The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 13, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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Saturday, may 13, 1916.
THE LABOR DISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
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destroy Decomposed food.
EIGHT HOUR DAY
CONSIDERED FAIR
HEAVIER TRAFFIC BLAMED
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LABORERS SECURE AGREEMENT.
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SHOWN BY EMPLOYES
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to Beaumont
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$1.75 ROUND TRIP
mowed in 10 hours a decade ago.
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OnSaleMay Limit Mayv192.
Lv. Galvesom
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BEER
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♦THROUGH TRAINS— NO STOPS;
$1. Round W$1
Wine and Liquors Properly Aged and Absoutely Pure
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Trust Your
Dental Work
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WE SPECIALIZE IN
the
Care,
Star of Kentucky, per quart ... .90c
put
$1.00
Old Beacham, per quart
Mountain Springs, per quart ...90c
All Work Guaranteed
$7.50 to $15.00
Dr. D. Daniels
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE
411 25th Street
PHONE 5679
No Liquors sold nor delivered at any place in violation of Texas Laws
2407 and 2405 Market St.
time.
it off.
Longer Trains During Recent Years,
Coupled With Greater Tonnage per
Car and Locomotive Contention.
Manhattan Liquor Store
GALVESTON’S LARGEST RETAIL LIQUOR HOUSE
85c
80c
8Qc
count of the heavier and longer trains.
Officials reports shows that there has
been an increase of 33 per cent in the ■
Royal Age, per quart
Duffy’s Malt, quart .
Ilers’ Malt, quart. ...
Trains leave Congress Street Station
at 9:10 a. m., 1:30 and 8:45 p. m. Leave
Grand Central Sta. 10 Minutes earlier.
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.15
.$1.10
.$1.10
.$1.10
.$1.10
...90c
Suits for Stout Men
Fabrics of Palm Beach, Cool Cloth,
Mohair or light weight Worsteds—
Clothes that fit right—made right.
Priced—
YOU MAY JOIN A UNION
COURT TELLS TEACHERS
Report of Business Agent Received
and Filed—also Report Delegate
F. of L. Convention, Houston.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 12—The Rail-
road Brotherhoods are asking the rail-
wroads to better their conditions and
ggrant an eight-hour day.
The men claim that the revenues of
dhe 1 companies have increased enor-
znously on account of long heavy ton-
mage freight trains.
The men desire relief from the long
City Office
222/TF emone! Se.
Railroad Brotherhoods Asking for Bet-
ter Conditions Affording Them Re-
lief from Excessive Labor.
INJURED MEMBERS OF
I. L. A. LOCAL BETTER
New Recording Secretary of No. 310
Prevented from Being Present
at Regular Meeting.
♦4:10 ar m.
8:30 as. m.
10:45 as m.
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6:30 p m.
*9:30: p. m.
LEAVE
GALVESTON
8. A. M.
(SPECIAL)
A Four Years’ Agreement Is Signed
And Hours Are Reduced From
Nine to Eight.
Cognac Brandy, per quart ... .$1-75
Johnnie Walker Scotch Whis-
key, per quart.............$1.50
Bond & Lillard, per quart ... .$1.15
FREE DELIVERY
IN BOTTLES, NONE FINER BREWED
We’re Exclusive Galveston Distributors
Liquor Price*
PLUMBER’S LOCAL 200
HOLDS GOOD MEETING
Queen of Nelson, per quart
Cascade, per quart........
Old Saratoga, per quart ...
Private Stock, per quart ..
Green River, per quart ....
Old Forrester, per quart ...
Red Top Rye, per quart ...
Sunny Brook, per quart ....
Jersey Cream, per quart...
Hill & Hill, per quart .....
Clear Rock, per quart.....
Winchester, per quart.....
8-HOUR DAY AVERTS
ANTHRACITE STRIKE
Tickets on Sale
Unien Depot Ticket Cfee
Next to Kress’, 2117 1-2 Market St.
Hoars—-8:30 to 5:30.
FRATERNAL ORDER EAGLES
DALLAS; AND RETURN. ROUND TEIP:.. .$12046
OnSaleMay 14; Limit May 19.,
TEXAS: PHARMACEUTICAL ASGCEATIEN:
SUNSET LIMITED TO CALIFORNIA DAILY 5.30 p, m..
NO EXTRA FARE: ON LIMITED TRAINS.
Shortest ama Quickest Route te al Points West,. Nezth and East.
THE: HUSTEER to Dallas and Pezts North- eases 7:80a.m.
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to a man of known re-
sponsibility.
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EIGHT-HOUR SENTIMENT GROWS
Austin, Texas, May 12—Putrid and
decomposed food in no small quanti-
ties was destroyed by the inspectors of
the state pure food commission during
the past six months, according to a
report issued today. Heading the list
were 45,000 eggs which had grown old
in the service, 9 carloads of canned
goods, 19 barrels of turkeys, 2,000 lbs.
of spoiled meat, 1500 pounds of spoiled
fish and oysters, 2,000 pounds of dried
fruit, prunes, etc., 490 pounds of extra
strong butter, 5,000 gallon© of fig pre-
serves and numerous other contaim-
nated food supplies. In addition 3,500
pounds of adulterated drugs and tab-
lets were destroyed.
Lv- Houston
Congress St. Station
7:50 a. m.
8:00 a. m-
*9:10 aa. m:
*1:30 Ba m.
5:15 p. m.
*8:45 p. m.
“Rooters
New Orleans Columbus Beer
Per Dozen 65c
SUNDAY, MAY 14
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GARMENT WORKERS LOCKED OUT
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BEAUMONT
8 P. NL
(SPECIAD)
New Orleans 4X Beer
Per Dozen 85c
If your teeth need
hours of arduous labor, which have in- qAg A grr fir DAIDAn
creased greatly in recent years on ac- ! WA> t UT 81A s LNU AU
Plumbers local No. 200 held their
regular meeting Thursday night May
4, at the Redman’s hall. The meeting
was called to order at 8 p. m. Presi-
dent Chriss presided, all officers being
present and a very good attendance of
members.
Report of business agent McNally
was received and ordered filed.
One application was received for'
membership.
Report of the delegate to The Texas
State Federation of Labor was receiv-
ed with great satisfaction by this lo-
cal.
Several communications were receiv-
ed and read and ordered filed.
After the regular routine of business
had been transacted the.meeting ad-
journed.
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railroad officials have been given the
free use of these cars, and to illustrate
the extent to which this evil has grown
it is shown that in one instance two
special trains were furnished to the
widow of a former director. The tariff
rate for this service is $3,466. The wife
and daughter of the president of that
company enjoyed in a single year free
transportation in private cars for nine
trips. The tariff rate is $3,577.
Private cars are insisted on by of-
ficials, even though a road is bankrupt
and in need of motive power and other
equipment. Within the last few days
the Clover Leaf railroad, which is in
the hands of the courts ,has been given
permission to purchase a private ear
for Walter L. Ross, receiver, at a cost
of $31,300.
These practices, which are among
the many denounced by the interstate
commerce commission, are compared
by the railroad train service men with
their demand for an eight-hour day.
They say that “more than enough mon-
ey is wasted by inefficient operation
to make up the comparatively small
sum it might cost the roads to better
the working conditions of their em-
ployes.”
Chicago, May 13.—The appellate ■
court has annulled the so-called '"Loeb
rule,” passed’ by the Chicago board of
education, and which prohibits teach-
ers from maintaining a union affiliated
to the American Federation of Labor.
This is the third coart victory won
by the teachers-. When the board adopt-
ed this rule. Judge John M- O’Connor
issued a temporary restraining order.
Later, Judge D. E. Sullivan, after list-
ening to extended arguments, refused
to dissolve the order. The board of
education then- appealed to the appel-
late court, which now sustains the low-
er coutrs in their position that the
board exceeded’ its authority.
“The law in that the board may stip-
ulate for the- amount of training, the
degree of proficiency and the physical
fitness of its teaching employes, but it
cannot provide that its teaching shall
be done only by certain persons, or
classes of persons, members or non-
members of certain societies,”' said the
court.
The board of education, together
with large interests in this eity, have
waged a continued war against the
teachers maintaining a union. The or-
ganized workers have assisted the
teachers to their fullest extent.
Boston, May 12—A. F. of L. Federal
Labor unions of Millinocket, East Mil-
linocket and Madson, Maine, have se-
cured a tnion shop agreement with the
Great Northern Paper company. Wage
increases average about 15 per cent
and the constract will eontinue for 3
years. At a conference between the
Wodland Federal Labor anion and the
St. Croix company wages were in-
creased to about 9 per sent and a
union; shop agreement, to run three
years, was secured.- These contracts
will begin and expire on the same date
as the contracts of the Stationary Fire-
men’s union and the' papermakers’ un-
ions.
Washington, May 13.—While the
senate was consideraing the question
of rural credits, Senator Sheppard said
that a vast and growing number of
American farmers are reduced to such
conditions that they have no land to
offer as security for loans, no means to
acquire land which they might offer
as security for loans of balances due
on purchase, and hardly enough left
after the landlord, the merchant and
the banker are aid from the proceeds
of their crops “to keep body and soul
together until another crop is made.”
The Texas lawmaker quoted figures
to show that tenant farmers are in-
creasing and farm-owning farmers are
decreasing and that less than 6,000,000
families in the United States own their
homes free from incumbrances and
nearly 11,000,000 families live in rent-
ed homes, according to the last census.
He declared that “an aristocracy is
rapidly developing in this country,
I built on the concentrated ownership
of lands and also on the concentration
of other forms of wealth, an aristocra-
cy that riots in unmeasured luxury, an
aristocracy for the most part selfish, ■
indifferent and cruel.”
The speaker referred to the land rec-
ommendations of Secretary of Labor
Wilson as “an epoch-making sugges-
tion.” These provide for the holding
by the government of all public lands
and the acquiring of other lands, to be
used by citizens on long time pay-
ments. This plan also provides for
the development of farmers through
governmental educational agencies.
Senator Sheppard said that the best
preparedness was to make this country
a nation of homes, and he presented an
amendment to the federal constitution
empowering congress “to purchase
land anywhere in the United States,
hold, improve, subdivide and sell the
same, and also to make loans for the
purpose of encouraging and promoting
farm home ownership in the United
States.”
It was shown that the people of Mas-
sachusetts, in November, 1915, amend-
ed their state constitution along sim- :
il ar lines by a three to one vote-
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prises western Pennsylvania, Ohio, In-
diana and Illinois and the rates agreed
to are accepted as a working basis by’
other cstricts:
I. L. A. Local No. 310 held their reg-
ular meeting Tuesday night, May 9 at
their hall. The meeting was called to
order at 8 p. m., President John Dor-
man presiding, all officers present and
a very good attendance of members. ..
Brother Thomas Leach who has been
suffering from two broken arms is re-
ported improving very fast. Brother
Shultz who suffers from two arms and
one leg broken and Brother J. H. Van-
sickle are also improving. Number
of brothers were discharged off the
sick list and other injuries were re-
ported.
A new recording secretary was
elected to take the place of Brother
Thomas Leach who could not attend
to this position on the account of his
injuries, so brother J. H. Black was
elected to this office.
Brother J. H. Black and Brother
James Murray were elected as dele-
gates to the Port Arthur convention.
It was learned that there is a move-
ment on foot to do away with the busi-
ness agent and walking delegate at
the present time due to the scarcity
of the work fer this local.
''By increasing the tonnage moved by
fhe train crew from year to year, the
sralroad increase their revenues enor-
mnously without increasing the expense
o moving the train,
- In'the ? testimony of Daniel Willard,
‘President of the B. & O. Railroad be-
Tore the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission, April 19th, 1914, he makes
statement that the increase in the
Erain load on the B. & O. from 1910 to
11913 resulted in a saving of $4,500,000,
intrain movement expenses.
Ltonly one railroad can save $4,500,-
6000 fey increasing the work of their
Htrain crews, the corresponding saving
fo all the roads in the United States
■amount to a tremendous total.
cAndset, the railway officials inform
us that the granting of an eight-hour
slay would cost the railroads one hun-
eired million dollars. Aside from the-
Fact that this estimate is “a figure of
the. imagination,” it is assumed with-
eut any consideration whatever of the
economics of train operation.
Should not a part of the “saving” to
"which President Willard, refers, go to-
ward bettering the condition of the
train crews whose work makes the
'savings” ?
Railroad officials anticipate that
fireight trains will continue to become
neavier and of greater tonnage.
The employes claim that by all rules
of right and justice, they are entitled
to a shorter workday, as their work be-
comes more and more arduous, taxing
their strength and endurance to the
Tirmt.
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New York, May 13.—The Teachers"
union has voted to affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor. It was
also voted’ to bar from membership'
superintendents, principals' and assist-
ants to principals. Tezchers declare
New York, May 12.—Last Saturday
he Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufactur-
-ers° association of this city struck an-
other blow in its opposition to the La-
dies Garment Workers’ union by lock-
ing out over 30,000 employes.
This union and the manufacturers
entered into an agreement—known as
rthe proctol—September 2, 1910. This
continued until May 20, 1915, when it
-was abrogated by the employers,
■ whose association, the unionists
. charge, has come under control of a
-small -group hostile to the union. In
Tuly, a council of conciliation
"was appointed by Mayor Mitchel and
accepted byoth parties. Wages were
mereased and piece work standardized.
he council’s decision was supposed to
hold for two years, but the action of
he employers has placed it with the
protocol—in the discard.
The employers insist on individual
wargaining. Before the present lock-
dut the employers’ association refused
1o confer with Mayor Mitchel in an
=ffort to adjust the difficulty. Oscar
New York, May 13.— After protract-
ed conferences the United Mine Work-
ers’ union has secured the eight-hour
day, wage increases and other better-
ments for 200,000 miners in the Penn-
sylvania anthracite fields .
A four years’ agreement is signed
and hours are reduced from nine to
eight. While the operators refused to
concede unionization of the mines,
they have acknowledged the union’s
right to organize employes- This, to-
gether with the continued recognition
of the union’s wage committee, indi-
cates the progress made by these
workers in their efforts to have all
miners contribute toward maintaining
the institution that guarantees better
working conditions.
Specific increases in wages range
from 3 per cent for day workers to
7 per cent for contract miners. The
operators estimate that the reduction
of hours is equal to a general increase
of 12 1-2 per cent in wages. On this
basis they figure the gross average
increase in wages at over 15 per cent.
A standard wage rate for machine
miners is in the new agreement. The
rate is not to be lower than- the day
rate for hand mining. Emergency
work rates are increased and there is
a provision for speedier decisions in
grievances by the conciliation beard.
The operators agree that excessive
charges for powder and other supplies
sold to their employes will cease.
The settlement ends the possibility
of an extended coal miners’ strike;
either ir the hard or soft coal fields,
although there may be suspensions of
work in certain soft coal districts dur
ing the adjustment of their wage
scale.
& New York, last March, operators
an representatives from the central
competitive district reached an agree-
ment, This bituminous district com-
now is
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Toronto, Ontario, May 12.—The de-
mand of Canadian unionists for an
eight-hour day is as vigorous as that of
their fellow members in the United
States.
“One of the most gratifying signs of
the time,” says the Industrial Banner
of this city, “is the immense growth
now going on all over the American
continent of sentiment favorably in-
clined towards the struggle of the
workmen for a shorter workday and a
larger proportion of the wealth they
create.
“Never before have the unions
grown so rapidly and never, have they
been so aggressive in the demand for
social advancement and betterment
than today.
Tractive power of locomotives, an in-
crease of 30 percent in the capacity of
freight cars, 29 percent increase in the
umber of freight cars in a train, an
inorease of 23 per cent in the number
ef headed cars in a train, an increase
c 19 tper cent in the tons carried in
the loaded car and a total increase of
47 per cent in the tons carried by the
average freight train.
A statement issued by the Executive
Committee of the Association of West-
ern Railways, April 23rd, 1916, de-
ares that the railroads received in
the year 1890, $1.65 per freight train
ger mile and in 1914 the earnings per
Sfreight train per mile were $3.31 or an
increase of 100 per cent of 1890.
Th© freight train crews are produc-
ing double the revenue for the rail-
ntoads according to this statement by
Che roads themselves.
All this shows that the freight train
crew of the present time is moving a
ffar greater amount of traffic and pro-
ducing a far greater revenue for the
roads than the crew of a few years
ago. A greater amount of tonnage
movement is thus concentrated in
ahf the working hours. It follows
that even with a shorter work day of
sight hours the freight train crew
250-79. Wives and other relatives of
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S. Strauss, who, together with other
citizens, have been striving to avert a
break, made this comment on the em-
ployers’ snub to the city’s executive:
“I cannot understand a body of busi-
ness men, a body of manufacturers,
daring to put themselves in this wrong
position before the community. I
think it should be borne upon them,
and doubtless it will be from this meet-
ing, that they have put themselves in
an indefensible position in declining to
come here and place their grievances,
if they have any, their reasons or ob-
jections, if they have any, before the
public.”
2 THE OWL. Dallas Leaves 9 :30 pe m.
9 "THE LAST TMLEAVE, THE FEEST TO ARRIVE.'
Sunday Servise to Houston
682s
eH# AeFMM,
Rock and Rye, quart .............
Ripple Creek, quart. ............75c
Buchu Gin, per quart ..............
Gordon’s Dry Gin, per quart. .$1.13
Holland Gin, per quart........75c
Devil’s Island Gin, per quart ...78
Apricot Brandy, per quart.........
Scuppernog Win©, per quart .., .50c
Blackberry Wine, per quart ... .35c
Blackberry Brandy, per quart . .90c
Sherry Wine, per quart ........25c
Port Wine, per quart......... .25c
Claret Wine, per quart ........25c
Angelica Wine, per quart ......25c
Vermouth, French . ...............
Vermouth, Italian, quart ..........
Cornet Sloe Gin .............$1.00
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters .... 90c
Columbus Beer, per dozen ..... 65c
4X Beer, per dozen........... .85c
Budweiser Beer, per dozen . . .$1.20
Schlitz Beer, per dozen ......$1-20
FORT WORTH AND RETURN . . . . .$12355
I HOME OWNING FARMERS
DEGREASING IN THE U. S.
view poiti of "sficialom," rather
than that of teachers.
Cleveland, May 13.—“Saving at the
spigot and wasting at the bunghole,”
is the term used by railroad trai nser-
vice employes in their reply to the
managers’ claim that an eight-hour
day for these workers is too costly.
The train service men show that if
the railroads are really sincere in de-
siring to conserve their revenue, they
can save millions of dollars by ceasing
to grant rebates to favored shippers
and refuse to haul private cars free.
While it is commonly supposed that
rebating has been brought to an end,
the employes quote court records and
reports of the interstate commerce
commission to prove the contrary. In
1915 the following roads were convict-
ed and fined a total of $234,000 for re-
bating and unlawful concessions: Cen-
tral Railroad of New Jersey; Chicago
Terre Haute & Southeastern; Grand
Trunk; Louisville & Nashville; Michi-
gan Central; Missouri, Kansas & Tex-
as, and the Sierra railway.
Tables prepared by the interstate
commerce commission show that the
revenue from private cars handled free
during the year 1913 on only 88 roads
would, at tariff rates, amount to $644,-
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