied
the motion to dissolve the injunction and reaffirmed it.
In its decision the court made the following declaration:
"Is it valid as a disciplinary measure? If the board
had resolved that it was necessary as a matter of dis-
cipline that it would employ as teachers only members
of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, would such a re-
strictive rule be valid? Or that its teachers should all
be Presbyterians or Catholics as a necessity for ‘effi-
ciency of the teaching force?’ Or that no members of
such churches should be employed for the same reason?
Or that no member of a particular political party should
be employed because membership of the teacher in such
party was ‘detrimental to the welfare of the public
school system?’ The answers to such queries must
manifestly be against the validity of such a rule. In.
the ADAMS case, SUPRA, the rule passed by the board
gained no virtue because the ‘board may have been of
the opinion that its action was for the benefit of the
public.’ The law is that the board may stipulate for the
amount of training, the degree of proficiency and the
physical fitness of its teaching employes, but it can not
provide that its teaching shall be done only by certain
persons or classes of persons members or non-members
of certain societies.
“It is a sound principle that agents to whom is dele-
gated power to expend moneys derived from the public
generally, should not be permitted arbitrarily to con-
tract for the expenditure of those moneys exclusively
with a particular class of the public. However, very
pertinent to this and like cases are the words of Mr.
Justice Holmes: ‘General propositions do not decide
concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment
of intuition more subtle than any articulate major pre-
mise.’ ”
This case involving the right of teachers to organ-
ize in unions gave impetus to a movement for a teach-
ers’ national organization. Hitherto, teachers have been
organized in local unions affiliated directly to the A. F.
or L. On May 9, 1916, a national charter was issued to
the American Federation of Teachers.
Organization of teachers is encouraging not only
because of its influence upon the democracy of the coun-
try but for the dynamic influence it will have upon edu-
cation and the spirit of public schools.
Education in our public schools has been altogether
too artificial, too conventional. It has followed stereo-
typed, orthodox forms instead of being a live thing that
adapts itself to specific needs and the development of
individual pupils.
But the need has been felt, and keenly felt, that
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1916, newspaper, July 29, 1916; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447729/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.