Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1902 Page: 1 of 4
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NOTICE LABOR UNIONS.
CALL FOR STAMP ON LIST
VOL. 5. NO. 2.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, JUNE, 21, 1902.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
THE POWER OF LABOR.
THE FORTY THOUSAND LABORERS
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HAS REMOVED TO
20th Street Bet. Market and Postoffice.
Good Work and Prompt Service Guaranteed.
Phone 65.
F. V. Taylor, Mgn.
THE ORIGINAL
JAVA BLEND $9 PALM BLEND
MAX ARTUSY.
P. BRULLAS.
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PHONE 1124.
514 Center St-
Phone 721.
SMOKE
Cigars.
2214 Market Street, (North Side.)
PHONE 328.
A Trial will Convince you that it is the Best in the City.
THE
Gold Seal Brant
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While Visiting the Auditorium
COFFEE,
STOP AT
Frank Tiernan’s saloon.
BAKING POWDER
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SOUTHEAST CORNER 27th STREET.
Frescriptions Promptly Filled.
MANUFACTURED BY THE
Cold Soda and Delicious Drinks.
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MADEEiN
Union
AND
OVERALLS
La Rosa .........
Belle of Galveston
Reina Violeta—
5c
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EL ROYAL
Best io Cent Cigar in
the city.
What the Unions Have Done and Can Do.
The cessation of Work on Railways. .
Alone Could Tie Up the Busi-
ness of the Country.
@D. D. McDonald,
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Finest Drinks in the City
at Popular Prices.
are the best, use no otber.
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The Chicago Traction Magnate Roach
Signs the Scale.
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Garment Workers Won in the Contest
at Bloomington.
Whom Organizer Leonard Told the Legis-
lature He Represented, When He
Appeared to Fight Anti-Scalp-
ing Bills, Are Seaching the
Records for His Formal
Authority.
Joe Matt’s
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Saloon
Next to Opera House
Fine Lunch
And the Latest Drinks.
Oldenburgs’
Un ion=Made
The Greatest Bargain yet known
in the Piano Business.
£ STRICTLY UNION HOUSE. 3
H. Y. HOYRUPS Drug Store,
(SUCCESSOR TO JNO. M. PARKER)
21st and Market Street.
A Full Line of Fresh Drugs.
McDonald & Wheeler,
LAWYERS,
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CHICAGO STREET CAR MEN WIN
Put up by the
Galveston Coffee & Spice Co.
FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERIES.
Star Laundry
! STAMP No. 68.
ONLY UNION LAUNDRY.
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Union ate a little fire over the failure of
their strike, and then the council ad-
journed.—New Orleans Picayune.
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THE ALVARADO AT ALBUQUERQUE
WALL PAPER
Have you noticed how much your
walls need papering. The cost is
trifling.
My stock is complete with rich
and beautiful effects,* suitable for
Halls, Parlors, Dining Rooms, etc.
No Trouble to Show Goods.
With twelve rolls of Music. Only one
. at th* price.
C. JANKE & CO.,
217 Market St.
W. B. FREGHE, Manager.
GALVESTON, TEXAS:
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J. P. WIRFS,
"THIS IS THE TICKET.”
the Carhartt Brand stands lor high principles. The union label appears
on every garment of the famous Carhartt clothing. We sell these goods
and we know all about tnem. We want every man to know how good
they are. These are the clothes that are built for service. You save
money on every garment you buy that bears the label of the "Car and
Heart.” We have coats, pants and overalls of this brand. Call and get
one of the Carhartt Time Books.
• To introduce it, we will make th* Sollow-
• ‘ ing offer :
; One Fine Upright Fiano and
f the Wonderful Simplex Tian®
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MILLERS’ UNION STORE,
2318 MARKET STREET.
LADIES’ GENTLEMEN’S DINING ROOM.
You will find Polite Attention and Everything First-Class.
Also Private Entrance for Ladies.
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TRY
Star Laundry
ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK,
GLOSS OR DOMESTIC FINISH,
MEN’S CLOTHING CLEANED
SCOURED AND PRESSED;
__REASONABLY.___
GIVE US A TRIAU.
PHONE 143.
2317-2319 CHURCH STREET.
OPPOSITE TREMONT HOTEL.
•Levy Building, Galveston, •
• Phone 355. Texas. •
Galveston Journal.
Official Organ Of the Labor Unions of Galveston.
The Alvarado, at Albuquerque, on the
Santa Fe, finest railway hotel in tbe
Southwest, built at a cost of $125,000,
was opened on May 10, under the ma-
agement of Mr. Fred Harvey.
Architecturally it is modeled after the
old Spanish missions. The main DuiEing
is 330 feet long, 190 feet wide, with oper
court and peristyle. An arcade two hure
dred feet long connects the hotel with
the new Santa Fe passenger depot, ar
edifice which is in perfect harmony wh
the artistic lines of the Alvarado The
central building is three stories high,
wings and annexes two stories, with wide
verandas. Walls are plastered with ce-
ment of a drab color, in pleasing contrast
to the red-tiled roof.
The Alvarado is handsomely furnished
throughout, illuminated by nearly a
thousand electric lights, and afforde
every luxury up-to-date travelers require.
One unique feature is a museum, where
are displayed Indian curios valued at
75,000, collected from all Western tribes,,
including Alaska.
It is expected that many trans-con-
tinental passengers will break their jour-
ney at Albuquerque, to enjoy the in-
spiring air, genial sunshine and luxu-
rious hotel life, as well as make short
trips to the near-by Indian pueblos of.'
Isletta, Laguna and Acoma.
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The plasters of New York City have
won their fight. They will receive $3.25•
per day for eight hours’ work.
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s Pickwick Restaurant, |
S MRS. M. SCAPERLENDA, Proprietress. >
Are unsupassed by any on the
market. They are produced by
home labor, and deserve the pat-
onage of the citizens of Galveston.
Working Men's Garments
Goods Made to Order.
Oil Clothing and Rubber Boots and Shoes.
Give us a trial. All our goods made by Local No. 102,
United Garment Workers', and bear the label.
Phone 43
Church Street.
From all accounts tie Baton Rouge
contingent of the Central Trades and
Labor Council was not sorry when last
night’s meeting came to a close.
Eye-witnesses to the proceedings say
some funny things happened last night,
and that the anti-scalping bill before the
State Legislature is primarily responsible
for all the gayety.
When the central body came into ses-
sion last night, a strong delegation from
the New Orleans Progressive Union, head-
ed by Sol Wexler of the Cotton Ex-
change, stood knocking at the outer gate.
They asked for admission to the hall and
permission to address the assemblage of
laboring men on the merits of the anti-
scalping bill. The announcement of the
presence of the committee caused quite a
flutter.
Senator Robert E. Lee, president of the
council, was not feeling well. He had
come down from Baton Rouge slightly
under the weather. He called Vice Presi-
dent Lawton to one side and asked him
to call the meeting to order, that he was
unable to remain.
Lawton is reported to have demurred
taking the responsibility of calling the
body to roder and of inviting the com-
mittee into the meeeting. He deferred
the honor.
President Lee then rapped for order,
but a few minutes later gave up the
gavel to Mr. Lawton and left the hall ill.
James Leonard, District organizer of
the American Federation of Labor, who
was in Baton Rouge the past week, and
who stated before the conference com-
mittee that he represented 40,000 labor-
ing men of this city, was on hand.
The council denies that Organizer Leo-
nard represented that body. TLa members
declare that they sent no one to Baton
Rouge, and that the minutes will show
that fact. They aver that Mr. Leonard
went to Baton Rouge uninstructed, so
far as they are concerned, and that he
was not authorized to use the name of '
the council.
They go still further and ask who did
send him, and an investigation of the
matter was being talked on the floor
when the council came into session.
With this state of affairs in the coun-
cil chamber the Progressive Union com-
mittee walked in. Mr. Wexler acted as
spokesman. He reviewed the merits of
the proposed law and argued why it
would be to the advantage of the labor-
ing men to have an anti-scalping bill. ,
Other members of the committee spoke
briefly.
Then the committee withdrew.
President Lee returned to the hall after
a little, and again presided over the delib-
erations.
No action was taken relative to the
anti-scalping legislation now pending.
The only action the central'council ever
was the adoption and indorsement of
what is known as the Scranton resolu-
tion, which is the resolution of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor. It declares
against any anti-scalping legislation.
As for sending of any delegates to
Baton Rouge the council denies having
done so. It did adopt the resolutions fa-
voring the scalpers.
The story was going the rounds last
night that on last Sunday a half dozen :
of the local scalpers, headed by Kelsko,
called on Secretary Frank Herlehy of the '
central body, and asked for some of the :
official letter heads of the council. They 1
were referred to Senator Lee, the presi- '
dent, who was in town. In due time they
came back with an order for the paper,
and for a list of all the local labor unions
affiliated with the central council.
Many of the local unions do not yet
know that their unions were on the list,
unless they found it out at the meeeting
last night.
So much for the petition. When the
wire from Baton Rouge conveyed the in-
formation that James Leonard was repre-
senting the central council there was
trouble in strike alley. The forces that
turned him out of the Carmen’s Union
Friday night tore their hair and used
very plain words. They are still talk-
ing.
As for other business at. the council
last night, there was very little trans-
acted. Daniel P. Kelly, the hat boycott
man, was present and made the council
a talk, urging that his boycott against
the goods of the Philadelphia concern be
turned down, was heard. His cause was
indorsed.
The Foundry Laborers and Chippers’
Chicago, Ill., June 18.
Employes of the Union Traction Com-
pany who have been discharged during
the last few days for joining a labor asso-
ciation flocked to the general offices of
the corporation in North Clark Street
yesterday for reinstatement. At a con-
ference between President Roach of the
railway company and W. D. Mahon,
president, and C. O. Pratt, national or-
ganizer of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employes, held in the
morning, all points in dispute were set-
tled. The men’s right to organize was
recognized, and President Roach agreed
to reinstate all who had been discharged
on account of their connection with the
labor union. This was practically the
only issue, there being no wage question
in dispute.
The agrement, signed by both sides, is
a distinct victory for the conductors and
gripmen, and establishes the status of
the organization to the satisfaction of
the men. Mr. Franklin McVeagh
brought about the two meetings between
the men and the company’s final con-
ference.
Mr. Roach requested Mr. Mahon and
Mr. Pratt to produce a list of names of
those who had been discharged for join-
ing the association. Mr. Mahon handed in
the names of ninety conductors and grip-
men. The list was approved as presented
and subordinate officers of the company
were immediately notified to re-employ
these men in their former positions.
The result of the conference was com-
municated to the men by Mr. Mahon and
Mr. Pratt directly after the meeting. A
majority of the discharged men were
congregated in the headquarters of the
association, Randolph and La Salle
Streets, when the news of their success
Bloomington, III., June 18.—The center
of interest in Bloomington to-day was
the contest for queen of the carnival,
which closed at 10 o’clock to-night. The
winning candidate was Miss Myrtle
Scott, who is a member of the Garment
Workers’ Union, and was supported by
the trades unions of the city. Miss Kittie
Hills, her nearest rival, is the daughter
of a hotel man, and is conceded to be one
of the prettiest girls of Bloomington.
The public was permitted to vote for
the various candidates by paying 2%
cents for each vote, the proceedes going
toward defraying the expenss of the car-
nival. A very large sum was raised.
Miss Scott, the winner, will be crowned
with appropriate ceremonies next week,
the jubilee anniversary of the great fire
of June, 1900, commencing on Tuesday
and concluding the following Saturday.
Few there are to-day who realizes
fully the power of organized labor. Only
the thinkers, and they are comparatively
few. realize its real power. In most in-
dustries entitre organized labor wields a
power that can paralyze commerce and
industry.
Three notable examples of this power
in recent history are well remembered.
It was the gigantic Pullman strike, in
which 100,000 railway workers were in-
volved, that caused the American public
to first realize this giant labor force.
That strike paralyzed the commerce of
a dozen State, and yet only one-tenth of
the railway workers of the nation en-
gaged in that contest.
Who can realize the enormous loss to
the nation, or its complete tie up, if all
the organized railway workers should en-
gage in a strike to-day?
Such a strike would mean that not a
pound of freight could be transported,
that the business of the nation would be
at a standstill !
Two other strikes, that of the City
Front Federation of San Francisco and
the Boston Freight and Transportation
strikes, are good illustration of the power
of labor. The first was a strike of the
longshoremen, freight handlers, team-
sters, etc., involving some 14,000 men,
and lasting nearly 10 -months.
The merchants and public in general of
San Francisco realizes now, as never be-
fore, the tremendous power of the unions
of San Francisco. That strike was car-
ried even into politics, and resulted in
the election of a union man as mayor of
the second commercial city of the nation.
In the recent Boston strike the same
or nearly the same element of labor en-
gaged in the strike, some 20,000 men be-
ing out three days. When these 20,000
men, whose labor transports the com-
merce of Boston (within the city) quit
work, it bad the same result as the
bursting of a boiler of a steam engine
has on a manufacturing plant. When
they quit, business was paralyzed. And
how easy the workers did this! Suppose
then in the place of 20,000 men going out
on strike there had been 40,000 or 60,000
What then? Labor united, then, is the
giant power in every land, the power
that can make or-mar the prosperity of
the city, State or nation.
How important, then, that this giant
force should be guided in right channels.
How important that labor disputes
should be settled by arbitration.
General Sherman said “War is hell.”
Industrial war sometimes becomes a
small hell.
reached them. Many of them started at
once for the office of the company on
North Clark Street for their badges.
Early in the afternoon forty or fifty of
the, badges had been returned to their
former holders.
A number of the men were refused
badges until they had turned in their
deposit money. When the trouble started
many of the employes who were dis-
charged drew out their deposits. A
majority of them, however, allowed their
deposits to stay with the company pend-
ing a settlement. The deposit for con-
ductors is $25 and for gripmen $30.
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BUSINESS MEN AND LABOR UNIONS.
Labor Organizations of Great Benefit to
the Merchants.
STAR RESTAURANT,
410 CENTER STREET.
Gill & League Building.
EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE AND FIRST CLASS
SEPARATE ENTRANCE FOR LADIES.
Regular Meals, 25c. -UNoFSESATXECE.UP
The relations of business men and la-
bor unions are being discussed through-
out the country with great interest just
now.
I hat there should be universal co-
operation between employers and em-
ployes in all the thousand and one ways
that go to make business profitable and
life tolerable is now beTleved by men of
all classes who have given the subject
careful study. The Union Labor News of
Los Angeles, Cal., says in the course of a
recent article:
‘‘Intelligent union men are at a loss to
know why business men should not be
favorable to unionism. Unionism—or-
ganized labor—is so greatly to the inter-
est of the business men and the commu-
nity in general that they should be advo-
cates of rather than antagonistic to
unionism. Let me prove it. No man with
businesss sense will for a moment
dispute that the more the wage earner
gets the more money there is in circula-
tion. The more money there is in circu-
lation the better the business is, as a
matter of course. This point must be
admitted, unskilled labor gets $2 per day
and every cent goes to keep up their
families. Skilled labor gets $3.50 as a
minimum, and that goes to keep the fam-
ily, distributed among business men gen-
erally. The difference is that a skilled
laborer gives his family a little more,
and keeps them a little better than the
unskilled laborer, and does not have
enough then to do by his family what he
should or would like to do. It all goes to
the business men in this way. The more
the man gets the more he has to use.
This being admittted, then let us see
what unions have done for business men
in this town. We will take the Carpen-
ters’ Union, for instance:
“A year ago, before the Carpenters’
Union was organized, the carpenters were
working nine hours and getting say $3
per day—some were working for less—
N ow through organization they are
working eight hours and getting $3.50.
We will say there are 150 carpenters in
town; -at 50 cents extra per day would
make $75 per day more for the business
man, due to organization, and one hour
less per day for 150 men would make
work for 19 men—lacking two hours—at
eight hours, to do the same work 150
men would do in nine hours. Nineteen
men at $3.50 per day—$66.50—added to
$75, makes $141.50 per day more money
in circulation for the business men than
before the existence of even the Carpen-
ters’ Union. That union has been in ex-
istence about one year, which makes
nearly $42,300 more money for circula-
tion in that time to the credit of one
union alone. And to multiply this amount
by the number of unions in existence
here, especially with building trades, put
the business men and public generally
under obligations to organized labor. It
must be admitted by them, too, that
wages would never have been better or
hours, shorter had the tradesmen not or-
ganizd and demanded it.”
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CARNIVAL QUEEN ELECTED.
Robt I. Cohen, OUTFITTER. |
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Dee, T. W. Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1902, newspaper, June 21, 1902; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1416456/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.