The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 7, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
■clean, conservative, independent,
non-partisan newspaper for
the borne.
Published weekly by the
LABOR UNIT PUBLISHING CO.
(Incorporated.)
HowartM1 easier V.V.V Sec-Tn*s.
436 Bassett Bldg.
Enli'red at the Oklahoma City. Ok-
lahoma, l'ostofflce, as tecond class
mall under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION
(Payable In advance.)
One year *'
Six months
Three months
Regular contract and flat rates for ad-
vertising on application.
far as lies in Its power, the practice , n||C|WCCC PftNPFRN^
ot an enterprise that tends rather So DUoiniLM L/UlltlLIXlliJ
degenerate than to exalt.
Buy from the home merchant. Keep |
jour money at home. Have a better
home and a better state.
<T^EslffiJcOU^
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909.
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PATRONAGE.
The merchant who docs not
advertise at all may or may not
be your friend, fellow worker,
but It is a foregone conclusion
that he who liberally patronizes
the columns of all other papers
and refuset to advertise In your
paper, is not looking for the
working man's patronage, does
not wish It, and is not deslr-
frous of your friendship.
You will find those who ad-
vertise in these columns are
worthy of your every consider-
ation, for we thall use every
precaution to protect your In-
terests.
When you patronize the man
who advertises In your paper
see that he knows whero you
saw the advertisement You will
tlnd this a benefit to you as
well as to the paper.
FOR THE UNION MAN WHO DOES (
NOT CARE.
We are aware that the Good Bf.olt j
says that one should love his enemies
and do good to those who persecute I
him. but we do not believe that this j
rpplles to the cause of Unionism. We ;
are Inclined, however, to believe that
tome members of labor organizations
work overtime In carrying out the in- j
structions of our good Master; for
from observation we find the fellow
with a union card In his pocket "who j
does not care," patronizing those
whom we term as enemies by pur-
chasing every article he uses, regard-
less of the union label. So for his
benefit we want to call to his mind
that in the spending of his money
earned under union conditions he
must see that, for Instance, his hat Is
produced by poorly paid labor. Don't
demand the label, It would be only n
small help to the craft that has been
struggling for months for the very ex-
istence or their organization and they
should not count in your mind.
Don't call for the label on your
shoes. Buy them without that brand
of honesty and nsslst the enemies of
labor In defeating the organizations of
shoe workers.
Don't buy clothing with the label ol
the Garment Workers Union at
tached, you might help by doing so, to
destroy the long hours of toil under
the terrible conditions <>r the sweat
bhop system.
Don't smoke label cigars, for In <ln-
ing so you might Injure one of tho
most tyrannical and destructive of Ml
trusts, the American Tobacco Co.
Don't patronize your home mer-
chant, but send your mono away to
the shyster mall order" houses where
you are sure to obtain prison made,
foreign and child-labor goods.
Don't. In tact do anything that will
help to upbuild the other crafts that
are fighting for higher wages and a
bettered condition and depending upon
you as a representative of organized
labor to give your supoprt by demand-
ing the label; but be what you are. a
selfish, narrow-minded fellow who
cares not for others, (but for self
alone.
FAVORABLE TO
ORGANIZED LABOR
KNIGHT, BECK £ CO.
The Home of Union Cloth'ng, Fur
nishing and Shoes.
11 Main 8treet.
CAFES.
ROGERS' CAFE A. LUNCH ROOM.'
An ideal place for ladies and gentle-
men. 17 N. Broadway. C. G. Rogers,
Prop.
LARIMORE HARDWARE CO.
Corner Grand and Broadway.
Garden Hose and Lawn Mowers.
Phone 1470.
UKY GOODS FIRMP.
KERR DRY GOODS CO INC.
2/6-228 W. Main.
THE MANHATTAN CIGAR CO.
N. W. Cor. rGand & Bdwy.
Chas. Fredrlcks, Mgr. City.
BAUM'S
Ladies' Garments Exclusively.
THE MELLON CO.
Importers and Retailers Fine Dry
Goods and Accessories. The store
of Quality, Fashion and Moderate
Price.
N. S. SHERMAN,
Machine and Iron Works, Engineers,
Founders, Machinists,
18-36 East Main Ct.
THE BARTELDES SEED CO.
Oklahoma Seed House.
Office and Warehouse
627 and 629 West Main St.
BRC£9WAY THEATER
■0. 5, N. BROADWAY
HOME OF THE CAMERAPHONE
DRY COOD5 CO.
THE HERSKOWITZ STORE
High Class Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats,
Shoes and Ready-to-Wear
Goods for Ladies and
Children. .,
Croner Broadway and Grand Ave.
ROSENTHAL 4 HARRIS
Will furnish your home a little better
and a little cheaper.
218-220 N. Bwy. Phone 1550.
The only real Talking and Singing Pictures. Program
changed Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. . Special feature*
at every show. For a limited time admission C PTC
Coolest theater in town, two rear exits. V V ■ w
BROADWAY THEATER
R. H. DRENNAN,
Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash Doors,
Mouldings, Lime and Cement.
100 East Main St. Phone Main 182.
For the Best Tea and Coffee,
PHONE MAIN 10.
ORIENTAL TEA CO.
No. 311 N. Robinson.
41 I I I > +ll IIMIIHI ++■
H-+++++++++++++++++++-H
THE LION STORE,
The Sunlight Store. The Coolest
Store and the Store that Saves
You Money.
Broadway and Grand.
MILLER TRUNK MFG. CO.
130 W. Grand.
Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases, Leather
Goods ana Repairing.
BOASEN BROTHERS.
Jewelers aid Opticians.
133 Main St.
Watch and Jewelry repairing a spe-
cialty.
THE B.'&M. ONE-PRICE CLOTHING
HOUSE. t
214 and 216 West Main St.
THREE BIG FLOORS.
We handle a full line straight Gas,
Combination and Electric Fixtures.
THE INCANDESCENT LIHGT &
SUPPLY CO.
23 So. Robinson. Phone 3120.
DRUG STORES.
You can always
iWt CUtstfaCCs
Largest and most complete drug
Stock in southwest. Phones PBX 77.
SPIVEY AND McGILL
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
Before buying Furniture or Stoves
get our prices.
Phone Red 1624 16-18 S. arvey.
BUY AT HOME.
Today parasites are feasting upon
almost every phase of commercial en
terprlse, not the least of which is the
mail-order sycophant. Feeding fat. and
rolling in luxury, these Indiscriminate
concerns lay deep their cunning
schemes to prey upon the ignorant.
They advertise, demonstrate and even
ally themselves socially; often figur-
ing prominently in religious and edu-
cational affairs of a certain commu-
nity at brief intervals to tne end that
they may obtain public confidence and
if pay the same by imposing upon
them with an inferior grade of mer-
chandise through the disguise of a
mail-order clonk.
P. T. Barnum once said the Ameri-
can people liked to be humbugged.
Perhaps this Is true, nut patience
and good-humor generally are exhaus-
ted simultaneously; especially so
when the novelty has lost its fascina-
tion. Mall-order liumbuggery haj
been thoroughly tested and la now
generally appreciated, apprehehnslve
of Its virtues. It Is a fact, recognized
by the vast majority of a thinking pop-
ulace, that this mercantile bush-
whacking will not brave the test of
time.
Its purpose, to enrich a few, at the |
expense of the many who must yet
pay tuition through the school or ex-
perience, will not thrive in a land
where conservatism, reliability and
honesty are so clearly the only suc-
cessful characteristics of an enter-
prise with future possibilities.
"There are tricks in all trades," and
who that have come Into contact with
the "mail-ordealist" has been unable
ic perceive this trick or two? Is It
not a trick to decry the values of the
home merchant? Is It not a despic-
able practice to question the Integrity j
of an enterprise that Is paying its pro .
rata of the expenses of the county and
the state in which you live? Isn't this j
a rather unusual argument In behalf:
of their merchandise which they In- ■
variably state is second-to-none?
Kven if it wete possible (and It is
proven beyond a doubt that it is not)
for the public to enjoy a profit by pat-
ronizing mail-order houses. It would
he, to say the least, poor business
Judgment. You are sending youf j
money beyond recall, and robbing the
ft ate of its own righteous prosper-
ity. You are neglecting the opportu-
nity of education that can only be ob-
tained through the loyalty you extend
to the state In which you live. You
are dwarfing the possibility of the
future and quenching the flame of self
sustaining citizenship. :
To sell cheap the manufacturing of
their worthless merchandise Is neces-
sarily cheap. Therefore exists tU'
most revolting feature of modern-day
manufacturing. Sweat-shop, foreign
and child labor play the title role in
this gigantic swindle. These condi-
tions are unworthy the protection of
our laws, of our patronage or encour-
agement. And in this light organized
labor wishes to be recognized as an
institution that will discourage, as
PERSONAL FREEDOM.
The very great interest that has
been manifested by the trade union-
ists of our country and by fair-minded
men and women who sympathize wSh
all practical and substantial efforts for
human uplift retarding the injunction
proceedings of the Buck s Stove and
Range company against the officers of
the American Federation of I>abor pre-
sages results tht in the end are to be
beneficial to all Americans. The riglii
to exercise free speech and the right
to publish a free and untrammeled
press are personally dear to all men
and women who have any conception
of the hardships and the battles that
were fought to found this great repub-
lic. The history of the effort to se-
ure these things runs back through
the centuries, particularly 111 Great
Britain more than any other country.
And because of the restrictions along
(hose lines, the bleak and barren
shores of New England and the At-
lantic coast were settled by pioneers
determined that their God-given lights
on these principles should be respect-
ed. And they faced with grim deter-
mination anything and everything that
they might have to bear in order to
firmly establish these rights upon ®< a |
continent. Anyone that will read
American history can have no doubt
as to what the contention of file
wrltersof our constitution was upon
these subjects. Only within compara-
tively recent years has there been any
mateerial attempt by the courts to In
BOSTON WILSON,
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Win-
dow Glass and Wall Paper.
111 Main St.
PARMENTER'S PHARMACY
Prescriptons.
Phone 3817. 10 N. Broadway,
THE SCOTT DRUG CO.
Established 1889.
Prescription Druggists. Phone Main
76. No. 200 Main St., Oklahoma City.
E. H. ABINGTON.
Quality Drug Store.
First and Broadway. Phone us your
orders. Phone PBX 15.
CROSBY'S CENTRAL PHARMACY
The A. D. S. Store.
Phone 296. No. 25 Bdwy. Okla. City.
BRES-HUBBELL DRUG CO.
Everything In drugs. Free delivery.
Phone 1659. 102 W. Grand Ave.
J. T. SPIVEY & SONS
New and Secand Hand Furniture.
Stoves and Hardware.
Phone 859. Cor. Harvey and Calif.
BARTHELL PHARMACY
Prescription Specialists.
Everything in Drugs.
Phone 165 Cor. Robinson and Ca..
Marshall-Harper Co.
Successors to J. H. Marshall Co.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Private Ambulance
120 North [Broadway
''Phones 900 and 1836
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Street & Draper
Funeral Directors
hospital Ambulance
Phones 1120, PBX 22
POPE SHOE CO.
Feet Fitters and Selers of
UNION MADE SHOES.
VALBRACHT—TAILOR
To Ladies and Gentleman. Wants
to be your tailor.
128 W. 2nd. St. Phone 4608. <
LLOYD & THOMAS.
Crescent Grocery and Meat Market.
207 Main St. Both Phones 114.
W. W.| Long G. M. Thompson.!
DELONG & THOMPSON
We sell Farms, City Property and j
Loan Money at low rates. '
114 Grand Avenue Phone 1120
THE PLACE TO EAT
DALLAS CHILI PARLOR
Good Coffee, Chili and Speghette. Short
Orders, Fresh Oysters and best Pastry
DALLAS CHILI PARLOR
20 WEST GRAND
BREWER DRUG CO.
First & Robinson Sts.
Sanitary Fountain, "CLEAN" No
charge for delivery. Phone Main 184
SARATOGA PHARMACY.
Goodner Bros., Props.
Phone us your orders. Everything to
be found in an up to date drug
Store. No charge for delivery.
15 South Broadway.
127 W. Grand
Clothing, Shoes, Furnishing Goods,,,
Hats, Caps, Etc.
COLUMBIA BANK & TRUST CO.
Capital $200,000.00.
135 W. Main St.
Largest Bank in Oklahoma. Under
Guaranty Law.
BANK
OKLAHOMA STATE BANK
109 Grand Ave.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
CITY STATE BANK.
228 W. Main.
Savings Accounts Solicited.
SHOES.
HOUSEL BARRON SHOE CO.
210 Main St. Home of good Shoes.
PIERSOL THE SHOE MAN,
"GOOD SHOES."
119 Main St.
STATE NATIONAL BANK.
mateerial attempt oy mc vum — — — i Capital and Surplus $310,000.
terfere with these rights. Mobs have 0|dest an(| Largest Bank in the City,
interfered with them. Communities FIRST STATE BANK.
have done ho at times. But for the Largest state Bank in Oklahoma. De-
courts to do is compartively new. pogits protected by Depositors' Guar-
ln the Injunction issued by .ludgo antee Fund of the State. 200 Stock-
Gould In the case above cited the in- h0|der8. c. F. Colcord, President; Fred
terference with these fundamental Sutton, Cashier. Main & Robii;son, Lee
rights of the citizens guaranteed by B|dg.
the constitution of the United States Fred Sutton, Cashier.
| were restrained absolutely; and the Main & Robinson. Lee Bldg.
I determination with which tho trade
| unionists have fought the case in the
courts Is receiving the approval of all
| fair-minded citizens. And what is
< more the result will be, if not imme-
diately then In the future, the abso-
lute and unconditional recognition of
the right of individuals to the exer-
cise of free speech as well as the pro-
mulgation of their Ideas through a ffee
press, subject at all times and under
all circumstances to the laws of the
nation or state which punish men Toi
the abuse eofthese rights under libel
laws. The labor movement asks no
Immunity from libel laws. They are
perfectly willing to be subject to the
same penalties as any other class of
cltisens. But wo resent an interfer-
ence with these fundamental rights by
1 court decrees. And we shall stand
| against it until the people of our coup
! try are convinced that we are right
and en masse come to our support.
The future is full of hope upon this
subject. No matter how far the courts
may go, the sentiment is ever growing
against such unjust interference, and
If the wage-workers of our coun'rjy
will stand solid by their union and by
the principles for which they staMl
the unorganized will cast their lot with
us, the day of the triumph—the ab^o
lute trlumpn—of the right of free
speech and free press will be near at
hand. JOHN B. LENNON,
Get to Trading at
HENRY BRIDGES' STORE.
MILLER & COMPANY.
MILLINERY.
The swellest and most up-to-date line
in the city.
230 West Grand Avenue.
FIRE INSURANCE.
Phone Black 2945 3 N. Robinson.
Phone PBX 81.
The Brotherhood of
American Yeomen
Issues a combined Life and Accident Certificate to men and women alike. The
society has assets of over a million dollars, and has a membership of over one
hundred thousand. The Yeomen Society being less than twelve years old shows
the best record of any fraternal insurance society doing business. A feu) more good
deputies can secure excellent contracts ty applying to—
C. L. MOREAN, State Manager
635 East 6th Street Oklahoma City. Okl.
THE RED BALL TRANSFER AND
STORAGE CO.
131-133 West 1st St.
They move anything.
DYERS AND CLEANERS.
DRY CLEANING WORKS.
EXCELSIOR DRY CLEANING AND
HAT WORKS.
Suits Pressed, 50c. Work Called For
and Delivered. 420 N. Bdwy. Phone
937.
THE TRADERS.
The Mitscher-Leach Co.
WE SELL FOR LESS.
OKLAHOMA CITY HAT WORKS.
Manufacturers of Fine Hats.
Hats Cleaned, Blocked and Retrlmmed
5-7-9 S. Robinson.
ARTHUR F. BARNES
Umbrellas re-covered, $1.00 and up.
Lawn Mowers Sharpened. Keys made
Baby Buggies re-tired. Skates repair-
er. We repair everything. Our lo-
cation is a saving to you. Give us
trial. 318 W. Grand.
Grants - - Hotel -- Annex
Everything Newly Furnished
SPLENDID BEDS 25c to $1.00
-r r -x! _ „ A first-class Cafe, service
In Connection by the Frisco "
Room. Woods Bros., Props.
Lunch
GIVE US A CALL.
Cor. Harvey & 1st. - Phone 2616
WESTERN PACIFIC TEA COMPANY
Best Tea, Coffee, Spices and Extracts.
Always Fresh.
Phone 699. Est. 1888. 120 N. Robin.
FRANTZ HAT CO.
Makers of Union Label Hats.
6 South Harvey.
| Ko-Cin-Ko |
the STANDARD
ENGRAVING 0?
J. W. JENKINS A SONS MUSIC CO.
223 W. Main.
Buy a Victor or Edison Phonograph.
One Dollar Per Week.
MYSER CHINA 4 GLASS CO.
116 Main St.
Wholesale and Retail. Our Goods are
all Union Made. The best china
store in the west.
tS. ft/(objn&onfj Second
OKLflHOMM CITY OKlfl
The Best Way to Spend Your Evenings
Trolly out to Beautiful Belle Isle. A five cent fare will take you
there. The finest bathing beach in the Southwest.
Free band Concerts on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday nights 8:30
Plenty of row boats, canoes, launches, park seats and refresh-
ments. The car line is the poor man's Auto. Always goes, al-
ways comes back
SCOTCH-TONE COLD TABLETS
WILL CURE A COLD IN ONB DAY
All Druggists, or by Mail Postpaid, 25 Cents
SCOTCH TONE REMEDY CO., Oklahoma City, Okl*.
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