The Union Review (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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PLACE YOUR MONEY WITH THE
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Guaranty Building &
Loan Co.
Bankers
68—
Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1921.
VOL. 3, No. 25—Price 5c.
called to order promptly at 8:00 p. m., Liberty Fish Market, 2026 Ave. G.
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STAY AWAY FROM CALIFORNIA
PEOPLE AROUSED AGAINST TAXATION
ready arranged for a mass meeting
scores
are daily
WILLIAM DEAL IS DEAD.
PROFITEERING IN DOCKS.
a
on
Union appointed committee to inter- for a reduction of disarmament.
Mi t
tially completed
house plastered
A Portion of Your
Account Solicited
two-story frame
the interior and
a parade or both, and from
the smaller cities reports
this
this
or
of
G. B. Marsan, 1919 Ave. D.
Demack & Co., 1928 Ave. D.
and
, as
In old Philadelphia one summer day bright
The soul of our nation came forth to the light;
And the hearts of the people in rapture awoke
When the bell the glad tidings of liberty spoke.
Ah, still to my vision that throng surges there,
Some weeping, some shouting, some bowing in prayer!
And the bell’s song of freedom is echoing yet,
For the soul of the nation can never forget.
tion of a policy of placing in the hands I showing the cumulative influence of
of all of the people the highest aver-1 each turn over and the pyramiding of
age of muying power in order there commission expenses.”
President Shay presiding.
Roll call showed thirty organiza-
tions represented and all officers in
their respective places.
Credentials were receivd from I. L.
L. Schembre, 2001 Ave. E.
Tony Pinto.
Shaw & Clark Co., 20th & Ave. A.
B. Moore, 1402 Ave. L.
LaBabera, Joe, 1627 Ave. O.
Fhe delegates of 'this union report-
ed that all fair boats have their I. I..
give their annual ball on- Hallowe'en
night, October 31, at the city audi-
O hearts wildly beating, now dust in the grave!
Still safely we’ll guard it, the trust that you gave;
Nor shall any despoiler e’er take it away—
Freedom’s spirit proclaimed by the bell on that day.
- Through peace and through warfare, through hopes and
through fears
To patriot hearts this word down the years—
We must cherish the freedom the brave died to win
From the foeman without us, the foeman within.
Trenton, N. J.—Meat cutters and
butcher workmen in this city have
organized and are preparing to im-
prove working conditions.
Galveston, Oct. 24.
The Galveston Labor Council was
cents is used to pay the cost of past
wars: 25 cents to provide for future
wars; 3 cents for civil departments;
3 cents for public works and but 1
cent for education and science.
These figures speak for themselves.
They are the reason for the present
meeting and $1500 to defray expenses
was quickly subscribed.
Harrisburg, Pa. — Central Labor ! nation-wide demonstration by citizens
3 Our bell, scarred and broken, from sea unto sea S
§ With love has been welcomed, caressed tenderly. S
g But ’twere easy to cheer thee, to garland with flowers; g
g Love is proved by the testing of soul-trying hours. g
g Praise God, bll of Freedom, we true still remain; 3
S Many eyes can behold thee without blush of shame, S
S And the message you hear will be heard just as long *
g As America lives—in her heart is your song! g
X —Maud Frazier Jackson. g
WRECK LABOR DEPARTMENT
FORGED ARBITRATION NEXT?
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SONG OF THE LIBERTY BELL
Avenue Restaurant, Durham’s and the
Majestic were all signed up and are
now deserving of the patronage of
Che LCnion Deview
Official Organ1 of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
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" SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR
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REGULAR MEETING OF THE
GALVESTON LABOR COUNCIL
Ed. McCarthy & Co.
(UNINCORPORATED)
for dances. All delegates will take
thisi up with their locals and organiza”
tions wishing to subscribe for stock
or to accept the offer for the dance
proposition will communicate with
Mr. Wells.
The following list comprise the
houses that have signed up with the
Fishermen’s union, and your patron-
age-of these places will be greatly
appreciated:
exterior which he was building for
himself. He stated that he was in-
tending to start another house across
the street which would also be a two-
Washington, D. C.—Plans for Ar-
mistice day demonstrations in support
of the international movement to-
ward disarmament are maturing rap-
idly throughout the country.
Practically every large city has al-
LATEST "HAND OUT TO ROADS
WILL GO TO STOCKHOLDERS
LOW WAGES INTENSIFY
INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION
that body, so that they could explain do all that it can to assist in 1
to the carpenters more fully their good work that is started by i
action. ’ ; committee.
A V—, .. , , The Council ws unanimous :
A communication was read from I. . , .
L. A. 798 pertaining to their dues or wentson record at this meeting
per capita tax to the Council. Alter Pleading with all locals to insist that
■ , , their entire membership pay their
some discussion it was moved that 11. . ... 3 ,
they be granted farther time to pay Pol as ,f called upon to show a
their indebtedness. J receipt before being put to work,
• y9l could go it without hesitancy.
eMr .Scotty Wells addressed the Let this be the slogan of organizel
Council in behalf of the dance floor labor from now until closing nignt.
he is installing in the Crystal Palace The delegates from the Hotel and
which he claims is much larger than Restaurant local reported that the
any other dance floor on the "beach
and that he was selling stock at the
rate of $100.00 per share, and also
that between now and December 15
he is going to extend this hall to all
locals free of charge for one night,
and after that he would charge $50
New York. — Astonishing profit-
teering and graft in dock rentals have
been exposed by a legislative com-
miteee that is investigating municipal
affairs.
A former dock clerk testified he
obtained permits from the dock com-
mission and rented piers by the day.
In some instances-, committee counsel
declared, the clerk and his partner
made more than $1,000,000 in the last
four years.
coming to A. F. of L. headquarters
showing that the nation is solidly
committed to the principle of disarm-
ament by international agreement.
Reports from the following cities
indicate the extent of Armistice Day
demonstrations in every section of the
country:
Baltimore. — Elaborate plans are
under way for a monster mass meet-
ing in one of the largest halls in the
east The labor movement has en-
listed the co-operation of 14 civic or-
ganizations.
Philadelphia.—Labor initiated Ar-
mistice Day demonstration. Meeting
of 1epresentatives of labor and 12
civic organizations held in mayor’s
office. Arrangements made for mass
A. No. 570 for R. L. Horst, who was
duly obligated and seated. , - — - ------ -• —
... • . A. flag now flying so that the pub-
The minutes of the previous meet- .. 8 P
j . , i 11C can tell who is fair and who is
mg were adopted as read,
not.
The Council notified every organ:- President Shay reported that he had
zation some time back that the Coun- attended the meetings to alleviate
cil would enforce its law in regard to the unemployment situation and that
the dropping of members from the after horoughly discussing the mat-
roll. At this meeting there was a ter they (the Central Committee) or.
good many delegates dropped and the ganized and appointed the different
secretary was instructed to so inform committees. It was shown that the
each local. A delegate dropped for committee was fair to the letter as
nonattendance can not be returned they asked the individuals if they
to the Council as a representative would take jobs providing it did not
for six months. conflict with any obligation they had
making such controversies impossi-
ble.”
President Gompers presided at the
meeting of labor representatives and
he was directed to bring the matter
to the attention of the organized
wage earners throughout the country,
as well as all the people.
After years of agitationeby organ-
ized labor, a bill -creating the depart •
ment of labor was passed in 1913, in
the closing hours of the sixty-second
congress, President Wilson appointed
William B. Wilson, former congress-
man and secretary of the United Mine
Workers, as the first secretary of la-
bor. The new cabinet official found
himself handicapped because congress
failed to appropriate money for the
new department, and a special urgen-
cy bill was passed at the special ses-
sion of the new congress, on May 1,
1913, to pay -the actual running ex-
penses of the department.
In urging congress to make suitable
appropriations for the new depart-
ment, the A. F. of L. executive coun-
cil made this report to the A. F. of
L. convention in 1913:
“The department of labor is the
only department of government
which deals exclusively with problems
human progress, and the relations of
man to man, including that of em-
ployer and employe. To have it thus
handicapped in its initial work re-
tards the progress of the great human-
itarian purpose for which it was
brought into existence.
“We can not too strongly condemn
the niggardly, picayunish policy of
congress in dealing with the only de-
partment entrusted with promoting
the welfare of the wage workers.”
To All Affiliated Local and Central
Bodies—Attention:
Unscrupulous employers, whose
avowed object is to cut down the wa-
ges and living conditions of workers,
have been advertising that California
needs thousands of mechanics- of the
building trades. Following is such an
advertisement, and what the invesitiga-
tion of it showed:
“San Bernardino, California, Sept.
27. To the World.—California is in
need of 5000 to 10,000 bricklayers,
plasterers and carpenters. Please
send men of these trades to us to take
care of the building boom which is
on this winter. Signed, W. D. An-
derson Company, deep-well drilling
contractors and manufacturers.”
• Jack Ridge, Plasterers No. 2 Busi-
ness Agent, and Murray E. Richard-
son and E. J. Newton of the Carpen-
ters District Council, investigated the
above ad. and have made an affidavit
to the following:
“Anderson denied to us that he had
put ads in the eastern papers. We
found his place of business to be a
galvanized iron shed with a bandsaw
and some milling machinery, also
some drilling apparatus. His signs
were painted “Well Drilling Con-
tractor, Second Hand Machinery for
Sale or Rent.” We found he had par-
Washington. — Promising later to
make an analysis of the national un-
employment conference, President
Gompers has issued a statement upon
the constructive work of the confer-
ence. He says every destructive
measure proposed by reactionary rep-
resentatives was defeated.
Recommendations of tthe minority,
headed by the A. F. of L. executive,
in the committee of manufactures, cut
through the sham of the majority re-
commendations and closed with these
hard-hitting suggestions, signed by
President Gompers, Mrs. Sarah Con-
boy, secretary-treasurer of the Unit-
ed Textile Workers, and Roy Dickin-
son, associate editor of Printer’s Ink.
“We deem it necessary at the outset
to emphasize more fully the industrial
disaster that must result frodm fur-
ther application of a policy of wage
reduction. The industrial prosperty of
the country is based upon the purchas-
ing power of the masses of our people. I
A communication was referred to taken. Out of 300 men who signed
the Council by the Carpenters real- the questionnaire gotten out by them
ing with the moving picture studios it was learned that 95 per cent of
of Los Angeles. This communication them were American citizens and alsa
was received some time back and the it was shown that this country is the
Motion Picture Operators Union of only country in the world that does
this city requested' that the action of not return their sailors to the places
placing these studios on the unfair of enlistment, but turn them loose
list not be acted on as their hnterna- right where their jobs or when the
tional Union did not sanction it. But boats are stopped or sent to the bone
this communication was referred to yard. The Council stands ready to
may be the greatest possible consump-
tion of commodities, and the greatest
consequent demand for the reproduc-
tion of commodities. Reduction of
buying power stops purchasing which,
in turn, inevitably stops manufactur-
ing and creates unemployment.
"2. There should be adopted as 'a
permanent policy everywhere business
standards which eliminate profiteer-
ing place commodities upon the mar-
ket at the lowest possible cost perunit
and enable manufacturers to base unit
costs upon one hundred per cent utili-
zation of the productive capacity of
plants. Managements having assumed
the responsibilities which go with its
functions has no moral right to tax
the public for its ineiiciency by costs
fixed upon a basis of part time produc-
tion.
vThere has 'been placed before this
committee ample evidence of the fact
that those commercial lines of endea-
vor in which there is true manufac-
ferng neither from unemployment nor
lack of profit.
C
“We support these two recommen- i
dations with a third, which we beileve
is vital to any permanent relief from
the evil of unemployment and the
prior evils of mismanagement:
13. The proposed unfform cost ac-
. i
counting and publicity for produc-
tion accounts. We see in this pro-
posal a better understanding of the .
ills of our industrial organization,
because through it we shall be fur-
nished with information which is es- 1
sential to that understanding. We ‘
ese in this proposal a constructive 1
and logical substitute for state regu- 1
lation or control. We propose that :
there be made available through re- 1
sponsible agencies voluntarily creat- :
ed, information on production costs
torium. The decorations that this or-
ganization has installed will be worth
the price alone, so let’s all join in on
this night of mystery and make pleas-
ure and have the fun of our younger
days.
There being no further business to
come before the Council, it stood ad-
journed.
Respectfulyy submitted,
JAS. P. WALSH, Secy.
story frame house. Anderson stated
that the mechanics in the building
trades were getting altogether too
much money and that we (meaning
himself) were going to advertise to
get mechanics from the east in order
to cut down wages. When asked
what he meant by “we” he stated
“the contractors.” We asked him
how many carpenters, plasterers and
bricklayers he could use. He said he
could use one carpenters in the next
few days and would pay $6.00 per day
of nine hours to a first-class finish
carpenter. Could use a plasterer and
bricklayer when the work got ready
and was willing to pay $8.00 per day
of nine hours for these trades.
When asked how he expected a
man with a family could exist on a
.wage of $6.00 a day, especially when
many men are out of work, and con-
sidering the high rents of the present
time, he suggested that if rents were
too high the men could buy tents for
a small sum and live out in the open.
(Winter is the rainy season.)
The true condition in California can
be seen from the fact that the mayor
of Los Angeles found it necessary to
call a conference October 9th, 192.1,
to find ways and means to assist the
30,000 men who are. here now and
unemployed.
Have these facts published in your
local paper.
R. C. HUNTER, Pres. -
GEO. A. WRIGHT, Sec.
Board of Business Agents, by Jack
Ridge, President.
Washington, D. C.—The claim that
a proposed half million dollar “hand-
out” to the railroads will create em-
ployment was exposed by W. S. Car-
ter, president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, at the presi-
dent’s unemployment conference.
The brotherhood official said, in
eiect. “If you claim this money will
be used to purchase railroad equip-
ment, and will not be divided among
stockholders as deferred dividends,
vote with me that the bill be indors-
ed with that understanding.”
Carter’s plan was rejected, because
a unanimous vote was necessary.
Advocates of the “hand out” are
ignoring this clear cut “show down”
and continue telling the public that if
congress votes this huge sum hun-
dreds of thousands -of workers will
be employed, as the railroads will, im-
immediately place their orders for
equipment.
President Carter showed that the
$500,000,000 as provided in the senate
bill (No:2337) will in no way increase
the employment of railroad workers.
He showed that when railroads want
new cars or locomotives the manage-
ment increases its capital stock or is-
sues “equipment bonds” for a num-
ber of years.
“It has never been the general pol-
icy of railroads to use any money af-
fecting their capital to repair cars and
locomotives,” he said. “The policy
has generally been that the earnings
from the car in transporting freight
should and will pay the expenses of
its upkeep:
The masses of our people are wage l turing and selling efficiency are suf-
organized labor.
The Stage Employes are going to
“This has resulted in a practice,
generally adopted to not assume the
burden of expense necessary to re-
pair cars and locomotives beyond the
needs of the railroads.
“The management does not regard
it as a dangerous situation to allow
a great accumulation of bad order
cars during a period of depression in
business. The policy has been that
as soon as business increases, thereby
using the the cars in storage, the
number of employes are immediately
increased and the bad order cars are
placed in a serviceable condition as
rapidly as the business of the railroad
demands.”
The brothethood official dwelt at
length on the financial methods of
railroads, to support his opinion that
if the railroads are voted this half
billion dollars they will probably “fol-
low the past practice in the disburse-
ment of money properly chargeable
to capital account and pay deferred
interest, deferred dividends and other
deferred obligations.”
To further support this opinion the
speaker quoted from a letter address-
ed by the president of a certain rail-
road to his stockholders regarding
the company’s settlement of all claims
against the government for $3,000,-
000 cash. The president said that the
board of directors had voted to de-
clare dividends out of the earnings
of 1918 and 1919.
The records show that 1,774,360 of
the $3,000,000 payment has been used
for dividends.
est other citizens in monster mass
meeting.
Cleveland.—Federation of Labor’s
activity for Armistice Day demon-
stration has interested citizens gen-
erally. Invitations forwarded to 30
civic organizations. Keith’s theater
offered free of charge to the labor
movement and co-operating bodies.
The' above reports are indicative
of the widespread demand by the peo-
ple for relief from military taxation,
and for the establishment of an era
of construction and peace. A tre-
mendous amount of literature has
been distributed to the trade unions
and other organizations on the cost
and waste of maintaining gigantic
military establishments. For the first
time, the people have been awaken-
ed to this drain on their sustenance.
The figures show that out of every
dollar appropriated by congress, 68
earners, and ability to purchase com-
modities depends upon their wage.
Mistaken reasoning has never express-
ed itself more falsely or more scudely
than in the declaration that reduction
of wages would induce a return of
prosperity. The industries that today
are in the most deplorable condition
are those which are affected to the
highest degree by reduced buying
power of the people. As a proper
course in relation to this particular
phase of the general subject, we place
before the conference the following
recommendations:
“1. There must be adopted no pol-
icy of wage reduction. On the con-
trary, there must be a policy "calling
for the highest possible rate of wages
in every industry, nl terms of indus-
trial well being this means the ‛adop-
5% on Amounts of $5.00
6% on Amounts of $500.00
Washington, D. C.—Opposition to
any attempt to weaken, destroy, sub-
ordinate or amalgamate the depart-
ment of labor was unanimously voted
at a meeting of two score labor leg-
islative representatives of national
unions, held in A. F. of L. headquar-
ters.
Several representatives stated that
the committee appointed by Presi-
dent Harding to reorganize the gov-
ernment departments has under con-
sideration the formation of a depart-
ment of public welfare, with educa-
tion, pubic health and labor to be the
three major divisions.
Sixty per cent of the present func-
tions of the department of labor
would be placed in other divisions of
the new department. The labor di-
vision of the new department would
be composed of the bureau of labor
statistics and the conciliation and em-
ployment services, with an additional
bureau to be known as “bureau of
compulsory investigation of labor dis-
putes for public information.” The
fact that this bureau is to be created
uncovers the conspiracy which has
been in progress since during the
war, according to the labor represen-
tatives.
• Employers who favor autocracy in
industry have demanded the destruc-
tion of the department of labor and
the adoption of laws that will compel
employes to work against their will,
they say.
Labor representatives show this is
in line with the declaration by Attor-
ney General Daugherty in Cincinnati,
last August, in which he favored com-
pulsory investigaton of labor disputes
so that in time “laws can be enacted
Kansas City, Kan. — William R.
Deal, secretary-treasurer of the Coop-
ers International Union, died in this
city. He was 60 years of age. His
entire manhood was devoted to the
cause of labor.
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