The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATUSDAY, DECEMBER 11,1915.
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NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM.
—Herbert Kaufman.
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REMEMBER
Since forcing the Oklahoma Railway Compa-
ny to pay the city for the use of the streets,
Commissioner Donnelly now discovers that An-
ton Classen should pay a $250 license as a pav-
ing contractor.
The fact that out of an income of $700 or $800
the foreigner is able to make a small saving does
not affect the real inadequacy of his wages. The
saving in this case is made by the sacrifice of
decent living conditions for his family.
If the first session of the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress, which convened last Monday succeeds in
putting through one half of the reforms out-
lined in the program, our lawmakers will have
done well.
The Labor Dispatch will issue an elaborate
Christmas edition on Dec. 18th with beautiful
lithographed covers and other embellishments
in keeping with the holiday spirit
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A COOL GLASS OF BEER
Will Always relieve that Tired Feeling
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OVERALLS
However, organized labor is more interested
in the list of legislative enactments the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor will urge, which in-
cludes the following:
Immigration restriction.
Empowering states to regulate the admission
of goods manufactured by convicts in other
states.
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It is only two weeks until Christmas. Have
you obeyed that impulse and done your shop-
ping?
The other day Frank Rapetto was hanged at
Joilet, HL, for stabbing a man, says the San Di-
ego Labor Leader. It only goes to show that
every boy should be compelled to go to school in
order to educate himself so he will know the dif-
ference between right and wrong. Before go-
ing to the gallows to pay the penalty he said:
"I never had a mother and all I learned from
my father was to avoid him, for he took all the
pennies I earned selling papers. I never had
any one to tell me what was wrong. I had to
find out for myself. No one ever told me to
contol my temper. I was afraid some one would
think I didn’t care to be tough. So I joined in
the gangs when they went out to ‘stick up’ a
man or loot a store. Now I know a man is a
fool to do those things. There has to be a goat
for every crime, and I am the goat now.”
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TEXAS
Prohibiting importation of goods manufac-
tured in whole or in part by convict labor in
foreign countries.
Prohibiting interstate transportation of goods
in which the labor of children under certain
ages is employed.
Compensation act for District of Columbia
workers.
Compensation act for Federal employes, ex-
tended and liberalized.
Compensation for railroad employes engaged
in interstate commerce.
Amend the railroad men’s 16-hour law with
a minimum penalty provision incorporated.
Eight hours for interstate railroad telegraph-
ers.
A liberal and comprehensive industrial edu-
cational bill.
Additional safety laws, and placing the en-
forcement of same under the jurisdiction of the
United States Department of Labor.
Old Age pensions and retirements.
The following resolution, “No. 1,” was introduced
at the Austin convention of the Texas State
Federation of Labor and was unanimously passed. The
resolution was signed by more than fifty delegates.
The purpose of the convention in taking this action is
to protect the merchants, professional men and friends
of organized labor in Texas, who have been imposed
upon in the past by unscrupulous advertising solicitors.
Before giving advertising the merchants should inform
themselves as to the merits of every proposition sub-
mitted to them by verifying its authenticity by calling
up the president or secretary of Galveston Labor
Council:
Whereas, Our attention has again been called to
the fact that the name of the Texas State Federa-
tion of Labor has been used in soliciting funds and
advertising, alleging that the funds were to be used
for the entertaniment of our annual convention, and
Whereas, This practice brings not only the State
Federation into bad repute, but the whois labor
movement of Texas as well, and
Whereas, Though we, the delegates of the State
Federation, know that its use was unwarranted
and that money so secured were granted through
misrepresentation and fraud, yet it seems the action
of the last convention is not sufficient to protect the
public, therefore, be it
Resolved, That we request each official labor
paper in Texas to keep standing at the head of its
editorial column or in some other conspicuous
place, the following notice, to-wit:
“Notice to the Public: No person or persons, no
union or central body or association of people, call
themselves what they may, are authorized to solicit
advertisements or funds for any purpose whatso-
ever in the name of the Texas State Federation of
Labor or to use its name in any way whatsoever
in connection with any proposition that has not
been acted upon favorably by the State Federation
of Labor in regular convention assembled, and
even then any indorsed proposition must bear the
seal of the Texas State Federation of Labor and
bear the signatures of the president and secretary-
treasurer.- For violation of this proposition the
penalty shall be expulsion, whether it be by an of-
ficer of the State Federation, a central body or
local union.” Be it further
Resolved, That this notice to the public be made
a part of the constitution of the Texas State Fed-
eration of Labor and that our delegate to the
American Federation of Labor be instructed to in-
troduce a resolution at the next convention asking
the American Federation of Labor to enact a
similar law to govern all of its chartered organiza-
tions, such as Federal unions and state and city
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build something ourselves. This may on the
face of it look extravagant but what would we
not have been willing, to pay in dollars and
cents rather to have had the report go out to
the world that our connection with the main-
land was washed away and we were without
water for either drinking or fire protection pur-
posts for weeks and weeks after the lasi siorm.
An ounce of prevention is worth a son or cure
and prevention is cheaper than cure ounce for
ounce or ton for ton.
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Ma being brought to the attention of the management.
Both neutrals and war sympathizers should
not be too hasty in condemning Mr. Ford’s
peace propaganda. He can “a Ford it.”
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eral managers as to make their further consideration a
waste of time. In the joint meeting, the engineers
•reported to the general managers the various plans
that had been submitted. Whether or not any met
with the disapproval of the general managers was not
announced.
“The engineers will meet again this morning, and
will continue to hold meetings until some plan has
been adopted or almost unanimously agreed upon.
This plan will then be submitted to the general mana-
gers for their final approval, after which preparations
will begin for its execution. For this purpose the
general managers expect to meet within a week, their
prediction being that the engineers will have agreed
upon a plan within that time.”
The above is from the Galveston Daily News
of Monday, December 7th, 1915. County Com-
missioner Boddeker has been almost frantic in
his efforts to glean just a little information for
the public from Judge Mann of the doings of the
rapidly becoming famous “general manager
meetings” but the Judge camly tells Commis-
sioner Boddeker that there is nothing to report.
The Dispatch questions the right of a gener-
al manager or a hundred general managers of
one or more railroad organizations to decide
what kind of a causeway is too expensive to be
considered and what is or is not a waste of
time.
That is about all that has been done with the
causeway proposition since the storm of Au-
gust is waste time unless we take into considera-
tion the mere trifling fee of $60 per day that
has been paid General Robert and if rumor be
correct it is going to be paid again.
The “general managers association” is the
body that is to decide what shall and shall not
be done regarding the construction of our
causeway, the engineers in the employ of the
railroads together with our county engineer are
capable beyond a question of a doubt to work
out the engineering details of any style or mode
of construction decided upon by the powers that
be. This is the cut and dried program and it
will be carried out to the last detail unless the
people come out of their slumber and demand
that the workings of the “general manager’s
association” (be made public and the people have
a perfect right to make such a demand because
of the fact that the people’s interest are at
stake. The “general managers’ Association” is
only figuring one way in the matter of the re-
construction of the causeway and that is the
cheap way—it is not a question of how strong
and how nearly perfectly storm proof this cause-
way can be made, it is with the railroad heads
how cheaply can their railroad “get by” with
the whole matter.
Their aim is not to protect the property, the
homes and the general interests of our citizen-
ship from the havoc of the storms that we know
are going to come from time to time as surely
as the earth revolves on its axis—but their real
aim is to protect the pocket book (the treasury)
of their companies and they are cold-bloodedly
figuring on just so much per year for causeway-
service for their respective railroad companies.
One might justly be confronted with the
statement that the Railroad general managers
are fulfilling their duties to their employers. But
the official of any public service corporation,
whether it be a trans-continental railroad com-
pany or a local street car company who owes a
duty to his corporation, the fulfillment of which
is not inimical with the best interest of the peo-
ple, is no more nor no less than a highly paid pi-
rate masquerading under the name of official. It
was just such actions by large corporation rep-
resentatives in the past that brought the wrath
of the people on all corporations, both good and
bad.
If the county of Galveston can not come to
an agreement with the railroads on the cause-.
way matter that will give us a permanent storm
proof travel causeway, then there is only one
thing for us to do and that is to cut loose and
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"Two meetings of the committee of engineers dele-
: gated to prepare plans for the rehabilitation of the.
causeway, and a meeting of the heads of the interstes
- controlling the causeway were held yesterday in the
general offices of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad. At the conclusion of the meetings, F. G.
Pettibone, vice president and general manager of the
Santa Fe, issued a statement to the effect that various
plans for the rehabilitation of the causeway were sub-
mitted.and discussed and that another meeting of the
general managers will be held within a week.
“Nothing definite was accomplished at either of the
meetings yesterday. About six different plans for
repairing the causeway were submitted at the meeting
• of engineers at 10 o’clock yesterday morning in the
• office of Frank Merritt, chief engineer of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe. Some of these had already
been submitted at previous meetings, the last of which
was held more than a month ago. Others were modi-
fications of plans that had already been submitted.
All these plans were discussed briefly, but the details
of none were considered. ,
“At 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the general mana-
gers of the rail lines interested in the causeway met in
the committee room of the Santa Fe, County Judge
George E. Mann attending as the representative of
Galveston County. Shortly thereafter the engineers
who had been in the morning met with the general
managers, and reported on the plans that had been
submitted.
“The purpose of the meeting of the general mana-
gers was to advise the engineers at the outset relative
to plans which might be too expensive to permit of
adoption, or otherwise so unsatisfactory to the gen-
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1915, newspaper, December 11, 1915; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447702/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.