The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1916 Page: 4 of 4
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THB LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916.
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2118 Postoffice
Phone 5171
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Union made underwear
50c a garment.
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SAM. J. WILLIAMS
(Continued next week.)
THE STORE FOR MEN
2215 Market Street
W. HANSON
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$3.50 to $7.50
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a collection which
Men, Now Buy Shirts at Underprice
79c
OUR ENTIRE SHOWING OF
EXCEPTIONAL REDUCTIONS ARE MARKED ON
A Special Sale Rack of
$7.50 and $10.00
$6.00 Palm Beach Suits with extra
pair pants .
$4.45
tra sizes; special
50c
$150 sellers for.
$1.00 sellers for
Union made Neckwear... .50c each
All other accessories, such as gent’s
Belts, Suspenders, Sox and Collars.
Full Cut ,Well-Made Shirts, Fast
colors—in soft or laundered—sizes
to fit any man at... .$1.00 and $1.50
$2.49
$3.49
$3.98 Dresses, repriced
$5.95 Dresses, repriced
$8.98 Dresses, repriced
$1.15
. .85c
Hosiery too!—
25c, 35c, 50c
$1.98
$3.00
$4.50
We’ve every variation of size
and width to fit you correctly,
Every toe shape ‘that’s correct’
Big Lot of $1.00 Shirts
To go Saturday at...
noblest animal upon the face of the
earth during a strike, in the eyes of
the employing class, is a scab.
lot—
$5.95 and $3.98 Suits for
$10.98 and $9.98 Suits for
Developed of light weight woolen fabrics ideal for travel, vacation or early fall year;
features full Flare Skirts, Stylish Coats and attractive trimmings—
Suits which sold for up to $29.95, repriced...................................
Suits which sold for up to $37.95, repriced....... ................................
in tan calf, mahogany calf, tan
vickid, black vici kid, gunmeta
calf, white buck and white can-
vas—
PONGEE SILK SUITS OF NATURAL COLOR, ALSO NAVY BLUE AND BLACK SHANTUNG
which sold for up to $25.00, choice.............................................
Choice of any Boy’s Straw Hat—
HALF PRICE.
In the Boys and
Men’s Dept.
- Men’s Sport Shirt s-
with the latest bold stripe designs
and new colors—
This is the store where you can buy your wearing ap-
parel with the UNION LABEL
Bungalow Aprons
of Percales, cut generously full and
smartly trimmed. Regular and ex-
$9.98
. ...$12.95
PONGEES,
. ... $7.95
ALASKA THE MECCA OF SEATTLE
SHIPOWNERS.
$
m
Boy’s Beach Cloth and Cool Cloth
Suits with extra pair of pants—
$5.00 sellers $3.95
MR. ROBERT BRIDGES AND THE
STRIKE.
Men’s Olus Union Suits, soft check
nainsook—
$1.00 sellers, a Suit 69c
Men’s Soft Sirts with solf reversi-
ble cuffs, plain white also stripes—
$1.50 values $1.15.
AT
THE
Mid-Summer Clearance Sale
MNAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAMANMNWANNAMAMAAMANAAAAAAAAAANANAAa;
Sunday and Monday
PROGRAM EXTRA - ORDINARY
CHARLES RAY
AND AN ALL STAR TRIANGLE CAST
IN
Palm Beach Cloth and Novelty Stripe Suits
Natural color, tiny check; also stripe fabrics. Some silverbloom fabrics are included in their remarkable sale
Junior & Misses Sum-
mer Dresses
Charming Girlish styles of Organ-
dies, Voiles, Novelty Corded and
Printed Voilese; White and Colors;
will be specially priced for Friday’s
Sale. Sizes 13 to 17—14 to 18,
For Everything ELECTRICAL
See LAWRENCE ELECTRIC CO.
GALVESTON—EL PASO
RAXSCRn
"And Now Unusual Bargains Appear’
350 Straws on Sale Saturday
At the extreme reduction your choice , . . $1.00
Act quickly while the chance is open. Sale starts Saturday.
Offering you the finest fabrics and most
dependable fabrics good judgment can
select or good money can buy.
Ladies' House and
Porch Dresses
of Ginghams, Linenes, Etc., in at-
tractively simple styles—
$1.50 Values, Choice 98c.
A COMPLETE LINE OF WORKING CLOTHES, EVERY GARMENT
BEARING THE UNION LABEL. COME TO THE STORE WHERE
YOUR TRADE IS APPRECIATED.
TAFFETA SILK SUITS now offered at HALF-PRICE
Some three months ago the Seattle
shipowners raised the freight rates to
Alaska $2.50 a ton. Not content with
this gouge, within the last week comes
the announcement that another dollar
has been tacked onto the Alaska rates.
The excuse is the increased cost of
handling cargo. Alaska, ever-the Mec-
ca of Seattle ship and dock owners,
is again to contribute to the ever in-
creasing greed of these cold-blooded,
unscrupulous, brutal, yet would-be re-
tion, why, things would huf. The two
Government ships should save large
sums of money for the Alaska Engi-
neering Commission, who has charge
of the work. The rates on some kinds
of freight to this district runs as high
as $18 a ton. Our present administra-
tion is not composed entirely of fools.
The people of Alaska apparently dare
not protest—they know they are en-
tirely in the hands of the shipping
trust. Remember, the small interests
in Alaska are unorganized, but the
waterfront employers of the Pacific
Coast are organized. Federal investi-
gation may be asked to consider these
unreasonable rates.
Special Reductions Have Been Made on Our Entire
Showing of Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits
tect ourselves. These hideous beasts
of gunmen, whose trail of crime and
blood reaches across the continent
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, dare
not do their filthy and cowardly work
unless sanctioned by the mayor and
his subordinate. The mayor’s choice
of police is really remarkable. First,
Lang the Gunman, the tool of Stone-
Webster; then Beckingham, the tool
of the Waterfront Employers’ Union.
calm around the Union Hall of No. 38-
12, of the I. L. A. But few men were
present, and none of those present
were dreaming 01 any sudden attack
from the hired murderers of Lang and
Wappy, when a rifle bullet smashed
through the window of the hall, com-
ing from the direction of Pier 6. The
large plate glass window around the
bullet hole shivered.
The mayor and chief of police of
this city are sworn to defend the citi-
zens of Seattle against such murder-
ous dogs. Scant notice has been tak-
en of this incident by the above nam-
ed men. Razor artists and gun men
are being turned loose as fast as the
police can take them to the City Hall.
Incident after incident establishes
more and more firmly in the minds of
the longshoremen of this city that the
mayoralty office, as well as the office
of his appointee, toe chief of police,
are filled, not with the defenders of
the citizens of Seattle, but with the
tools of the Waterfront Employers’
Union.
The longshoremen of Seattle have,
up to this time, stood for the crimes
of the bloody monsters imported by
the Employers’ Union, but let the
warning fo forth: If the filthy beasts
of gunmen headed by Lang and Wap-
py are upheld by the mayor and chief
the longshoremen will attend to their
own protection. Ludlow is not yet
forgotten, and the members of the I.
L. A. are not sheep. We desire peace,
but not peace at any price. We are
men with red blood in our veins. If
protection is not forthcoming from
the authorities, we can and will pro-
YOU CAN SAVE $55.00
- By buying your typewriter
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w l Oliver at $45 is sold under the
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€-25F*Ei;l//E20 $100 typewriter, $4.50 cash and
-pp- $4 0 per month. We trust you.
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D. 1 Wee tons. Monarchs, and other
X ==— makes from $22 up. Prices low-
, \ -- I est—machines best, terms
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spectable, business men. Six months
ago Southeastern Alaska was contri-
buting $4 a ton. Considering the a-
mount invested and the large amount
of tonnage offered, this in itself was
an excessive rate. The shipowners
know that Alaska is helpless, so they
raise the rates to $6.50 first jump,
then to $7.50. Poor Alaska never
whimpers. WHY? The reason is evi-
dent. So to the reason:
Less than one year ago the business
men of Alaska strongly protested a-
gainst the Seattle dock rates. They
-alleged that the shipping rates to Alas-
ka were excessive and were chippling
the development of the country. They
cited the fact that the dockage rates
on Oriental freight was but 25c a ton,
while the rate’s on Alaska freight was
50c a ton. These rates, bear in mind,
for dockage only. The Seattle dock
owners called a meeting to consider
the Alaska protest.
After due consideration the Dock
owners settled the question in a very
clever and judicial manner. They in-
formed the Alaskans they were raising
the rates on Oriental freights to 50c
a ton, evening the rates, so as to elim-
KNAPP BROS.
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Where the ice chilled breezes blow.
BARBER SHOP
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“THE DESERTER"
NOTE—We guarantee this to be the finest production ever offered
to the picture going public.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
The Triangle Corporation presents another unusually strong feature
“The Market of Vain Desire’
Featuring
H. B. WARNER
I I 117 DI ID IT 17 MONDAY and TUESDAY
SILLIE SUKKE in “Gloria’s Romance
inate any future kicks. This may help
the business men of Alaska, but we
cannot figure out how. So far as the
Oriental shippers are concerned, they
made no kick, so we assume rebates
are the order of the day.
Again, wondrful to relate, this last
increase of one dollar per ton only
applies to Southeastern Alaska, and
not to Southwestern Alaska. The rea-
son is plain. The government’s Alas-
ka railroad is building in Southwest-
ern Alaska. The shipowners don’t
want to get in bad with the Govern-
ment at this time. Moreover, the Gov-
ernment is placing to old transports
on said Southwestern run. This means
competition. If some enterprising
congressman should dig into the ques-
On July 6th two scabs walked out
of the Great Northern dock, keeping a
big “45” company. The scabs walked
past the pickets, daring them to start
something.
Well, the pickets didn’t start any-
thing. They simply followed the
scabs. These two favorites or the Se-
attle Waterfront Employers held up a
Ballard Beach street car and climbed
aboard. Conductor 661 doesn’t jet
know if the scabs paid their fares, but
feels pretty sure they didn’t.
Two longshoremen boarded at the
next stop. Instantly the guns began
to wave. Two women fainted. The
police auto came on the scene and the
scabs were arrested, but the police
couldn’t find the gatling gun until they
searched the car, when the gun was
found with a pair of old overalls under-
neath the seat. The scab’s story was
that some longshoreman was drinking
a bottle of milk and made as though
to throw the bottle at him. A some-
what fishy story, if the enemies of the
longshoremen are to be believed. They
claim the longshoremen drink nothing
weaker than firewater.
The scabs are back on the job. But
if a longshoreman had held up a street
car with a “45,” nothing less than sev-
en years for him. Scabs, however, are
valuable. Hold-up men, gunmen, mur-
derers, etc., are in demand. All
crimes such as burglary, murder, and
the like, are permissable so long as
they will scab upon the docks. The
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Men’s Stylish Oxfords
Very Important Values Are Offered
in a Sale of
LADIES’
WASHABLE
SKIRTS
which includes every late style fea-
ture. The styles being so varied
you must see them to realize the
exceptional values available.
WHITE SKIRTS of Pique, Gabar-
dines, Repps, Novelties. Regular
and extra sizes from—
$4.98 to $1.98, $1.49 and 98c
NOVELTY STRIPE SKIRTS of
Silverbloom, Linene, Gabardine
Beach Cloths, Etc., including a
number in solid colors. Smartly
trimmed—
$4.98, $2.98, $1.98, 98c
GOLFINE SKIRTS—Also fine Ve-
lour Corduroy, Copenhagen, Grey,
Green and White is used to develop
some of the most attractive skirts
we’ve ever offered at—
$2.98, $3.98, $4.98.
In a letter published in The Seat-
tle Saturday Night, Mr. Robert
Bridges, president of the Seattle
Port Commission, states lucidly the
position of the Seattle Port Com-
mission as regards to waterfront
strike.
Mr. Bridges is very positive in
stating: We have no barricades, nor
do we employ GUN-TOTERS. We
do not erect bunk-houses for either
union men or NON-UNION MEN.
Nor will the Port Commission, ait
the behest of the employers, the un-
ion men, or anyone else, assume or
attempt to assume any of the PO-
LICE POWERS of the City authori-
ties.
We have fully demonstrated, Mr.
Bridges continues, that our work
may be accomplished without re-
sorting to bunk-houses, barricades,
or armed forces on the dock owned
and operated by the public.
Again says Mr. Bridges: The pub-
lic should be fully aware of the fact
that the “waterfront interests” of
the City of Seattle has never miss-
ed an opportunity of decrying the
usefulness of the Port Commission,
either by creating false sentiment
or resorting to ill-advised legisla-
tion, in their attempt to defeat or
destroy the purpose of public own-
ership and operation of port facili-
ties in1 the harbor of Seattle.
Every attempt that the Port Com-
mission has made to enlarge its
sphere of influence and usefulness
has been met by attacks from these
“adverse” waterfront interests.
Why, then, does the Port Com-
mission favor the employment of
union men as against employing
scab labor? Simply this: The
dockage rates on the public docks
are very much cheaper than the
rates on the privately owned docks.
The Port Commission looks for ef-
ficiency. The longshoremen are
trained and skilled in their work.
On Sunday last the Admiral Farra-
gut, a scab boat, unloaded 4,000 cas-
es of salmon on the Bell Street
Dock. Mr. Geo. Green, the agent
at Bell Street, estimated the time
this work should take as three
hours. The unskilled men started
work at 7:30 a. m. and finished at
12:15 p. m. The agent stated to
the chairman of the Auxiliary-
Strike Committee, “I wouldn’t like
to have to employ these fellows all
the time. I wish your boys would
do the work.” There is the differ-
ence. The private ship and dock
owners stand to keep their employ-
ees as slaves. The Port Commis-
sion to treat them as men. The po-
sition of the Port Commissioners is
the correct position. We have no
right to employ inefficient men and
waste the taxpayers’ money. The
extra cost of unloading the salmon
from the scab ship meant to the
Port Commission 70 per cent extra
outlay.
The Port Commission is willing
to pay for labor services rendered
but demand that the amount for
laibor rendered shall be commensu-
rate with the amount of wages paid.
This they get from the members of
the I. L. A. They know it and ev-
en the bullying and unscrupulous
waterfront employers cannot force
them from the stand they have
taken—that of hiring efficient la-
bor and getting service for the peo-
ple’s money.
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Fttmty Summer Clothes
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The* Best "Ready-for-Service" Suits
in the world for
Newest Stripe Designs and Season’s Latest Colorings.
Big Lot of $1.50 Shirts d1 AO
To go Saturday for.....•
A Most Beautiful Variety of Latest Patterns and Fabrics.
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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/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.