The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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ORGANIZE POLITICALLY AS WELL AS INDUSTRIALLY—SLOGAN OF LABOR'S PROGRESSIVE CLUB.
ftiwii by State Federation of Lam*
DEVOTED TO THE
INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE FARMERS' UNION OF OKLAHOMA
vol :j.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA. SATI HDAV, SKI'TK.MHKK 24 1U10.
NO. 1 +
WOULD BREAK MEDDLER IS
COAL STRIKE! GIVEN SLAP
WHOLESALE ARREST OF MINERS
BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE NOT
IN SCHOOL
(By Pan-American Press.)
Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 18.—-A new
method of harassing the striking min-
ers of the tlreensburg and Irwin coal
fields is to be used by the deputy
sheriffs, a method that will attack the
parents through their children. Thou-
sands of shoeless, hatless and scantily
clothed little boys and girls are
huddled together In the eviction camp.
They fear to travel the roads to school
because the deputies have repeatedly
STOVE FIRM OBJECTS TO POST
EXPLOITING HIMSELF
THROUGH IT
Following the refusal of an injunc-
tion to Charles W. Post, minority
stockholder, to restrain the Buck's
Stove and Kange Company from enter-
ing into au agreement with organized
labor, a meeting will be held between
representatives of the Stove Founders'
National Defense Association and rep-
resentatives of organized labor to de-
termine the labor conditions that will
prevail in future at Uuck s Stove and
Range Company. United States Dis-
trict Judge McPherson denied the pe-
tition of Mr. Post for an Injunction to
arrested them for "trespass." Their I prevent the Buck s Stove and Range
rags of clothing make them ashamed j Company officials from carrying out
to be seen in the school room. They *v
will not go to school—they tell their
parents so—and in consequence the
deputy sheriffs are now preparing to
arrest the miners. With the settlement
of the strikers in other districts it will
be possible for the United Mine Work-
ers to turn full strength of its re-
sources into the Greenshurg and Irwin
fields. Not lesB than $45,000 a week
can bo depended upon for the men
and women in the eviction camps, is
the estimate of Secretary-Treasurer
Edwin Perry.
"As far as the miners of the Greens
burg and Irwin fields are concerned,
this strike is onlv beginning," was
the statement of District Organizer
John McCartney.
R. K. Cassat, a son of the late presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad is
an official in one of the largest coal
mines in the district, and it well under-
stood among business men of Pitts-
burg that the settlement of the strike
could be brought about at once if it
were not for the determination of this
railroad to starve the miners into sub
mission and In this way kill the union.
HOLD INTERESTING SESSION
LABOR COMMISSIONER TALKS
At the meeting of the Trades and i would have a magnificent labor temple.
MINE STRIKE
IS SETTLED
BETTER LAWS
Labor Council Thursday evening ere-' '^red many '"^eBtlons a. to the CON. PRE8ENT STATUTE FAILS TO PRO-
i method followed out by other cities
dentlals were received and delegates DuuKherty made mention of a live-
seated as follows. Painters, Frank i story bul.diiiK that is now being; erect*
Martin- Barbers, J. A. Gorman and I ed in Lawton, from which place he had
Meade'Cameron; Cement Workers, J. ! Just returned, and said that the. con-
A McKeever and A Orre ' lract hacl bpen let to a 1,orl Worth
A committee composed of Miss Hea- contractor, who had Imported all of his
sie Mobley, C. O. Wolfe and John j Ii* lp from that city, while Lawton
Baker were appointed to brinK to the
CESSIONS AND INCREASE
IN PAY
attention to the merchants of Okla-
homa City that the O. R. Rust Manu-
facturing Co., of Kansas City, was
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 13.- At a
a w .. eetiiiK which ended at ti o'clock to
laboring men were walking the streets, 'night the representatives of the miners
"The laboring man has just as much In the southwesternconl fields ratified
right to send away from the city for
food and clothing as for the merchant
thoroughly union suspender and belt i to Import scab help on his business
manufacturing house, and ask that buildiftg, said Mr. Daugherty, In mak-
this line be carried by some of theling his point. The merchant does
1 not carry union goods and when >ou
go into his store to buy some article
merchants.
The committee appointed at the last
the agreement made with the oper
ators and will resume work next
Thursday.
The contract as it now stands is a
great victory for the miners.
According to the new agreement the
miners receive an Increase of f>. f>5 pet-
cent on day work, dead work and
to investigate the report of j he will offer you something in lieu,
the Cooks and Waiters grievance with! stating that It is just as good. Some yardage. They also ™<*lve an tncre
Itueb's Cafe, reported that they found
of them will go farther and show you,0f three cents a ton on shooting coal
ase of live cents a ton on
VOTELESS' THEV
DEMAND BALLOT
WANT ENFRANCHISEMENT I
WASHINGTON—GOMPERS BE-
HIND MOVEMENT
their agreement with the ofiicers of
the American Federation of Labor.
"The Stove Founders' National L)e
fense Association includes 75 per cent
of the stove manufacturers of the
United States," said
Gardner, chairman of th
Buck's Stove and Range
has since 1904 owued th
the stock of the Bu
"Every St. Louis stove
is now a member and St. Louis is the
lurfceBt stove manufacturing city in the
world. Not a single strike has ever
been recorded against the association's
members. ,
"What the meeting to be held de-
cides on, will be done. I doubt that
the meeting will insist on the incon-
tinent unionizing of the Buck shops,
but if it does, that step will be taken.
1 believe they will allow the shops to
run on with their present employes
and proceed with the unionization in
the regular course."
Hits Post in Statement
Mr. Gardner gave out the following
signed statement regarding the suit
brought by Post:
"That our position may be properly
understood in connection with C. W.
Post, Esq., we simply desire to say
that this gentleman is the owner ol
1\k per cent of our capital stock, which
is all he has ever owned; that he has
never been a director in the company j
or had any voice whatever in its man-!
agement; and further, that he has;
been forbidden to use the name of the
Buck's Stove and Range Company to
attract attention to himself and his
business.
"I myself, as the majority stock-
holder forbade Mr. Post to use the
name of the Buck s Stove and Kange
Company," said Mr. Gardner in ex-
planation. "While I ha\e owned a
majority of the stock of the company
for many years 1 did not interfere in
the conduct of the business by Mr.
Van Cleave although I always have fa-
vored organized labor.
"I admired Mr. Vun Cleave's pluck
in fighting single-handed the battles of
lthough
company i controlled para the cost.
When the conduct of the business was
thrown on me by the death of Mr. Van
Cleave 1 made an alliance with the
Stove Founders' National Defense As
sociation, which has never had labor
troubles, and with which all the sue
cessful stove manufacturers were af-
filiated. They removed the boycott
TECT MANY WOMEN
ILLINOIS
iwinpd cf ,iirpctnrH on his iiivestlca* I your unions know these things ,, UVI1 >.-- -
tions in regard to a suitable building have nothing that does not bear morning it will end a strike that b-
tlOnS in b - | . . lnl.nl Hit* tlm UlivoG nf a IM'PD f ......... ti,.III (ii-ii trimitliH JIITO 1111(1 t
(By Pan-American Press.)
Chicago, Sept. 19.—To oxtond the
scope of the 10-hour law for working
women, so as to Include hotels, laun
dries, restaurants, telegraph and tele-
phone offices, as well aB other estab
Ushments not now Included In tno
present statute, resolutions have been
unanimously adopted by 200 women
delegates to the state conference held
In the headquarters of the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
The introducer of the resolutions,
Miss Elizabeth Mahoney, chairman of
the legislative committee of lite Wom-
en's Trade Union League, told of the
present limitations of the law which
applies only to mercantile and manu-
facturing establishments and mun-
dries and does not Bet a limit on the
number of hours which may be worked
in any one week.
Strong opposition to the proposed
amendment Is expected from employ-
ers uf labor In this city who spent
large sums of money in a vain eu-
deavor to defeat the law even In its
When work is resumed on Tuesday P«™V^uW°Ml reads as fol-
fnr hmminir all union organizations fori the label, but the wives of a gieat [gun more than fiv
tVio next vear Alter considerable de- j majority of the union men are igno- Bettle which several conferences have
the next year. After consmeiaoie ae | ^ a)(>ng the8(J ,lnes and shoulu be|been held. The last conference he
bate, the board of directors were given ] "i
full power to acc in the premises, and
they will likely decide upon some suit-
able building before the next meet-
ing.
Labor Commissioner Charles Daugh-
erty, who was present, made a lengthy
talk under the good of the order. Mr.
Daugherty commended the council for
et'.vcated," he said
In conclusion the Labor Commis-
sioner took a rap at the Chamber of
Commerce, as follows: "Go into any
Chamber of Commerce and you will
tlml It full of Post and l'arry dope. You
will tind the Square Deal on every
4esk and many copies of tfie American
the business-like way of conducting Industries, publications printed for the
the sessions, said that he never at- «>e purpose of disrupting organized
tended a meeting of the central body | Commercial Clubs are great or
in this city hut that lie found a flatter-j r^itUzatlons, and do^a great work Ir
In this
iiiK attendance, and had found b; ■ i„
watching the work of the body that it bringing In new industries and in' S"'"
always came out on top in everything j' ral uplift work for the good of the
attempted. He said he hoped to llvt
to see the day when Oklahoma Cit:
increasing the population of the cities
community along this line. Then, why
(Continued on page 2.1
working conditions in the si
the meeting Wednesday. W
abide by their decision. '
(By Pan-American Press.)
Washington, I). C„ Sept. 20.—The
Sixth Annual Convention of the Mary-
land and District State Convention ol
Labor, held in Kagles' Han in this
city, went on record as favoring the
enfranchisement of the citizens of the J (he whole industrial world, a
District. The resolution as adopted the company I controlled paid t
petitions Congress, the President ol
the United Slates, the President ol
the Senate, and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, to so frame
a law that American citizens may not
be deprived of the ballot merely be
cause it la their lot to live in the
nation's capital city.
In addressing the convention upon
this subject, I'resident Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor,
said:
"Any movement which will give tne
residents of the District the right tr
go to the p alls and cast ballots will be
.supported by me."
Other resolutions adopted by the
convention called for: 1, votes for
women; 2, the plain labeling of prison
made goods; 3, restriction of chid
labor; 4, abolition of Asiatic labor in
the United States; !i, restriction of ad
vertisemenls for labor by firms whose
employees are on strike; 7. the in
itiatlve and referendum; 7, the organ
ization of the teamsters In Maryland
and District of Columbia
The conveniion elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year:
President, Wm. A. Bryan, of Baltl
more; First Vice President, Hugh D.
Digney, Washington; Second Vice
President, Walter S. Pierce, Palti
more, Md.; Third Vice President, L.
A. Sterne, Washington. D. C.; Fourth
Vico I'resident, J. Heilker, Baltlmor
Md.; Fifth Vi
UNION LABOR STARTS CLUB
WILL ENTER CITY POLITICS
After the regular session of the
Trades Council Thursday evening, an
open meeting was called for all union
men who desired to attend, which re-
sulted in the temporary formation of
the Laborers Progressive club, a po-
litical organization composed only of
union men. This club is formed f<
combat the union men feel that It is
to"their best interests to organize in
the political as well as Industrial field.
From the trend of sentiment ex-
pressed it is believed that it is not
the Intention of the new organization
to endorse any candidate, but to put
candidates of its own in the field. In
ilie past the various labor organlza
tii- purpose of taking an Independent tintis have given their support to dlf
stand on all political questions and ferent nominees with the result that
£an hero more thnu two weeks ago and
times it appeared that a settlement
could not be reached.
In many of the districts of the south-
western fields, the miners and their
families are in want. In the majority
of sections the merchants have ex
tended credit to the men, hut at the
lust conference they Insisted that the
strike be settled.
months ago and to lows: . . .. .
"That no female shall be em-
ployed In any manufacturing, mer-
cantile or mechanical establish-
ment, laundry, hotel or restaurant,
telegraph or telephone establish-
ment, express or transportation
company in this state for more
than 10 hours during the 2 t hours
of any one day, nor more than r,4
hours in any one week."
Candidates of all parties for the
State legislature are to be questioned
on their willingness to vote for the
proposed amendment, and Mrs Itay
mond Bobbins, who is prominent in
this work, asserts that the pledges of
McAlester, Okla.. Sept. 20.—The
coal miners resumed work In this
Held tills ,HfX?bourttyr, 000 enough candidates to carry the moas
miners'went °o work. More wiU ure are practlea.ly assured.
ill from day to day and by next week j
more than twice and perhaps three
limes this number will lie at work. [
The mines were well cleaned up and j
all will be loading coal tomorrow with |
few exceptions. There was a strike
at Dow tills morning before the work i
actually began and it Is still on. 'Hie1
order from the officers of the I nlted ;
\lliio Workers to the miners was to j
go to work, but that all men who bad ,
been working during the suspension, I
should not he allowed to work until
their cases had been investigated.!
The miners demanded this morning j
that the superintendent keep out the
men who have been working on some
extensions and on his refusal to do so.
they all refused to work.
DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR WANTED
WAGE WORKERS WANT BU
REAUS AND COMMISSIONERS
IN ONE DEPARTMENT
to further the Interests of laboring
people, as a class.
Mont K. Powell was elected presl
dent and Edw. Mansfield secretary.
Committees on membership and by-
laws were named and will make a re-
port at a second meeting to be held
Sunday morning in labor hall. Over
from our product and will arrange thrce hundred were present at Thur
>ps
at
shall
AFTER FREE TEXT BOOKS
The State Federation of Labor will
attempt to have a bill passed at the
next state legislature providing free
text books for the children of Okla-
homa. In a letter received at the
headquarters this week from .1. Roy
Williams of Lawton, in which he
states that he would be in favor of
such a law, some points are brought
out that wl 1 be of interest to out-
readers. The letter, in part, is as fol-
lows:
"I want to congratulate the Federa-
tion upon the stand tn..en in favor of
free text books. This would be the
most effective means of knocking out
the Book Trust and of promoting ti ••
interest of the eommou schools of the
state.
night's meeting.
The movement on the part of the
local laboring men is one that will
likely be taken up throughout the en-
tire state. El Keno lias an indepen
dent c lub, composed of union men. and
it is the intention of the two orpiini
zatlons to begin statewide affiliation
which may lead lo the forming of a
new political party.
Realizing that there are forces aris-
ing in the state which sooner or later
organized labor will be compelled to
ferent
many times they have I
That the local organization wi 1
play an Important part ill the form
ing of the new city charter Is con
ceded. They have no deBlre to for-
ward any candidacy for the offices, but
declare that they want a pari in the
drafting of the document which the
people of the city will choose as a ti
si II ut Ion. An important chance .sir :
the organization will demand is the
right of recall with a proper ■■
Many officials are holding orti.-e whoj
have no qualifications and the clubj
will demand that men be appointed
who are honest and efficient.
It Is confidently expected that the!
Progressive club will have a large
membership within ihe next week, as
• teps have been taken to enlarge the
organization, and all union men are
vitally Interested.
Hartshorne, Okla., Sept. 20.—Twen-
ty-five hundred miners In the vicinity
or Hartshorne returned to work today
after an ldlenens starting March 21
n betrayed. | NVj,en all the miners of the McAlester
district went out on a strike demand-
ing an lucreufo In the scale
Whistles blew at 7 o clock this
morning at most of the mines. All six
of the mines operated by the Rock Is
land Coal Mining company, which an-
larv -st in the district and give
i | . ynient to 1,500 men, are in op
li !. .; ,if.r w i11i about 80 per cent of r
*' i fu ) crew All the mines of the Hail
! rv-Oln company at Haileyville
JM' ith full crews. Three of th
l )ow company's mines at now
iain idle because of the refusal
I e union miners to go to work.
,iners <-hntge that the companj
mi loyed men In violation of an i
Mill)?
Thf
TO IHE LOCALS AND MEMBERS OF
THE OKLAHOMA STATE FEDERATION
An era nf good feeling and c
linss began todiiv. Practicall
J ti miners w ho had left the
have returned and the min s
running full capacity by the
Hie week. The RocV
has a dally capacity
od bus
r all of
district
wi1! be
Island companj
(By Pan-American Press.)
Rock Island. 111., Sept. 22 — Presi-
dent Edwin It. Wright made part of
ills report to the Illinois State Feder-
ation of Labor, in convention In this
city, a plan for a state department ot
labor with a board of commissioners
at the head or It. Wright's proposal
is that organized labor In H'lnois com-
mence a state wide campaign for a
new law embodying this principle,
which the next state legislature will
be asked to pass.
The proposed department of labor
will gather under one head all of the
present labor agencies, commissioners,
bureaus and departments, including
the factory inspection department,
free employment agencies, bureau of
labor statistics, and the like, so that
ilielr co-ordained work may produce
harmonious results.
At present il is practically tmpos
sible, asserts President Wright,, to
draw" correct conclusions from the
mass of hazy and involved data turned
out by the various officials In the sep-
arate departments Aside from the
if statistical results, the
ins.
NEW UNION FORMED
l-kini
, 'I introduced such a bill In the first
I'resident,' Charles O. legislature, and as 1 have b
Roemer, Cumberland, Md.; Secretary
Treasurer, C. M. Henderson, Haiti
more, Md ; Organizer, W. A Bryan
Baltimore, Aid
Legislative Committee, Robt. K. I ee,
Baltimore; P. .1. Ryan, Washington,
1). C.; T. A. Harris, Baltimore, Md.;
W. A. Shilling, Baltimore, Md.; B. F.
Walters, Cumberland, Md
Delegate to American Federation of
Labor, Sam De Nedrey, Washington,
D. C.
The next convention will be held in
Cumberland, Md.
nominated I shall renew the fight in
the third legislature.
"I realize the power that your o>-
gnnlzatlon has behind li movement of
this kind and I shall take great pleas-
ure In co-optratini: with you to par.-
a free text book bill upon the statute
books."
Have you bought a
button?
Labor Temple
Contribute your mite toward the
Labor Temple. Buy a button.
"You are probab'y aware of the o.'
tion of the Chickasha Convention in
placing the President on a s-dary a u)
requiring that he devcte his entire
lirre to the intc-est o< the Federation
and to organizing work.
"In this connection ! wish to say
that at the tirre the action was takei.
! w.-s errplcved. *r.d ot anticipates
such a move-rent on the part of me
convention had not givin rry em,
eis any notice of my intention to re
sign; nnd in deference to them I felt
it mv duty ta allow them time to fill
my place before quitting n-.y positio- .
"Consequently, I did not assume my
duties until September 19, but am
now on the job and will devote my
entire time to the Federation and its
merrbers and
from any one
prospects to
be glad to hear
the conditions and •
.rganizing work in
question
monied waste
entirely uiniec<
work now doin
Warehouse ('01
transferred to
ment of labor.
Asked if he
cept the l ositlc
such a departu
ilone Is
Much
Kailr
ful and
mid be
depart-
xplain m
The State Federation headquarters
will be rroved from its present loca-
tion in the Bas-ett Building to Suite
001-502-503 State National Bank Build-
ing where we will be better cb'e to
tai-e care of the business and records
of the Federation, and where all mail
should be addressed in the future.
"I will shortly send cut blanks for
information to all secretaries, and
earnestly request that they be given
attention. In this you can greatly as-
sist me in the work that I have under-
taken. C. C. ZEIGLER,
• President State Federation of Labor." j
■d per
nf tlx
Gfkl;
,n
C R. KsifiBl
Will And eli
H. A. Hans
Clint Mitch)
, President.
on, Vice President,
•h, Secretary-Treasur
•11, Serfeeant-at Arms.
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