Galveston Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1902 Page: 2 of 4
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UNFAIR PUBLISHERS.
The Galveston Journal
John T. Wheeler
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
CANDIDATE FOR
Proprietor.
T. W. DEE,
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J. J. Pastoriza Printing and Litho. Co.,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
304 Main Street.
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Drink Union Made Beer I
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Is Pure, Cold and Sparkling,
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Celebrated Bohemian Keg Beer.
Bottle Beer.
Bohemian Select Export.
Red, White and Blue.
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M. L. ROBBINS,
Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
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Odcial rgan of the Galveston Labor
Council and Affiliated Unions.
named. The term, labor barnacles, would
fit them better. We refer to those who
are high in office and low in progressive
ideas-—those who think they are leading
the rank and file out of the danger (?) of
independent political action by using the
machinery of their organizations to ob-
3 Ladies’ Dining Parlor Attached.
T. J. ANDERSON,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.
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Affiee, room 3, Prendergast Building, 21st
and Market Streets.
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The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers Have increased their
defense fund from $25,000 to $100,000.
The experience of their last conflict made
this chang necessary. It is the intention
of the association to provide a fund suffi-
ciently large to enable the organization
to maintain a strike for a year if neces-
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When President Roosevelt gets through
with the fillibusters in the present Con-
gross he will have enough votes to kill
every one of them and land the nomina-
tion without the least trouble.
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There is one thing we must admire
in the President of the United States of
to-day, if we do not agree with him polit-
ically, and that is that he is President.
No one can accuse him of changing his
struct the only thing that is able to cope
with the power of organized capital. It
is high time that they were all shaken off
the American labor movement.
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NOTICE.
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THE QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.
County Attorney,
RESPECTFULLY SOLICITS YOUR VOTE AND SUPPORT.
Caligraph and Hartford Typewriters
FOR SALE
$10,00 Gash and $5.00 per Month. Prices Range from $20 to $40.
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POPULARIZING RICE.
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“leaders” throughout the
many of them, are mis-
S. F. B. MORSE,
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The labor
country, or
mind because some trust or combination
came to him and asked him to reconsider
after he had taken a stand. They know
full well that such a step as this. would
be received with contempt by the Presi-
dent.
from last winter, when the Civic Federa-
tion succeeding in averting a strike. The
Garment Workers were working nine and
a half hours a day, and they demanded
an eight-hour day. Negotiations have
been in progress since then, and the mat-
ter has finally been compromised by the
weekly papers. Section 3. Foremen and
heads of departments, job and “ad” men
shall receive $250 a month. Section 4.
Nine hours shall constitute a day’s work
and eight hours on Saturday.
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The difficulty between the United Gar-
ment Workers of America and the Whole-
sale Clothing Manufacturers’ Association
To Points in Alabama, Ar kanas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi,
New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconin.
Through Standard Pullman and Excusion Sleeping Cars
Free Chair Cars, Box Vestibuled Trains.
TAKE A TRIP TO NEW YORK VIA NEW ORLEANS AND CROMWELL LINE.
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The agitation for socialism is a good
thing for organized labor. It causes many
employers to arbitrate in the hope of
preventing their employes from voting
together for all the justice that is due
them. Every nuion man, even the graf-
ter, should welcome this agitation. It
also gives the grafter a chance to make
the monopolist “give down.”
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President Mitchell of the Mine Work-
ers declared this week that the anthra-
cite strikers will win. The strike, he said,
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Every local union in the city should
take out their affiliation with the State
Federation of Labor. This is the organi-
zation that will accomplish something
in the way of legislation in this State if
this is ever to be one; but it will require
the undivided support of every local in
the State to do it. Do, not let this mat-
ter go by. There are a few locals in the
City of Galveston that do not belong.
They should take the matter up at once
and take out their membership. The ex-
pense connected with such affiliation is
so small that the individual local union
can not afford to remain out of it. It is
only 12 cents per year for every member
on the books, and that is a very small
item.
» Wholesale Dealer for
Anheuser Busch Brewing Ass’n. St. Louis. jj
Celebrated Tony Faust Keg Beer.
Bottle Beer.
Budweiser.
Anheuser.
colleries. The deputies returned the fire, .G
has been compromised. this trouble dates
but none were hurt. The colliery is with-
This is the Lebel of the Hatters’ Union.
When you are buying FUR HAT. either soft or stiff. see to it that
the Genuine Union Label is sewed on it. If a retailer has loose
label in his possession and offeis to put one in a hat for you do not
patronize him. He has no rignt to loose labels. Loose labels in
retail stores are counterfeits. Do not listen to any explanation as
to why the hat has no label. The Genuine Union Label is perfor-
ated on the edges exactly the same as a postage stamp. Counter-
feits are sometimes perforated on three of the edges and sometimes
only two. Keep a sharp lookout for the counterfeits.
JOHN PHILLIPS, Secretary,
797 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Santa Fe passenger department
has issued a handsome Yosemite folder
for season of 1902. The Yosemite Valley
is reached over the Santa Fe, by daily
stage from Merced, California, which
makes the trip in twenty-seven hours,
including a night stop. This route takes
the traveler through the Merced big trees,
and is the cheapest and quickest way in
and out.
Accommodations at the Valley are
under Government control, with good
hotels, camps and trail. Visitors to the
great national conventions at San Fran-
cisco in June and August will find the
Yosemite side tour a pleasant one. While
not so tremendous and awe-inspiring as
the Grand Canyon of Arizona, Yosemite
has a beauty all its own, and it is well
worth while.
McLaughlin & Co., publishers
manufacturers of games, etc.
Henry Alternus & Co., general
Ushers.
Alhambra Publishing Company,
the union man, like the “right” of a capi-
talist to hold property, may be pushed
beyond the limits of abstract equity and
become an injury to the innocent. The
executive officers of the American Feder-
ation of Labor can no more settle this
question by strict enforcement of an ar-
bitrary rule than the Weather Bureau in
Galveston can control the wind. The rank
and file of union men will have to settle
it. The unions in conflict will have to
compromise for the general good, and if
they will not do so, if they continue to
treat one another in the same autocratic
and competitive spirit that they complain
against on the part of capitalism, why
should not their employers be delighted?
The thought of a glorious victory or
the fear of an ignominious defeat should
have no place in the mind of any man
whose organization is up against this
question. Such thoughts and fears are
descendants from th (d)evil of cut-
throat competition, which is at the bot-
tom of all injustice. There is nothing
in them but delusion, which, after we
grasp it, turns the picture of blue skies
and green fields into red sunsets and
black coffins. We can not escape the per-
sistent fact that only by co-operation—
that only by public ownership of public
things—that only by public opinion wise
and strong enough to force all man-made
laws into allignment with the higher
principle of the greatest good to the
greatest number—-can the wage workers
receive the jurisdiction or autonomy that
will .give them real sucecess.
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BEAUTIFUL YOSEMITE.
out protection to-night, the deputies
having scattered after the engagement.
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The Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania
is disbanding. The members, it is re-
ported, feared they would be called out
to shoot the coal miners for obeying the
natural law of self-preservation that
causes men to want to live. Those are
the best and bravest soldiers that the
State of Pennsylvania ever had. The
workingmen all over the country ought
to build them a monument while they are
living.
eral publishers.
Docker & Foster, general publishers.
. . W. P. Henneberry & Co., general pub-
lishers.
. .F. M. Lupton Publishing Company,
general publishers.
Hudson, Kimberly Company, general
publishers.
Warner School Book Company of Chi-
cago, school books.
. .American Book Company, school
books.
George Barrie & Co., Philadelphia, sub-
scription books.
The following firms manufacture blank
books, loose leaf ledgers, pocket memos,
transfer binders, copy books and general
office supplies:
. . Baker-Vawter Company.
H. G. Regall & Co.
Herman Voss & Co.
Milwaukee Blank Book Company.
Stuart Bros. of Philadelphia.
Correspondence solicited from secre-
tarias' and members of unions. Spaae
will be given in these columns ror dis-
cussion of economic and social questions
in brief form.
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The large employers everywhere, and
many of; the small ones who expect to
have power over their fellowmen some
day are delighted at the prospect of a
war on the inside of the labor movement
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It is evident that the present Congress
does not intend to give to the people of
this country the great advantage of
having the canal on the Isthmus. This
condition of affairs will always exist so
long as the laboring people, permit the
trusts and combinations to control the
lawmakers of our land. It is the trusts
That elect men to office in our National
Congress by tfie money they spend for
them to get the office, but you let the
people demand of their servants justice
from the trusts and the trust problem
will'soon be settled. It is no secret that
the railroads and trusts of every de-
scription control all of the lawmaking
bodies of this country. There is not a
State Legislautre that they do not domi-
nate over' completely; there never has
beeen a National Congrsss that the same
set of people have not had absolute con-
trek Wake up, men, and let the world
know that you are going to run the gov-
ernment in which you live to the detri-
ment? of all who attempt to do what is
wrong. The crying issue of the American
people, one of them at least, has been
tthat we must have a canal on the Isth-
anus if we expect to compete with the
foreign countries with their trade expan-
sion.’ Every member of the present Con-
gress knew full well that his constitu-
ents were in favor of the canal, but he
has had greater pressure brought to bear
on him, greater than the consideration of
home people, and he has let their in-
fluence control him. Will his people al-
low this kind of action to continue for
ever ?
The Rice Growers’s Association of
America is discussing the organization
of the Louisiana and Texas Rice Kitchen
Company, with a capital stock of $100,-
000 to establish kitchens in various parts
of the country, where, by cooking and
serving meals with and without rice,
selling rice and rice products, giving
demonstrations in cooking rice and circu-
lating literature bearing upon the rice in-
dustry, the value of rice for food may be
widely advertised, and the industry, be-
coming so great in Southwest Louisiana
and Texas, may be given greater im-
petus than ever. Such an exploitation of
rice would be most seasonable. As was
pointed out last week in the Manufac-
turers’ Record, the high prices of meats
have set people to thinking about the
value of meats for food in comparison
with other products. The study of vege-
tables and cereals is becoming more earn-
est, and the imoprtance of rice, with its
over the question of jurisdiction or au-
tonomy of the various unions.
No union man is to be blamed for
wanting jurisdiction or autonomy ove
everything that belongs to him. That is
the true American idea. But every union
man should remember that, under the
present order of conglomerated interests
and mongrel industrialism, the principle
of the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber is the only one that will not lead,
them into confusion and division and
failure. This is the straight and narrow
path that alone mads to success. The
highly nutritive qualities, can not be
overestimated. The wide dissemination
at this juncture of knowledge about the
valuable properties of rice ought to give
it a prominent and growing position,
which should stimulate its culture.—
Manufacturers’ Record.
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DIVERSITY OF PRODUCTS.
to present the same to me within the
time required by law. My residence and
postoffice address are Galveston County,
State of Texas, 406 Levy building.
• JOHN T. WHEELER,
Executor of the Estate of Kate Gumpert,
Deceased.
granting of a Saturday half holiday the
year round.
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The agitation for independent political
action is not confined to the workers of
the West. Reports from the New Eng-
land States say that a powerful labor
party is in process of formation in that
part of the country. The “leaders” who
stand close to the oppressors of the old
parties and talk palliatives and make-
shifts are losing their "inflooence" every-
where.
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STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Galvston.
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary upon the estate of Mrs.
Kate Gumpert, deceased, were granted to
me, the undersigned, on the 19th day of
May, A. D. 1902, by the County Court
of Galveston. All persons having claims
against said estate are hereby required
if the labor union people cap not have
confidence in themselves and believe in
the honesty of one another, they had just
as well disband their organizations and
become slaves proper. To hear of this
man and that man talking against the
other man and that man is disgusting
to the member who is in the organization
for the benefit he can accomplish for his
fellow' man. And this is not found
among the new members alone! We have
known union men of twenty years stand-
ing in the organizations lending their
tongues to tales of falsehood about some
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ITON.LE
Texas has for years been regarded as a
one-crop State. This is because the State
has produced one-third of the total cot-
ton crop of the United States. It is possi-
ble. that even to-day there may be people
who persist in viewing Texas through the
large end of the telescope, and who see
in perspective, naught but cotton fields,
long-horned catttle, cactus and Bowie
knives. The story books used to record
these things of Texas, but this was at a
period when the cowboy threw his
lariat about the lower horn of the new
moon and yelled for firewater, while the
buffalo danced the highland fling to the
"lacivious pleasing” of the guitar, twan-
ged and tortured by a grimy Mexican
Carmen. What a change has come over
the spirit of our dreams. Old conditions
have passed away and Texas glows in the
refulgence of a wonderful prosperity; of
a magnificent future, and proudly lays
claim to being the "Empire State.” And
so she is. No one-crop, no long-horn; but
sun shines on a diversity of products so
great that the whole world must pay
tribute to equal. North, East, South and
West, the crops of each, grow in Texas
fields, often all together, and the massive
Hereford and docile Durham chew their
quid of . reflection amid the mesquite,
where once the leery antelope loped in
the moonlight, and the cayote barked at
his shadow at sunrise. Three millions and
a half bales of cotton is merely a seg-
ment of a circle that contains 28,000,000
bushels of oats, 24,000,000 bushels of
wheat, 82,000,000 bushels of corn, 1,000,-
000 bags of rice, and a total value of
agricultural products that aggregates
$250,000,000, to say nothing of cattle
shipped to the value of $30,000,000, and a
value in vegetables, tobacco, sugar fruit,
etc., of nearly $25,000,000. One crop. Not
a bit of it, and yet Texas only cultivates
15,000,000 acres out of a total of 160,000,-
000. There is room for more.—Literary
Bureau, Southern Pacific, Houston and
Texas Central Railroad.
Below is a list of the publishing
houses in the country that are unfair
to organized labor. Many of them have
locked out their employes when the
slightest demand was made for a better-
ment of their conditions. When pur-
chasing a book of any descriptions see
that the imprint of none of the following
firms is on the article bought:
W. B. Conkey & Co., general publish-
ers.
Curtis Publishing Company, publishers
of the Saturday Evening Post and- La-
dies’ Home Journal.
United Hatters of North America:
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Santiago Iglesias, organizer of the A.
F. L., writes from San Juan, Porto Rico:
“There are nine unions organized accord-
ing to the principles of the American
labor movement: Painters, Carpenters, ;
Printers, Longshoremen, Bricklayers and
Federal Labor Union at San Juan, Fed-
eral Labor Union at Manati, and one
Longshoremen and Coopers at Ponce.
Many other unions at different places all
over the island are under way.
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Funds are being solicited by a com- '
mittee of the miners for the purpose of :
erecting a moument to the martys of ■
Lattimer, the striking miners killed by a ■
sheriff’s posse. It is desired to dedicate :
this monument on September 1, Labor ■
Day. Contributions may be forwarded to
John Mitchell, Indianapolis, Ind.
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The Typographic Union of Dawson,
Alaska, has adopted the following scale
of wages, which is now in force: Section
1. The minimum scale shall be- $225 per
month; provided that where a printer is
not regularly employed he shall receive
not less than $1 per hour. Section 2. The
scale of linotype, monoline or any other
type-setting machine operators shall be
$250 per month on morning, evening and
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One year (in advance) ............$1.00
Six months (in advance)...........50
they never learn that confidence in their
fellow member is the most important
thing for the success of the organization ?
When you hear stories of the short-
comings of your brother unionist, do not
go and repeat it to some one else. This
is especially true at this particular time.
Thete ' are men in Galveston who are
ever ready to start rumors afloat to the
detriment of organized labor. They have
started several lies since the formation of
The Labor League, each of which were
very soon checked. My advice is to the
membership of this organization is to
’keep their ears closed to all such lies,
or go direct to the man accused with the
name of the party giving out the infor-
mation and get the truth of the state-
ment. All is fair in love or war, some
have said. This 'is also true to some
political bosses. They will not leave a
straw unturned to accomplish their dirty
schemes. Let us be no party to such
frauds/ It is going to be hard for the
parties who have had control of this
county ad city government to give it up;
but, boys, you have the power in your
own hands. If you do not use it you can
lay the blame at your own doors. Be
confident, be honest with yourself, and
your fellow unionist; do nothing that
you would not have each individual know
and above- all have confidence in • those
who are working with you to make this
issue a success.
IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.
Bluefield, W. Va., June 10.—There are
not as many men at work in the Flat
Top coal region to-day as on Saturday.
Several parties of 150 to 200 strikers are
parading the field armed with Winchester
and a great many shots already have
been exchanged between them and the
guards at the mines.
At the Buckeye operation this morning,
a party of 100 strikers, most of them
armed, prevented the men from going to
work.
Thirty-eight armed strikers were met
this morning by guards on Coaldale
Mountain as, they were crossing Elkhorn
tunnel. The rifles were taken away from
them and stored at Coaldale.
At the Tug River operation in the Tug
River district last night an effort was
made uy 30 strikers to take possession of
the mines. A number of shots were ex-
changed by strikers and guards. The
strikers finally were driven off.
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TEAMSTERS MAY GO OUT. ■
Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 6.—Mr. Jasper
Clark, president of the International
Teamsters’ Union, visited President Mit-
chell at the anthracite mines to-day with
a view of determining what stand the
teamsters should take.
President Clark said: “I have the
power to order. 30,000 members to refuse
to handle either hard or soft coal or
strike, but would not take such a step
without consulting the executive board.
We could deal the operators a hard blow.
Union men everywhere sympathize with
the miners because they know it is a life
and death struggle.”
At Old Forge, Pa., about midnight,
Italian miners, with revolvers, fired upon
a score of deputies leaving the Lehigh
is complete. Now watch for the Civic
Federation to step in and claim the credit
for a settlement.
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Whether or not the trade union may
properly be termed a “labor trust,” there
remains the broad distinction between
it and the commercial trust that exists
between altruism and selfishness.
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We have yet to hear of an employer
who has suffered through treating his
employes just a trifle better than his
competitors treat theirs.—Exchange.
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A child labor law, with a 14-year-old
age limit has been enacted by the Ken-
tucky Legislature. Labor Day has also
been legalized.
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