The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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enough to fight fur what he believes.
only natural that military men, upon
It he can't fight with me 1 want him of steel is obviousiy determined prac-
bilities for ending
whom the.
war must fall. desire to have adequate
They also
If this demand could be once es-
believe that preparedness is the best
and a
BE CAPTAINS OF THE ROAD
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
CIVILIANS START WARS
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Senator Holt
Hits American
Liberty Leaguers
The Street Bailway Company in Dallas
has invested the above amount in its facil-
ities for serving the public. From the
standpoint of the owners it has not proved
to be a profitable venture, but the City as a
whole has through the years reaped the full
benefits of an adequate and responsible
mass transportation service.
set in his
you are.
We believe the service of this Company
merits a large measure of patronage of peo-
pie from all walks of life. •
says what
•n you do.
eats some-
toadying;
acts that
do it, it is
y to our-
which we
bore. But
udging the
iother per-
gine our
w many of
as make a
ffort to bo
other fel-
the American Liberty League is wag-
ing a united attack on every law en-
acted by the Congresa of the United
States during the last three years in
the interest of a larger degree at eco-
nomic rights and social justice for the
masses of the American people
part of other nations.
It may be that military authorities
for
long distance
telephone calls
it is a sign of character and wisdom,
and the ability to be foresighted and
obhging.
The sea captain doesn’t unnecessar-
Danville,
Ishing l-
mother’s
my tath-
a born at
ter"’ state
why fish-
recting their purchasing
stimulate the production
made articles.
Solidarity in the use of
picks a
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REDUCED
PERSON-TO-PERSON
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most that decisions for war are madeb
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ed labor has been en ployed or will be personnel and equipment with which
employed, the effec is to create a de- to combat the enemy' when their civil-
mand for such lab- , ian masters say the word
if
automobile drivers wilfully risk their
own lives as well as the lives of oth-
trade, and when mem bens of organised
labor imeist in the demand that goods
or service bear evide nce that organiz-
- - Sometimes recommend a greater ex
greater variety of products would be penditure for war department than is
available from which to make selec- necemary. but they do not advocate
tions. war Hseif.
aster through gross carelessness
Courtesy is not a sign ot weakness;
$OUTMWESTERN BILL
TIlfPMONI COMPANY
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— to the national guard o Ma state.
The demand for union-mada Brod- The general', nema rk was intended
ucte as symbolized by the unio? label, to be a refutation of the often repeat-
merchants and emp oyers to see that
tablished in a widespread form it means for averting aggressions on the
would be proportionately easier to get '---- -* - ---
takes his
in you do.
Civilians start wars soldiers stop
to fight against me
"These politicians wait to see what
is happening before they decide which
side of the fence to go on.
"I have taken my side—I have taken
it with labor, and I intend to go down
the line with. IL
“If I must go down to defeat I will
go down because I believe in the idea
that the men who toil in this country
should be represented in the national
legislative bodies of our country
We talk about labor and the dan-
gers of labor.
“We have tried the ’old dealers,' the
mossbacks, the Tories, the coupon
clippers, and they gave us fifteen mil-
lion unemployed, thousands of closed
banks, hundreds of destroyed mer-
aid another vessel in distress. But
power to
of union-
“If I live my span of lie, which
means 40 years more, I will continue
to battle for the men who toil in the
mills, mines and factories of this
country."
substituted the idea of being courag-ot capacity. Raflroads and utilities I subtle form.
ooue “ are buying more of the essential By the laws of business the mer-
"I admire a man who is courageous metal, as are machine-tool makers and chant will supply th. demands of the
terious as
mind. A
iuses gen-
a little
ts. Some-
ve been
ve led to
examples
it is noteworthy that quantity and
quality of union-made products ex-
pand with steady and increasing de-
mand, and members of organized la-
bor can each contribute substantially
to the organization campaign by di-
union labor was employed
going back, we are going forward
toward a better day. «
- - chants, and the worst depression this
Th. real signiricance of this com- country has ever had. and we are not
bination of subversive interests was
By A. F. of L. News Service.
The motley collection of anti-labor
political, industrial, legal, financial
and economic subversives known as
There is an unwritten law of the sea
that is followed religiously—namely,
the desire to save Hfe Why can't we
have the same high purpose on land?
Such voluntary action is always
based on necessity. Life-saving in au-
tomobile traffic is now as important
A
as life-saving in sea traffic Such
rules as the tollowing, adhered to with
sincerity, would save life a hundred-
fold
1. Before making a turn, get in traf-
fic lane nearest desired direction.
2. The rear vision mirror is for
something besides looking for traffic
officers—watch cars behind you.
3. Never take chances in passing
and do not crowd the right-of-way.
pointedly set forth by Senator Rush
D. Holt of West Virginia in an address
before the 1935 convention of the
American Federation of Labor.
The convention adopted a resolution
describing the Lawyers’ Committee of
the League which gave an opinion
farm implement companies. Future
stamp or shop card is one of the ways ed charge that military men are the
that members of organized labor and cause of wars He also said, ’‘No
their friends and sympatizers may soldier wants war. byt it Is Coolhardy
IMK etfectivly in promoting the to think at dtpbandink our torces and
Ipeemerereapdeuugg
Says Consutution Must Proteet the
Masses Instead of Being Turned
Into an Instrument for Their Op-
pression by Industrial and Political
Tories.
chasing power is as vital as solidarity
in a strike or a wage or hour demand.
It is a matter of cooperation, and
the worker unwilling to assist other
workers by helping to give them em-
ployment and who is insistent that he
receive union wages and conditions is
only a half-developed union member.
holding the National Labor Relations
Act unconstitutional as a group con-
sisting of “corporation lawyers who
have repeatedly sought to nulify
measures which do not meet with the i
approval of their clients,“ and de-1
clared that “their opinion is therefore
the expression of their clients’ oppo-
sition to the measure and not the un-
baised opinion of lawyers interested in
a consideration of the actual consti-
tutional validity of the Act.”
Here is what Senator Holt told the
convention regarding the reactionary
and anti-labor elements of which the
ers flor no good reason at all; it
doesn’t make sense
if ordinary rules of common sense
tically 100 per cent by the future of
general industry particularly heavy
industry.
MOTORS: This is the off season
lor the car makers, mainly because of
weather Even so, January was much
better than the month has been for a
number of years Rumors of ambi-
tious plans for 1937 cars are leaking
out, and many car makers are plan-
ning extensive and expensive retool-
ing programs. Used cars, with which
all markets are glutted, constitute one
of the Industry's annoying problems.
It is forecast that makers may carry
on a campaign to rid the highways of
“wrecks,” paying dealers bonuses for
old cars that are completely junked
Political events, of course, can cause
drastic changes in businese condi-
tions and a general election is always
unsettling However, more and more
of the commentators are saying that
1936 ' may disprove the old—and not
always true—saying that an election
year must be a bad business year
THE DALL-S CRAFT<MAN
Nothing startling has occurred in
the business world of late. No im-
portant industry has made great gains
as yet this year—none has experi
enced severe retrogression from the
levels attained at the end of 1935
That fact has caused business com-
mentators to feel considerable opti-
mism. They are beginning to figure
that the “visible" future will not be
marred by major swings either up-
ward or downward, and that industry
as a whole is on a relative!/ even
keel, and may look ahead to hew but
I Twelve Million Dollars
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ton Central Labor I s ion. . himself, besides devoting much time'
ican industry. . The mogt accurate*. in-
dustrial ba rometers place busimess at i
around. 75 per corn of .“normal"—nor- I
mal, in most cases, being- established I
as the average for years such as *23, I
24 and ’25, when business was good, I
but not spectacularly so j
Business Week has reported that I
c onfidence in the next few months' I
improvement continues strong.** This I
is largely due to the appearance of I
earnings reports from many impor- l
tant industries. These reports are I
uniformly better than were anticipat- l
ed—company after company which I
had broken even or suffered kossses for I
five years, is now in the black a gam l
Companies which discontinued divi-
dends have resumed them, and others a
which cut dividends have increased II
them. g
Some specific business Hems. taken I
from various authoritative sources, !|
follow: B
CONSTRUCTION: During January, I
heavy construction totaled almost 8
$290,000,000 as compared with $150,-
000,000 in January. 1935. Publfeduild- ■
ing still dominates the construction 11
picture, but more and more private IB
projects are coming to light. J
TEXTILES: Wool prices continue | ■
the rise started last year, with sales 18
gocd. It is said that stocks are low,
and that heavy importing is imminent B
UTILITIES: Electric power demand m
is increasing beyond expectations, I■
cauing many companies to increase 1“
and revamp construction budgets The I
industry has announced it will spend I
about $400,000,000 for capital im- j E
provement this year—some think that #
figure is low and will be increased m
STEEL: is operating at 50 per cent i
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Long distance telephone rates
are now reduced M Follows:
1. Person-to-person rates are
now reduced after 7 every
night. (Heretolore, only
station-to-station rates were
lower at night.)
2. The ow "night" rates are
in effect all day Sunday on
both station -to station and
person-to-person calls
The reductions apply on cells
to points more than 100 miles
distant, and to many shorter
calk.The Long Distance oper-
ator will be glad to give you
the rate now in effect to any
point
4. Learn the feel of the car on the
• road, like the captain does his ship
Study the action of the car on the dry
। | pavement. wet pavement, gravel road
and icy road Even the highest abil-
’ ity is Dot one hundred per cent perfect
in driving.
5 Take driving seriously. you are.
probably na smart er than the last per- ’
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Uy take chances when they can be and courtesy were followed in driving
avoided, but he willingly risks his life (unwritten lawn), accidents would be
and hie ship to prevent an accident or I caused only by freak circumstances.
Dallas Railway & Terminal Co.
yeumgenuacatenmou
League is composed:
"‘I noticed the other day that 58
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1 sion - of ( ongres were unconsitu-
jonJ. ’ You know what Thomhas Jef-
ferson said about the lawyers. He
said this country was settled by labor-
ers, not by lawyers. Anyway, when-
ever you get 58 lawyers to agree on
anything you had better be careful of
them.
‘nconstitutional to Feed the People
"These great constitution lawyers
are the same people who said it was
unconstitutional to feed people, to
keep them from starving to death in
this country. My friends, they have
forgotten the Constitution for 40 years
and now they are awakening because
they say we must go back to the Con-
stitution.
-"I say the interpretation of the
American Constitution should be such
that the American people can five,
and that is what the American Con-
stitution was framed for by the found-
ers of this country.
"These Constitutionalists, these Lib-
erty Leaguers, we are not afraid of
them because we knowi they are on
the way out, and they are on the way
out fast. But, my friends, they are
making quite a little bit of noise.
Collective Bargaining Upheld
“A whole lot of those jurists have
been mentally dead for 20 years and
do not know it They may be alive
and still walking and still holding
their place upon the bench in Amer- '
ica, but the head up here has been
dead long before t^e ecomomic theory
of the paat.was dead. de - — -ai-
“But today I say it has been chang- ,
ed. and we are not fearful that we are ,
trying to cause reaction. You know
these Tories, these mossbacks are ,
dead, the American people are awake, ,
and they are awake to the principle of
the American laboring man having a
right to bargain collectively and go
down the line for collective bargain-
ing.
“I have always believed in collect-
ive bargaining, because I have seen
these so-called Liberty Leaguers meet
at the hotels and determine their
course of action That is -within the
Constitution, but when the people
who toil in America get together and
hand themselves for the common good,
then the Constitution is in danger in
this country.
Labor and the Constitution
“I am not afraid of the American
Constitution in the hands of the
American Federation of Labor and
the laboring men of this country.
They think more of the Constitution
than the Liberty League ever thought
of it They think about the people,
and the American people are not
afraid of the American labor move-
ment and the destruction d theGn-
stitution.
"Oh, yes. let us go back to the good
old days in West Virginia when men
who believed in collective bargaining
were met by Baldwin-Fels thugs and
beaten over the head and told to ~O
back and mind their own business.
“Whenever a man came in to or-
ganise the labor movement in our
State in certain sections, he was met
at the train and asked what his busi-
Dees was, and if they' thought his
business was at all dangerous they
said, "The next train is leaving in a
few minutes,' and if he did not leave
en the next train he was on the way
out by some other means and some
other method. Maybe that is going
back to the Constitution that they
talk about.
“Liberty to Starve to Death”
“They say we have taken the liberty
away from the people. What liberty
have the American people lost in re-
cent years since the forward move-
ment of organised labor has come?
“The liberty they have lost and
that the Liberty League wants you to
get back is the liberty to starve to
death. But we are not going bcak-
wards; we are going forward toward
a better and a bigger day for organis-
ed labor, and for all the crafts and all
the unions.
“I have dealt with them and I have
to say that in four years in the Legis-
lature of West Virginia and in my
short time in the United States Sen-
ate, I have never bad an unfair de-
mand or an unfair move made by
those who sponsored your movement
in Washington and in Charleston, W
Va. But I have been asked, and I
have seen these so-called lobbyists for
the industrialists manipulated
Congressional Puppet Period is
Ended
“In the past. Congress used to be
like a puppet show. Those men in
Congress were puppets and they
danced and sang and talked jnst like
they were rel, just like they were
human beings, but back behind the
scenes we saw someone pulling the
strings and we saw those behind the
screen making the puppets in the na-
tional legislative body sing, dance and
talk.
“That day has also gone, and in the
place of this puppet business we have
steady ret1 overy. - yassst euvcuveiy id promoung
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as 1935 was.the beet year to date suits in the least %xpensive and i
singe depression got its hold 04 Ameri
civilian officers of governments. Ths
armies and navies only come Into the
I picture after war is declared. It is
set forth
connection
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