The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LABORDISPATCH, GALVESTON, TEXAS
Saturday, September 16th, 1916
John Pierpont.
JACK M. LEVY
SAM J. LEVY
Church Street, Between 22d and 22d Sts.
Telephone 321
MOVING VANS
2425-2427 Market St., Galveston, Texas
Galveston
210 21st St.
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W. W. DIBRELL
W. H. EUBANK
GALVESTON
Phone No. 712
Room 400 Am. Nati. Ins. Bidg.
A Hetel Built for the Climate
706 23rd St.
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One Year ....
Six Months ..
Three Months
Model Laundry
Dry Cleaners Extraordinary
Phones 78 and 79
Lv. Houston
6:50 a. m.
7:40 a. m.
9:10 a. m.
1:30 p. m.
5:15 p. m.
8:45 p. m,
We Cater to the Particular Man
Elder’s Barber Shop
HOT AND COLD BATHS
Suits Cleaned and Pressed
SAFE PASTEURIZED MILK
Galveston Model Dairy
Lv. Galveston
4:10 a. m.
8:30 a, m.
10:45 a. m.
1:25 p. m.
6:30 p. m.
9:30 p. m.
High Grade
Beer
G. H. & H. R. R.
Sunday Service to Houston
H. Koester
Druggist
Thirty-Third and Avenue H
Galveston, Texas
Everybody is Drinking
Blue Label Coffee
WHY NOT YOU?
Save the Coupons
Sold by all Grocers
$1.50
1.00
.50
So much cannot be said
of all beers used in this
city. Patronize Home in-
dustry and Union Made
Goods at ‘ One Stroke”
LUTHER, The llatter and Cleaner
Ladles' and Gents' Hats Cleaned and
Blocked. Panamas a Specialty.
606 Tremont All Work Given My Personal Attention. Phone 2536
SPECIAL NOTICE
If subscribers do not receive their paper by Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock, kindly phone 409 not later than 5
p. m. and same will be sent by special messenger.
SKARKE’S
Bar-Lunch Room
No. 315-17 20th Street
Phone 4457
Is a Local Product and
every dollar used in
its manufacture is paid
to Galveston
Workmen and the
Galveston Brewery is
100 Per Cent
Union
(No liquor sold or delivered at any place where the
sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors
is prohibited by law.
Ask the Bartender for a Glass of GALVES-
TON BEER, or When in need of your
next Case for home or any
outing, just Ring
710
AND ORDER FROM
Galveston
Brewing
Co.
W. N. FRITTER
FURNITURE and REFRIGERATORS ON EASY PAYMENTS
Household Furniture Bought and Exchanged
Eubank & Dibrell
BUILDING CONTRACTORS
ACCIDENT INSURANCE
M. H. POTTER & CO.
GENERAL AGENTS
J. LEVY & BRO.
LIVERY and SALES STABLES
Undertakers and Licensed Einbaltners
Only Polite and Attentive Drivers Are Employed
Union Men:
SEE US FOR YOUR PRINTING
(Union Throughout)
MULLERPRINTINGCOMPANY
206-208 Tremont Street— Phons 2410
Officers of the California State Federation of
Labor have issued a call for its annual convention,
to be held at Eureka, Cal./beginning October 2. At
a meeting of the federation's executive board it was
agreed that the next legislature be urged to adopt
legislation regulating and limiting the issuance of
injunctions in labor disputes, abolishment of pri-
vate employment bureaus, amendments to work-
men’s compensaton act so as to guarantee payment
| of compensation after same becomes due.
Any erroneous reflection upon the standing, charac-
ter, or reputation of any person, firm or corporation,
which may appear in the columns of The Labor Dispatch,
will be gladly corrected upon it being brought to the at-
tention of the management.
More than 300 employes’of the Federal Govern-
ment have organized a union to be associated with
the American Federation of Labor. Its purpose, as
announced, is to unite all employes of the govern-
ment for the improvement of ’the government ser-
vice. Members of this union promised not to en-
gage in strikes.
Subscribers who change their address, or fail to get
their paper regularly, should immediately notify this of-
fice, giving both old and new addresses.
More than 1,200 children of Pennsylvania have
been spared the humiliation of seeking charity, since
the workmen’s compensation law became effective
on January 1, and with their mothers and other wo-
men relatives, have been benefited to the extent of
$1,800,00. Besides these benefits, the law has pro-
vided efficient medical attention for nearly 150,000
bread winners who have sufferd because of indus-
trial accidents. It is claimed that fatality cases are
steeled .on an average within eleven days after the
widow files her claim for compensation.
We have at all time a camplete line of Banks.
Stationery, Pictures Magazines and Gleba
Warnicke Bookcases. We are agents for Eastman
Kodaks and Supplies. Let as devalop and print
your Kodak Films. We make yeu beautiful
enlargements from an ordinary kodak film.
PURDY’S Book Store
2217 Market St.
GUNTER HO’TEL
Snn Antonio, Texms
Absolutely Fire-Proof, Modern Throughout--European-Summer Rates
$1.00 to $3.00 Per Day
Percy Tyrell, Manager a
UNION SHOP
SCHROTH V
Phone 755
4 Seasons Restaurant
JOHN KRAL, Proprietor
Specialty of Fish and Oysters
Prices Very Reasonably
AU Cars in lira City Pass the deer
Phone 573
312 Center St. Galveston
The Smith-Higgins bill, which provides for vo-
cational education and industrial training, and
which has been continually urged by the American
Federation of Labor, has been passed by the Sen-
ate. This legislation, known in the house as the
Hughes bill, has been approved by the committee
on education and is now. on the house calendar. Un-
der this bill, the federal government will pay an
amount equal to that expended by States for edu-
cation designed to prepare boys and girls over 14
years of age for useful and profitable employment
in agriculture, in the trades and industries and in
home economics, and to extend knowledge of ma-
ture workers. Only schools controlled by the pub-
lic are eligible to federal assistance. The bill was
prepared largely through the work of a commission
on national aid to vocational education, created by
act of Congress and approved by the President,
January, 1911. While little publicity has been given
this legislation, it involves the expenditure of large
sums in the matter of salaries for teachers, direc-
tors, etc.
MOORE & GOODMAN
Lumber and Mill Work, Lat's. Shingles and Mouldings
29 and 30 Church and Winnie St. Telephone 166
Crystal Ice Cream
Parlor
Soda Water, Ica Cream, Ices, Home
made Candies
H. L. CHAPMAN, Prop.
418 Tremont St. Telephone 3463
A Pittsburg chimney worker played a 10,000 to
1 shot when he dropped a quarter into a slot in the
Erie Railroad station at Youngstown, Ohio, and
got a $2,500 accident insurance policy, liability lim-
ited to twenty-four hours. His estate won, for he
was killed within fifteen hours of taking out the
policy. He was on his way at the time to repair a
chimney and went to work an hour afterwards.
While inside the chimney it collapsed on him, crush-
ing him to death. Relatives found the policy, in his
clothes, date time stamped 12.01 a. m. July 14. Af-
ter investigations, it was presented to the insurance
company for payment. The company, after another
investigation, decided to pay the full amount.
Entered as second-class mail matter September 21,
1913, at Postoffice in Galveston, Tex., under Act of
March, 1879.
H. E. Malitz
Plumbing and Gas Fitting
Automatic Heaters & Soda
Fountain! A Specialty
Phone 4881 3923 Ave. O.
$LNBELCOHILp
The trade union movement aims directly at fun-
damental results. Its purpose is to secure for wage
earners those things which ahe essential to freedom,
which give them the means of taking advantage of
opportunities and enable them to live in accord with
the higher standards that they mad conceive. The
trade union movement not only points the way to
higher ideals, but it makes possible their realization.
It is a practical movement that knows no limitation.
It expresses a fundamental organic force which cam
be untilized by the workers for any purpose that
they may thing necessary to their common welfare. ,
The effectiveness of the movement is demon-
strated by its concrete results. No additional ar-
gument is necessary as a demonstration of its claims
than the reports that have recently been made by
various organizations showing their achievements
during the past twelve months.
Phone 984
A
Che Labor /Pispatch
(Formerly the Galveston Labor Dispatch)
According to Geo. L. Tirrell, director of the Bu-
reau of Standards of New York City, who has just
prepared an exhaustive study of proposed standard
specifications covering duties, titles, compensation
and qualifications of city employes, an unskilled la-
borer’s family of five persons can not maintain a
standard of living consistent with American ideas
on wages that fall below $840.00 a year. Employes
of the municipal street cleaning department have
protested against the finding of Director Tirrell that
a laborer can support a family of live on $840.00 a
year. The employes say: “For instance, Mr. Tir-
rell claims that a husband’s feed per day should not
exceed 27 cents, a wife's food 21 cents, a boy of
thirteen years, 2 1 cents, a girl of ten years 16 cents,
and so on. He also states that Dr. Robert Colt
Chapin’s book on “Standard of Living” says that
one overcoat for $5.00 should last three years and
that a suit for $8.00 should last three years. Theo-
retically, it sounds very good, but we would ask
Dr. Chapin and Director Tirrell to practice this
scale for three years, and then give their earnest
statement whether it is possible to exist on this
scale.”
A weapon that comes down as still
As snow-Rakes tall upon the sodf
But executes a free man’s will
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force, nor doors nor locks,
can shield you—’tis the ballot box.
AFTER THE FIRST $20.00 SAVED Easier
Energy and ambition may be the power that ultimately create the big
industry, but there must be something before that for a foundation.
It is ordinarily called getting a start—it is simply making the first sav-
ing by denying yourself something you do not actually need. Saving
can be cultivated into a habit-WE PAY FOUR PER CENT.
The Bank of Satisfactory Service
Texas Bank & Trust Co. Market St. at 22nd
Entitled to patronge of organized labor
Union Bakery
3 Loves for 10c
Texas Star Bakery
23rd and Winnie L. S. Giusti Prop
When the land question was under consideration
in the British Parliament, which consisted whooly
of land owners, John Bright thus characterized the
situation, “We are now in the parliament of the
cats making laws for the mice.” The same charac-
terization applies exactly to the solution which Mr.,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has worked out for the
labor problem. The industrial war which existed
for months in the mines of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company stirred the conscience of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., who felt compelled to do something
“to better the situation in Colorado.” He had pub-
licly announced that he preferred to lose every cent
he had invested in Colorado rather than recognize
the union and permit the miners to establish better
conditions in accord with their own ideals.
As Mr. Rockefeller would not recant has was
compelled to devise a new system. He secured the
advice of professional humanitarians and then ad-
vertised that he had “solved the labor problem and
would establish industrial democracy. His plan
' provides for a maze of committees each of which
are assigned to deal with some matter that affects
conditions of work. The miners are to “elect” rep-
resentatives to serve on these committees. The com-
mittees meet with the representatives of the com-
pany and consider all "grievances" that shall refer
to them. An appeal may be taken from the desision
of the committee and may be carried through a suc-
cession of committees. An “adjustment” may
come after many committees and many months.
Superficially the plan provides for the adjustment
of any complaint or misunderstanding that may
arise. It provides everything for the workers ex-
cept that which is essential for influence in indus-
trial affairs......power.
Like the parliament of cats making law for the
mice, Mr. John D. Rockefeller and his advisers have
formulated a solution that protects employers. He
presumes to say that the miners can secure justice
and solve their problems without the power, and he
pretends they can do this in dealing with the com-
pany, that is, backed by all the power of 26 Broad-
way. But the elaborate machinery of the Rocke-
feller labor solution (the cats) can not any longer
deceive the mice. Already the report comes that
the miners of Colorado want real unions......organi- ;
zations affiliated to the United Mine Workers of
America. A trade union like any other organic in-
stitution must be the result of natural growth. An
artificial substitute, even though labeled “just as
good” by the Rockefeller Publicity Department, will
not replace the trade union organization that is the
outgrowth of years of experience and a response to
human needs.
AmericanrAncsidg. Phone 5324
Nothing that the President of the United States
has done has met with such general approval as his
laying aside the critical affairs of state to go to the
Capitol to make personal protest against the pro-
gram which omitted the Keating-Owen bill from
the list of legislation to be enacted at this session of
Congress.
Little helpless children, forced to stunt their
minds and bodies by factory toil, appeal to all hearts
and consciences. Deep and worth as is the senti-
ment associated with this measure, there is some-
thing more than sentiment involved. It is funda-
mentally a problem of race conservation. The pro-
gress of our nation is conditioned by the physical
and mental development and health of those who
shall be the next generation—the children of today
are the men and women of tomorrow. Their weak-
ness and the burden of perverted development will
be transmitted to their descendants. There is no
escape from the cruelty, the ignorance, the careless-
ness or cupidity of those responsible for child labor.
Child labor means arrested development and mal-
formation of the soft young bones and muscles of
tender child bodies. It means limited mental and
emotional horizons; it means unnecessarily dwarfed
restricted power to enjoy and to live.
The states alone seemed unable to abolish the in-
humanity practiced under child law. The federal
government cooperating with the states is the only
power that can destroy this barbarous institution
and save the boys and the girls of our country.
States that have enacted legislation restricting and
regulating the labor of minors have no protection
against low standards and careless administration
in other states.
The child labor crime is of national concern. The
national government has the right to bar the pro-
ducts of child labor from interstate commerce. The
bill provides:
“That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall
ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign
commerce any article or commodity the product of
any mine or quarry situated in the United States,
in which within thirty days prior to the time of the
removal of such product therefrom children under
the age of sixteen years have been employed or per-
mitted to work, or any article or commodity the
product of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or
manufacturing establishment, situated in the United
States, in which within thirty days prior to the re-
moval of such product therefrom children under the
age of fourteen years have been employed, or per-
mitted to work, or children between the ages of
fourteen years and sixteen years have been employed
or permitted to work more than eight hours in any
day, or more than six days in any week, or after the
hour of 7 o’clock post meridian, or before the hour
of 6 o’clock ante meridian.” •
A few Senators interposed oppostion principally
upon the ground of constiutionality. Whether the
child labor law may be held legally constitutional is
not the potential consideration. Child labor is mor-
ally wrong, economically improvident andnationally
unwise. And a lew enacted by the United States
Congress and signed by the President solemnly so
declaring can ont be disregarded.
The nation demands limitations or abolition of
child labor. If the courts shall hold that the consti-
tution interferes with this purpose then the consti-
tution must and will be changed.
For years the organized labor movement has de-
monded the enactment of state and federal laws
abolishing child labor. The workers were the first
to call attention to the wrong of child labor. They
knew, for as children they were denied the right to
childhood and compelled to become wage earners.
They have seen their children denied the heritage
of free girls and boys and they know the conse-
quences they will bear until the end of life.
Many states now have child labor laws. The
Keating-Owen bill has passed the United States
Senate The wage-earners of the country demand
that it be made law at this session of Congress. It
will secure to their children and all succeeding gen-
erations the right to opportunities for full mental
and physical growth.
The child labor bill is one of the two demands in
Labor’s Bill of Brievances that have not yet been
enacted into law. Workers, for the sake of your
children and your country, exert every influence to
have this bill speedily made law. Teh purpose of
the bill is necessary, wise and a fundamental step
for true national development and preparedness to
more fully meet and overcome the obstacles and
problems of the future.
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THROUGH TRAINS
NO STOPS.
A ROUND A
P- TRIP
Trains leave Congress St
Station at 9:10 a. m. 1:30 and
8:45 p. m. Leave Grand Central
Sta. 10 minutes earlier.
James B. and
Charles J. Stubbs
LAWYERS
312 22nd St. Galveston, Texas
Ice Boxes Refrigerators and
McDougall Kitchen Cabinets
All kinds of Household Goods, Trunks
Suit Cases and Bass
Kerpel's Furniture Store
Moving Wagons and Storage Rooms
Phone 911 21st and Postoffice
J. W. YOUNG Editor and Publisher.
Office 312 Tremont Street Phone 409.
Marsene Johnson Elmo Johnson
Roy Johnson
LAW OFFICE OF
.arsene Johnson
General Practice Civil and Crimina
0th and Market St. Phone 780
Notice to the Public!
We are now back in our old quarters on Market St.
and we are now better able to handle your business
Savings Account* South Texas State Bank
PHONE 1146 STORAGE ROOMS
F. P. MALLOY & SON
(Livaryand Bearding Stables)—Licensed Undertakers and Embalmers
The “White Flyer” Ambulance is Always Ready
Cor. 24th and BUAAE9H
Pesteffice Sts ■ •M • •M E 44- Galveston, Texas
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Young, J. W. The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1916, newspaper, September 16, 1916; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1447735/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.