The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 12, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS
Saturday, May J 2th, 191
THE LABOR PRESS
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There should be no hesitation.
should have a home.
He can bu ythat for “five
—John C. Calhoun.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Galveston
312 Center St.
706 23rd St.
Phone 984
P rCU Tyril, Managr
A Hotel Built for the Climate
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JACK M. LEVY
SAM J. LEVY
Telephone 321
One Tear ....
Six Months ..
Three Months
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Thirty-Third and Avenue H
Galveston, Texas
SAFE PASTEURIZED MILK
Galveston Model Dairy
|1.50
1.00
.50
Everybody is Drinking
Blue Label Coffee
WHY NOT YOU?
Save the Coupons
Sold by all Grocers
H. Koester
Druggist
Absolutely
Pure!
IT IS SO GOOD THAT COMPETI-
TORS PRAISE IT
4Seasons Restaurant
JOHN KRALJ, Proprietor
Specialty of Fish and Oysters
Prices Very Reasonably
Al Cars in 1 he City ass the e oor
Phone 73
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p. m. and same will be sent by special m ssenger.
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, charac-
ter, or reputation of any person, firm or corporation,
which may appear in the columns of The Labor Dispatch,
will be gladly corrected upon it being brought to the at-
tention of the management.
Every one
High Grade
THE BEER THAl'S LIQUID FOOD
It is a Pure and Healthful
Beverage Because It Is Brewed
by Expert Brewers
From the Purest Water
Malt, Rice and Hops
and In a Most Model Brewery
Insist Upon High Grade and
You Get the Etest
There Is In
Beer
Order a Case Sent Home for the Family
Made by Union Workmen—Delivered by Union Drivers
J. LEVY & BRO.
LIVERY and SALES STABLES
Undertakers an Licensed Embalmers
Only Polite and Attentive.Drivers Are Employed
Entered as second-class mall matter September 21,
1913, at Postoffice in Galveston, Tex., under Act of
March, 1878.
Subscribers who change their address, or fail to get
their paper regularly, should immediately notify this of-
fice. R‘ Ing both old and ner addresses.
Union Men:
SEE US FOR YOUR PRINTING
(Union Throughout)
MULLERPRINTINGCOMPANY
206-208 Tremont Str*et—Phone 2410
We have at ail time a somplete line of Books.
Stationery, Pictures Magazines and Globe
Warnicke Bookcases. We areagents for Eastman
Kodaks and Supplles. Let us develop and print
your Kodak Films. We make you heautiful
enlargements from an ordinary kodak film.
PURDY’S Book Store
2217 Market St.
One exchange says he has no desire to enlist
in the army since reading the names of his local
Red Cross Chapter. He declares that if he got
wounded he would fall into the hands of some
male unit of the greart organization. That fel-
low is a slacker of the arch degree and should be
conscripted at once!
There is gold in your back yard. All you
have to do to have money is get a hoe and dig
it up. The price of foodstuffs is going skyward
by leaps and bounds. There is no reduction in-
sight. Every man, woman and child should plant
some vegetables and assist in reducing the high
cost of living. Three years ago the slogan in
this country was “Buy a Bale.” Everybody re-
sponded. This year the slogan is, or should be,
“Cultivate an Acre” If you haven’t an acre, cul-
tivate a back yard. Shoulder a hoe and rake,
hangs a package of garden seed to your belt and
charge the weeds and grass in your back yard.
You will find that buried gold.
€le TLaborDispatel
Formerly the Galveston Labor Dispatch)
Wall Street is going to be represented at the battle
■front. The bankers and brokers have cheerfully vol-
unteered to send several companies of clerks, book-
keepers and other employes to the firing front. New
York papers are printing pictures of how the clerks
are being drilled on the top of skyscrapers. When it
colme to “practical patriotism” Wall Street has Arte-
mus Ward, who offered to send all his wife’s relatives
to the front, beat a hundred bloeks.—San Antonio La-
bor Dispatch.
Wall Street went further than that. Some of
those bankers and broker have even volunteered
to continue the pay of the employe who goes to
the front. Others are whooping up recruiting,
, but as yet no one has heard of any Wall Streeters
enlstng hmselt. I hey prerer to remain at nome
and make money out of the situation. It remains
to be seen whether the selective draft system will
get any of these fellows.
GUNTER HOTEL
San Antomio, Texas
Absolutely Fire-Proof, Modern Throughout—European—Summer Rates
$1.00 to $3.00 Per Day
All adherents of the union labor movement in
this country must stand together in their strug-
gles for economic justice if they expect to accom-
plish anything. Leaning on the influences which
are striving to crush their efforts will get noth-
ing. The union , labor forces of American have
acquired a sufficient numerical force to obtain
any reasonable demand made by them. All that
is needed is unity. Without that there can be
no hope for victory.
If you have a little back yard plant something in
it and do your part toward reducing the high cost of
living, no matter how small it may be. Every little
bit helps.—Cincinnati Chronicle.
Fifteen cents worth of vegetable seed planted
now will produce three dollars worth of food-
stuf a month from now. Get some garden seed,
a spade, a hoe, a rake and do your plain duty. If
every back yard in this nation is turned into a
garden we will see the high cost of living.come
tumbling down like a thousand brick.
The government should take the bull by the horns
and absolutely forbid speculation in foodstuffs. It
can do this by placing a reasonable maximum sale
price to the consumer on the staple articles of food,
such as sugar, beef, flour, potatoes, meal and molasses,
and punish by a heavy penalty any person who offers
for sale any of these articles at a higher price than
that fixed by the government.—Dallas Craftsman.
The food speculator in these days is a traitor
and should be dealt with as such. If the govern-
ment ever expects to protect the consumer from
exploitation now is the time to do it, and about
the most feasible way to accomplish the purpose
is to fix the maximum price to be charged for ar-
ticles of food which are used in every household
in America. The people have suffered long at
the hands of the food pirates and they are now
demanding that something be done to prevent
further robbery.
All the great or good things ever accomplish-
ed in this world were brought about through or-
ganization. It is truly remarkable, then that
there are some persons, or groups of persons,
who are opposed to and always fighting organi-
zation among the laboring people.
Even since the days of the cave man, in every
form of society men and women have banded
themselves together and formed thmeselves into
unions .for their own protection and the better-
ment of their conditions. Moses, through organ-
ization, led the Israelites from their bondage.
Christ organized the poor fishermen of Palestine
and laid the foundation for spreading Christianity
over the earth. Every church today has its union
and sends its delegates to a central body or coun-
cil. Organization proves helpful to the religious
deniminations. Why should there be objections
on the part of any one to organizations among
the laboring people?
It was organization that made Alexander the
master of the world and Napoleon the master of
Europe. It was organization which enabled the
thirteen original colonies to found the greatest
free government the world has ever known. The
bankers of today have their unions or associa-
tions, governed by hard rules. The legal profes-
sion has its union where regulations of fees are
made and rules for administration of the law are
laid down. The retail merchants, from whom the
working people buy their necessaries of life, have
their unions and central bodies where prices are
fixed and credits determined. The physicians,
the dentists, the oculists, the liquor dealers, and
even the minsiters have their unions or associa-
tions. They profit by these organizations, get-
ting together as they do and discussing the va-
rious things pertaining to their particular line of
business.
If every business and profession in the coun-
try has its own union, and has learned of the
great good derived from such association, it is
hardly conceivable that there should be objec-
tions to organization of the laboring people, the
very backbone of the earth. Yet there are ob-
jections, and not only objections, but antagon-
istic feelings which have developed into contin-
ual fight against unionism in certain quarters.
Those persons, or groups of persons, who oppose
or are antagonistic to organization of the wage
earners, are making the fight for the purpose of
gratifying their own selfish demands.
But whatever the opinion of such persons may
be the laboring people have learned their welfare
lies in organization and the growth of unionism
will continue to mount by leaps and bounds, un-
til the common people of the earth are securely
bound together for their own safety and for the
betterment and enlightenment of the world.
(iThe very essence of a free
government consists in consid-
ering offices as public trusts, be-
stowed for the good of the
country, and not for the benefit
of an individual or a party.”
dollars down and five dollars per week.” But if
he is to buy flour, sugar and bacon the cash must
accompany the order. What is more, no ques-
tions must be asked. The price continues to ad-
vance while the people plead for relief.
News dispatches say that Rudolph Spreckels
of San Francisco, Simon Benson of Portland, Au-
gust Busch of St. Louis and E. W. Scripps of
New York have endorsed the demand of the
committee on war finances to constript all in-
comes which amount to $100,000 per annum or
more. So far no one has heard from Rockefeller,
Morgan, Astor, Swift, Armour et al. Doubtless
they favor a stamp tax for war revenues and are
opposed to placing such stamps on oil products,
packing house products -and bonds or other se-
curities.
Dallas is still at the head of the procession in grand
old Texas, and will remain there.—Dallas Toiler.
Whateryoumean head of the procession?
With assurances that the reconstruction of the
great causeway is to begin in the near future;
with money already collected for construction of
another mile of the famous seawall; with the
government anxious to locate a naval station
here, and with everything organized, even the
fire department and the federal employes, we
should think Galveston is leading the parade.
Come to Galveston.
The town killers are again busy and will hold
another meeting tonight to protest against the build-
ing of a new bridge across the Arksansas at the foot of '
Garrison Avenue. Colonel Mecham seems to be one
of the prolminent figures in that movement. If Fort
Smith fails to build the bridge it is standing in its own
light. It should be built by all means and at the ear-
list possible date.— Fort Smith (Ark.) Union Sentinel.
Possibly the construction of the bridge at the
foot of Garrison Avenue would effect the busi-
ness from across the river at he foot of some
other Avenue. If that is the case it is easy to see
why there are objections. Some “town killers”
are so antagonistic in their efforts to prevent new
business entering the city that they will go al-
most any length. They would rather see the
town dead than a competitor doing any business.
Occasionally it will be noted nowadays that the
“buy at home” movement is again being fostered by
some come-back real estate dealer. We hesitate
whether to purchase a home or put the money in the
purchase of a barrel of flour, a sack of sugar or a side
of bacon.—(Oklahoma Federationist.
Out of the turmoil of war has com® to Rus-
sia great hope. Democracy is within her grasp.
At last has come the opportunity for which the
heroes of freedom struggled and dared the pen-
alties of death or worse than death in the wilds
of Siberia.
A wonderful change has come in Russia.
With autocracy dethroned, Russia’s hunted lov-
ers of freedom come into leadership. Those
whose hands and words have been against un-
freedom, find the results of their teaching in the
glorious declaration upon which the new repub-
lic will be founded. From out of prison, exile
and hiding comes a strangely inspiring proces-
sion of those who struggled and dared for liber-
ty—from every corner of Russia they come down
the Nevsky Prospakt, the thoroughfare of many
an imperial cortege. Where autocrats were wont
to gather, now come the mothers and the child-
ren of Revolution to join with those establishing
the new goverment. The House of the Dead is
giving up its dead—the resurrection of liberty
has come. o
During all the years of misrule and tyranny,
democracy has never been crushed out of Russia.
It lived in the lives and institutions of the peas-
ants, in the hearts and minds om her students,
in the wills of the workers and the patriots. It
it now the combination of these forceful, virile
creators who are constructing a new govern-
ment.
After every revolution there comes a most
critical period when revolutionary forces have
spent their first fire and energy and the forces
of reaction have had time to gather strength for
renewed attacks. It is the hope of the workers
of our republic that the workers of Russia will
be on their guard against insidious agents and
forces that would steal their new found free-
dom in their country.
The workers of the Republic of the United
States rejoice in the great opportunity that has
come to fellow-workers in Russia—years of
courageons hattling. gainst tyeonny have ±hei,
reward.
AFTER THE FIRST $20.00 SAVED The Easter
Energy and ambition may be the power that ultimately create the big
industry, but there must be something before that for a foundation.
It is ordinarily called getting a start -it is simply making the first sav-
ing by denying yourself something you do not actually need. Saving
can be cultivated into a habit-WE PAY FOUR PER CENT.
The Bank of Satisfactory Service
Texas Bank & Trust Co. Market St. at 22nd
The farmers are complaining about the high
price of clothing and other things coming from
the city. The city folks are complaining about
the price of spuds and other farms products.
There is something wrong in this country and
even the average persons knows what it is.
H. E. Malitz
Plumbing and Gas Fitting
Automatic Heaters & Soda
Fountains A Specialty
Phone 488 3923 Av e. O.
Galveston Brewing
Association P285
No orders will be received from nor shipments made into any
prohibition territory in this state
The results of the municipal election Tuesday
indicate but one thing—the vast majority of the
people of Galveston believed the best interest of
the city and the people could be served through
an administration of affairs by the personnel of
the Citizens’ Ticket. When it is remembered the
total vote of the wage earners of Galveston was
more than twice that of the business and profes-
sional vote, it must be admitted that a great num-
ber of the laboring people gave their unqualified
support to the Citizens’ Ticket, knowing those
men’to be able and believing their ability to cope
with the perplexing problems confronting the
city, will bring about the desired results.
The Labor Dispatch wishes to congratulate
the entire Citizens’ Ticket and Mr. Shay upon
the splendid vote received and upon the great
confidence the people of Galveston have placed
in them. It now wishes to offer its unqualified
support to the new administration, and to say
that it will always be found ready, willing and
anxious to assist in any way possible in bringing
about such reforms as this city needs The
United Labor Party and the Citizens’ Ticket
made the fight on one and the same ground—to
secure for Galveston a clean, honest and efficient
administration of municipal affairs. The Citi-
zents’ Ticket is pidged to that thing and the
Dispatch believes that it will be accomplished.
The will of the people has decided for the men
" Braking- up tireCiweers’ — iclie e, — o g e Lk er W n -
Mr. Shay. The conditions in Galveston are such
that this is not a time for any agitation, murmur-
ing or dissension. What Galveston needs and
must have now, -is the combined efforts of all
classes to bring about a better state of affairs.
Let every man, woman and child in the city lend
to the new administration their united support
— looking to, and relying upon them and their
wisdom, to give the people that peace, prosperity
and protetcion necessary to their happiness and
safety.
As the Republic of America now enters the
world war, the ideals and free institutions of this
country will be subjected to a grilling test.
Democracy can make good here as it is now mak-
ing good in Europe—but there only after the
baptism of blood and steel has brought freedom
and justice to labor.
For centuries labor was a dumb giant serving
masters. Labor is no longer dumb; it knows its
rights and its indispensable service. The work-
ing people of all countries have hearts, aspira-
tions and loyalty that respond to the need of
country. They are willing to give service—but
should they be required to bear an unfair share
of the burden? In giving service, the working
people give their bodies and their minds—flesh
blood and spirit. They demand that the govern-
ment shall recognize the transcendant value of
such service—that every other possession of the
nation shall be held subordinate to men, women
and children. They demand that those provis-
ions protecting the health and life opportunity
of the nation shall be the last sacrifices to na-
tional defense.
The workers are willing to give service—as
free men with a right to representation in the
agencies that control service. They demand rep-
resentation for their interests and convictions in
determining the finances of the war, the board
of censors, food control and all the forces that
donminate life and opportunity.
The workers will give service in the war for
freedom and human rights—during the struggle
they demand that their own rights and welfare
shall not be filched from them, and they demand
that they shall participate equally with all other
citizens in determining the mobilization of the
nation for effective service.
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
Phone 911 21st and Postoffice
Church Street,. Between 22d and 23d Sts.
James C. and
Charles J. Stubbs
LAWYERS
312 22nd St. Galveston, Texas
J. W. YOUNG Editor and Publisher.
Office 812 Tremont Street. Phone 409.
Marsene Johnson Elmo Johnson
Roy Johnson
LAW OFFICE OF
Marsene Johnson
Ceneral Practice Civil and Crimlna
0th and Market St. Phone 760
F. P. MALLOY & SON
(Livary and Bearding Stables)—Licensed Undertakers and Embalmers
The “White Flyer" Ambulance Is Always Ready
-24thand st* PHONE 273 Galveston, Texas
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 12, 1917, newspaper, May 12, 1917; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447745/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.