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DALLAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. 30
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR.
Convention Report Andrew Patton
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Downtown
Bible Class
YOU ARE CORDIALLY
INVITED
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Meet Ft. Worth
At Arlington Park
THIRD FLOOR
LABOR TEMPLE
Of Building and
Construction Trades
Council Charter requesting them to inal element since I have been dis-
prevail upon the Building Trades De- trict attorney has led to an approxi-
Train More Boy
Apprentices, Urges
Machinists’ Head
county has
standards,
Private Hospital
Loses Its Fight
With Labor Union
instructive
of amend-
resolutions
Ed. H. Steger
Pledges Continued
Economy of Office
Judge Ben H. Fly
Outlines Some
Accomplishments
Asbestos Workers
Hold Quarterly
Conference Here
Educational
Committee
By LOUISE WRIGHT
Bakery Workers
Thanks Labor
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Appeals to Voters
For Re-Election
streets and public buifdings
hare increaneindetens rel-
roads,
which
Uss.
Fined for Violating
N. Y. Labor Law
will be distributed to
organizations.
The elected officers
Council are as follows:
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Greeting:
The second annual convention of
the Texas State Building & Construc-
2 tion Trades Council was held in San
Antonio, Texas, June 22-23. 1940, was
will be put into eff
require.
I believe Labor
building
un, Pa.:
WPA Workers
Mobilized for
Defense Projects
Buck Frank
Submits Record
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Dan W. Tracy
Appointed Asst.
Secy, of Labor
AFL Unions Are
Certified by Rail
Labor Board
Ed. Cobb Asks
Support of Labor
The cypress tree is immune to at-
tacks from insects.
Harrison Warns
Hitler Will Attack
U. S. Trade
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EVERY SUNDAY
MORNING
Pay Pact Averts
Shipyard TieUp
Fraternally submitted.
B. A. GRITTA.
Galveston, Texas,
July 8. 1940.
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hospitals and profit-seeking hospitals
that affected their labor relations.
On the question of jurisdiction the
court sustained the board’s conten-
tion that the language of the statute
covered labor relations in any field of
employment where the objective was
being presented to the convention. As
soon as the proceedings and the by-
laws as amended are printed, they
the Building
Trades Council, C. L, Tate, business
representative of the Electricians Lo-
cal Union No. 59, and W. T. E. Kerr,
business agent of the Bricklayers’ Lo-
cal Union No. 5.
Following the regular meeting and
the luncheon, a conference was ar-
ranged between the employers and the
members of the conference for the
discussion of the wage scale with the
result that the local unions who are
members of the conference received
an increase of 50 cents per hour, ac-
cording to A. J. Essary, business rep-
resentative of the local Asbestos
Workers’ Union and an officer of the
conference.
James, president of
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The Woman's Auxiliary No. 80 to
Typographical Union No. 173 will meet
a aringtom Pars, in Arlington Texas,
at 10:30 a. m., July 38. After the
President, W W. Finch, 21214 W.
7th St., Amarillo.
Exec. Sec.-Treas., B. A. Gritta, P. O.
Box 327. Galveston.
1st Vice President, Fred Fishback,
Labor Temple, San Antonio.
2nd Vice President, Thomas Reed,
933 Allston St., Houston.
3rd Vice President, J. O. Montoya,
Labor Temple, El Paso.
4th Vice President, Matt Markum,
3600 N. Main St., Ft. Worth.
5th Vice President, Paul H. Ray.
1904 Connor, Waco.
Inasmuch as the Building Trades
Department has not issued a State
Charter to our Council as yet, your
secretary was instructed by the con-
vention to request of all the affiliated
Building Trades Councils and Unions
to write letters to President John P.
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Washington, D. C. . (AFLWNSY.—
Willingness to co-operate in broaden-
ing appretniceship training tmthe ma-
chine building branch of industry was
expressed here by H. W. Brown, pres-
"dent of the International Association
of Machinists.
Brown said that the I A.M strongly
favors the establishment of appren-
ticeship systems in every machine
shop properly equipped to train ap-
prentices and is giving 100 per cent
co-operation to the federal committee
on apprenticeship training.
to shoot all dogs without licensee.
This also applles to constables."
partment to grant a charter to our
tate organization.
There has been three applications
made to date with the Department de-
clining our applications and it is felt
that if concerted action is taken n
regards to this applicalton, it will be
very helpful.
Your Secretary would like, when
you write these letters requesting ap-
plication for this charter, for you to
mail a copy of your request to .his
of fee because it is our intentions to
appear before the Building Trades
Department personally to make fur-
ther applications and copies of let-
ters that your Building Trades Coun-
cils and Unions have sent in will
strengthen our position very consider-
ably.
su."u i0n . Justice Nova, who ruled that there
build them into good citizens of the Was a distinction between voluntary
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The Southwestern Conference of
Asbestos Workers, composed of local
No, 22 of Houston, No. 10. Little Rock,
Ark. Mo 64. Tulsa, Oklahoma, and No.
87, Oklahoma City, Okla., held its
quarterly meeting in Dallas, at .he
Baker Hotel, Saturday, July 15.
After the regular transaction of
business, the Conference entertained
Its employers attending the confer-
In the Labor Temple at 8 p. m., Fri-
day, July 26, the program of, the Edu-
cational Committee of the Dallas Cen-
tral Labor Council will be "The Na-
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews.” On the program will appear
Hastings Harrison, National Chairman
of the Conference; David B. Love of
Dallas and Irving L. Goldberg, also of
Dallas. Short addresses will be given
by each after which open forum will
be held. A cordial invitation to be
present is extended.
Coyne and to the Presidents of their Patton said this week in his campaign
International Unions outlining the for re-election.
need for a State Building Trades
Dallas county, which some years
ago was receiving nation-wide no-
toriety for disgraceful crime condi-
tions, is now one of the safest spots
in the country for the homeowner . nd
his family. District Attorney Andrew
Dallas County appreciate the improve-
ment effected in the operation of the
tax office and will,approve and en-
courage further effort to advance the
interest of tax payers; therefore I
solicit your co-operation, continued
support and patronage in my cam-
paign for the office of Tax Assessor
and Collector of Dallas County at the
Democratic Primary July 27, 1940.
Bakery Workers Iocal ill wishes
to thank every member of organized
labor for all of their efforts in help-
ing our Local Union. We wish to
WB natally thank the Grocery Clerks
for their untiring efforts in helping
Bakers Local 111. We hope to return
all of the favors and work dona for
us by orgamfd labor.
bulletin board in rak-
The following announcement ap-
peared recently of the munkeiyadl
very enjoyable and an
meeting with a number
ments to our laws and
land Hospital costs, the
maintained fair labor
Judge Fly said.
HASTINGS HARRISON
Mr. Harrison is a native of Texas.
He received his education in the
Waxahachie High School and at Trin-
ity University. He was awarded an
honorary degree of Doctor of Litera-
ture by Trinity University in 1935. He
is author of the book entitled, “Gor-
don Carr,” called “an epic of the de-
pression" by Umphrey Lee, President
of Southern Methodist University, and
"a book with a vital message of great
importance” by Dr. George W. Truett,
Pastor of First Baptist Church of Dal-
las.
Mr. Harrison has served as General
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. twenty-
three years—seven years at Corsicana
and six years at Beaumont where the
3400,000.00 Y.M.C.A. building, erected
during his administration, is one of
the monuments to his long and untir-
ing efforts in behalf of inter-faith ep-
deavor and inter-racial good will. The
last ten years have been spent in
Tulsa where, on February 1, 1939, he
was granted a leave of absence from
his position until June 1, 1940, to ex-
tend and intensify the twelve-year-old
program of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews in the states
of Texas, Oklahoma. Arkansas and
Western Louisiana. The Southwest-
ern area maintains offices in Dallas
and Houston.
Mr. Harrison is a member of the
American Legion and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. He was the first Chair-
man of the Tulsa Juvenile Court Board
and served as a member of the board
for a period of four years. He is a
Mason and has been a Rotarian for
twenty-three years. He is a member
of the Board of Stewards and for two
years served as Chairman of the Board
of Christian Education of the Boston
Avenue Methodist Church of Tulsa.
“Because of mounting relief costs,"
he said, “I urged reorganization of
the city-county welfare bureau for ef-
ficiency and economy, and expenses
of that division this year will be ap-
proximately 390,000 less than in 1939.
“This economy was effected, and no
bona fide Dallas County resident has
yet gone hungry.”
“I offer my accomplishments and
my sincere desire for economical and
efficient government.”
Born and reared in Seagoville,
Judge Fly has been a resident of Dal-
las County all his wife. He is mar-
ried, has three children and now re-
sides at 3516 Harvard Street.
Under Industrial Homework Order
No. 3 in the Artificial Flower and
Feather Industry, homework is re-
stricted to workers who, because of
age, physical or mental disability or
care of invalids in the home are found
•o be unable to adjust to factory work.
Firms must have certificates for all
such homeworkers, It was explained.
Meanwhile the Board of Standards
and Appeals, New York State Depart-
ment of Labor, declaring that the
Federal Fair Labor Standards Act
does not supersede or conflict with
the New York State Industrial Home-
work Law, denied a petition of a
group of manufacturers against In-
dustrial Homework Order No. 3 in
, the Artificial Flower and Feather
। industry. Induhbrlail Commissioner
J Frieda S. Miller explained that this
is the third time the order has been
I upheld, twice by the Board of Stand-
I ards and Appeals and once by the
I State Supreme Court.
Chicago, Ill. (AFLWNS).—George
M. Harrison, president of the Broth-
erhood of Railway Clerks warned in
an address here that Hitler is plan-
ning to wage economic warfare
against the United States.
If Hitler is successful in dominat-
ing Europe, he declared. workers in
the conquered areas will be deprived
of the protection of labor organiza-
tions and be forced to revert to the
working conditions of the middle ages.
“Because of these conditions, the
Nazis will be able to undersell our
manufacturers." said Mr. Harrison,
"amd there *f be serten danger ths
our foreign trade will be ruined."
the earning of a livelihood on one
“ide and the earning of a profit on
the other.
The court also declared that the
act itself provided that it was to be
“liberally construed” for the achieve-
ment of its “purpose of fostering col-
lective bargaining as between em-
ploye and employer.”
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Cra/Ionian la the Official Organ of the Farm Labor Union of Dallaa County and is Subscribed f^r by the Dallas Central Labor Council and Affiliated Unions in a Body and is Fighting for the Rights of Organized Labor
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
Co-operation Between the Employer and Employe for Their Mutual Benefit and Progress and Development of Dallas
New York, N. Y. (AFLWNS).—Max -
imnm penalties of 350 each on two
violations of the Labor Law were im-
posed on Pareti Brothers, manufac-
turers of novelties and artificial
flowers, in the Court of Special Ses-
sions. According to the Bureau of
Industry and Minimum Wage, New
York Department of Labor, the firm
not only distributed homework with-
out necessary certificate but inter-
fered with the inspectors in the course
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Dan W. Tracy, stalwart president of
the International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, was appointed Assist-
ant Secretary of Labor by President
Roosevelt. The Senate is expected to
confirm his appointment promptly.
Mr. Tracy, who will take up his
new duties immediately, succeeds
Marshall E. Dimock, University of
Chicago professor, who was trans-
ferred to the Department of Justice
when the Bureau of Immigration and
Naturalization was moved there from
the Department of Labor.
The Executive Council of the In-
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers will meet soon in Washing-
ton to consider Mr. Tracy’s resigna-
tion from the presidency which he has
held since August 1933.
The appointment of Mr. Tracy
brings to the Department of Labor
an aggressive and progressive labor
leader with a long background of
service in the labor movement. For
the first time since the resignation of
former Assistant Secretary Edward
F. McGrady the Labor Department
will have a high official with practi-
cal knowledge, experience and execu-
tive ability in the field of labor.
In his new post Mr. Tracy will be
in a position to make the Department
of Labor a much more effective in-
strument for the maintenance of har-
monious labor relations in industry
than it has been in the past. It is
expected that he will take an active
part in the national defense program
and co-ordinate the activities of the
Department of Labor with the Na-
tional Defense Advisory Commission.
Mr. Tracy served with distinction
as the American labor delegate to the
Pan American Conference held in
Lima, Peru, more than a year ago.
Secretary of State Hull, who headed
the American delegation to the con-
ference, warmly praised Mr. Tracy's
services.
Under Mr. Tracy's leadership, the
International Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers has made great forward
strides in membership and tn eco-
nomic gains for workers during the
past seven years.
He has been a leading figure in the
campaign of the American Federation
of Labor to amend the National Labor
Relations Act and has frequently crit-
icized the National Labor Relations
Board for decisions adversely affect-
ing the electrical workers and organ-
ized labor generally.
Impressive in appearance and a
notable public speaker, Mr. Tracy has
taken an active part in American Fed-
eration of Labor conventions for many
years as a delegate from the I.B.E.W.
and more recently has been instru-
mental in promoting the success of
he regional conferences held by the
A. F. of L. in Atlanta, Dallas and
Hartford, Conn. He is fifty-four
years old and lives in Houston, Tex.
Walshington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Col. F. C. Harrington, WPA Commis-
sioner, announced that the Works
Projects Administration expects to
have from 500,000 to 600.000 jobless
employed on national defense projects
by fall. The projects include mili-
tary barracks, airports, armories, ga-
rages, utilities and other facilities in-
timately connected with the defense
program.
Col. Harrington said that during
the past five years more than $346,
000.000 has been spent by the WPA
on direct national defense projects,
plus many more millions expended on
Buck Frank in asking the voters to
re-elect him County Commissioner of
District No. 2, submits a record of
proven ability and constructive im-
provement. Mr. Frank pledges a con-
tinuation of the active program which
he has established and said, among
other important things, he has been
instrumental in securing the follow-
ing:
Dallas County has been saved $652,-
000 on bonds on Buckner Boulevard
which were assumed by the State and
due to the passage of the Road Bond
Assumption Law 34,500,000 has been
saved. The Tax Rate for Dallas
County is lower than it has been since
1926. It was reduced two cents in
1939 by your Commissioners' Court.
Ten miles of asphalt surface streets
have been built within the city lim-
its. He has co-operated with the city
officials to improve through connect-
ing streets and he has improved
streets serving schools, churches and
streets with heavy traffic leading to
the city. He has co-operated with
property owners and Dallas Street
Railway Company tn paving many
blocks of city streets.
Some of the connections that have
been built are: Paving on Beacon
Street from East Pike to East Grand
and from Tremont to Junius. Pav-
ing of Lagow Street from near Fitz-
hugh to Scyene Road (State Highway
No. 183). Paving of Paulus to make
connection for J. L. Long Junior High
School. Helping City and WPA in the
widening of East Pike (U. S. Highway
80) from East Grand to city limits.
Widening of Second Avenue from
Carpenter to Hatcher. Streets now
under construction are: Dolphin from
South Haskell to East Pike, Santa Fe
from Beacon to Valencia.
Mr. Frank has built more miles of
hard-surface roads during his tenure
of office in his district than have
been built during previous administra-
tions covering a period of fifty years.
Upon these and many others in-
cluded in his construction program,
Buck Frank asks the people of Dis-
trict Two to re-elect him as their
County Commissioner.
“Having served the people of Dal-
las County as theft Tax Assessor and
Collector for a sufficient length of
time so that all who have had occa-
sion to transact business with the of-
fice to judge for themselves with what
degree of courteous and prompt serv-
ice they have received, I am offering
my services for Mother term of the
same efficient service as rendered in
the past.
“I offer as myTecommendation for
your approval the manner in which
my office has served the people of
Dallas County. It has always been
my object and aim to give the people
of Dallas County the very best ad-
ministration of the Tax Office pos-
sible. and to always keep in mind the
adverse financial condition of many
tax payers.
“Through efficient management of
the assessing of hidden property and
the equalization of assessments, as
employed in my office, the county tax
rate has been reduced from 92 to 73
cents per hundred dollars valuation,
which is far belowithe average county
rate in the State. 4
“Congestion amt delay in the pay-
ment of motor license, poll tax and ad
valorem taxes have been reduced to
the minimum, and other conveniences
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Washington. D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Peaceful settlement of a wage dispute
averted a tie-up of ship construction
at the Ingalls Company shipyards at
Pascagoula, Miss.
Negotiations were successfully con-
cluded at a conference here of A. F.
of L. union representatives, company
officials and Labor Department con-
ciliators.
The company agreed to a two cents
an hour pay increase and the grant-
ing of other concessions which union
spokesmen said will promote harmon-
ious relations between management
and employes. The pay increase was
in addition to a six-cents-an-bour in-
crease for common labor and four
cents-an-hour for burners obtained
during earlier negotiations.
Attending the conference for the
employes was William E. Walter, sec-
retary-treasurer of the Boilermakers;
William C. Calvin, secretary-treas-
urer of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades
Department; Harvey W. Brown, pres-
ident of the Machinists; Joseph A
McDonagh, Washington legislative
representative of the Electrical Work-
ers; M. F. Garrett and Michael Walsh,
for Steamfitters; John Howatt, for
Carpenters and Herbert Wood, for
Operating Engineers.
“Naturally, we are gratified at the
outcome,” declared Mr. Walter, in
announcing the agreement. “The In-
galls company has a contract for
eight Maritime Commission ships,
three of which are on the way and
the keel laid for another. It would
have been unfortunate had this work
been stopped, but a strike would
have been unavoidable had not the
Continued economy in local govern-
ment and a campaign for re-election
devoid of personal abuse and based
entirely upon past accomplishments
was pledged by County Judge Ben H.
Fly Wednesday in a statement for
The Dallas Craftsman.
“My program for the next two
years,” he said, “is to continue ny
efforts of the past to keep Dallas
County expenditures within the in-
l come, which in my opinion, is .he
only safe and sound foundation for
any business, public or private.”
Judge Fly pointed out that in or-
der to effect the policy he was forced
to cut off nearly one-quarter of a mil-
lion dollars from Dallas County's ox-
penses in 1939 and the same amount
in 1940.
"These reductions were accomplish-
ed without a decrease in efficiency
and service to the taxpayers,” he de-
clared.
Judge Fly further pointed out that
in making these reductions he asked
no office to do more than he has done
in his own department, quoting the
following figures to show that ex-
penses of the only department directly
under Judge Fly and the Commis-
sioners’ Court were reduced 295 per
cent:
In the year 1937 with seven em-
ployes the total salaries amounted to
315,300; while in the year 1940 with
three employees theSalaries amounted
to $4,560.
“These figures show an annual sav-
ing in my own department of 310,
740," Judge Fly declared.
Despite these economies made nec-
essary by a limited general fund
revenue and mounting relief and Park-
J. R. McFarland
Asks Re-Election
mate one-half reduction in crime,” Mr.
Patton declared. “The year before I
became district attorney there were
105 murders in Dallas. Last year this
figure fell to 54. Similarly robbery
and automobile theft have decreased
one-half. An all-time record of 1969
felony convictions has been set by my
office."
It will be remembered that District
Attorney Patton gave fullest co-opera-
tion to the State Labo: Commission
under the previous state administra-
tion in its proseentloh of state labor
law violations. In numerous instances
charges filed by State Labor Commis-
sion deputies were vigorously prose-
cuted in Dallas county with many con-
victions resulting. The district attor-
ney also has been diligent in dis-
ouraging violations of the union la-
bel copyright law.
“I am always ready to do my part
to uphold the State labor laws which
are essential to the welfare of or-
vanized workers.” he said. “Misuse
of the union label for any purpose
whatsoever will be prosecuted to the
limit.”
The youngest of a family of eleven
children. District Attorney Patton has
worked since boyhood. He was a mes-
senger boy and later taught in the
Dallas night school system to pay his
way through Southern Methodist
University where he received his law
degree.
J. R. McFarland, who is basing his
candidacy ugon a hundred, per cent
record, accredited by auditors, in the
conduct of his office while handling
more than 325,000,000 of county funds
without an error, says this his union
record 1s also one hundred per cent.
That he invariably uses union work-
era because of their better rrartusum-
ship and dependability, Mr. McFar-
land. because of his record of achieve-
ment in office and fairness, feels he
is entitled to re-election.
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New York, N. Y. (AFLWNS).—Su-
preme Court Justice Algernon I. Nova
in Brooklyn ruled in an unprecedent-
ed decision that a private hospital
operated solely for profit must rec-
ognize the right of its employes to
bargain collectively and choose their
own bargaining agency.
The case involved the Adelphi Hos-
pital, owned and operated by Dr. H.
F. McChesney, whose fourteen serv-
ice and maintenance employes had
chosen in election held by the
State Labor Relations Board the
Building Service Employes Union.
Local 80. A. F. of L. affiliate, as .heir
bargaining agency. The employer
refused to deal throught the union on
the ground that it was without juris-
diction and also refused to obey an
orer of the board requiring recog-
nition of the union.
The board's decision was upheld by
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Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
Two more unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor have
been certified by the National Media-
tion Board to represent railway work-
ers in collective bargaining.
The board designated and author-
ized the International Brotherhood of
Firemen ail Oilers, Roundhouse and
Railway Shop Laborers, operating
througbt the A. F. of L. Railway Em-
ployes Department, to represent pow-
erhouse employes and railway shop
laborers employed by the Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Lines, following an
elecion in which the brotherhood
polled 277 votes against three for
other organizations or individuals.
Employes eligible to vote numbered
339.
The board also designated the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam-
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ex-
press and Station . Employes to rep-
resent clerical, office, station and
storehouse employes of the Reading
Company, including the Port Reading
and Port Richmond Terminals, fol-
lowing a check which revealed that
16 out of 18 employes eligible to
choose representatives favored the
A. F. of L union.
“During my administration union
labor has been used for the first time
in the county engine room and build-
ing maintenance department.
“In addition, the Commissioners'
Court and myself have insisted that
union scales be observed by private
firms contracting for repair jobs, such
as repainting the Records Builling,"
Judge Fly pointed out.
Organizer of the Dallas County cen-
tral highway committee, through
which the county has obtained $5,-
010,000 worth of major road improve-
ments in the past three and one-half
years. Judge Fly said he will con-
tinue. as chairman of the committee,
to seek better and safer highways for
this area.
“I also will continue co-operative
efforts with superintendents of state
hospitals to remove, as rapidly as
possible, mental ill persons from the
county jail to places where they can
be treated—perhaps cured,” he said.
As chairman of the juvenile board.
Judge Fly said he favored continued
treatment of youthful offenders as un-
fortunates—not as hardened criminals
admau-en
and had as its honor guests R. B.
ED. H. STEGER
I am making the race for re-elec-
tion as your County Clerk, strictly on
the record I have made as your
present County Clerk. When you peo-
ple elected me you did so, on one
promise from me, that was. I will
take politics out of the County Clerk's
office and run the office as a business
office should be run. I feel sure that
the record I have made fulfills my
promise to you. During my tenure
of office the operation of this impor-
tant branch of your County Govern-
ment hasn’t cost you taxpayers one
dime of your tax money; in fact I
have turned back to the General Fund
of Dallas County as Net Profit, $122,-
043.73. Comparing my record to that
covering a similar period preceding
my administration the sworn records
on file in your auditor's office reveal
that during my administration I have
turned back 394,479.62 more net prof-
it than was turned back during the
same period of time prior to my elec-
tion as County Clerk.
As a young man when employed as
a clerk by Burk A Co. Clothiers. I was
a member of the Retail Clerks Union
and later when employed by railway
companies, was a member of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. and
have always' been a friend of the
skilled and Union Men.
I earnestly solicit your vote and
influence for a continuation of a busi-
ness like administration of the af-
fairs of your County Clerk's office, an
administration based on courtesy, ef-
ficiency and economy and pledge you
that I’ll be on the job at all times. do-
ing an honest day's work as I have
been doing since I have been your
County Clerk.
Thanks. ’ Tour friend,
ED. H. STEGER.
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