The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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"BIG BUSINESS" IS VERY MUCH ALARMED OVER THE RECENT PRIMARY ELECTION IN LOS ANGELES
Entiorecd by RuiMing Ti- Cotnd
•n^ Allied PrraCmg Tr. la*
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE FARMERS' UNION OF OKLAHOMA
VOL. 4
OKLAHOMA city, oklahoma, sati kday. n
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NO. 2:j
CO -01 1RATIVE PLUMBING SHOP
«j .— —
€J1 i Concern, Recently Opened in This
Cit /> Owned, Directed and Managed by
Lai £ Unionists—Beach is Active Manager.
COMPANY STARTS WITH CAPITAL OF $4,000
WHAT THE CO-OPERATIVE STORE
PROPOSES TO DO.
1. Reduce the cost of plumbing to
the consumer 15 to 20 per cent.
2. To employ only union tabor at a
minimum wage of $5.00 per day.
which is said to have drawn an im-
mense patronage from the outset on
account of the great saving to the
purchaser of plumbing supplies and
repairs.
Again should the enterprise be sue
i cessful, it will sound the death knell
3 To realize net earnings only suf-1 to the non-union shop, and reverse
icient to pay salaries, rent and oper-Uhe present condition in Oklahoma
I nit.. „ • 111 nnli nn oil un/l fllllv (>11> it
! City of 40 non-union and only eight
flcient
ating expenses.
4. To sive the middeman's profit to | unUm "hops. ^ ^ ^ < f
the consumer. tjie piulnbing, then will be contracted
5. To give the consumer the beneiit U11j011 labor. The union managers
of expert services acquired by f°ur|say ^ will be better done, because
years of apprenticeship before eligible, t>njy men Gf long experience are eli-
to join the plumbers' union. | Kible to belong to a plumbers' union,
— while the so-called "open'' shops in
A co-operative plumbing sl.op,| many Instances resort to inexpert-
owned, directed'and managed by labor enced or unskilled labor, which can
unionists, has been opened In Okla- be bought cheap, and winch yields a
homa City. The store management! longer profit to the boss. rhe co-
will be a departure from the custom- operative plan, say the managets, is
attractive to the consumer because it
To Harrison Gray Otis J
Behold your work!
For years and years you sowed the
seed of social hate in Los Angeles;
you have raised a *crop of 20,000 so-
I cialist votes—and more to come.
You drew class lines, made of your-
self and fellow capitalists a separate
caste; by the same token, you drove
the humble men of labor into a sep-
arate political class, and they out-
j number your kind—Oh, by so very,
I very many!
You treated human labor as a com-
modity, a thing to be bought and sold
at the price of mere subsistence; you
awoke the soul of labor, made it tight
for its life.
You taught your own class to or-
ganize that labor might b^e kept in
subjection; and you thereof taught
labor to organize at the polls that cap-
ital might be kept in subjection.
Hardened by fat years, grown arro-
gant by feeding upon property, you
defied money and despised men; to-
day money grows impotent in the face
of the aroused conscience of man-
kind. , ,
Whether by the gaseous outburst of your own bad temper, or by the de-
liberate dynamite of social hate, you have produced a political explosion,
and the end is not yet! Courtesy of The Oklahoma News.
-\ JOB HARRIMAN WINS FIRST HEAT
ary method of conducting plumbing
supply houses and repair shops, and
will be unliKe anything ever attempt-
ed here in the plumbing line. The or-
ganization is formed from the United
Association of Plumbers, Steamfltters
and Gasfitters.
Unlike most business institutions,
this shop will not depend upon prolits
to keep it alive. All the management
proposes to do is to pay running ex-
enses.
Should the undertaking be success-
ful it will mean a saving of between
15 and 20 per cent to the consumer,
and at the same time raise the wage
scale of plumbers in Oklahoma City.
The management bases its hoper
upon records of previous successes of
gives him experienced workmen on
the one hand and decreases prices at
the other.
The store will be managed by J. B.
Beach, business agent for the plumb-
ers, gas and steam litters. Beach has
followed the plumbing trade tor the
last four or Ave years in Oklahoma
City. The co-operative company has
a capital of $4,000
From the outset the company pro-
poses to carry a full line of plumbing
supplies.
H. D. Durant is president. The fol-
lowing are members of the board of
irectors: R. B. Kearney, H. E. Ward
R. K. Eader, S. H. Chase, E. S. Foss,
L. V. Archie, H. E. Cooper. Quarters
i co-operative shop in Seattle. Wash., | are
far-reaching ruling.
No Political Campaign in the History of
America Has Approached Present Fight in
Los Angeles--The "Big Business" Is Snarling.
CALIFORNIA LABOR HATERS SPEECHLESS
*
INTERNATIONAL LABOR PRESS
OF AMERICA CONVENTION CALL.
SPURIOUS LABELS
Joplin, Mo.. Oct. 10th, 1911.
Officers and Members of International
Labor Press of America—Greeting:
You are hereby advised that there
will be a meeting of the members of
the International Labor Press of
America in third annual session in ^ .wuuv
the parlor of the New Kimball hotel, ! labelw now being used in Chicago by
Tuesday evening, November 14, 4." j dual and unrecognized unions. Three
of the labels are the so-called job
printers' union, an organization of bed-
rorm printers, open shop advocates
and renegades. Among the other four
Chicago—The Chicago Allied Print-
ing Trades Council has just issued a
revised directory of the union printing
offices of Chicago using the Allied
Printing Trades Council label. A
prominent feature of the directory is a
reproduction of the spurious and fake
at 8 p. m. to consider applications
for membership, plans for the upbuild-
ing of the organizations, and to dis-
cuss and act on all oilier questions
coming before the convention which
may directly or indirectly interest
the editors, owners or managers of
bona-ftde labor newspapers of Amer-
ica.
is included the emblem of the " Won-
der Workers," officially styled Indus-
trial Workers of the World, an organ-
I ization that is willing to take anything
and everything, willing to pay tribute
The editors, owners and managers L orjgjmitors in the shape of dues,
oi all labor papers in the country aI® These fake labels, however, are but
invited to join the organization, and inf uent.iy se(,n
those who have joined are urged
BRICKLAYERS IN
ANNUAL SESSION
U. S. Supreme Court Upholds the Fed-
eral Safety Appliance Law By
An Unanimous Decision.
MUSKOGEE SCENE OF
Washington—Complete control of
all the railroads of the country by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, and
the practical elimination of state com-
• missions from any authority is tore-
GOOD shadowed in the opinion which has
GATHERING—CLINTON GETS
1912 CONFERENCE.
The annual bricklayers' conference
which convened in Muskogee Monday,
October HO, adjourned Friday, Novem-
ber 3, after a most successful and in-
teresting meeting.
Many good laws were added to their
just been handed down by the United
I States supreme court. The court held
that hereafter all locomotives, cars,
| or other equipment used on any rail-
be present at this meeting and others
to follow. Future plans in which all
are interested will be decided upon
and questions of vital interest to the
labor press will be discussed and
efforts made to bring about a better
understanding of the support needed
from organized labor to put the labor
press upon a firmer foundation than
at present.
All labor papers are requested to
publish this notice.
Respectfully,
CHARLES W. FEAR,
President,
WILL M. MAUPIN,
Secretary
constitution and by-laws and the work | BOns or freight from one state to an-
outlined for the coming year will other. In minutely elaborating this
greatly benefit the organization all | position it is held that the cars or
road which is a highway ot' int®rs,.^t,e International Labor Press of America,
commerce must comply with the ten- j
eral safety appliance act. In its opin-
ion the court laid down the rule that
compliance with the federal law is
compulsory on all railroads which are
engaged in the transportation of per-
over the state.
The entertainment feature of the
conference began Monday night Oc-
tober 30, with a sumptuous banquet.
Among the features of the banquet
were piano selections by Mrs. Grant
Cross, the only lady member of the
Bricklayers in the state.
Following are the newly elected of-
ficers for the ensuing year:
President, Chas. Pound, 310 N. 10th
street. Guthrie.
First Vice President, Frank ltod-
gers, McAlester.
Second Vice President, Geo. Ritchie,
Clinton.
Third Vice President, John Looney,
Lawton.
Fourth Vice President, Tom
man. Bartlesville.
Secretary, Pascal Bottoms,
homa City.
Treasurer, D. It. Dehaven, 611 S.
Boulder avenue. Tulsa.
Only two towns were in the race lor
next year's conference—Lawton and
Clinton. Clinton won out, and the
conference will meet 'n ^hat city the
last Monday in October, 1912.
equipment of such roads, even it en-
gaged in such transportation within
the confines of a state, must be con-
" road, U11ZC
NURSES EMPHATIC.
Chicago—The nurses of Mercy Hos-
pital have made it plain to the man-
agement of that institution that they
will not assist in preparing baths for
strike-breakers of the Illinois Central
railroad, and will not treat them as
PROGRESS OF
LARGE NUMBER OF TALESMEN
BEING EXAMINED—NINE
TEMPORARILY PASSED.
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 10.—No po-
litical campaign ever waged in Amer-
ica has approached the tight that is
now in progress in Los Angeles. Job
Harrimau and every other candidate
on the Socialist ticket went trium-
phantly through the primary election
with the highest vote ever cast in this
city.
. The lowest vote for any Socialist
candidate with one bare exception,
was higher than the highest opponent
on the so-called good government tlc-
I ket.
I Labor hating organizations in Los
j Angeles are appalled at the size of
Harriman's vote and the way the
j workers stood solid for every man on
the Socialist ticket. Harriman's big
| vote was scarcely one thousand hlgh-
! er than that of his comrades who ran
with him on the ticket. This shows
that labor unions and Socialists are
standing solid, shoulder to shoulder
in the fight and that all lines have
vanished and the union men are in
the ranks of the Socialists and that
the Socialists are in the union.
Los Angeles is today seething with
Socialist sentiment and thousands
who voted for Mushet, who ran inde-
pendently for mayor against Harri-
inan, have made a quick Hop to the
leader. There is an unprecedented
demand for Socialist literature and
hundreds who have been voting the
ticket, are joining the party and en-
listing as active workers.
Campaign managers are swamped
with work so that a reorganiation has
been necessary and a better system
of departments has been adopted.
This divides the labor which has
grown to be of such magnitude that
it. can no longer be carried by the
few.
A feature that makes the whole
campaign unique is the registration
and prospective voting of the women.
Women of the working class have
been slow to awaken and it has taken
heroic measures to get the shop girls
to understand why they should reg-
ister and vote for the interests of
their class. On the other hand the
club women and the wives of the big, __ . „ . .. , ,
merchants have Ion* been dabbling |,he K,;i" Pre88 declared the Mushet
with politics and (bene ■ intellectsupporters were the worst element in
are bending every effort to get their "; ^ity hut now they are claiming
class registered so that they may J'ie
vote to keep their less fortunate sis- j ''"f
ters in economic slavery.
are resting beneath many a blue
blouse. The police realize iu most
instances that they are of the working
class and that their interests lie with
the success of the moveeinnt.
Thirty-three German societies rep-
resented by delegates met last night
and decided to throw their entire
strength hack of the Socialists in the
final election. This means several
thousand votes which did not figure
either way in the primary election.
The Germans have aroused their wom-
en and they are registering in large
numbers. But eight days remain for
the women to register and the county
clerk's office is almost swamped with
returns.
The bankers of Los Angeles are
snarling and making covert threats
about what will happen in case the
Socialists are elected at the final vot-
ing day. They are growing louder in
their mutterlngs and their first open
action will be met by the Socialists
who are perfecting plans to meet the
bankers on their own grounds. As
soon as arrangements are completed
the Socialists will try to get before a
clearing house committee with the
news that 20,000 accounts will be
j withdrawn within the next ten days
if the bankers insist that credits will
be impaired when the Socialists go
into power. If the war is to begin it
may as well begin right now. Los
Angeles has a postal savings bank
and a method can readily be found
whereby thousands of accounts can
be placed there.
Simultaneous with the "good gov-
ernments" announcement that the city
was to be "cleaned up" came the an-
nouncement that an initiative petition
had been filed to place a prohibition
law on the ordinance books of the
city of Los Angeles. This has shown
a thrill of alarm through the liquor
camp and the small business men are
greatly shocked by the prospects of
a temperance town. The liquor in-
terests voted solidly for Mushet for
mayor and there has been much spec-
ulation as to where tlie Mushet vote
would go now that he is eliminated
from the race. Before the primaries
Los Angeles—There have been nine
talesmen passed by the prosecution
and defense in the McNamara case. Organizations of women who
This does not signify, however.that | worked fol. 8ufflaKe have now I
the nine that have been passed «m j tui-ncl into political clubs for boost-
j ing the capitalistic political ring which
sidered as part and parcel of the
and therefore completely under the
jurisdiction of the federal commission.
The members of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission have been embar-
rassed on numerous occasions by
clashes of authority with state com-
mission's. and as a consequence they
are gratified at the ruling of the court,
which was unanimous.
MITCHELL DAY OBSERVANCE.
they would other patients. The trou-j
ble between
with
be finally accepted as jurymen. The
prosecution has ten, and the defense
twenty pre-emptory challenges, being
' thirty in all. It appears quite likeiy
! at this time that the defense will use
! at least four
Nor-
Okla-
Pittston, Pa.—President John P.
White of the United Mine Workers,
delivered the principal address here
on Monday afternoon, October 30th,
the occasion being the annual observ-
ance of Mitchell day, which falls on
October 29th each year, but as it oc-
curred this year on Sunday, the exer-
cises were arranged for the day fol-
lowing All the collieries in this sec-
tion were closed in honor of the day,
and an immense crowd attended the
ceremonies, which were held in the
state armory. After the speaking an
| impromptu reception was held in hon-
or of* the national president, as this
~~777 , f .. _ V>1 was his first, visit to this section. Aft-
Washington—A branch of^ the Na-|^ ^ reCeption President White de
" " " he de
CONSUMERS LEAGUE FORMED.
ers. and the management of the hos-
pital was brought to
strike-breaker in the
was taken to the hospital. At first the|
nurses demurred at doing anything
for him at all, and when requested
to prepare his bath issued an ulti-
matum that that was something they
would not do. The management cap-
itulated and the strike-breaker was
admitted bathless to Ward A. The
other patients in this ward objected
to his being put in among them and
demurred in such strong terms that
the strike-breaker was transferred to
another ward.
A COMMENDABLE OBJECT.
in excluding that nuiti-
lassed.
from In-
now has control of the city adminis-
tration.
Since the primary election the wom-
en Socialists have entered with re-
doubled energy upon their task of en-
lightening and registering the working
women and the wives of the workers
vote has gone into their camp,
is not, strictly true as SO per
cent of the Mushet vote will go for
Harriman.
Following is the vote;
For Mayor-
Job Harriman Socialist 20 183
George Alevander, "Goo-Goo". . 10,790
1 the J]ur?e8' w'?° i her from the nine already pe
the Illinois Centra strik- informatlon hilK ju8t come trot
rTtaue 4en°a ''--pons «■ « ^n«iow',«.
! 27th street sl op i^r^ePn R™'"ed permission by .Incite K|tu.lllon in its ,rU(. IUi|„ but ,
inltal A, first the Markey, of th„e <oul • '< awakening is cumin* Will, ureal r
the
iwakening is coming with great rap
idity. The method has been to send
Socialist, women ahead as "runners."'
When a woman announces her wil-
lingness to register and vote the So-
cialist ticket a "high sign" is given
ami a deputy register clerk instantly
. a . i appears and enrolls the woman as a
dynamite., nitroglycerine and_ explod- voteI. ,f thl, ••,)roBp.., t" is not
possession of tlie account books of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
and other evidence which has been
sought by the prosecution. Judge
Markey also granted the petition of
the states attorney of Los Angeles
county for permission to photograph
tional Consumers' Leagne has been ™
formed in this city. Sympathetic Im- m.pred ,m a(idres9 ln the evening,
agination ' was made tlie slogan ot tne j
members of the new league. "Sympa-
thetic Imagination" was interpreted as BOILER MAKERS' STRIKE,
having consideration for working peo-
pie, and the members of the new \
branch agreed to keep it constantly
before them. It is intended after the I
league has been perfected, to insti-
tute what is known as the "white j
list." Thta list is to contain the
names of the business firms who are
known to he considerate to their em-
ployes and the league members will
he urged to patronize the "white list"
firms.
New York The Social Service Com
mission of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America has in-
augurated a nation-wide campaign for
one-day-in-seven% for all industrial
workers. It is stated that tlie first
effective measure of this kind to be
passed by any state legislature was
adopted in Connecticut at the last ses-
sion, and the bill was introduced by
Reverend Charles S. Macfarland, the
I secretary of the federal council com
I mission. The commission asserts that
! an effort will be made to adopt a uni
| form law of this character in all of the
states.
ing apparatus alleged to be included
i iti the evidence. He, however, de-
I ferred decision as to whether or not
I pages of the books of the Iron Work
; ers' Association also might be photo-
j graphed. It is not considered that
i this alleged evidence will prove or
disprove anything, being merely what
! might be termed a "grand stand piny
of the prosecution to attract and main
tain public interest to their side.
open to reason and cannot be aroused
to class consciousness then the clerk
leaves her to be registered by a "goo-
W. ('. Mushet, Ind.-Kep.. ..
Scattering
Harriman's plurality
For City Attorney —
John W. Shenk, "(loo-Goo"
Edward W. Tuttle, Socialist.
L. 1). Bechtel
City Auditor—
John H. Myers,
Geo. W. Downing,
Lewis C. Haller .
Assessor—
Walter Mallard. "Goo-Goo'
A. M. Salyer, Socialist...
A. ('. McGinty ..
C. M. Smith
jo-Goo" . ...
Socialist.
8,191
.20,485
. 19,986
. 2,189
. 20,517
. i; .732
2,316
.19,606
.17,398
938
For the council Fred C. Wheeler,
goo" or go unregistered. This method Socialist, president of the Carpenters'
DENVER SITUATION CLARIFIED.
Schnectady, N. V. Boiler makers!
and helpers to the number of 1,000,
employed in the boiler and tank shops
of the American Locomotive plant in
this city have walked out. The dif-
ficulty is caused on account of the
American Locomotive company
tempting to do repair work for
ENGINEERS WANT INCREASE.
Roanoke. Va.—The general commit-
tee of the locomotive engineers on the
Norfolk & Western have presented a
higher wage scale and a new code of
at-1 rules. Other organizations have
the! gained higher wages, but the engi-
New York Central, on which road aineers waited until all the other ad
strike has been in force since last i justments had been made, but now
Februarv. I ask that their wages be increased.
Denver The Amalgamated Carpen-
ters have joined the Brotherhood Car
penters under the conditions offered
b> the Brotherhood. The agreement
is that the original seven Amalga-
mated Carpenters will be given cards
from the Carpenters' District Council.
It is further agreed that the Amal-
gamated men who came here to take
the places of the Brotherhood Car-
penters, when the two organizations
were contesting for jurisdiction, will
be received into the Brotherhood with! it was
full benefits from the time they afflli- j about t
ate and will he given traveling cards
when they desire, all being entitled
to the privileges and benefits of the
organization. This ends one of the
most bitter cont
this city.
has been adopted by the < lub women
and the wealthy workers in the cause
of capitalism and it has been worked
well hut they reckoned without the
knowledge that the working class is
reaching into their very kitchens and
enlisting the women in behalf of the
Socialist movement.
In the stores and offices every kind
of coercion has been practiced and
scores of men and women
dared to express a hope that the
workers would win have been dis-
charged. This hardship put upon the
discharged ones has made them tIn-
most earnest workers in the Socialist
cause. Many of them have been em-
ployed at Socialist headquarters and
are the most devoted workers
Precinct captains in the districts
where the heaviest capitalist votes
were cast at the primary, report
there was a distinct thawing out when
that the Socialists were
rr.v tin* city. The police
heretofore unhesitating!v
Socialist speaker and
now in a most deferential
a matter of fact a large
who have
clubbed th
worker are
mood. As
ts in the history of (number of the patrolmen <>t th
have joined the party and red
Union, the largest in America, led all
candidates with a vote of 18,410.
Prank B. Wolfe, newspaperman, for-
merly a telegrapher and a union man
of twenty-five years' standing, came
next with 16,741. A. J. Mooney, 16,-
633, Mooney is a Union Mill Worker
and secretary of the Building Trades
Council. T. W. Williams, formerly a
coal miner, now a newspaper man and
who have Socialist speaker and organizer, came
next, with 16,119. Alexander Kane, ;i
lumber "bucket* " came next with 16.
025. Fred Knerr, a waiter and secre-
tary of his union, got 15,401 Dan
Reagan, a striking iron moulder, non
driving a laundry v agon, got 15,17^:
Cyrus (Curley) F. Grow, metal work
er, who recently served three months
in jail for picketing, received la,<>39;
G. W. Whitley, a negro, who has be* ti
prominent in organizing his race for
Socialism, received 14.272. All the
candidates for the "Goo-Goos' re
ceived less than Whitley's vote K\
ery Socialist went through a leader
and will be in the running at the
finals. The election is looked on as
a great victory but there Is no eessa*
city it ion in the fight. As a matter of fact,
rards ' it never ceased for a moment.
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