The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 17, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
A clean, conservative, independent, m
partisan new1-! ait-r for the
THE OBSERVER
J
State Federation Notes
Published every Saturday by ti e
LABOR UlflT PUBLISHWO CO. fine.)
16 N. Lee. Phone Walnut 3740
H M. CABLES
Editor and Manager
Address all communications to
The Oklahoma I-abor Unit
Ail communication* Intended tor publica-
tion should be written on one side of the
paper, and -hould invariably be accom-
pan led by the name and addre*« ..f the
writer, not ne< •- «rHy for publication
but for the editor's Information and
r.* a guarantee of Rood faith
Subscriber* confer a great fa\or If
thev will promptly notify the business
off he of any failure or irregularity
in the delivery of their paper
It wil
(By O
looks
of our
o make a pra
«sman*s gard
term.
tarv
What we alao nee
to congress, it a rev
the high tariff on
eggs.
Jet it be known
ion downward of j
i dozen country
that
Enteral at the Oklahoma City. Okla- i row, most of which are never more t Lat.
bona. post office as se- >nd c1h« m mall,
under the net of March J. UTS
SUBSCRIPTION
(payable in advance)
One year
fix months ...
Three months .
Regular contract and flat ra*f- for ad-
vertising on application
urer Wilson on Febru
.aJ blanks to nil secre-
*d unions calling for
f£cer* for the coming
11 nations must be re
ni and in the hands of the sec re
before March 1, and by March ?
cceptance* must also be in, aa the
official ballot will be made up on
date. The officers to be elected
are: President, first vice-president, sec
nd vice-president, third vice-president,
fourth vice president, fifth vice-presi-
ient, secretary-treasurer, three mem
Mrs of the board of auditors and tellers
in<l one legislative committeeman.
In making nominations, affiliated an
ons should remember that per capita
, tax must be paiJ for the month of Jan
ary, and that all nominations must be
n the hands of the secretary prior to
I March 1, as those received after that
late will be disregarded Returns should
be mnde on the official blanks submit
ted for that purpose and must be signed
Jential race, and that is—who will be j by the loca'. president and secretary
the heavyweight ckampionf with the seal of the organization at
t ached. Any secretary not hnving re
The weather man predict# warm i cdved one of the blanks should notif}
It is now the open season for
campaign promise and the cam}
ephemeral.
We haven't beard of any rush of pov
bilities for second place on any of the
rrirrrirrrrrrr*1!*" pr™«i ti«i ticket*, only m«-n «
it full '' barrel'' need
Another gTent 1912 uncertainty will
be settled, in addition to the pre«i 11
0 g^ADEsfPK^jCOUNOL>
weather, yet after a careful search of
the almanacs we fail to find many rec
I ords of sunstroke in February.
Now that butter is so high some en-
terprising grocer could make a hit with
the ms retary-treasurer, 1022 State Na-
tional Bank building. Oklahoma City,
Okla., when another will be forwarded
MINERS HARMONIOUS AGAIN
To say that the United Mine Worker*
have found another Mitchell would b«
idealizing John Mitchell too much
nibly and at the same time not giving
sufficient credit for individuality U> In
ternationa! President John P. Whit*.
The mine workers' convention just
closed in Indianapolis was the most bar
monious
since Mitchell laid aside the presidency
The future promises! success at least
<s)ual to the best enjoyed under Mitch
ell.
As one champion of labor's cause
pointedly remarks, the trade unions are
suffering public by placing this much !!0t here because any one really wanted
needed article on - * in capsules. them, but are here as a living, breathing
human protest against conditions as
President Taft knocked judicial re- they did and do exist, and like any oth-
eall at n meeting of the Kir association ,T agency honestly striving for the up-
lift of mankind, they will continue to
exist in some form or another until their
mission is jerformed. %
n New York. Wonder what be thinks
about presidential recall and third
terms f
Headers of this column—and we hoj*e
there are a few in that category—will
-- --- confer a favor br advising us by wire
the organization has know:. *
. a, _-za- .V. less when May
Mayor Grant's close-up order
enforced.
The publisher who has started the
* . , ■ „ new magazine against Socialism evi-
tk"0rf"'£"^X d«tly «> < the field will offer
iouS way, that will J,Version from fiction and
ha* been accomplished by White in the
one vear he has held office. In u.pbU ,«e,ry.
thin,.-, he k« bronght about ' j rhf wat<.r bo„,]p with th, other5.
the several • i, rii t« eo p went through with a whooping major-
men*e membership, where >'"■*' ltv Bv ..11 mean-, we had to safe-
dissension reigned; he has accomplished .
what the previous administration found
impossible, a renewal of the joint inter
state wage conference between miners
and operator*; he enters upon his sec
guard our water system as water
all that we have left to drink.
Although there is trouble in Mexico.
China and several other places, there
is now beginning a hope for an eafly
meeting of the state conventions so
that all trouble will subside in Okla-
L. E. Nichols, secretary of Tulsa car
penters' union No. 943. reports work
dull for his craft in that eitv.
President Zeigler addressed two en
thusiastic meetings of union men at El
Reno Sunday afternoon and evening. A
number of the organizations that have
not heretofore been affiliated signified
their willingness to come into the fed-
eration.
Pressmen's union No. 221 of Musko-
gee, Wallace H. Austin, secretary, is
again in good standing with the feder-
ation, having sent in all back dues the
past week.
ond year in office pledged to great econ
omies; he has so conducted himself as 1«
rally to his support practically the en
tire organization. .
The wage scale question—still open I 'om
will be settled for both the anthracite . . i
... , strike The oldest inhabitant will now please
and bituminous miners without a striae \
despite sensational reports to the con-
tra TV.
White's success springs from a native
come forward and tell us whether the
prospects are for an early or late
spring. We don't know whether to
ability as a harmonizer an
getting the maximum of work out of hi"
associates with the minimum of friction.
Therefore it isn't alone the work of
<1 a knack cf ' iiave our w^e ma^e gardcn unti^
are advised.
It doesn't seem to require much gen-
ius to run a joint these days but it re-
the president, but the work of the var ■■■
ious district officials an.i the thousands "l"'™ ">•"'> forbearance not to swear
of men in the pita «•— W—kt • ' when we read aImost everV d4V ,hat
Joe Askey reporting for miners' un-
ion No. 1306, at Adamson, says that
work is fair for their members in that
district.
M. E. Turner of Shawnee, secretary
of painters union No. 990, says that con-
ditions are dull in the painting trade
in Shawnee.
„ *ho have brought
new United Mine Workers of America, « has gone forth from some of
or resurrected the old.
Pittsburgh district miners cut a big
figure in the convention. President Fee-
ban and Vice-President Bittner being
particularly active in pushing along the
harmony program. Gibbons and his fol
fieial that they will be put out of busi-
ness. And this has been going on ever
since prohibition struck us amidships.
Governor Wilson has lost the sup-
j ort of Colonel Watterson and Colonel
lowers, who established the rival Pitts-I Harvey, but they are not the only col-
burgh district organization, made their onels in America, nor. for that matter,
last stand and were Water to a stand " the only weekly pai«r published in
Already discredited as leaders New York and the only daily pub-
lished in Louisville. It begins to look
very much, as predicted by Senator
Gore and E. J. Giddings, that there are
any pumber of colonels in Oklahoma
coming to the rescue of Wilson.
still.
they were denied even the ordinary hon-
or of seats in the convention as dele-
gates.
They narrowly escaj ed being ejected
bodily from the hall.
The mine workers, it might be men |
tioned incidentally, joined the fast
growing ranks of international unions
that have found the costly annual con-
ventions and elections unnecessary A
referendum election such as the miners
To express in his own terms the con-
dition of the carpenters' trade in Ard-
more 41 there is nothing doing—on the
bum" says D. N. Ferguson, secretary of
No. 1028. Mr. Ferguson is an old of-
ficer of the federation, at present being
a member of the board of auditors and
tellers.
THE SIGN OF SALESMANSHIP
Half of Salesmanship is enthusiasm
The merchant who advertises with an
Electric Sign tells the worid that he is
enthusiastic about his store.
The Electric Sign drives home this mes-
sage and drives it hard.
It is the best and livest expression of en=
thusiasm that you can find at any price.
Get a sign that stands for YOUR business
and none other.
TELEPHONE P B.X. 14
OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.
112 NORTH BROADWAY
The Electric Sign is the Sign of Salesmanship
i
the people who earn their livelihood by
the sweat of their brows. It has had
many squally experiences, and many
times its very existence has been placed
in jeopardy but there have always been
men who were ready and willing to pilot
the good old ship over the rough places.
The laboring people will in the future
as in the past take an important part
in shaping the destinies of Oklahoma
C. F. Fordvce of the Shawnee printers : and that principally through the federa-
sends in all back dues for bis union and j tion. Local unions are beginning to
MARSHALL-HARPER CO.
Successors to J. H. Marshall Co.
states that conditions are dull at the
present time. The printers are already
looking forward to the next convention
which meets in Shawnee.
Trade is dull in Nowata for carpen-
ters, reports being sent in for No. 1705
by Secretary W. D. Felts of that city.
The newspapers print double-leaded
political stories on the front pages,
telling us about Wilson or Clark or j
Harmon cr Roosevelt or Taft, how j
Johnny Doolin or Tate Brady is sweep-
holds entails an outlav amounting to a ling the state for national committee
small-sired fortune. After the election ; man. how Dynamite Ed i worrying Jim
next year the United Mine Workers will | Harris, et
hold conventions and elect officers every
E. G. Cummings, secretary of the car-
penters at Shawnee. No. 292, says that
there is no building in that city at the
present time and the trade is very dull.
and somewhere
two years.—Iron City Trades Journal.
HELP THE PAPER IMPROVE
the
back page, along with the want ads
or the markets, is a little space devot-
ed to the discussion of real city and
state news oT interest.
Three miners' unions report from Mc-
Alester this week with fair conditions.
No. 938 by Ed Harrison. No. 2317 by L
Willis, and No. 1818 by M. T. Riley.
H. C. Scroggs, secretary of carpen-
ters' union No. 1178 at Pawhuska, says
conditions are dull in his re[ ort to head-
quarters this week.
If you haven't gotten into the habit
of saying a good word for the Okla-
homa Labor Unit during the year
just closed, make up your mind to give
it a boost during this year and make
up for lost time. If the paper does not
suit let ub know how to improve it. We
are open to advice at all times. There
is one thing that is certain, every indus-
trial center should have a labor paper.
We have done our best to make the
Labor Unit a newsy, up to-date paper,
and in the main the trades unionists
have given us their support, but every
so often some of the mon who don't
take time to read even a daily paper
will say our editor should do this or
that; but never send in anything to the
editor to improve the paper. To this
class we say come up to our office and
How dear to this purse is the high-
costofliving when meat and potatoes
are needed at home. Immovable, tough,
with no notion of giving, it causes
one's hair to turn gray on the dome.
The cost of a steak and the mone.r to
buy it. the price of an egg and the
whole bill-of-fare! The coal and the
rent and the ice that is nigh it! The;
highcostofliving that's up in the air!
The cash-covered prices, the money-
bound prices, the highcostofliving that's
up in the air!—With Apologies.
Conditions are reported fair in print-
ing circles at Lawton and Okmulgee by
Secretaries Jas. H. Timmons and R. H.
Jennets.
Oklahoma City Federal Labor Union
No. 12982 has fallen off in membership
since the early fall but the secretary
reports that all members are now work-
ing.
SIXTEEN HOUR LAW VIOLATED
Special to The Labor Unit.
Washington. — The government has
brought action in the federal district
court against the Erie railroad for vio
find fault, not on the street corner. Just I Nation of the sixteen-hour law. The
remember this, the Labor Unit pub ""its. involve fifty one offend, the per
lishea for you what other papers refuse M covered by the alleged violation Work is fair for the miners at Chant,
to print, and but for us the public would extending from April to September so retried by Owar Bagley, secretary
many times be misled in regard to un- The penalties, if conviction is|of No. 3170.
ion matters. We always try to give | secured, will total *500 for each offense
news that is of vital interest to the
In the Federation Notes in last
week's issue of this paper plumbers'
union No. 176 was given as Muskogee.
This union is located at Tulsa.
realize, more than ever before, the ne-
cessity of a strong state organization.
By the time of the next convention it is
believed that the membership will be
far greater than at any time in its his-
tory. as evinced by the interest that is
now being displayed in every section of
the state.
John Tewksbury of the Chickasha Ty-
pographical union reports the trade dull
at present.
Work is reported fair at Pittsburg by
Sam J. Marshall, secretary of No. 1856.
John Tewksbury, secretary of Typo-
graphical union No. 571, at Chickasha,
was in the city Tuesday and called at
Federation headquarters. He was on
bis way to McAlester to attend a meet-
ing of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
Work is reported fair at Tulsa by U.
G. Tuttle, secretary of Typographical
union No. 403.
G. L. Hunter, one of the hustling and
wide-awake union men of Okmulgee,
secretary of carpenters' union No. 1399,
savg that trade in his line is very dull.
Lee Payne, member of the legisla-
tive committee, and very popular with
all who know him, sends in a report
from No. 1811 this week. Mr. Payne's
home is at Phillips and work for the
miners there is fair.
O. D. Gould of Muskogee, secretary
of earpenters' union No. 1072. states
that the trade is very dull at the pres-
ent time in that city. A good deal of
building is contemplated, however, and
with weather conditions favorable, most
all of the members will be employed.
THE CONTEMPT CASE
labor movement, and we feel a. though PITTSBURGH GARMENT WORKERS
we are entitled to the support of all
members of organized labor. So give
us a helping hand and we will improve
as best we know how.
Printers of St. Thomas, Ont., have
eecured an increase of wages without
friction.
Special to The Labor Unit.
Pittsburgh.—The garment workers of
this city are negotiating for a new
agreement with their employers. Victor
Altman, member of the executive board
of the United Garment Workers, is as-
sisting in the negotiations.
Work is reported dull by C. H. Moran
of the painters at Okmulgee, fair for
the retail clerks at Ada, by J. B. Emory,
and good but plenty of men. for the
machinists at Enid, by J. L. Chambers.
The Federation of Labor will always
be found on the progressive side of any
question, and at all times fighting for
those things that will be of benefit to
Special to The Labor Unit.
Washington.*—Testimony in the con-
tempt case of President Gompers. Sec-
retary Morrision and Vice-President
Mitchell has been in process of being
presented for a number of days. Pres-
ident Gompers has been on the witness
stand and will be followed by Secretary
Morrision and Vice-President Mitchell.
GLASS PLANT CLOSES
Special to The Labor Unit.
Coffevville, Kan.—The Kansas Win-
dow Glass plant has shut down, throw-
ing into idleness about 200 men. In this
section of the country natural gas is
osed largely for manufacturing and
domestic purposes, and the reason as-
signed for the shutting of this plant is
poor gas pressure.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
PRIVATE AMBULANCE
1010 North Broadway
Phones: Walnut 900
Walttit 123
A HOME CORPORATION
5100,000 OF PREFERRED STOCK IN THE PATTERSON
LINES TO BE PLACED AMONG OKLAHOMA
CITIZENS
Ever stop to think that the franchise voted by the people
of Oklahoma City to this corporation granting rights to build
street car lines on any street in the city, since pronounced good
in the highest courts, is worth more today than the total cap-
italization of the company?
This makes an investment in this stock the most gilt-edged
in every way. A dividend of six per cent, is guaranteed on
the preferred stock, $100,000 of which is being placed among
the home people. This is an excellent form of savings account
and must appeal to wage earners.
$2.50 payments for 40 months will give you a $100 share
of this fully paid, non-assessable stock.
The co-operation of the wealth producers of the city is
especially desired.
See the editor of THE UNIT for particulars, or call on
PATTERSON CO.
10 NORTH BROADWAY — CAMPBELL BUILDING
TEAMSTERS ORGANIZE AND GET
RAISE
Special to The Labor Unit.
Fall River, Mass.—The teamsters in
this city have organized a local union
with a good membership and immed-
iatelv thereafter commenced an agita-
tion for an increase in wages which has Sundays and holidn
been successful. All drivers of single
wagons procured an increase of $1 a
week, and all drivers of double hitches
an increase of $1.50 n week, together
with an agreement which calls for time
and a half for all labor performed on
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Casler, Howard M. The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 17, 1912, newspaper, February 17, 1912; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107064/m1/4/: accessed May 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.