The Union Review (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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PLACE YOUR MONEY WITH THE
^Guaranty Building &
Loan Co.
Bankers
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Endorsed by the Texas State Federation of Labor.
VOL. 4, No. 17—Price 5c.
SPECIAL LABOR DAY SERVICE AT
RAIL EXECUTIVES HAVE FREE
HAND TO DRIVE STRIKERS
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
By Ernest E. Cole.
BACK TO WORK
SUNDAY SEPT. 3, 8, P. M.
to the coming of the Lord
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SHIP SUBSIDY FOES
WIN POSTPONEMENT
RAILWAY EQUIPMENT
FALLING TO PIECES
323,104 CARPENTERS.
RAIL STRIKE PEAK
HINT AT U. S. CONTROL.
USE BLACKLIST METHODS.
ADOPT FUNERAL BENEFIT.
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A Portion of Your
Account Solicited
Chicago. — By an almost unanimous
referendum vote the Commercial Tele-
graphers’ Union of America has adopt-
ed a funeral benefit system.
CONCEALED PROFITS
COULD DOUBLE WAGES
IN THREE, WEEKS
Now Dad was a real live kid hisself;
A corker, says Uncle Kit;
He knows I’m not so meek and mild,
You can’t fool him a bit;
When Ma tells folks what a model I am—
I wonder then, gee whiz,
If any feller’s half as good
As his Ma thinks he is.
What kind of a kid would a feller be
If he was the Willie boy
His Ma would like to have him be—
A sort of Fauntleroy?
He wouldn’t play hookey, he wouldn’t fight,
He’d take all kind of sass;
The fellers would call him "frady cat”
An’ guy him as they pass.
Smoked a cigar the other night;
Gee, but it made me sick,
An’ things began to spin around
In circles, double quick;
Saw all sorts of shiney things
Floating' before my eyes.
I’m sure Dad knew what I had done.
He smiled and looked so wise.
Shop Men’s Unity and Equipment
Break Down Will Defeat
Their Purpose.
BEIN’ A BOY §
I must be an awful "hippedcrit."
I guess that’s what they call
A feller who pretends to be
What he really ain’t at all;
But Ma, you see, don’t understand
What an awful mark I’d be
If I was the little angel child
She’d like to have me be.
•—it brings a blow in return always. But
patience, and God’s righteousness
brings victory to the righteous at the
last. Remember the words of the car-
penter, ‘Man cannot live by bread
alone; but by every word that proceed-
eth out of the mouth of God.’
Ohe bunion Deview
Official Organ of Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council
and Affiliated Unions
if we be patient and do not ourselves
use the unworthy weapon of oppres-
sion. God, who gave his only begot-
ten Son, is not deaf to the cry of chil-
dren. He is not slack to give help
to the stricken—if we have patience;
“The great war should have taught
us that force does not intimidate men
*83,,, EER year
Ed. McCarthy & Co.
(UNINCOnPORATED)
Our preacher called on Pa and Ma
Just the other night;
A feller called “Slim” kept guyin’ me,
And dared me out to fight;
Made faces, laughed, shook his fists,
An’ called me “Mamma’s pet;”
The thinks I did to Slim nex’ day
Was more an’ some, you bet.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1922.
Washington, D. C.—The recent 20 per
cent wage increase to its so-called com-
mon labor will not affect the profits of
the steel trust, as a 20 per cent increase
in prices will reimburse the trust for
paying the “princely” rate of $3.60 for
a 10-hour day.
In a public letter to Judge Gary last
year former Comptroller of the Curren-
cy Williams gave an insight into the
tremendous profits of this corporation
which are concealed from the public.
Mr. Williams stated that in the year un-
der discussion over $100,000,000 were
charged to operating expenses, for main-
tenance, repairs, etc. In addition to dis-
posing of these profits by this method of
bookkeeping it was shown that on De-
cember 31, 1919, the corporation was
carrying a balance of over $200,000,-
ooo to the credit of “depletion, depre-
ciation and replacement funds,” unex-
pended and available when needed.
The former federal official reminded
the steel trust head that from March 31,
1915, to December 31, 1919, the trust’s
net surplus, after payment of all inter-
est, dividends and excess profits taxes,
and after setting aside enormous “re-
serve” funds for future possible contin-
gencies, was increased by more than
$4oo,000,000, according to the trust’s
official report.
Mr. Williams charged the steel trust
with hiding millions of dollars of profit
in depreciation and other funds, and
with blocking a return of business by
excessive charges. He declared that the
trust is able to double wages, to lowet
prices, and still pay dividends.
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Cincinnati.— The strike committee of
the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union is
warning members on strike of a de-
spicable attempt by employers to drive
strikers back to work. It is stated
that the homes of the strikers are vis-
ited by alleged canvassers and solicit-
ors who secure information regarding
temporary employment of the striker.
This information is turned over to the
shoe manufacturer, who has succeeded
in many cases in securing the dismissal
of strikers.
Chicago. — In a strike bulletin dated
August '21 the striking shop men give
this hint that the rail executives are
jockeying for government control to
recoup their losses:
“The recent actions of the railway
executives’ associations give some
ground for thinking that the bankers
are trying to compel seizure of the
railroads by the government and gov-
ernment operation for a while. In
this manner they hope once more to
bleed the public treasury and place
the burden of their badly deteriorated
equipment on the taxpayers. Time will
tell.”
Columbus, Ohio.—President Hard-
ing’s political party in this state refused
to go before the voters with a defense
of the pending ship subsidy bill. No
mention was made of this proposed leg-
islation in the state platform adopted by
the republican state convention.
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Washington, D. C.—With the ending
of present negotiations between striking
shop men and rail executives the admin-
istration is half heartedly urging con-
gress to give the president power to take
over the railroads. Assurances are giv-
en that this power will not be used un-
less “absolutely necessary,” and hints
appear in the public press than only coal
roads will be seized. It is clear that
nothing will be done without the con-
sent of rail executives, who are pleading
for time to break the strike while hop-
ing that the unexpected will happen to
the shop men’s solidarity.
There is no indication that an attempt
will be made to force the handful of
rail executives, who are representing big
business, to abandon their strike policy,
which is rapidly choking the wheels of
industry. Instead, it is proposed to fur-
ther paralyze industry by curtailing mail
and passenger service with the whole
rail transportation facilities of the coun-
try concentrated in the movement of
coal.
In addition to this program—or lack
of program—an active propaganda
against the strikers has started. The
charges of mail interference is being re-
vived, and lurid tales of train wrecking
is intended to creat a reign of terror in
the public mind.
Every effort is being made to mini-
Indianapolis.— There were 323,104
carpenters affiliated to the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America on June 30 last, according
to Frank Duffy, general secretary of
that organization. On that date the
brotherhood consisted of 2,318 local
unions, 146 district councils, 26 state
councils, 2 provincial councils in Can-
ada and 77 ladies’ auxiliary unions.
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of men’s, worthiness of freedom. No
men can possibly become free who
does not assume real responsibility and
fulfill it religiously. Freedom has al-
ways been joyously and appreciatively
accepted; but the responsibilities’ have
been met only after bitter mistakes
and their consequent suffering. The
negro is ‘free’ in this country today,
and has 'been for many years; but you
men of the race here tonight know just
as well as I do that just being ‘free’
does not get you anywhere at all! It
is only when you stand upright upon
your feet, as God commanded the
prophet to do, and take up your duties
and responsibilities and earn a living,
a good name, and an honest reputation
that you are really free and recognized
citizens. When we are free, people
have a right to expect something from
us. The world does not expect any-
thing from slaves except shirking their
task, and lazy slaves were always whip-
ped. But when a man is free, the
world expects him to be interested in
whatever work he chooses, to do it to
the best of his ability and his strength
and to stand bravely before the world
as a man accountable for his acts.' No
man is quite free until he has won the
respect and confidence of his fellow
men.
“During the period of history which
is known as the Middle Ages it seemed
as if all the vexed problems of human-
ity were on the dawn of a solution, and
particularly so for the artisan. Men
who were skilled in the arts and crafts
of that time came to a realization of
their necessity to society at large. They
thought out their situation along big
lines. It was plain that neither king
nor emperor could enjoy the comforts
or conveniences of life any more easily
than the peasant without the skilled
workman. They placed a proper and
dignified value upon their labor, and
determined to raise it to such a stand-
ard of excellence and integrity that
they could command the respect of
the mightiest and cause the mightiest
to seek for their product in preference
to that of the ‘jack-leg’ or ‘Jack-of-all
trades.’ They therefore organized
themselves, by crafts, into ‘guilds,’ and
their purpose was far more than ‘short
hours and high wages.’ They made
working a profession, with all the dig-
nity attached to it as pertains to medi-
cine or law today. The president of a
craft guild was a man of importance,
not only locally, but often in a world-
wide sense; for they were skilled, even
artists in their crafts. And every
guildman was obliged to reach a defi-
nite degree of mastery of his craft.
They became a power in their day, and
they exercised their power wisely; for
the guilds were self-confessedly God-
fearing. They believed in the Carpen-
ter of Nazareth, they attended his
church, they sought to put into their
own work something of the beautiful
skill and divinely honest workmanship
that Jesus must have put into His
earthly tasks. They remembered that
Jesus shared the ‘curse’ (or was it
really a blessing in disguise?) of
Adam, and earned His bread by the
sweat of His brow; and they brought
out upon their own bodies the sweat
of honest workmanship. They work-
ed ‘not with eye-service or as non-
pleasers’ but as unto God!
“I have seen something of those men’s
work over in Europe. Great cathedrals
that are a prayer; woodwork that is
worthy of the ‘heavenly city,’ wrought
iron and bronze that must vie in beauty
with the ‘pearly gates,’ cunningly shap-
ed steel, gold and silver beaten into
harness, sword, armour, spurs, and
a thousand other shapes that no mod-
ern machine could possibly equal. And
every man who labored must have
done so under the eye of God!
“O, men of the American unions,
there were giants in those days! And
their task was never a ‘job;’ for it was
too beautiful. They must have been
‘fellow workers with God.’ And so
must you be if ever you gain your
worthy desires. Only God gives jus-
tice— man is too blind. Only through
God can you_be justified—even your
leaders are human and therefore fal-
lable, often giving unwise advice. The
race is not always to the swift or to
the strong; but there is a quality in
the patience of our text that overcomes
both the swift and the strong. Great
is truth, and it shall prevail. Right al-
ways overcomes might at the last.
Chicago.—The peak of the railroad
strike will come in three weeks, said
Bert M. Jewell, president of the A. F.
F. of L. railway employes’ department
on his return from New York, after at-
tempts to settle the shop men’s strike
had failed.
“When the eastern executives say
they are operating 81 per cent normal
they are trying to kid either the publia
or themselves,” said President Jewell.
“The carriers have declared that
peace talk has interfered with their
recruiting in the shops; that men would
not go into the shops if they thought
peace was to be declared. The strikers
on the other hand, would not go on the
picket line while there was peace talk,
but from this time on we will be able
to tell the men just what to expect.”
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ORGANIZE.
It is good news to learn that Brother
Albert Evers has been elected organizer
from, the Building Trades Council.
Brother Evers has been Business
Agent from the Building Trades for sev-
eral months and he is to be highly com-
mended for the good work he is doing
for all organizations connected.
As an organizer there is no doubt that
he will do all within his power to bring
the workers together.
Yet he cannot do it all, and NOW,
Mr. Worker, is the time fo you to begin
to think for yourselves and to realize
that it is your fight that is being waged
throughout the entire country today, re-
j gardless of whether you belong to a
union or not.
Did you ever see a team drawing a
heavy load and one always letting the
other do most of the pulling? It makes
you want to get in behind the sluggard
and have him do his share.
You that are not organized are the
ones that are not doing your share of
the pulling.
The union man is doing his bit, pull-
ing his part of the load, fighting for bet-
ter conditions, striving to keep from
servitude and poverty.
You are working along beside him,
taking what is left for your part, with
no voice in your conditions or wages.
Only holding both back from a higher
plane.
It has been often asked “What good
has the unions done me?” One might
as well ask what good has civilization
done them.
If you will dig into history you will
find that through organization we have
been raised from ignorance, superstiti-
tion and drudgery, to at least the few
steps we are today.
It makes no difference what kind of
work you do, whether you think unions
will ever help you or not, you owe it to
the coming generations to help in every
way possible for better conditions of the
workers. e
Every word you utter for unions help,
every act you do for them will live to
grow and help some one else, but the
sooner you band together and put your
shoulder to the wheel, the sooner the
burden becomes lighter for all.
If you do not belong to a union, think
it over, and start the ball rolling. See
Mr. Evers, let him help you. He is a
good man to meet and will be glad to
help organize any group of workers in
your city.
E. K. STRAIN, Painters 585.
A summary of the sermon follows:
“My brethren, I am preaching this
sermon to union laborers and to men
of such crafts as have not been yet
organized, and I wish to make this
point clear and definite, because to ad-
dress ‘laborers’ as such would include
many forms and types of toilers that
the unions do not quite recognize as
, producing workmen, although many of
them put in far more time and otten
receive far less wages than organized
craftsmen. There is such a thing as
working with the head, as in the cq.se
of the teacher or executive; and even
the union could not go very far without
those who give, not the work of their
hands, but the concentrated effort of
their brains in furthering the cause of
labor.
“It is necessary also in this sermon
to make the public aware that this is
peculiarly a ‘union celebration’ in hon-
or of the Master Workman. We have
invited union labor to church tonight,
for that portion of the one, holy, cath-
olic and apostolic church which is
commonly known as ‘the Episcopal
church’ has definitely recognized the
union and the right of collective bar-
gaining; and so do I as a loyal clergy-
man of that church, and my associate,
the Rev. Mr. Kellam. Nor do I hesi-
tate to declare myself a friend to union-
ism, though I often disagree with its
methods, apd although I may frequently
say things unpleasing to organized la-
boring men, I am one of many known
as ‘the general public’ that would see
the position of labor in our present-day
society bettered in every respect. So,
while even tonight I may give you
some bitter pills to swallow, they are
intended for your better health, and I
know that I am the friend of the union
because I am absolutely and irrevoca-
bly opposed to any endeavor, by any
group, to set - up the so-called ‘open
shop’ as a substitute for unionism, or
an effort to destroy the labor unions.
The unions are an integral part of our
national life, and unionism is practiced
as assiduously by capital as by labor.
Any organization formed for the pro-
tection or the furtherance of any par- •
ticular group is a union, no matter
what name men give it. ‘Birds of a
feather flock together,’ and they gen-
erally do so for mutual benefit. Union-
ism. is universal. Even the Christian
church was a union of men and women
in a common faith and a common hope;
and their loyalty to each other was
exceeded only by their loyalty to their
Lord. .
“While this may seem to you to be
the time and the place to discuss pres-
ent industrial disputes, and while you
may be correct in the assumption, yet
I personally do not feel competent to
discuss them authoritatively. I can
and shall .apply Christian teaching and
principles to the whole question of
such disputes. The Golden Rule is
needed by all men of this time, if we
do not desire fo see ‘our wonderful
democracy degenerate into anarchy or
become the ‘New Russia of Want and
Misery.’ However, I am tonight con-
fining my theme to the place of the
‘workingman or artisan’ in human so-
ciety and in the Kingdom of God upon
earth, and we shall concern ourselves
with labor, its aims, purposes, ideals,
hopes, aspirations and its fears.
“There has always been labor in ev-
ery civilization and there always will
* be; but in the past work was (largely
the product of slaves, who were with-
g,out rights of citizenship, without priv-
ilege, and without any will of their
own. Upon this system of getting the
world’s work done, great empires were
founded with far more terrible con-
trasts of riches, and poverty than we
know anything about today. They
could not endure, they did not endure;
for the God who led the Israelites up
out of the slavery of Egypt is the same
‘yesterday, today and forever,’ and will
always, in His own good time, lead ev-
ery other enslaved group out into free-
dom "and freedom’s responsibility. I
/ want you to remember that word ‘re-
sponsibility;’ because .it has always
been the test of every man’s or group
Washington, D. C.—Ship subsidy foes
have developed such strength in the
house that Floor Leader Mondell noti-
fied the president he feared to urge a
vote on this question. In reply the
president accepted the suggestion that
action on the bill be postponed. Only
recently the president declared that if
the ship subsidy bill was not passed by
this congress he would call a special
session for that purpose.
The bill will now be laid over until
the short term of congress which con-
venes the first Monday in December,
and adjourns sine die on March 4 next
year. As that session will be held after
the November elections it will contain
many members who have been defeated
and who will retire on March 4. Pres-
sure will be put on these “lame ducks”
to vote for the ship subsidy bill, and
federal appointments will be dangled be-
fore them as a reward for such action.
The session, however, must consider
other important legislation, including
large appropriation bills, and despite the
backing given the subsidy by the ship-
ping board and other government agen-
cies its passage continues less probable
as the agitaiton against it increases.
Some of its foes triumphantly declare it
is dead in its present form.
Washington, D. C.—In a cautious re-
port submitted to the senate, the inter-
state commerce commission sustains
charges of striking shop men regarding
the break down of railroad equipment.
Between the Imes is told the story of
2 "breakdown c tansport.non" refer-
red to by President Harding.
The commission states that at 1717
different points, its inspectors personal-
ly inspected 4085 locomotives. Of these
2456 disclosed defects of varied charac-
ter and more or less serious. The shop
men say that if 2450 out of 4085 locomo-
tives are out of order at 1717 places it
is safe to assume that at least 35,000 out
of the 70,000 locomotives in the entire
country are now in need of repair.
The commission states that the car-
riers admit violation of the law requir-1
ing inspection of railway locomotives.
Some of the reasons assigned by the
carriers are as follows:
“No monthly inspection made of this
engine since 6-12-22 account of not hav-
ing competent inspectors in the service
due to the walkout of the shop crafts.
“Not inspected account of strike.
“Inspections not made in July.
“Unable to make inspections or tests
account strike conditions.”
The commission says that “the reports
from our inspectors indicate a very gen-
eral let down in the matter of inspection
by the carriers, which gives cause for
concern. ”
Attention is called in the report to the
law that gives the commission but 50
inspectors for the entire country, and
that the amount of money appropriated
this fiscal year to pay the expenses of
these inspectors is only $290,000.
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The sermon was delivered by Rev.
Raimundo de Ovies, rector of the
church. He took for his text a part
of the seventh verse of the fifth chap-
ter of the gospel according to St.
James: “Be patient, brethren, unto
5% on Amounts of $5.00
6% on Amounts of $500.00
mize the interstate commerce commis-
sion’s report that the collapse of equip-
ment is causing concern.
Attorney General Daugherty has call-
ed on federal district attorneys to insist
that federal judges mete out severe pun-
ishments “where injunctions have been
violated. ” This means that the ma-
chinery of the United States government
will aid in the prosecution of every
striker who is charged by railroad offi-
cials or their gun men with violating an
injunction. • It must be understood that
in these proceeding the striker is not as-
sumed to be innocent or that it devolves
on the prosecution to prove his guilt.
This is the procedure for bootleggers,
counterfeiters and mail robbers, but a
striker who is charged with violating an
injunction must prove his innocence to 4
the judge that issued the injunction.
There are no rules of law governing the
case. The judge is law maker, law en-
forcer and executioner.
With the growing demand for cars to
move coal and the western grain crops,
a car famine is inevitable before the end
of the year. Even the smallest side track
has its quota of “bad order” cars and
long sidings hold a weird army of strag-
gling and decrepit box cars and gondo-
las. Additions to these side tracks are
of daily occurrence while rail executives
whistle their tales of encouragement in
their friendly press that is watching,
panther-like, to fasten some charge on
the shop men that public opinion may
be aroused against them.
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