The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 13, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916.
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No liquor sold or delivered at any place where
the sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors
is prohibited by law.
New York City is overcrowded with tailors, according
to the official organ of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union
of America- This the paper observes, is quite natural
to expect owing to the fact that New York City is the
front door into this country. If the present strike in
that city did no other good than to cause some of the
tailors to get away from there it would be serving a
good purpose. The Tailor concludes as follows:
There is more misery and realy poverty existing
among tailors in New York than in any other city in
this country.
The impression prevails there that a man who cannot
make a living in New York cannot make one anywhere
else, that is why they stay there. In one-half of the af-
fidavits, supposed to be sworn to by scabs, during the
strike in New York is true, it proves that what we say
is correct.
It might not be a bad idea to establish a fund to pay
the expenses of tailors desiring to leave that city. Many
of them would gladly leave if they had the means.
There is no city in this country where tailors are treat-
ed so contemptuously as they are in New York City.
The only men who are treated with any consideration at
all are the very best workmen, no better on this conti-
nent, and even they are not receiving the consideration
due them.
Keep away from New York if you desire to be looked
on as a human being.
TEXAS’
THE STETSON STRIKE AND PROFIT-SHARING,
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For over twenty years the John B. Stetson Company
of Philadelphia declared unalterable opposition to or-
ganized labor and established a regime of benovelent
feudalism and philanthropic paternalism. The John B.
Stetson Company organized what it declared to be a
“model factory’’ and made it one of the show places of
Philadelphia. It declared it had solved the labor prob-
lem. This solution consisted of substituting for fair
wages Christmas gifts, annual premiums on loyalty,
bronze medals for efficiency and valuable service to the
firm. Every device and regulation was instituted to
generate the spirit of feudalism and to drive out the
spirit of independence and liberty that are inseparable
from organized labor.
The John B. Stetson Company posed as a generous
philanthropist interested in the well-being of their em-
ployes and anxious and willing to direct and dominate
all the phases of their lives both during the hours of
work and the hours at their own disposal.
But this benevolent institution necessarily failed to
accomplish all of the things expected. So strong was
the domination and control of the company over its em-
ployes that there was little manifestation of discontent.
Though the dissatisfaction was concealed, it was deep-
seated and awaited only an opportunity for expression.
The fact that it had to wait so long for an opportunity
was due to the subtle policy of the company in binding
their employes to the company by so many ties that ap-
parently involved what constituted their superficial,
economic interests. As a result, the workers did not
dare assert, did not dare express their real desires.
It is generally stated that over 90 per cent of the em-
ployes of the Stetson firm are so-called stockholders
under a deceptive bonus system that had been institut-
ed by the company. Despite the mechanism built up by
the StetsonCompany, despite the “benevolent” institu-
tions and “philanthropic” intentions, 900 employes of
tihs company went out on strike on the first of March.
The company had refused to adjust the grievances of
This country is losing its Americanism, if the statis-
tics recently compiled by an authority are to be taken
seriously. Prof. Herbert B. Adams says there are now
20,647,000 acres of land in the United States owned by
29 different foreign landlords and foreign syndicates.
The amount of land thus owned is as large as Ireland.
Infact, one Irish landlord is said to draw $400,000 an-
nually as income from as rents from his estates in Illi-
nois. One English gentleman in London owns 700 acres
of American soil. The census of 1880 showed that there
were 1,024,000 tenant farmers in the United States. The
number must have increased considerably in later years
and at the present time our American “peasantry” prob-
ably outnumbers that of Great Britain and Ireland com-
bined. At any rate there are in Ireland today only 574,-
222 tenant buildings.
Wufearlbers whe change their address, er faii te get their eaper
eceleely, wheuld immediately notify this effice, giving betk eld and
encw edresses.
ae guhseribers do not receive their paper by Saturday morning at
2 e'gleek, kindly phone 409 not later than 5 p.m. and name will ba
ena by speelal messenger.
An erreneous reflection upon the standing, character, or rapa-
erdeta at any persen, firm or corporation, which may appear in
#e eelumus at The Labor Dispatch, will be gladly corrected upon
(Ska betas breught to the attention of the management.
home man, too, which is true. But Mr. Henry, bj' rea-
son of his twenty years’ continuous service in one
branch of Congress, has already acquired a measure of
experience, of influence and of prestige and party
standing that Dr. Brooks cannot hope to attain save by
like experience. Texas needs a Senator at Washington
to co-operate with Senator Sheppard. Mr. Culberson is
confessed a man weakened by years of illness. He ad-
mits that he is not physically able to make a canvass
for the place he asks. Moreover, he has taken a stand,
made a record that is evidence of his sympathies with
the common people and their needs- The measures he
is pledged to support, if elected, outlinees in his opening
speech at Moody, are all helpful and needed measurees
of constructive statesmanship.
Finally, in making its decision, the Union Standard
cannot forget that during all the years of his service in
Congress Mr. Henry has been the intelligent and relia-
ble friend of the cause of organized labor. His record
along that line is an open book and it is to his credit.
On these accounts it is the conviction of the Union
Standard that in Supporting Mr. Henry it is also pro-
moting the best interests of organized labor of Texas
and the Democratic party. As the campaign progresses
this paper will set forth reasons for its course.—The
Union Standard, Waco, Texas, April 22, 1916.
For the several gentlemen, all citizens of high stand-
ing, who are aspirants for the place in the United States
Senate now held by Mr. Culberson, the Union Standard
entertains feelings of cordial esteem. They are all men
and citizens of worth, and it is our privilege to know
some of them personally and well—to have friendly re-
iations with them. In considering their fitness for the
place they seek, in considering their policies and meas-
ares for which they stand, we have sought to be delib-
rate, to be entirely fair, actuated solely by desire to
select the man, who is fully as worthy as any of the
others and who seems to be most competent, be most
useful when he goes to Washington.
It is with feelings of this nature that the Union Stand-
ard makes known to its readers its purpose to support
“he candidacy of Hon- Robert L. Henry of Waco. It is
not difficult nor does it require many words to state why
our preference goes to Mr. Henry, with not disparage-
maentof his opponents.
To start with, he is a home man. It may be argued
dhzt Dr. Brooks (whom we hold in high esteem) is a
According to a report in the Union Advocate, a cer-
tain “free and independent” worker in a Sioux City,
Iowa bakery told a national organizer who urged him
to join the bakers’ organization that “his heart and his
bible would not permit him to.” Faint heartedness is a
dreadful affliction, comparable only to that other one
known as ‘cold feet,” and any woroker suffering with
either is deserving of pity—and contempt. As “faint
heart never won a fair lady,” so also it never won fair
wages or fair working conditions for the toilers. Strong
hearts, brave hearts and true, are needed for such ac-
complishments- But the fellow quoted surely misappre-
hends and misreads his bible. The good book tells us
that man does not live for hismelf alone—that we are
our brother’s keeper— that brotherhood and mutual help
are essential to right living in the eyes of God and man.
Unionism stands for all these things, and more. Too
many people argue against organized labor from a wrong
promise. It does not desire to shut out anyone from its
benefits and the right to labor; one the contrary, it wel-
comes every toiler to the field of co-operation for the
betterm^ht of the man, women and children who toil.
It maintains and rightly, that the man who refuses to
join with his brothers for the good of all, which reap-
ing, directly and indirectly, the benefits of such co-op-
eration on the part of others, is unchristian and un-man-
ly—and it strives to teach him better. If at times the
methods of instruction are harsh, it is because softer
means are unavailing; but it never bars absolutely the
doors to any man who is a man—only the black-listing
corporations do that with the unions, “while the lamp
holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return.” We
would advise the brother in error who professes to be-
lieve that his bible is against his joining any union of
his fellows, devise for material or spirtual betterment,
to read his copy of holy writ more closely and more
prayerfully, that his feet may be led from pathways or
darkness into broad highways of industrial truth, light-
ed by the brightly burning torches of the hosts of trade
unionism, ever marching onward and upward. Then
his heart will expand and grow stronger.
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"'Worth” economically measur-
ed, appears in the form of service
rendered by a man to his fellozvs.
In all discussions of the apportion-
ment of income the term “power"
might well be used instead.
The following resolution, “No. 1,” was introduced
$$ the Austin convention of the Texas State
Federation of Labor and was unanimously passed. The
gesolution was signed by more than fifty delegates.
The purpose of the convention in taking this action is
o protect the merchants, professional men and friends
f organized labor in Texas, who have been imposed
uon in the past by unscrupulous advertising solicitors.
Before giving advertising the merchants should inform
Memaselves as to the merits of every proposition sub-
miwbed to-them by verifying its authenticity by calling
vep the president or secretary of Galveston Labor
Tuncil:
Whereas, Our attention has again been called to
he fact that the name of the Texas State Federa-
don of Labor has been used in soliciting funds and
advertising, alleging that the funds were to be used
or the entertaniment of our annual convention, and
Whereas, This practice brings not only the State
Federation into bad repute, but the whole labor
smovement of Texas as well, and
Whereas, Though we, the delegates of the State
federation, know that its use was unwarranted
imad 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
vsper in Texas to keep standing at the head of its
editorial column or in some other conspicuous
glace, the following notice, to-wit:
“Notice to the Public: No person or persons, no
mnion or central body or association of people, call
chemselveswhat they may, are authorized to solicit
advertisements or funds for any purpose whatso-
gver in the name of the Texas State Federation of
Habor or to use its name in any way whatsoever
m connection with any proposition that has not
been acted upon favorably by the State Federation
af Labor in regular convention assembled, and
aven then any indorsed proposition must bear the
meal 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-
cer of the State Federation, a central body or
local union.” Be it further
Resolved, That this notice to the public be made
« part of the constitution of the Texas State Fed-
gration of Labor and that our delegate to the
American Federation of Labor be instructed to in-
Sroduce a resolution at the next convention asking
"he American Federation of Labor to enact a
wmilar law to govern all of its chartered organiza-
*ens, such as Federal unions and state and city
vemtral bodies.
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their employes and persistently rejected every attempt
of a representative committe of the employes to secure
a hearing.
So great is the influence that this company exerts in
Philadelphia that it was impossible for the striking em-
ployes to secure publicity for the causes of the strike.
But the censorship of the John B. Stetson Company was
not to prevail. An independent newspaper was started
which published in full the causes and attitude of the
company.
This strike of the employes of the John B. Stetson
Company is of much significance because of its relation
to the general problem of profit-sharing. Recently, at-
tention has been called to profit-sharing by propositions
emanating from employers. This effort to inject inter-
est into the profit-sharing proposal is significant and the
origin of the effort prompts the following questions:
Would the topic of profit-sharing be a live one were
the deamnd for labor not greater than it was two short
years ago?
What proportion of the establishments employing un-
ion labor are profit-sharers of contemplate profit-shar-
ing?
To what extent can the movement be simply anti-un-
ionist or increasingly exploitative, or otherwise a con-
fession of a conscious weakness in the presence of to-
day’s uprising of labor?
In looking over notes and clippings concerning the
moves and opinions of the new profit-sharers, or pro-
posed profit-sharers, the expressions of altruism and
philanthropy seem to be “lugged” into the discussion,
while the language of calculating business comes to the
front frequently and forcibly. The profit-sharers are
considering “the various methods by which employers
may bind their employes closer to them;” they are seek-
ing in a deceptive annual dividend to labor “ a sound
business move;” they wish “the employe to be governed
by the same motives that animate the employer;” they
invariably “seek efficiency.” This language has a pure-
ly business-like sound. But wherein it indicates an in-
creased happiness for the masses of labor is not con- •
vincing.
Not only on behalf of organized labor but on the part
of the general public, one test of its social efficacy may
at the outset be offered to the advocates of profit-shar-
ing. It is this: Will the emipoying profit-sharer take
as a bisis the union scale of wages and hours in his oc-
cupation and the working conditions deemed fair by
law and union custom and proceeding fromthat level
offer in addition any of the forms of profits which have
been recommended by the professed upholders of profit-
sharing? How many names this questiion would elimi-
nate from the list of its advocates is an estimate which
any observer of the movement may make for himself.
Union wages, hours and conditions form convincing
evidence to the masses of wage-workers that the em-
ployer is fail’ and square. He stands before the com-
munity simply as a man, not bidding for the doubtful
commendatory appellation of philanthropist or apostle
of a new society. His actions are above suspicion. He
is also a man of business sense; he has all the wage-
workers in his line to choose from as employes. His
‘labor troubles” are, if not at an end, at lease plainly
confined to a well-known area.
The nomenclature of profit-sharing is singularly rich
in equivocal' terms. “Loyalty.” Is the employe to be
wholly loyal to his employer and not first of all loyal to
himself? How loyal is an employer to his furnishers
of raw material? He is loyal to them only so long as
they sell him what he wants at the loweest market rate.
“Efficiency.” Never to be missed in any lecture or dis-
course on profit-sharing, this term points to push, grind,
and hurry to the exhaustion of the employe, despite its
admitted legitimacy up to the point of average physical
abilities. “Profits.” Is the withholding of five or ten
per cent from an employe’s wagees during the year and
returning it to him at an appointed annual date, a shar-
ing of profits or a mere restitution of withheld earn-
ings.
The movement is not so simple as its indefinite col-
lective name—profit-sharing. Its possibilities run from
a general grabbing and grasping to an occasional ob-
stensibly generous giving.
Looking at the subject practically, the trade unionists
suggest that should the employer, or in this instance
the John B. Stetson Company, wish to demonstrate be-
yond cavil a desire to share profits with wage-workers,
proceedings can be initiated by conference with union
representatives to clarify the employer’s mind as to
his own intentions and the benefits he would confer on
his fellow-workers. In doing so, he would set himself
apart from those employers who are using profit-sharing
as a cloak for false pretense and inordinate greed.
EUBANK & DIBRELL
BUILDING CONTRACTORS
Phone 5324
American National Insurance Bldg. Galveston,
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