The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 13, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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Educate
Organize
Official Organ of the Galveston Labor Council, Dock and Marine Council of Galveston and Vicinity,
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916.
VOLUME VI
NUMBER 18.
THOUSANDS ATTEND OUTING
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OF LOCAL AERIE SUNDAY
UNION BAND FOR BEACH
PRIZE ATHLETIC EVENTS AND DANCING
PICNICERS AT LUNCH UNDER COOL TREES
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the biggest success both from a standpoint of numbers and the
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EATING WHERE THE APPETITE IS UNCURBED
Brewery Workers Local Union No.
130, held their regular meeting Friday
TTENDED by approximately 3,000 pe ople the Third Annual Picnic of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Erie No. 48, at Dickinson, Sunday, was
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Musicians to Play for Home People
and Visitors by Seashore This Sum-
mer—Chairman Lynch Resigns.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and adopted as read
additional and very inviting feature of
the noon hour.
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LABOR COUNCIL
HOLDS SESSION
Local Union No. 130 Holds Good Meet-
ing With Full Attendance—Re-
port from Delegate.
May 5, at the Hotel and Restaurant lemonade, soda pop and ate ice cream.
Women of Local 142 Working Hard in
Interest of Affair Scheduled for
Tuesday Night.
Multitudes who Avail Themselves of Hospitality of
Eagles Indulge in Sports and otherwise Help
to Make Third Annual Picnic Grandest
of Year—Excellent Order on the
Grounds—Candidates
Were There.
BREWERY WORKERS
SIGN UP FIRMS
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LABEL LEAGUE DANCE
TO BE LARGE EVENT
Grievance of Pile Drivers Relative to
Building Temporary Bridge Across
the Bay Is Received.
GW.Clawsen,
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Special Trains Filled with Men, Women,
and Children Run to Grounds
Where Day is Pleasantly
Spent
Galveston, May 8, 1916.
The Galveston Labor Council was
called to order at 8:15 p. m., President
Barb, presiding.
Roll call showed 31 organizations
represented and all officers in their
respective places except Second Vice
President Pye, who was excused on
account of business.
Credentials were received from the
House Raisers for F. Weitz and E.
Brownum and from the Musicians for
Aug. Moeller. The delegates were du-
ly obligated and seated.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were adopted as read.
The secretary was instructed to no-
tify I. L. A. 317 that they are entitled
to two more delegates as the one elect-
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Market Sireees Y
Women’s Union Label League Local
No. 142 held their regular meeting
Wednesday night, at the Hotel and
Restaurant Employers hall. Mrs. Le-
gate presided, all officers were pres-
ent except Mrs. B. Martin who was re-
ported sick, and a very good atten-
dance of members were in the hall.
The dance committee reported that
they expect this dance to be the larg-
est ever given by this local, very mem-
ber is requested to get a ticket or try
to bring a friend. This dance will be
I held next Tuesday night May 16 at the
Tango Terrace.
EAGLES HOLD PICNIC AT DICKINSON
Two interesting features took place
at this meeting, the prize and penny
drill, the members are the only ones
that know the importance of these,
but it was learned that Mrs. Johnson
won the prize and the treasurer the
pennies. So it being the usual cus-
tom of this local to adjourn in a local
ice cream parlor their custom was fill-
ed with pleasure.
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Dancing Attracts Many.
The dancing to the music of Prop.
Conway Shaw’s orchestra was the
chief attraction and the only drawback
was the lack of room for the several
hundred men and women who sought,
to take part in the delightful pastime
The floor was so badly crowded that,
the couples found it somewhat diffi-
cult to dance. There were sixteen*,
numbers of the dance program and to
these were added extras with practical-
ly every dance. At the conclusion or
the program the prize waltz was given-,
participated in by some thirty couples.
The process of eliminating reduced the
waltzers until but three couples skip-
ped over the waxed floor to the beau-
tiful orchestra music. The committee
decided that Miss Lena Boenig was
entitled to the first prize offered the?
lady—a handsome ivory dressing set.
R. B. Sloan won the first prize foz
the gentleman dancer—a pair of Royal
shoes. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wchleg
won the second prize—a pair of pumpss
for the lady and a pair of elegant sus-
penders for the gentleman. Later ima
the afternoon the dancing was resume®
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been up to be obligated.
A communication was read
Frank P- Walsh, stating that
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Special trains, run by the Galveston,
Houston and Henderson provided am-
ple accomodations for the swarms of
men, women and children who flocked
to the union station early Sunday
morning, and for other departing hours
several hundred waiting until the af-
ternoon. The morning specials carried
the largest number of people. They
preferred to hurray away to the woods
while they felt fresh and the fact that
almost everybody lugged away a big
basket was self evident that they ex-
pected to acquire a keen appetite, and
they did. The first train leaving at
8:30 had 16 coaches briming full, fol-
lowed by another section with 19
coaches and the Sunshine Special
brought many more. The train leav-
ing at 1:30 p. m. landed close to 1000
at the scene of the merrymaking. Re-
turning a special departed from the
picnic grounds at 5 p- m. and another
at 7 o’clock brought the balance of the
crowd.
Two or three hundred Eagles came
down from Houston and a good dele-
gation from Texas City joined their
brothers on the picnic grounds. There-
fore the paid admission to the picnic
grounds were 3,000, with 2300 from
Galveston.
Ideal Picnic Weather
Sunday was an ideal picnic day.
There was enough breeze stirring to
ruffle the green leaves of the trees and
fan the faces of the boys and girls,
young men and women who frolicked
over the grounds all day long, drank
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excelling any similar excursion ever before run out of Galveston. They had a
voting contest for the most popular Eagle, and this was not determined until
the day was nearly spent because they were all so popular Sunday. Likewise
it was hard to determine the largest family, because they were all there, and
many members of the local Erie are Bull Mooses in the sense that they are ad-
herents of Ex-President Roosevelt’s anti-race suicide provincialism.
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The traditional picnic showers were
missing and the nearest approach was
a few feathery clouds floating past,
borne on the winds from the gulf. Nor
was the rowdy on the grounds. No one
accepted the hospitality of the Eagles
who was not a gentleman or lady and
the behavior on the grounds was some-
thing worthy of compliment.
The Dickinson park is a spacious
wooded park and the G. H. & H. has
spent a considerable amount of money
in fixing it up for just such outings as
was enojyed by the multitudes Sun-
day. There is a large dance pavilion
with seats around the rim for specta-
tors. Several buildings over the
grounds are utilized for cold drinks
and refreshment booths, coffee and
sandwich stands and other uses by the
concessionist. But perhaps the most
welcome of all are the benches here
and there under clusters of shady trees
and the tables ready for spreading the
picnic dinners. And everybody had
fresh, luscious strawberries with their
lunches, for you Dickinson is a fruit
growing district and the farmers
brought in great loads of berries just
picked from the vine. This proved an
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Houses of Congress had adopted a res-
olution to have 100,000 copies of the
report of the United States Commis-
sion on Industrial Relations and 10,
000 copies of the testimony and exhib-
its brought out by the Commission in
its hearings of 1914-15. It was receiv-
ed and the Secretary instructed to
write to our Congressman for a copy
of these exhibits.
A communication was read from
Representative J. Chas. Linthicum,
dwelling on the Food and Dairy Pro-
ducts and asking all that is so inter-
ested to write to the United States
congressmen asking them to support
House resolution No. 137, calling for
an investigation of conditions in the
collection and manufacture of these
products. It was received and con-
curred in and was also added that the
secretary through his minutes, ask all
the locals in the city to act in a sim-
ilar way.
The Special Committee appointed to
wait upon the Fire Inspector, relative
to fire escape, ladders and drops re-
ported that he said he would have this
ordinance enforced and notify all of-
fenders and give them 30 days in
which to complete this work and if
at the expiration of this time they had
not complied with his orders he would
turn it over to the county attorney for
prosecution. This report was received
and the committee thanked.
It was stated that this procedure had
been going on so long that it would be
the same thing as always, nothing
done, so the Council was unanimous in
instructing the Secretary to send a
communication to the City Commis-
sioners to take this matter up and
make it obligatory to have this matter
attended to at once, and those not
complying to be punished by law.
The grievance of the Pile Drivers
No. 135 relative to the building of the
temporary bridge across the bay was
received and referred to a special
committee composed of Delegates Ga-
hagan and Young. Mr. M. J. McCain,
International Organizer of the Struct-
ual Iron Workers stated that he want-
ed this committee to work in conjunc-
tion with his committee in going to
see County Attorney Theobald and in-
forming him that Contractor Moore is
not fulfilling his contract, in as much
as he is not using union men. The
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Employers hall. President Chas.
Thompson presided, all officers pres-
ent and a very good attendance of
members on the floor.
The committee reported that the fol-
lowing firms have signed the new con-
tract for this year: Galveston Brew-
ery & Co., Moritz Brock, Celli & Del-
papa, D. Rossi, and Lemps Agent, and
wishes all organized labor to drink
union beer.
Brother Stella, Delegate to the Tex-
as State Federation of Labor made his
report and it was well received by the
members of this local.
He also made his report of the
Trades Union Liberty League of Texas
for the purpose of fighting state wide
prohibition.
Bro. Ed Reagan was reported as be-
ing sick from an attack of Typhoid
fever, but is recovering and will be
with us in a short time.
After the regular routine of business
had been transacted the meeting ad-
journed.
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Special Committee reported that Gil-
sonite Construction Company met all
their demands and used union Hod
Carriers. That Mr. Heffrom, who is
laying the water main refused to hire
union plumbers and that he has been
placed on the unfair list of the plumb-
ers union. The Horseshoers trouble
has not been amicable settled, but are
still working on some of the employing
bosses. It was received and the com-
mittee thanked.
The resignation of A.P. Lynch, chair-
man of the Grievance Committee, who
is leaving the city, was accepted with
regrets and the council wishes him ev-
ery success in his new undertakings.
The report of the delegates to the
Nineteenth Annual Convention of the
State Federation of Labor was receiv-
ed and the delegates thanked.
It was reported by the delegates of
the Hotel and Restaurant Employees
that the Tremont Cafe is now fair to
organized labor and is being run under
the management of Mr. Matt Standich
of the Elite Restaurant. This Cafe
was taken off the Council’s unfair list.
Delegate Young reported that the
Chauffeurs had again organized, and
would soon have their new lightsign
so the public can tell at a glance which
cars belong to the union men.
The hall rent of $6.00 was ordered
paid.
There will be a union band on the
beach this summer, which is good
news for all who enjoy this music in
the evenings.
There being no further business to
come before this council it stood ad-
journed.
Respectfully submitted
JAS. P. WALSH, Secty.
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 13, 1916, newspaper, May 13, 1916; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447718/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.