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in Gunnery and Engineering.
By Associated Press.
’ Washington, Aug. 11.—The battleship
Michigan is the champion of the navy.
The vessel was yesterday awarded the
battle efficiency pennant for the high-
est combined final merit in gunnery
and engineering for the year ending
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Labor Day celebration and no one else
Is authorized to do the same regardless
of other labor councils.
J. R. Pirtell, Chairman; John Reagan,
Geo. Scott, K. F. Rogers, C. D. Lavallee,
Secretary Advertising Committee.
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6ALVEST0N LABOR COUNCIL
Meets second and fourth Monday nights at Cooks and Waiters’ hall.
Officers: President, M. E. Shay, Printing Pressmen; first vice presi-
dent, Thomas J. Hussion Jr., Typographical Union; second vice president,
E. W. Bock, Carpenters; recording and corresponding secretary, Anthony
Number Average Member- Deaths
shii3 per 1000
32,105
34,948
*38,364
42,436
{46,165
46,734
44,980
42,357
43,740
44,921
47,848
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termen, No. 570; Railway Clerks, No. 18;
Electrical Workers, No. 527; Boat and Line Runners, No. 438;........„
cial Telegraphers, No. 125; Machinists, No. 6; Marine Warehouse Workers,
No. 789; Bolivar I. L. A., No. 302; Federal Labor Union No. 12858.
TIME OF UNION MEETINGS
1ST SUNDAY—Typographical, Musicians.
2D SUNDAY—Switchmen.
3D SUNDAY—Plasterers.
4TH SUNDAY—Switchmen.
1ST MONDAY—Barbers No. 100, Pressmen,
2D MONDAY—Labor Council. /
3D MONDAY—Bookbinders, Street Railway Emploves.
4TH MONDAY-—Labor Council, Teamsters.
1ST TUESDAY—Car, enters 526,
Waiters, Barbers No. 62.
TUESDAY—Carpenters 526,
way Carmen.
TUESDAY—Carpenters 526,
Waiters.
4TH TUESDAY—Carpenters 526, ’Longshoremen, Railw^-? Clerks,
6an Francisco Railway to Operate on
Short Day Basis.
The labor party administration of
San Francisco has commenced the op-
eration of the Gary str*eet railway,
■which has been turned over' to the
city as a result of the expiration of
a franchise. Every legal obstacle
known was put in the way of the city
administration to take over and oper-
ate this line. It was necessary owing
to th'e extremely bad physical condit-
ion of, the roadbed and the cars, that
it be almost wholly reconstructed, and
active work has commenced.
Labor Mayor McCarthy hasannounc-
ed that all the work to be done in re-
habilitating^ the road will be done by
union labor and that when completed
the motormen, conductors and all em-
ployees of the operating department
will be put upon an eight hour day
and a wage rate that will enable the
employees to maintain a high stand-
ard of living. It is stated that the
employees’ organizations and other as-
sociations of a like character are
much pertrubed over the action taken
by the union labor administration.
In Combination They Have Salutary
Effect on Health of Workers.
The reports of the officers of the in-
ternational Typographical Union for
the organization’s fiscal year ending
May 31, 1911, are just from the press.
They contain a mass of interesting
data that will be appreciated not only
by the members of the typographical
union, but by all other trade unionists.
President Lynch makes reference to
the progress that has been made since
the establishment of the eight-hour day
and also to the good results that have
followed the campaign for better sani-
tation in composing reborns. Proper con-
ditions in work rooms should be pro-
vided by all employers.
The following table, compiled from
the reports of the International Ty-
pographical Union officers, will be of
interest;
Average age
years:
♦Including
typers, seven months.
{Including photo-engravers,
months.
It will be noted that during the last
fiscal year the average age at death
of members of the International Typo-
graphical Union was more than, 49
years an increase of more than eight
years over 1900, when the average was
41.25. The increased average age can,
it is stated, be traced directly to the
beneficent effects of the eight-hour day
and the improved sanitary workrooms
that have followed the campaign of
the International Typographical Union
for better working conditions.
way Carmen.
1ST WEDNESDAY—Tinners, Pilots.
2D WEDNESDAY—kjachinists, Label League, Cigarmakers.
3© WEDNESDAY—Tinners, Pilots.
4TH WEDNESDAY—Machinists, Label League.
1ST THURSDAY—Painters, Oystermen, Plumbers, Brick Masons.
2D THURSDAY—Cigarpiakers.
3D THURSDAY—Painters, Oys.ermen, Plumbers, Brick Masons.
4TH THURSDAY- -?. C. Screwmen.
1ST FRIDAY—Brewery Workers, T. C. L. No. 636, Marine Engineers.
2D FRIDAY—Screwmen, Electrical Workers.
3D FRIDAY—Brewery Workers, T. C. L. No. 636, Marine Engineers, Bar-
tenders.
4TH FRIDAY—Screwmen, ’ Electrical Workers,
1ST SATURDAY—Bakers.
3D SATURDAY—Bakers. ,
Labor Leader Joins Magazine Publish-
ers in Fight on Hitchcock.
By Associated Press.
New York, Aug. 11.—Magazine pub-
lishers who are opposing Postmaster
General Hitchcock’s efforts to raise
postage rates received an important re-
cruit today when President Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor
appeared before the congressional
committee investigating second-class
mail matter. , Mr. Gompers spoke on
behalf of the publication of his organi-
zation. He insisted that present rates
on second-class matter in so far as
they affected handling of magazines
and periodicals were self-sustaining.
B. Day, Women’s Label League; financial secretary, J. C. Sheldon, Street
Railway Employes; treasurer, Charles J. Skarke, Bartenders;
clerk, Robert C. Bowman, Stage Employes; warden, Louis
and Waiters.
Waples Lumber Co.
(Successors to D. M. Wilson & Co,J
31ST AND’ WINNIBJ STS,
Phoit9 793.
Journeymen Barbers, No. 100; Retail Clerks, No. 130;
No. 216; Musicians’ Protective Union, No. 74; Carpenters
No. 526; Painters and Decorators, No. 585; Bartenders, Xb. 749;
Railway Employes, No. 78; International ’Longshoremn, No. 310;
layers, No. 1; Screwmen’s Benevolent Association, N
cal, No. 28; Cooks and W&Mers, No. 69; Printing Pressmen, No. 2o;
Theatrical Stage Employes, ?^o. 65; Brewery Workers, No. 130; S. P. C.
T. W., No. 385; Bakers' Union, No. 251; Woman’s Union Label League, No.
142; Teamsters’ Union, No. 604; Tin and Sheet Metal Workers, No. ’144°
Bookbinders, No. 50: Joruneymen Plumbers, No. 200; Bay Fish and Oys
x 27-. 22; Switchmen’s Union, No. 70;
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Gov. Cruce Will Appoint 500 Special
Deputies in Oklahoma.
By Associated Press.
Oklahoma City; Aug. 11.—Following
an admission by Chief of Police Wm.
Tilgham that it is impossible to put
bootlegging out of business in Okla-
homa City without a big increase in.
the city police force, Gov. Cruce today
stated he would appoint 500 special
deputies to assist in the work.
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Alt (racers and dru<gl$£a.
SIGHT DRAFTS ON LONDON,
PARIS, STOCKHOLM, BREMEN,
HAMBURG. FRANKFURT, BERLIN.
Workers’
ap-
50 cents per day increase,
also increased their wages
per day.
The American Transport
Union has secured an agreement for
the leaders from some of the large
steamship companies, reducing the
working time to eight and onehalf
hours per day and increasing the wage..
The Western Federation of Minerp in
convention defeated by vote of 172
to 124 a motion to declare a general
strike on the day the trial of Mc-
Namara opened in Los Angeles.
The question of unionists refusing
to work with non-unionists is becom-
ing a vital matter, and the railway
workers at Hull, England, have just
Passed a resolution to the effect that
“the time has now arrived when every
own
trade union, and that when the date
is fixed no one will work after that
time with non-union men.”
During the past month 155,630
plicants for work were received at (the
217 English labor exchanges and 59,254
vacancies were filled, 33,670 for men,
14.316 for women, 7257 for boys and
3965 for girls.
According to the July report of the
Amalgamated Society of Tool Makers,
Great Britain, the membership is 5184,
the increase during June being 975.
The reserve funds amount to $112,000,
being an increase of $30,030.
Engineers’ wages have increased at
Blackburn by 1 shilling per week, and
Belfast 1 shipping per week, and ef-
forts to get an advance are being made
at Leeds and Aberdeen.
man must be a member of his
agreed to the 10 per cent cut in wages
brought about by the eight hour law,
250 of the operators signing the agree-
ment.
There are 10,000 union building la-
borers in Chicago.
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union of New
York city donated $250 to the Mc-
Namara defense fund. '
T. M. Daly has been elected interna-
tional president of the Metal Polishers’ •
union and Charles R. Atherton secre-
tary-treasurer and editor.
One hundred thousand cards adver-
tising union label firms will be distrib-
uted throughout the country by Textile
Workers’ International union.
The tenth annual convention of the
Boot and Shoe Workers’ International
Union refused to adopt an amendment
making eight hours a workday in the
union after May 1, 1912.
A settlement has just been made at
St. George, Me., whereby the quarry
workers have secured the eight hour
day. This accomplishment practically
places the quarry workers in New
England on a general eight hour basis.
Musicians of Saginaw, Mich., secured
Printers
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RESOURCES—Over 2 1-2 Million Dollars
P/tys Semi-Annually 4 Per Cent In-
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Different Organizations Are Doing’—Brief Notes
and Comments.
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Two New Organizations.
Special to The Tribune.
Virginia, Minn., Aug. 11.—Two new
of the
week
Another Use for Injunction.
Because his prayers for rain during
the recent dry spell were followed by
such a copious and prolonged down-
pour that their cotton crop was dam-
aged, neighbors, of Rev. Dr. Moore, a
Methodist minister of Florence, S. C.,
threatened to sue out an injunction re-
straining him from offering such pray-
ers in the future.
becoming
position for
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For Labor Sunday.
Sunday, Sept., 3rd has been set a-
side and designated by the American
WedcraUion. of Laborj Sunday’. Or<
this date pastors of churches are re-
quested to deliver at least one ser-
mon during the day on the topic re-
lated to workingmen and the better-
ing of their conditions. Labor Sun-
day has been well observed in Gal-
veston for the past two or three years,
special services generally in the eve-
ing being held. No official action
has been tak’en on the matter as yet
by the Labor Council but as the Min-
isteral Union is represented in the
Council by Rev. Thome, fraternal dele-
gate it is probable that some an-
nouncement will be made of the mai-
ler at the next meeting of th’e body.
Good Reports.
Special to The Tribune.
Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 11.—C. O. Zeig-
ler, president of the State Federation
of Labor, is doing valuable work on
the east side of the state in the in-
terest of the state organization. He
has organized a number of new unions
and succeeded in getting many affil-
iations for the State Federation.
Reduced Hours for Barmaids.
If a bill now before parliament be-
comes a law, the English barmaids
will get, in effect, a six-day week.
These girls are now working an ex-
cessive number of hoirs.
After Big Membership.
“Three Hundred Memb'ers” is the
slogan which has been adopted by the
ladies of the Union Lable League. Thi*
mark has been set as b’eing about the
right representation for a city of the
size of Galveston, and each member
af the league has pledged herself to
obtain at least on'e tenth of the re-
quired number of members.
The meeting this week was well at-
tended and a large volume of interest-
ing business was transacted.
Minnesota Bureau of Labor.
Under the present administration of
the bureau of labor efforts are being
concentrated on the prevention of in-
dustrial accidents in Minnesota. In the
office of labor comfnissioner there are
on file records of over 20,000 accidents.
A careful investigation is being made
. oT^ these records with a view to sug-
gesting. methods whereby these acci-
dents may be avoided in the future.
Supreme Court Opinion.
The Saunders-Parks workingmen’s
compensation bill, which was referred
to the Massachusetts supreme court to
determine its constitutionality prioi;
to its passage, has been declared a
constitutional act by the supreme ju-
dicial body of the state. Immediately
upon the court’s decision the bill pass-
ed the senate and house. Assurances
have been had that the governor will
affix his signature, thus making the
workingmen’s compensation bill a law.
Pressmen Hold Meeting.
The monthly meeting of the Print-
ing Pressm’en took place on Monday
evening with good attendance of the
members. Regular routine business
occupied part of the time. A member
of th’e craft from Chicago, George An-
nuzzo, died in Galveston this week
the .remains being taken in charge by
local 25 .
For Labor Day.
The matter of Labor Day is still an
uncertain question as to the parad’e
feature. Otherwise everything prom-
ises to came up to and pass all prev-
in the line of celebra-
Real Union Town.
“In San Francisco,” said Marcel
Will'e, organizer for the Bakery and
Confectionary Workers’ union, “we
have what is known as the Union La-
bor party. The mayor is a member of
the carpenters’ union. The district at-
torney is a member of th'e typographi-
cal union. Twelve out of twenty as-
semblymen carry cards in their re-
spective union. Thes'e city officials are
not ‘fri'ends’ of organized labor; they
are members of the unions.”
Long Strike Settled.
Through the efforts of James F. Ma-
loney, third vice president of the Inter-
national Printing Pressmen and As-
sistants’ union, who has been in Denver
but a short time in behalf of the web
pressmen, an agreement has been
reached with the Rocky Mountain
News, the Denver Republic and the
Post, whereby union pressmen through-
out will be employed hereafter. The
three papers mentioned have been em-
ploying non-union pressmen for nearly
a year, the strike occurring over the
papers refusing to comply with an
agreement in reference to wages. This
settlement clears up the Denver situa-
tion and all the daily papers are now
employing union men in every depart-
ment.
ious records
tions.
The committee in charge has ex-
tended invitations to a number of ad-
journing cities to come to Galveston
and take part, and advie'e has been re-
ceived indicating that the invitations
will be responded to in person by the
laboring men.
A feature of the day will be the ad-
dress of Mr. M. E. Murry of th'e Bar-
bers’ Union. \
organizations have just been formed
here by John B. Chubbuck, special or-
ganizer for the American Federation
of Labor—the Retail Clerks and the
Journeymen Tailors. These organiza-
tions started off with a good mem-
bership. A trades council has also
been instituted at International Falls
and a reorganization also of the
Plumbers at the latter place.
Mr. Murray is a former Minnesotian
and for 20 years was active in the
labor movement. During this time he
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Wharf Work Begining.
Members of the Longshorem’en’s and
Screwmen’s unions are begining to
gather back to the wharf front, bale
hooks sharpened and bodies in con-
dition to take care of th’e big crop of
cotton which Galveston is going to
export this season. The arrival of
several ships of the freight carrying
variety this week has started things,
the destined lists show that there is
on th'e way enough of the big steel
floating warehouses to take care
the cotton as fast as it will arrive.
Carpenters Report Busy.
Business agent Johnston of
Carpent'ers’ union reports that most of
the members of 526 are busy, get-*
tiflg in good time.
The meeting of the union held this
week was largely attended and among
oth'er matters there was taken into
the organization four new members
and the applications of others were
received. The meeting following on
the ree’epeion of President Huber
also had some matters to attend to
relative to his call all of which were
satisfactorily disposed of. President
Ludgate who has Ije'en in attendance
upon the meeting of the state organi-
zation of carpenters returned to Gal-
veston today.
The matter of the s'election of a
business agent again coming up Mr.
J. A. Johnston was unanimously re-
elected for another term, a fitting
testimonal to his good work in the in-
terests of the union.
Interest Taken From
World of Labor.
Carterville (Ill.) city laborers
25 cents per hour.
Michigan Central railroad machinists
receive 34% cents an hour.
Sixty per cent of the adult workers
of Great Britain receive less than $7.50
weekly wages.
Vicksburg (Miss.) barbers have re-
duced their working time one hour per
day without loss of wages.
Milwaukee machinery movers, who
are making 30 cents an hour, are soon
to have their wages
cents.
During the month of May John G.
Schroeder Jr., clerk of the free
ployment bureau conducted by the city
of Portland, Ore., secured positions for
2164 men and women. There were 3 09
carpenters placed in position and six-
teen plumbers. •
Because of their failure to collect
sufficient funds to sustain their strike
the mill operatives of the California
cotton mills in East Oakland have
Barbers in Session.
The regular monthly meeting
Barbers' union was held this
with a good attendance of the mem-
bers. Four new members were
into the organization and a consider-
able amount of routine business was
transacted. The resignation Of Presi-
dent Sumers necessitated the
ion of a new executive head,
Wilson being select’ed.
During
held many positions at the head
the organized forces in that state,
one time he served as vice-president
and then president of the St. Paul
Trades and Labor Assembly. After
this he was elected vice-president of
the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor, which position he held for one
year and afterwards becoming its
president, fillinig that
one t'erm.
In 1895 he was elected general presi-
dent of the Journeymen Barbers Inter-
national union of America. Mr. Mur-
ray also held an organizer’s commis-
sion from President Samuel Gompers
for 15 years and organized many uni-
ons. For a number of years he has
devoted considerable time to news-
paper work.
Painters ao Celebrate.
Painters, decorators, paperhangers,
canvasers, signwriters and decorative
artists of all branches of the trade
who are members of .local Union 585
will knock off this evening at five
o’clock and call it a week. The reason
is that they are not going to work to-
morrow, but instead will gather at
Woolam’s Lake and put decorative and
quanity reducing touches on various
kinds of barb'ecued beef, baked and
boiled crabs, fish, green corn and ’ta-
ters, something to wash it down and
otherwis'e. The occasion is nothing
special, but the outcome of a resolve
on the part of the members to put in
a day of play Instead of work, and in-
cidentlly give thanks for a prosper-
ous season. The members will gather
at 10 a. m.., and with eating, dancing,
and other sports of an athletic na-
ture tvill put in the time until the
last car passes going home.
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GALVESTO.N TRIBITK®: FRIDAY,
ACTGDST 11,
1911.
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 222, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1911, newspaper, August 11, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1409362/m1/7/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.