The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 4 of 16
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THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN
THE DALLAS CRAFTSMAN Secretary Acreman
catch sentences
Issued Every Friday
R, I. MelLWAINE, Advertising Mgn.
MRS. W. M. REILLY, Publisher
Published By the REILLY PUBLISHING COMPANY
tee Year---------$2.00
Advertising Rates Furnished on Application
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who have been less
We wish
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BALLAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
Webster’s time, that he had
the solution
Federal Constitutional Amend-
an
of most
of our
sion, an exception was
made.
in mimeographed form.
ative action, the active and ag-
work," and that “Labor is the
again
tion of Labor
has been
ert and the forest into culti-
SOUTH SEA COURTSHIP
GREETINGS TO LABOR
of
the
bill,
NU-GRAPE CO.
utilities. Certainly,
condemned those
on
- records is fascinating. We owe
For
centuries.
the
many
1719 S. Ervay St.
and
trunks of "old-timers” to secure
Phone 4-5952
copies of all the printed pro-
and have heard so often of the
troduced in the very first
in books for our permanent rec-
con-
ords.
Congratulations
and best wishes
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for it’s a
delightful
FLAVOR
A “
TREAT
Dallas Railway & Terminal Co.
and...
„D
LABOR DAY
SALE
FIRESTONE HIGH SPEED TIRES
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bel committee for the
purpose
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of advancing the
interest
$999
SIZE
union labels of the various
6.00-16
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EASY BUDGET TERMS!
100% UNION BREWERY
Pearl Beer Distributing Co.
DIAL 7-2779
8607 MAIN ST.
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•100%
UNION MADE
our possession of them to the
late George H. Slater, of be-
loved memory, who painstak-
Our constant aim is to do our full
part in building a still Greater Dallas.
Phone 7-3177
Phone 7-6321
Phone 9-1118
Phone 8-5188
None But Authenticated
Labor Publications
fAGBRBEER
the Federation was fighting for
its existence against the depres-
in
un-
by the changing exigencies of
the years, but still crystal-clear
in their application.
The reading of these earlier
orfice: Ground Floor of Labor Temple, 1727 Young Street
Mail Address, Postoffice Box 897, Telephone 2-1205
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION AND ADVERTISING RATES
PESSIMISTS MAY be disagreeable, but they give less fool-
ish advice than the optimists.
IF APPROPRIATIONS were armaments Uncle Sam would
be able to defy the world right now.
EUROPE MAY expect to attract American tourists
when Hitler’s tomb is one of its show places.
FOLKS WHO TALK so confidently of going to heaven sel-
dom seem in any hurry to start.
irestone
AUTO SUPPLY & SERVICE STORES
ance of bank accounts, and, fi-
nally, the Postal Savings Bank
—again, going far beyond the
vision of our pioneers.
The question of direct elec-
tion of President, Vice Presi-
dent. and Senators to the Unit-
ed States Senate still remains
in our preamble.
From the beginning, the Fed-
eration favored public owner-
ion and foresight was
progressed on a scale then un
dreamed of.
Some time between the first
and fifth conventions, the con-
16 years at the minimum age,
years later, the principles they
set down are still the principles
of our Federation, augmented
Are Permitted to Display
This TLPA Emblem
Even at this first meeting,
the Federation was "suprorting
its friends, opposing its ene-
mies,” and lending its assistance
to local unions having difficul-
Native girls of some of the South Sea islands will not marry
a suitor until he can prove to her that he has killed a man, ac-
cording to a report by the governor of Paupa territory to the
Australian prime minister.
The proof demanded is a finger of the dead man, which is
smoke-dried and worn suspended from the girl’s neck. Whether
any particular finger is specified was not stated in the report.
The story is told of one suitor who had tough luck in his
search for the required memento. Looking for a victim, he be-
came lost in the wilderness and almost starved, but was rescued
and after regaining his strength he started out again. Crossing
a river, he narrowly escaped being caught by a hugh alligator.
Continuing his man hunt, he hid in the grass near a native
village and waited. He attacked the first man who came along,
but his intended victim beat him terribly and left him for dead.
Another villager nursed him to recovery and he made his way
home.
Upon his return he begged the girl to marry him without re-
quiring him to kill a man, but she would have nothing more to
do with him.
So it appears that in spite of all the romance which is sup-
posed to attach to the islands of the South Sea, courting a native
• girl in those parts has its difficulties.
Entered at the Postoffice at Dallas, Texas, as second-class mail matter
under the Act of March 8, 1879.
A Builder—
। “There is a perennial inspira-
tion and even sacredness in
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If
iOaBevarageotMaderohon
Skinnie & Jimmie, Ross at Horwood
Downtown, Young and St. Paul
Oak Cliff, Jefferson at Madison
East Dallas, Greenville and Bell
I
Fine ingredients fin PEARL Beer a delicioua
flavor and sparkling tang that make it topu with
tte-wise. Texana everywhere. But it'a that
Extra ingredient, 54 years of continuous brew-
ing experience, that makes it so truly delicious.
For extra pep and refreshment that banishes
summertime fatigue, ask for PEARL Beer. It’s
a keener, quicker quencher and a real warm
weathea pal! Say, "Bottle of PEARL, please”!
For more than 60 years this com-
pany, through the expenditure of mil-
lions of dollars in developing its trans-
portation system, and through the
constant training of its employees in
the art of furnishing high-class pub-
lic transportation service, has aided
while not universal, this has
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The Dallas Craftsman represents the true trade anion movement, voicing
the aspirations and achievement! of the American Federation of Labor. It
does not represent the Bolshevik, L W. W, Anarchistic, Radical, or any other
movement injurious to the peace and stability of American institutions. It is
fer America, first and last, and for the honest, moral, upright, eonrageous
and true trade unions all the time.
K the FLAVOR
makes a
Berencew
Taslewiselvans
cal unions, and we find them
represented in Houston in No-
vember, 1902.
So far as we have been able
to learn, none of the delegates
to the first convention are sur-
viving. As one by one, these
men have laid down their tools,
and reported to the Great Sup-
erintendent for higher assign-
ments.
But they had built better
than they knew, and their vis-
uink
YOUR -
BITETO
EOT
duction of hours of labor gen-
erally is a part of our legisla-
tive program for 1940, modi-
fied, to meet the times, into the
effort to secure a state Wages
and Hours Act, modeled after
the Federal Act.
The then highly controversial
"single tax" system, which was
receiving a tremendous amount
of attention at that time, and on
which Labor took, and (see the
preamble to the constitution)
still takes an affirmative stand,
has never been placed on the
statute books, nor has it, for
some years, been an active po-
litical issue.
The prohibition of child la-
bor is still a part of our consti-
tution, is being more actively
prosecuted than ever, and we
still hope to see Texas lined up
with the twenty-eight states
that have always ratified the
gressive practice of trade union
principles by unions and union
men and women. It is as sim-
ple as that.
This Labor Day of 1940 is a
fitting and suitable occasion to
ingly ransacked attics
shin of
convention; and only once in
succeeding years has this rule
been violated. In 1934, when
- .sending of federal troops into
greatly in the building and progress a labor dispute in Idaho.
, .. -x • • •» Still another resolution adopt-
of the city it is privileged to serve, ed the emblem Which still lives,
; I unchanged, in our official seal
rededicate ourselves to those
ideals so firmly grounded in the
past, yet so necessary to the
present.
HARRY W. ACREMAN,
Executive Secretary.:
vention, for instance, is one au-
thorizing a delegate to attend
the convention of another state
association, in behalf of union
printing tradesmen; one declar-
ing an Austin firm unfair to
lorganized labor; one endorsing
a fight by the International
l Typographical Unioh against a
New York newspaper syndi-
cate; another placing a Fort
Worth Milling Company on the
“unfair list.” There were sev-
eral resolutions commending
firms in various parts of the
state for their fair attitude to
various organizations. One of
the last resolutions presented
requested investigation of the
15 years.
The demand of the first con-
vention for “National Postal
Savings Banks” has been met
by the improvement of our Na-
tional Bank system, the later
Federal Reserve system, the de-
pression-born Federal insur-
the organized worker alone;
"Bottle of PEARL,PLEASE”
"YOU SET, PEARL SEER
IS A REAL SUMMER-TIME
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(Continued from page 1)
to private industry; and no one
can claim that it works per-
fectly, even where established;
but there has been a great im-
provement over 1900, conditions.
The reduction of hours of la-
bor to eight hours per day has
been accomplished in state,
county, and municipal work of
all types. The matter of re-
stitution was changed to per-
whereas the 1900 convention set mit affiliation of individual lo-
When Labor uses its united
i- economic power, supporting its
we cn,1a +1. .. Ie And1.80, the fightthas goneon i union label in every purchase,
year bv vear Eould. the you, from those earliest days, when no matter how small; when
year oy year, through the pro- 23 brave men of vision and Dabor uses ite mnited noliticai
cedings of our conventions since idealism banded together in a 1 ™ its united political
that date huttimene. ire2mm uanueu logeiner in a , power, informing itself who are
In at 1 time does not per- state movement for the better- its friends and who are Ha ene
mit. We have traced enough of ment of themselves and pos-Nsel end indhpa of ene
the history of the Federation terity, to this good day, when mnsnnduregardess, Qfsper-
frrststnfirst.three yearsto hundreds of loyal men and 8hips, Vtes accrdsngaiyfrthen,
tKm> ideJlsameuprinciples women gather annually, proud and then only, can We come into
our Federation from itsctuated their mebership. and repre- the fullness of the vision of our
ning Duringallrmits.begin- mentation in a great movement, forefathers, a full life, true lib-
indyearsunrtth einteren- Many.years,ago1Daniel Webs, erty, and the successful pursuit
tion' favorable’to Labor has isproud. xtbnrsinotttuntn of happiness,
been passed because the Texas ‘ .......
prnntinggoryprtcndingdfrrthe ing years, every "I legisla- ter said.
m, .. vated fields; that has covered
I he Federation has not work- the earth with cities, and the
ed always or even primarily for 'ocean with ships; that has given
us plenty, comfort, and civiliza-
oeen passed because the Texas patronage of capital, bet cap- Thehistory of the progress
State Federation of Labor had ital solicits the aid of labor» pfrtaborain Texasf orrthepast
SX hard-workingtnrepre- We arel afraid, looking back for VhfuturehAthe‘topportume
us; every bit of xhatting for over the records of Daniel ity for service is unlimited, and
tion instead of cold, misery
and barbarism."
The work is not yet done.
Possibly, so long as men are
tation of our children. We go
beyond the program of our pio-
neer convention, in that we set
us; every bit of defeated un-
=
thar.....
partments have been created in 1 —
our state government; powers
have been given or withdrawn,
as necessity demanded; but al-
and sometimes its efforts have
been condemned by the very
people who were being helped.
_______We need go no further back ___________
such that than the 46th Legislature, when men, with their human passions
even today, more than forty Labor fought a valiant fight to of ambition and greed, the bar-
defeat the obnoxious sales tax barism only thinly covered with
constitutional amendment, and a shell of civilization, it never
theun informed, and those ig- WILL be completed. We have,
ng rant of the true implications es yet, only touched the surface
of the bill, short-sightedly of what Labor can do—of what
condemned those efforts—not Labor MUST do, if it is to go on
realizing that such an amend- building on the firm founda-
ment to our constitution would tion laid by its pioneers
have taken one week’s wages For many cenziu
out of every fifty, more than a'worker has heard of “the dig-
week a year, from each wage- nity of labor,” the “beauty of
earner in the state of Texas, labor,” the “necessity of labor”
and it would have done so in in later years, we have been told i
cedings, an have‘them bound Eatad passed, thr’removai in? hav^hX^s^ofttn^Tthe
of this amendment from the “power of solidarity,” that, to
Sometimes, reverently turn- constitution would forever have |moat of us, all them words have
ing the time-stained pages, we been impossible. Then, in the become merely academic
ca teh sentences and phrases 45th Legislature, at the time the ' phrases. We have never yet
I wabarfthaln2: runtsovetan orxizaL"soe atnt S
or.in stance, the report of among the ranks of Labor. con- more than ever before. we must
President Dee at the first Hous- demned the efforts of the Fed- realize that these are not aim
ton, in,1902 makes eration to defeat the so-called ply words, but that the power
an eloguent appeal for the Down Strike Bill." Theyof Labor is a real power;the
QPIeration of all.the brothers argued that the American Fed- true unity of Labor is its great-
fortheg oodofall beggmg Or- eration of Labor had always est weapon. and the individual
ganized Labor to stand togeth- opposed sit-down strikes; it was vote of every member, the am-
E; 2 .us he same on election an anti-C. I. O. measure; we munition for that weapon. Our
daz:ason-aborDay," andmen-didn’t care what happened to power is economical, as well as
tions the tendency for an or-i the C. I. O.; so why fight the Nolitical.
ganization to get what it wants, bill? T- ■ •......I" ’
and then rest on its oars, and realize
cease working for the —- I -----
wave +L. .. c. — talisman that has wrest men
Ways, State Federa- from the condition of the sav-
of lab r., has been the age; that has changed the des-
wateh-dog of the working man * ■
in Texas.
- - - . ---------vuazucas; but, except in a few
The rank and file did not isolated instances, we have
.. 1.—' the cunning, hidden never used that power to its
the others | phraseology, that would have fullest extent,
gmnm cod fortunate taken away from us so many of
in their efforts to secure better- our hard-won privileges
ment of their conditions. 1 ‘ r
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and in the membership buttons
adopted at our last convention.
And, again showing that hu-
man nature does not change,
considerable space in the pro-
' ceedings was taken up with a
factional or jurisdictional dis-
| pute.
An interesting sidelight is the
appropriation of $15.00 for pre-
paring the Proceedings of the
Convention! The 1939 Proceed-
ings cost just five hundred dol-
pars more. Incidentally, this is
also a silent commentary on the
wages that must have been paid
at that time, to permit the prep-
aration of the 24-page proceed-
ings at such small cost.
As a forerunner of our Label
Leagues and our educational
programs, another resolution
recommended “to each central
body the establishment of a la-
contact with the State Federa-
tion except through their cen-
tral body.
• The Temporary Chairman
for this first convention was F.
H. Graves, who had been chief-
ly instrumental in the inaugu-
ration of the movement. V. J.
Hill, of Houston, was elected
Temporary Secretary.
James F. Grimes, of Galves-
ton,’ was elected President for
the succeeding year; F. N.
Graves, First Vice President;
and C. N. Hughes, of San An-
tonio, was elected Secretary-
Treasurer. Other Vice Presi-
dents elected were A. E. Wid-
mer of Waco, E. N. Rasenberg
of Dallas, J. W. McArthur of
Houston, and R. W. Walker of
Fort Worth.
Possibly due to financial
stringency facing the newly or-
ganized Federation, we have no
records of the next three con-
ventions, which were held semi-
annually, in Dallas, San Anto-
nio, and Waco, respectively.
The Fifth Convention, held in
Houston, adopted a constitu-
tional amendment providing for
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’ -lum
ions, to guard against fraud,
[to conduct a systematic educa-
itional movement thereon, and
that the several committees so
appointed communicate with
each other for the purpose
above mentioned.”
It is interesting to note that
the first convention made no
provision for local unions affi-
liating or having representa-
tion; central bodies only were
represented, their voting
strength governed by the num-
ber of affiliated members in the
[central body of each city. Rev-
enues were all collected from
[the central bodies on a per cap-
ita membership basis, and in-
dividual local unions had no
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