Galveston Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1914 Page: 4 of 16
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THE GALVESTON LABOR DISPATCH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.
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Entered aa second-class mail matter September 21, 1912,
at Postoffice in Galveston, Tex., under Act of March, 1879.
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Members of organized labor in Houston have
decided upon a rather unique method of cele-
brating Labor Day there next Monday, elim-
inating the parade and speechmaking features.
It is the intention of the Houston hosts to make
the celebration one of simplicity and informality
itself, the day’s program including contests,
races and features that are generally had at
such celebartions with the addition of a big
barbecue. Colonial Park has been engaged for
the occasion and those in charge of arrange-
ments there are confident that the affair will
be a great success.
J. W. YOUNG.............
Office 212 Tremont Street.
$1.50
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Editor and Publisher.
Phone 409.
thing that happens most every time there is a
controversy between the workers and bosses.
The bosses refuse to give out anything from
their end and object most strenuously to what
the workingmen give out for publicity.
The sincerity of the union men involved in
this controvery has been seen on many occa-
sions, and that they are right in their demands
has been proven by the moral support that has
peen accorded them by other branches of trade
unionism in-that section, for when an advertis-
ing boycott was hinted at by the merchants the
members of the Typographical Union promptly
offered their services free to the newspaper
that had taken the part of the strikers and thus
incurred the wrath of the bosses. These work-
ers, bouyed up by the knowledge that they are
in the right, and backed by such support, can
not help but win in the end. It is on occasions
of this sort that labor advances by leaps and
bounds.
"slow” then "fast
Galuestnn fiahur Bispatrh
(Formerly Labor Herald.)
"Do It Electrically”
We are still at 2011 Postoffice Street
and our Phone Number is 551.
We do all kinds of Electrical Work, and are making a Specialty of
Fixtures.
Don’t let the European war scare you. We are 5000 miles away from there and
if you will phone we will gladly do what we can for you in the Electrical Line.
You will see the men in parade line next
Monday clothed in union made garments and
uniforms; you will see the marshals, aides and
other officials in uninn made clothing, and
you will see that it is the equal in fit and
appearance of any clothing that you can see on
the street at the time.
Every day you can see all about you men
that are clothed from head to foot in nothing
but union made apparel, and these men are some
of the well dressed, neat appearing men of the
city.
You have the same opportunity that they
have for boosting the label by insisting that it
is on everything that you buy. You can get
the quality and style you want, union made, if
you will ask for it and ask often enough.
Merchants here who carry union made goods
are finding a most ready sale for them as soon
as the members of organized labor learn that
they are in stock. We could point out a dozen
instances to prove this, all within the last few
months, naming the article handled, the mer-
chant and show by his statement that he had a
good sale for the union made articles that he
carried in stock.
A number of our merchants are handling-
union made goods and their stocks of goods are
much larger today than they have ever been
before. This result has been accomplished with
only a small per cent of our members insisting
on label goods every time they buy. How much
greater the results will be when we all refuse
anything without the label.
Subscribers who change their address, or fail to get
their paper regularly, should immediately notify this
office, giving both old and new addresses.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, character
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation, which
may appear in the columns of the Galveston Labor Dis-
patch, will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to
the attention of the management.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
If subscribers do not*receive their paper by Friday
morning at 10 o’clock, kindly phone 409 not later than
5 p. m. and same will be sent by special messenger.
Labor Day and its attendant parades and
celebrations as we know them had its beginning
thirty-two years ago in a parade given by the
Knights of Labor in New York. The occasion
was the annual conference of that organization
and those who took part in the parade of dele-
gates perhaps did not think of it as a Labor
Day demonstration, and did not think of the day
as Labor Day. Yet the size and dignity of the
parade led one of the participants to exclaim:
“This is Labor Day, now and hereafter,” and
the first Monday in September has come to be
Labor Day throughout the land, a day set aside
by the United States Congress as the one holi-
day of the year devoted to members of labor to
spend as they please.
At first the states of the nation gave con-
sideration to the matter of an annual holiday to
be known as Labor Day, and New York and
Oregon were the first to give attention to this,
New York because the first measure providing
such was introduced before its legislature, and
Oregon because its state legislature first
adopted such a measure, although introduced
later than the one in New York.
From that time on the movement grew
steadily until the national government took
cognizance of the demand for a national holi-
day the first Monday of every September. The
spirit of labor rose at these first recognitions
and after the holiday had become universal
throughout the land we have seen each succeed-
ing Labor Day celebration bigger than the one
previous.
We who participate in the parades and cele-
brations of today have little to contend with
compared to what those who formed the first
labor day parade had to work against, but we
have our trials and setbacks in other direc-
tions. Had those first men become discouraged
because of the lack of interest of certain mem-
bers ; had they become disgusted with the slow
progress they were showing, and not striven to
accomplish something bigger and better every
year, we would not today have enjoyed the priv-
ilege of this one great day which may be spent
in worship at Labor’s shrine. If we do not de
our part today those who come in generations
after us will be no further ahead than we are
today. Instead of referring back to our time as
a period of historical interest in the advance-
ment of the general cause they will have reason
to refer to it as an era of failure, for when we
stop going forward we are failures and surely
must go backward.
The executive committee in charge of ar-
rangements for the annual No-Tsu-Oh celebra-
tion in Houston have gone about this carnival
matter in the right way and they are sure to
make a big success of it. They have secured
nothing but the best in the way of lighter
amusements, and they have set it for a date
when exceedingly good attendance should be
had. Besides the amusement features, however,
they have taken pains to see that something
really big is done during the carnival and this
year they will formally open the great ship
channel, for which the citizens of Houston and
vicinity have worked so long and so earnestly.
They have a way of going about things that
brings the best results possible, and they never
aim low when starting out. Their No-Tsu-Oh
celebrations in the past have been wonderful
successes, and there is no doubt but the one
this fall will be greater than any that has gone
before. We admire their methods and wish,
these energetic boosters the success they de-
serve.
Responses from local unions and the great
amount of enthusiasm that has been displayed
by individual members combine to give assur-
ance that. this year’s Labor Day parade and
celebration will be the biggest, most successful
feature of the kind that has ever been held in
this section of the country. And there is no
reason why it should not be so, and no reason
why each succeeding Labor Day celebration in
this city should not be better than the one be-
fore.
Galveston is one of the best organized cities
of the land. She has energetic, enthusiastic
unions composed of real, live workers who not
only grasp every opportunity that offers to ad-
vance the cause of trade unionism, but are ever
seeking and making the opportunities for this
work. Working together the members of or-
ganized labor here have accomplished great
things for the cause in the past, and with the
spirit of unity and co-operation remaining
strong we are destined to accomplish more and
better things in the future.
We should let this year’s great Labor Day
celebration be only the beginner—the first of a
series of ever increasing celebrations that will
reflect the true spirit and dignity of trade
unionism in Galveston and vicinity. Those not
directly connected with organized labor are
wont to judge the power and dignity of the
movement through Labor Day parades and sim-
ilar celebrations and events, so we should work
the harder to make our parades real evidence
of the strength and dignity of trade unionism in
this locality.
Twenty-two militiamen-murderers who par-
ticipated in the massacre of innocent women
and children at Ludlow when the tent colony of
the striking miners was destroyed by machine
guns there have been tried by court-martial and
found not guilty.
There is nothing surprising in the fact that
they were found not guilty when we consider
that the murderous General John Chase, who
ordered them to commit this outrage was the
predominant spirit of the military court that
tried them. The method of making this find-
ing of the summary court public was evidence
enough of the manner in which the trial was
conducted.. General Chase first reviewed the
findings, and after approving of them he sent
them before that other tool of the coal barons,
Governor E. M. Ammons, and then, after Gov-
ernor Ammons had approved them, the findings
were made public.
Lieutenant K. E. Linderfelt was specially
charged with the murder of Louis Tikas, leader
of the Greek contingent of the strikers. The
court that cleared the twenty-two assassins
found that Lieutenant Linderfelt struck Tikas
over the head with a rifle, but it asserted that
the assault was warranted by actions of the
Greek striker.
The findings of this military court form a
suitable sequel to the long story of murder and
crime that has come out from Colorado ever
since the armed thugs of the corporations were
sent into that state to wipe out the striking,
half-starved miners and their families. It was
the natural conclusion. Controlled by the coal
operators, Governor Ammons ordered General
Chase and his men to do the murder and arson
that the operators demanded. General Chase
was willing and eager to serve his masters. The
lives of the innocent women and children were
nothing to him. Then, when these two dom-
inated the military court before which twenty-
two of their own men were tried on charges of
murder, arson and larceny, what else could we
' expect ?
Details of the murder of Tikas and more
than a score other men, women and children of
the Ludlow tent colony have already been gone
into too many times to warrant a repetition, but
we can not forget that the United States sena-
torial committee on investigation sustained
every charge of the striking miners when they
were sent into the fields of Colorado to investi-
gate conditions near Trinidad. These senators
found that the militiamen were wrong; that the
coal operators were wrong and that through or-
ders of Governor Ammons the most horrible
conditions existed; that the violence instigated
by the armed thugs of the operators was en-
tirely unwarranted and uncalled for.
As though a prelude to the verdict of “in-
nocent” which the military court gave out, the
coal operators formed a publicity bureau and
through this week after week sent out large cir-
culars in which they sought to show7 themselves
blameless, tried to turn the tide of public opin-
ion which is so strong against them. The peo-
ple of Colorado are not to be misled in this mat-
ter, however, for they have gone through a ter-
rible ordeal, and those who were not directly in-
terested in the strike have witnessed the hor-
rible scenes that have been enacted. While
Ammons and other state officials of his calibre
remain in power they have little hope of seeing
better conditions, but the date for a change of
officials in charge of affairs of the state is now
approaching and the strikers and their sympa-
thizers intend placing in power men who are
as fair and just to one side as to the other.
Prominent business and professional men from
all sections of the state have voiced their opin-
ion and have shown themselves with the
strikers.
Discredited on every hand by ministers and
other right thinking individuals, and shown in
their true light before the United States Com-
mission on Industrial Relations, the Merchants,
Manufacturers and Employers’ Association is
still waging a relentless warfare against the
workingman in Stockton, Cal.
Ministers of that city have denounced in
strongest terms the methods that these mem-
bers of the bosses’ association have employed
to whip down the workers and prevent them
from receiving their just demands. The dis-
credited association has invoked every means
at hand to outlaw boycotts by the workers, to
force them into submission and work them for
long hours, short pay and under revolting con-
ditions.
Last week we saw some of their underhand
methods. The facts came to light when the edi-
tor of one of Stockton’s daily newspapers was
on the stand testifying before the commission
on industrial relations. Through threatening
to withdraw their advertising the members of
the association hoped to whip the daily press
into line and force it to give their side of the
controversy prominence, neglecting the rights
and arguments of the workers.
Irwin Martin, owner of the Stockton Record,
told of this attempt. He said that advertising
had fallen off, but that he did not believe it was
the result of concerted effort, but he made no
effort to hide the fact that his paper had been
termed obnoxious bymembers of this associa-
tion and that at every conference he had at-
tended the members of this discredited organi-
zation had harped on the one topic of financial
support of the newspapers.
The business men said that too much pub-
licity was given the union side of the controver-
sy. Mr. Martin of the Record said that the
"eason for this was simple, as the union men
brought their statements to the newspaper of-
fice, while it was difficult for the reporters to
get statements from members of the associa-
tion or association headquarters. That is some-
Some of our states are Siow in enacting the
proper child labor laws, but it seems that the
national Congress will care for that if certain
measures recently introduced can be put
through. Representative Palmer of Pennsyl-
vania has introduced a measure which would
prevent the shipping from one state to another
any products made in mine or quarry where
children under 16 are employed, and would also
prevent the interstate commerce of the products
of any factory or mill where children less than
14 are worked, or where children between 14
and 16 years are worked for longer than eight
hours per day.
Representative Lewis, himself a union miner
and chairman of the house committee on labor,
has, through his committee, made a favorable
report on this measure and it is now before the
House for consideration. From the opposition
that has already been shown it is certain there
will be a hard fight made to defeat the passage
of this bill, but the labor group of the House
is ready to make a determined stand for its
passage.
The many benefits of such a national law
can readily be seen. There is no real big fac-
tory, mill, mine or quarry that does not do a
considerable portion of its business across the
state lines of the state in which it operates.
With this bill a law the mines and quarries could
not hold their business and employ children un-
der 16, and the big mills and factories would be
forced to give their child employes between 14
and 16 years- decent working hours and not
drive them under the sweat shop methods that
are now employed, else they could not ship their
products from their own state.
Making this bill into a law would be a big
step forward in protecting the children of our
land and would mean much for labor and hu--
manity, giving the children every chance for an
education of a very substantial nature up to the
time they were 16, even though they were
forced to begin their life work at that age, and
give them the opportunity to fit themselves for
better work.
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