The Labor Signal. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1902 Page: 1 of 16
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The Labor Signal.
Official Journal Central Trades and Labor .Assembly
VOLUME 3.
OKLAHOMA CITY, 0. T., DECEMBER 26, 1902
NUMBER 11
Those Who limploy Non-Union Labor?
He who buys non-union made
goods, is the logical reply.
This is a very truthful answer, j
and to say that the union man
spends over 75 per cent of his |
earnings in this way is not put-
ting it too strongly. When a
union man sees an employer em-
ploying a non-union man he con-
demns him, but when he employs
for himself he will three times out
of four give employment to non
union men by patronizing non-
union made goods.
As long as union men do this
they cannot expect employes to
accede to their wishes and union-
ize their plants. If we want all:
manufacturing plants to employ j
union labor it must be impress-j
e 1 upon them that it is to their
a Ivantage to employ union men.
But as long as they can profi-
tably run their plants with cheap
labor and have their employes
submissive to any kind of treat-
ment they are willing to give
them and not complain, they are
going to do so.
Don't patronize anything but
fair people yourself and it won't
be long until these non-union
factories and employers will be
knocking at your doors, de-
manding admittance, but as long
as unionists continue to patron-
ize non-union made products we
cannot expect anything but
strife and turmoil.
At the present rate of increase
in membership the trades un-
ions will in a short time control
every craft in the land; all crafts-
men who are masters of their
trades will be affiliated within
the rnnks of unionism. The last
year has shown increase in mem
bership of the different Interna-
tionals that has been far beyond
the e xpetationsof the most san-
guine, and they are daily adding
new organizations to those who
are not affiliated with interna
tionals but will be as soon as
they get strong enough. The
more the people are educated up
to the benefits ot organization
the more rapidly they increase in
mumbership, and there are more
educational advantages being
aided to the labor movement
every da v.
There should be a careful watch
kept on the candidates for city
officers next April. They are
beginning to appear already and
the laboring men of the city
should scrutinize very closely all
the aspirants and see that
the)- cast their votes for those
who are favorable to them. The
past has demonstrated that the
laboring men can control the
city, and any man not friendly
to the producing classes of the
city should be turned down. We
will do what we can to keep the
public posted on who is out for
office, and if we know they are
antagonistic to union labor will
sav so and work for their defeat.
The legislation now before con-
gress favorable to the working
classes is liable to be pigeon-
holed. Those congressmen whose
terms expire March must make
all they ean by that time as their
opportunities will then cease
and those who are returned have
another two years lease on their
jobs so they don't care and thus
it goes and will so continue as
long as corporation tools are in
a majority in congress, and as
long as the laboring men are
fools enough to take this kind of
"sop" matters will continue as
thev arc.
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The Trades and Labor Assem-
bly held a meeting Monday night.
It was one of the best held for
some time. Those delegates who
are not regular attendants miss
a great deal of interest to the
cause. The next meeting will be
held next Monday night.
Of course, you want a good
shave! To be sure you are go-
ing to get one go to the Climax,
15 South Broadway, where only
first-class artists are employed.
The Journeymen Barbers Un-
ion elected the following officers |
Tuesday night: II. J. Miller,
president; E. C. Dickerson, vice
president; C. T. Quedens, corres-
ponding and financial secretary;
D. M.Crane,recoidingsecretary;
E. V. Fisher, treasurer; Lon.
Small, guide. Other business of
importance was transacted.
If a man knocks another down
and robs him of $50 and gets
caught he is sent to the peniten-
tiary'. But if a corporation or
trust adds watered stock to its
capital and advances the price
of their products sufficient to
pay a big dividend on what they
do not possess, that is business.
Carpenters in Colhoes, N. Y.,
have succeeded in reducing hours
of work from 10 to 9 Vs. Next
vear will by 9 hour day from
July on.
Merchants in Ilolvoke, Mass.,
are stocking up with all union
goods they can get, to meet de-
mand created by determined call
for label goods.
If YOU
are THINKING
of Buying
A Piano,
Or Anything in the Music Line,
Remember wc are the
LARGEST, OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE
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In the Two Territories.
We handle over 23 different makes of Pianos and
the only artist's pianos sold here. We offer
SPECIAL PRICES on our entire stock in order
to close them out by the last of the year. It will
certainly pay you to figure with us if you are
thinking of buying a piano. It will be time
well spent and
...Money in Your Pocket...
There is nothing nicer than a
Piano, Organ or Graphophone
...FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT...
WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF THESE INSTRUMENTS.
Armstrong, Byrd &
..Company..
218 Main St. Oklahoma City
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The Labor Signal. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1902, newspaper, December 26, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc120704/m1/1/: accessed May 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.