The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1915 Page: 3 of 12
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1915.
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TO GET FRUITS OF TOIL.
SOUGHT BY PEOPLE
Galveston, Feb. 18.—John E. Day
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Huyler’s premium Chocolate, 1 lb. 35c
Leeds Woolen Mills
Carnation Milk, tall cans, 3 for....25c
Are the Best Union Label
2220 Maske Street
R. H. John Building
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New Styles for Spring
4 pkgs. Corn Starch
4 pkgs. Macaroni .
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Attractive, Fashionable Models, dainty lace, Georgette
Crepe, Printed Crede d‘ Chine, Satin and Velvet combina-
tions with the newest military and semi-flare collars,
An extensive regrouping of models and prices results in
this offer. Every garment is a late style; the tailoring is
up to our usual high standard. Come here expecting to
get extraordinary values, you will not be disappointed in
information above requested, which
is to be used in determining my fit-
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Silk and Wool Dresses
for Street Wear
4 large cans Tomatoes.........
6 1-lb. cans Tomato Pulp.......
2 3-lb. cans Red Kidney Beans
4 lbs. Small Navy Beans.......
3 1-lb. cans Argo Salmon.......
1-lb. Kippered Herring .........
3 cans Huyler’s Cocoa..........
the Suits; values up to $17.95,
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Austin, Tex., Feb. 18.—The Topeka
Bridge and Steel Company pleaded
guilty to three charges of violating
the state eight-hour law. Fines that
totaled $450 were imposed.
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42 Ladies’ Dresses fashioned of Silks and Combinations of
Serge and Satins, stylish models and colors for street or
afternoon wear, will be grouped on a display rack for your
SPOTLIGHT THROWN ON METHODS
USED BY BIG RAILROADS TODAY
ased, general manager of the road, T Q A VI R AONNQDR
that Powers was restored to place. LbRl U-iNUN
We could preach a
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TO PROTECT CHILD WORKERS.
We Also Save You From $1.00
to $2.00 on Each Pair of Shoes
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the charge that blacklisting is and they have invoked the friendly aic
has been practiced was offered by j of the United States marshal’s of
Grand Chief Stone in the form of a ' fi
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copy of an application blank of the i deputy marshals of this section of
Oregon and Washington Railway and the state.
Navigation Company, the last clause Mr. Day has conducted a thorougi
of which read: “I hereby release inquiry here, but so far has had no
your company from any and all lia- trace of young Connors, and state;
bilities for damage, of whatsoever that he would appreciate any infer
nature, on account of furnishing the mation concerning him.
Some of Imported Fabrics, Bold Plaid Checks, Wool, Cor-
duroys and Fancy Mixtures in the College Balmacaan and
cape styles, worth two or three times the price marked,
will be offered at these attractive prices—
$2.98 $3.98 $4.98
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In Poultry we have Hens, Broilers and Frying Chickens, dressed or on foot.
We send out the Finest Dressed Poultry in the city. Each order specially selected
and dressed—and that specially means a lot to the customer—your Poultry is
alive when your crder is received, so there’s never any possibility of stale goods.
The modern, up-to-date housewife will readily appreciate the advantage.
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A selection of broken size ranges from our regular stock
will be grouped on a large display rack; Dresses of Crepe
d’ Chine, Crepe Meteor and Charmeuse, Etc., cleverly com-
bined with rich trimmings in the correct pastel shades for
evening wear, offering actual $20.00 Q A OE
values for........................... •0.3•
ice, being friends to several of th
William B. Best, chairman of en- ;
gineers on the Canadian Northern . ■
railroad, told a tale of tramping over ;
the face of the earth like the Wan-
Bering Jew, going from railroad to
-ailroad inquiring for work and be-
’ng turned down everywhere. Un-
Cortunately, Mr. Best many years
go, had participated in a strike on ,
the old Great Northern road and be-
ness for the position mentioned.” ______
Mr. Stone developed that this clause Coroners’ Jury Can Find No Other
virtually was a legal waiver for any Way to Decide When Man Killed.
damages on account of blacklisting A. F. of L. News Service.
■ause of his identification with the deputy United States marshal here
inion movement seemed to have been has been asked by the marshal’s
oted an industrial outcast by tne office at Houston to aid in ]o
ailroad companies. Mr. Best said .
he worked for years on a logging ravis onnors, a young man wh<
■oad in Northern Minnesota and ac- has not been heard of or seen b.
quired employment on the Canadian his people in quite a while.
Northern because, at the time, that Young Connors is from Madison,
road was under construction and ville, Texas, and was in Galvestoi
blacklisting apparently had not for quite a while working, but ha
reached it. I not been seen here recently, and as
Another bit of evidence clinching his people have not heard from him
California Would Protect Young by
Limiting the Hours of Labor.
A. F. of L. News Service.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 18.—An
eight-hour day for all workers under
the age of 18 years is one of the re-
quirements of a child labor bill in-
troduced in the state legislature. The
bill provides that children under 15
shall not be allowed to work except
in vacation time, puts a 21-year age
limit on night messengers in the
large cities, and restricts juvenile
employment on the stage, except
children 15 years or older, who may
appear on the stage up to 10 p. m.
| dicated, that if a man should be sick
every day in the month but one and
work that single day, the relief de-
partment of the railroad would take
tribute from that day’s pay for the
amount due on his benefit premium,
no matter whether his wife and chil-
dren were sick or starving and need-
ed immediate aid.
As for blacklisting, George N. De-
Guire, a Northwestern engineer, now
connected with the grand lodge or-
fice of the Firemen’s Brotherhood,
offered conclusive testimony. He ex-
hibited a Santa Fe application blank 1
containing clauses absolving the rail- '
road in any imaginable contingency,
in extended verbal detail, from all re-
sponsibility or blame for an em-
ploye’s injury or death. In the Santa
Fe blank also was a provision au-
thorizing that company to acquire
references from other companies
with which the applicant had worked,
to inquire into the applicant’s his-
tory and conferring the right on
these other companies to give this
information to the Santa Fe. The
witness held this led to blacklisting.
Mr. DeGuire narrated the story or
Ed Powers, an engineer on the Lake
Shore division of the Northwestern
railroad, running out of Green Bay,
Wis., who, because ne had stepped
into a saloon on a certain day in 1909
and taken a glass of milk at the bar,
was immediately thrown out of tne
service by Superintendent Andrews
under rule G, regarding the use of
liquor. Mr. DeGuire said that En-
gineer Powers never drank intoxi
eating liquors and that Superinten-
dent Andrews was so informed and
admitted the truth of the statement.
This made no difference, however,
and Powers was kept out of' service,
Mr. Andrews saying, “So long as I
am on the Northwestern, Powers
shall never get a job on the road.”
It was shown that young Powers
tramped around for nearly a year,
and although he did obtain a job a
Ashland, Wis., on another branch of
the same road, the influence of An-
drews was sufficient to oust him
from that place within two weeks. It
was only through the kindly influ-
ence of Mr. Cantillon, recently ce-
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Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.—En-
gineers and firemen employed on
railroads west of Chicago are pre-
senting evidence to a wage arbitra-
tion board, sitting in that city, in
a bulletin issued by the Engineers
and Firemen’s Brotherhoods, the fol-
lowing will show methods employed
by railroads to “blacklist” these
work workers and to deny them the
right to sue for damages:
Just how “big business”-—in this
instance “big railroad business”-
cleverly protects itself and piles up
riches at the expense of the working-
man was elucidated at the western
railway wage arbitration hearing.
The spotlight was turned on some
of the inner workings of this smooth-
ly running system and disclosed
methods by which streams of money
are caused to flow into the coffers
of the companies instead of into the
pockets of the employes. Accom-
panying these revelations was testi-
mony, just as startling, proving that
western railroads for years have fos-
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dren clinging around her skirts,
when the wage earner is dead, is not
in a position to law the railroad com-
pany. There is no question in my
mind but what this scheme has been
the means of saving these companies
thousands, and perhaps millions, of
dollars. Moreover, it compels the
men to pay for this relief at about
three prices.”
Mr. Stone also disclosed that in
the relief blank is a clause which
causes the applicant to agree in ad-
vance that no other claim or liability
shall have precedence over the relief
fund, which means, as Mr. Stone in-
“Oh, wud th’ power th’ giftie gie us,
To see airsel’es as ithers see us.**
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San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 18.—A
coroner’s jury has exonerated the
owners of a building in which an ele-
vator plunged eight stories to the
basement, killing one of the occu-
pants and wounding nine others. The
jury says: “The real cause of this ac-
cident is the lack of properly consti-
tuted authority to compel the own-
ers of buildings to replace cables
after they have been notified by the
inspector that the cables are unsafe.”
Speaker Clark Believes Workers
Should Get Their Share.
A. F. of L. News Service.
Chicago, Ill., Feb. 18.—In an ad-
dress in this city, Speaker Champ
Clark of the House of Representa-
tives expressed the hope that the
statecraft, humanitarianism, and re-
ligion of the twentieth century will
devise a scheme whereby every man
and woman shall enjoy the fruits of
their own labor and prevent any one
from monopolizing the toil of thou-
lands.
“In 113 years our total wealth
multiplied 125-fold, and is now rated
it the enormous sum of $140,000,-
000,000,” he declared. “This, if
equally distributed, would give $1,-
312 to every man, woman and child
between the two oceans. But there
is the rum, for while a few are rich
beyond the dreams of avarice, many
have not the wherewithal to feed
md clothe themselves.
“The signs of the times indicate,
however, that the hope of better con-
ditions is not too fantastic for enter-
tainment.”
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tered a carefully devised plan of
“blacklisting” which has had the ef-
fect of barring from railroad service
hundreds and thousands of men
whose worst crime either was par-
ticipation in a railroad strike or a
membership card in a union.
These matters were not hinted at.
They were stated as facts, and phot-
ographic copies of contracts and ap-
plication blanks were offered by the
firemen’s and engineers’ brother-
hoods to uphold oral statements.
During this period representatives or
the railroad companies sat apparent-
ly undisturbed in their seats, seem-
ingly oblivious to the real meaning
and menace of the evidence, bring-
ing to mind the old quotation of Bob-
bie Burns:
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We have just receive! our new Spring and
Summer Woolens. They are Beauties—You
never saw a nicer line......
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with which the company at some fu-
ture time might be accused.
“It would seem, then, that this
company was fearful it would get
into trouble and, therefore, asked fo
the waiver?” asked Mr. Stone of
Witness DeGuire.
“Yes, I would say that the com-
pany in this instance was playing
safety first,” replied the witness.
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CONTRACTORS ARE FINED.
No provision, no conlitions-- you buy one Suit;
we give you another FREE. Never have you
ha J such an opportunity. Don’t let it get by
you. Cai! on us at once; we ex ect the bige t
week of our existence......
Let Us Give You a Suit Free
The Machiavellian maneuvers by
which certain powerful railroad com-
panies dodge the payment of mil-
lions of dollars in personal injury
and similar claims by reason of ai
agreement forced upon the men,
when they enter the service, to join
% so-called relief associations was
brought to light through the instru-
mentality of Warren S. Stone, grand
chief engineer of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. Mr. Stone
showed that not only is the appli-
cant for a job compelled to join these
relief associations, but the rates fo.
the so-called instance are high and,
should the employe be killed in serv-
ice, the “relief” department is e.
abled to make a small settlement
upon his widow because of a release
clause in the insurance contract. Mr.
Stone emphasized the contention
that this deters the widow from go-
ing into court and obtaining dam-,
ages-which probably would yield
much larger benefits to her than the
railroad relief association pays her.
Moreover, all these benefits are de-
rived from the purses of the em-
ployes themselves and not from the
bulging coffers of the companies.
Mr. Stone produced a photographic
copy of an application for member-
ship in the relief department of tne
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com-
pany. It was shown that the same
release applies to the Baltimore and
Ohio Chicago Terminal Company Re-
lief Association, proving the owner-
ship of the Chicago Terminal Com-
pany by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
way, although it is commonly called
a separate corporate entity. Not-
withstanding the sensational features
of these disclosures, none of the Chi-
cago newspapers gave special notice
to the story, and, in fact, buried it.
This matter was brought out while
W. E. Futch, president of the Loco-
motive Engineers’ Mutual Life and
Accident Insurance Association, was
on the stand. Peculiarly enough the
way was paved for the relief asso-
ciation bomb by James M. Sheean,
counsel for the companies, in cross-
examination dealing with personal
injury claims paid by the railroads.
A bit of the colloquy which ensued
follows:
Mr. Stone—Isn’t it a fact, Mr.
Futch, that the percentage of cases
where railroads pay for injuries is
small ?
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Imported Swiss Cheese, 1b.........40c
Pure Olive Oil, Queen of Italy, gal
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Cr’sco, large can -...............95c
Delmonte Sliced Peaches, extra
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Log Cabin Syrup, % gallon.......65c
Pure Alvin Butter, 1b..............35c
Mocha and Java Coffee, 1b........35c
Almeda Coffee, 1b.................35c
Cordova Coffee, 1b.................30c
Peaberry, 1b ......................30c
Spare Ribs, lb.....................15c
Kraut, lb .......... 5c
Mr. Futch—Yes, and only wher
the court of last resort compels n.
i Mr. Stone—Isn’t it a fact thal
. these so-called relief association
cause a man to sign away his life i
order to carry his relief?
Mr. Futch—Yes.
Mr. Stone then produced a photo
graphic copy of the standard relie
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i record. It bore the Baltimore a?
, Ohio imprint, and, among othe
things, showed that the applican
was compelled to sign an agreemer.
by which the railroad is permitted
to appropriate certain amount.
। monthly from the employe’s wages
and apply same to the relief func
“which assignment shall have prece-
dence over any other assignment by
me of any wages or of any claii
upon them on account of liabilitic
incurred by me.”
Further, the employe said he le
gaily recognized certain payments
into the relief department by tne
railroad company as “a release of al.
claims against said company * * *
for damages by reason of injury or
death.”
In a silent court room with near-
ly all of the spectators watching him
intently, Mr. Stone, following the
reading of this document, arose anc
said:
“This is how the railroads protect
themselves against paying for thei.
human wreckage. I understand that
the form as presented here is stand
ard. I understand, Mr. Chairman,
that it will not hold in the supreme
court for a minute, but unfortunate
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1915, newspaper, February 19, 1915; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447668/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.