The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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OKLAHOMA LABOR
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a rest amid
who
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take a vacation ot at
and for once every
ill the preiiiderit. Hut it
lent that some people
t long a vacation anil
• a vacation at all. Va
begin. however, with
d them most. How about
ooling streams to those
LABOR SUNDAY.
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vertlsing on appllcstloi
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work twelve hours a day, six days
a week, probably a consumptive vic-
tim of the sweat-shop, who is bend
Jim over a machine, urging It to more
furious speed while the perspiration
pours upon the cloth? Why not semi
him or her out into the open fields
where the pure air would knit up the
raveled web of life, and change the
hectic flush of fever into the glowing
tan <>f health? These are the ones
who need a vacation. These are the
ones who have earned a vacation.
These are the ones who will get no
vacation. When "everybody" that is
"anybody" is at the seaside, in the
mountains, by trout brooks and quiet
lakes, these multitudes are stifling,
choking, sweating, dying, and all that
these that "toil neither do they spin,"
may have rest and recreation to re-
cover from what? Usually dissipation.
As the president says I!very person
ought to take a vacation," but how
many that really have earned a vaca-
tion will find time and will have the
necessary money to take it?
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re are those who believe that a
labor bureau should be run
lly resolution the Toronto
tion designated the Sunday bf
first Monda> in September as "Laboi
Sunday," and requested the ehurchcf-
of America, without distinction as to
. reed, to 'U vote home pari of that da}
each year to a presentation of tin
labor question, says Samuel Horn per.-
lu response, the executive committee
(if the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ, at a recent session, recom
mended to th< churches of America
compliance with the request of the
trade unions, the resolution which v.as
passed on the occasion specif} ing thai
if in any particular church the day
mentioned would not be open for the-
purpose another as near thereto as
possible he chosen, and that, what.e\ei
the day, labor sermons and other ex
ercises appropriate to the observance
of a l^ahor Sunday be a part
program.
In accordance with the
shown the various city
local labor bodies of the United States
and Canada are urged to co-operate
in every legitimate way wiili the min
isters whose churches shall tlitis oh
serve Labor Sunday. The promise ma>
be made on behalf of the labor organ!
/ations that in every cast* in whic h a
i-hurcli observes the day the workmen
will exert themselves to bring to it a
large audience of trade unionists and
their families and sympathizers.
No fear is entertained by members
,.t organized labor ol" any discussion
SAD BUT TRUE
And What Is Herewith Charjcd
Against Detroit Is Chargable
In Many Other Plates.
UNION HORSESHOEING SHOPS
m. to 5 p. m.
W. California.
West First St.
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of the
Some ten years a*.., says tli" «"in. in-
initi Chronicle, the idea was i oihciumI
ihat a paper published in and 1<" ti.
intents of organized labor In Detroit.
Mich., could be made self-sustaining.
IW upwards of ten years a paper was
published under the name of the Mich-
igan Advocate. Recently it suspended
publication for want ot sustenance.
Our only object in speaking upon the
demise of a once fearless exponent oi
i he principles of organised labor, has
to do with c hiding the men and women
who go to make up the movement in
ihat city, When >> is th< re ar<
spirit thus llo, enough men and women in a city
entral and , sjz, of Detroit, to enable a labor
paper to live, it is indeed a sad com
incntary upon those who invited the
organized labor movement throughout
the length and breadth ol the country
to patronise union-made products m
their city. They ask us to patronize
union made tobacco, c lothing, etc., and
in turn they forget to patronize
something which spreads before the
whole world the things which they arc-
ostensibly battling for, and allow it to
die a lingering death, the coinmeiitai >
is indeed a sad one Detroit, and the
8 Hours-
A. Murlin
j. J. Brad It-
California.
Schiller &
Broadway
and Noble.
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Broadway
410 West Second.
siWest Main.
Official Photographer I
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Leon I nsign Derr
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and Officen, Fraternal Organ,zutions and
Secret Societies.
Phone 6425
504 W. 6th St.
Dr. ALBERT G. DENNIS
CHIROPRACTIC
Treats all Acute aivl Chronic Disor ! rs
Without Medicine.
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Continental
Casualty Company
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Health and Accident Insurance Company
in the World
Only One Operating in Every State
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Rueb's Cafe
'EVERY TIME the CLOCK TICKS
Every Working llour
IT PAYS
A Dime to Somebody, Somewhere
Who is Sick or Hurt"
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wholly in th« interests of employers of their aims and practices, favorable union men and women of thai cit\ an
Who said anti-saloon league
The got
ad man.
Th<
Cruet
• steam roller
contemplated.
Many political candidate
broke throw Inj tx qu ti at t hi
through the newspapers.
It's nice to be nit
it some times gi\
inntion for a politic
and it pays vt II
a man the nom-
otftce.
won hi
Now really. Mr. Mayor, v
like to see the Johnson .Ii it t ies i i-
tures. On the levt I, wouldn't you, toe
Many candidates who had been look
inK ahead for the past lew weeks
didn't very fax ahead last Tuesday.
Well, it's Cruce and McNeal K\<r>
bud> will now be satisfied except Bill
Murray. Hardy Dial and Rev. Waugh.
Courts in New lorn nave upheld the
law to compel railroads to pay their
employees semimonthly This is a
good one and should be on the statute
books of Oklahoma.
While we are at ease now. why not
take a short vacation and get a little
fresh air. Trouble with most of us is
that for the past month we have been
victims of too much hot air.
Now that the primary election is
over. Labor Day is the next great
event on the card, and it should be
the prelude to a proper and sensible
observance of the fall election day.
Wonder if the Times has yet clis
covered for what office Judge Keys of
Hobart is running, or was the editor
only stalling in an effort to give the
gentleman a little free advertising in
the editorial columns?
and c arefully ignoring the interests of
labor. Wageworker.
And there are some In Oklahoma
who feel that way yet none of them
had the nerve to aaerilice themselves
on the democratic ticket against
Charley Dougherty. He was the only
state officer In the primary election
who had no opposition.
If some of the moralists who so
strenuously oppose the exhibition ol
the prize tight pic tures would give as
muc h lung and arm power to the "im
moral wages" paid to women and girls
in laundries, telephone exchanges and
dt partraent stores, they would accom-
I lish much more good to the unit ol
moral energy. So long as girls work
for from to $7 per week the white
slave trattle will continue to flourish.
At North Portal, Sask.. an American
doctor has been arrested for going to
work without a "card" in the Sas-
katchewan Medical association, lnas
muc h as the members of the doctors'
union have been in politics and did a
little law.writing they will make the
'charge" stic k. The lawyers and den
lists also offer a lesson to trades
unions. Think it over!
Did you observe the city administra
lion slate on the state and county ol
fleers? If not, ask some of your
friends about it, and then try and oh
serve what was to be handed to or
ganized labor. The parting of the
ways is just about due.
The employers grant to the laborers
of any kind or class just what the
workers are strong enough to demand
and secure. The better they are or-
ganized the more they will get. That
is always the rule without exceptions.
Hired thugs have been following un-
ion leaders around Los Angeles tnr*stt-
enltig violenc e. The} have so far been
unmolested by the police Ann union
men are always accused of rioting
when trouble is caused by these bul-
lies in the strike centers.
Labor Day is still several weeks
away; you should remember that
there is much work to do, and all
should get busy and Help to make this
Labor Day one long to be remembered
by the toilers and business interests
of Oklahoma City.
The anti-saloon league will jiow
have a couple of years to think the
matter over. They may get on a live
one next time unless resubmission car-
ries in the meantime.
Why not put the woman's suffrage
and resubmission propositions on the
ballot this fall in the same manner in
which the grandfather clause was ban
died?
The only difference between the
"business agent" of the union and of
the merchants' associations is in the
name.
An unhappy home is sometimes
caused by the wife spending more with
the milliner than with the butcher.
v,. unfavorable, iu church or else
where. In general the churches have
learned not to measure other great
modern institutions either by narrow
Interpretations or prejudiced views.
The staunch unionist has no dislike
for healthy ciItlclsm; ii leta hit mind
working, says the Nashville Labor A<!
vocate He can listen with serenity
to the citation of erroneous charges
against trade unionism, it gives him
the opportunity of refuting them in
good time. He can let the minister
preach right straight at his individual
and collective sins; tlils does him
good like anyone else. He no doubt
will find the American pulpit anxious
,-p a Labor Sunday to bring trade un-
ionists to a better understanding ol
the attitude of the church toward un
ionlsm. and the clearing away of mis
understandings is the one first bi-
step toward peace, sympathy and co
operation. Above all. the American
trade unionist has no fear of having
his union principles and methods
measured by the standards of ethics
If our movement were not primarily,
intennc diaelv and ultimately technical,
it would have died long ago. If any
one part of it any time falls awa>
from the highest ethical level, it mat
in such respect be remodeled. But i'
is just in the essentials of moral aims
and sound social principles that the
American labor movement stands like
;i rock. Its history is a record of up
lifting men. women and children, in
their material condition, in their edu-
cational development, and hence In
evitably in their moral standing.
Any assistance which the church
may render the cause for which the
labor organizations stand must evoke
a beneficial consideration of the ideas
on which the trade unions and even
the churches are based with conse-1
(juent agreement as to how far the
two institutions may co-operate in
practical uplift work.
How true H is that "one-half knows
not how the other half lives." Some
day the labor press may succeed in
convincing the "half" of the necessity
of caring for the "other half." Listen
to this from such an eminent author-
ity ihe truthfulness of which cannot
be gainsaid. Miss Jane Addams has
found that "an American white lead
factory discharges every laborer at
the end of three months, not through
the recommendation of the foreman,
but directly from the office in order to
prevent the men from developing lead
poisoning. This is of course cheaper
than to employ examining physicians
or to install safeguards. But bow-
about discontinuous employment as a
factor In the breeding of discourage-
ment and poverty?" Our "free and
to be commiserated with, rather than
the demise of the tribune of the organ
ized toilers. There are alone sufllcient
organized workers in that city, in two
or three crafts, who could well have ai
forded to have gone to the rescue ot
the Michigan Advocate; the> c-quui
w ell have afforded to have com ributed
two or three cents a week eaeR for a
true labor paper, than to spend or
more cents a week for a subsidized
daily press. It is ty the shame of tlr
organized labor movement of Detroit.
TANDArlD
Company
Trx. no
Its Policies Protect
Your Income When Sick or Iljrt. AsV
i. C. STOLP, City mgr.
222 Ba.sett Building. 115 1-2 Noitb Erotlway
Phone S62
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Improved Catechism
From Life.
Cob. Robin.'>on Sts.
Oklahoma Cit /. Okia
To be read, inwardly digested, and
often repeated by all foolish little
Americans:
Question. Who made the world?
Auswer. Roosevelt.
Q. Who was the First Man?
A. Theodore Roosevelt.
<^. Who was the Wisest Man?
A. Ciovernor Roosevelt
Q. Who was the Strongest Man?
A. Elephant-Killer Roosevelt.
Q. Who was the Meekest Man?
A. Vice President Roosevelt.
Q. Who was the Champion Hoxer
at Harvard?
A. Stud: ni Roosevelt.
Q. What President Couldn't Tell a
Lie?
A. President Roosevelt.
Q. Who Lived Three Days in the
Belly of a Whale?
A. Roosevelt, the Faunal Natural-
ist.
Q.
War?
A.
Q.
A.
i
, ius?
A. Editor Roosevelt.
Q. Who killed Cock Robin?
A. Teddy.
Q. Who struck Billy Patterson?
A. The Colonel.
Q. Who Was, Is, and Always Will
lie the Most Modest Man?
SCOTCH-TONE COLD TABLETS
WILL CUKE A COLD IN ONE DAY
All Druftiits, or by Mill fsitpild, 26 Canto
SCOTCH TONE REMEDY CO., Oklthomt City, 0kl .
Who won the Spanish American
Rough Rider Roosevelt.
Who was the Talkiest Man?
Doctor Roosevelt.
Who wrote the Letters of
Jun-
Corder Shoe
Honest and Reliable Shoes
For the Whole Family
122 Main Street
OKLAHOMA CITY
J
| Marshall-Harper Co.
SHOOTING AND LYING.
i v • k°ng faces and thin pocketbooks
3U buy a ham you also >u> ar(l comnion with the disappointed of independent" workmen do have a glor-
three-quarters of a pound of burlap, at nm<.<< w.t,k| ,. Ihis ,V(.ek ioll8 time of it. don't they? You never
bam prices, the mayor of New York
learned with indignation the other day.
If he will only continue finding out
things he may at last he forced to ac-
knowledge that capitalism is not
heaven-born after all.
Miss Viola Trent, a chorus girl, has
followed Mark Twain's example and in-
corporated herself, because, she says,
"regardless of the amount of ability
one possesses it is impossible to get a
bearing in the show business unless
you have a pull or a Wall street Influ-
ence." An exchange comes to the
rescue and tells Viola that this is
rank heresy. In this glorious country,
under the banner of liberty, and of
Morgan and Rockefeller, everybody
lias an equal chance. Viola is simply
lazy.
Oklahoma City has some shouters
for home industry, but they never say
a word about union labor in connec-
tion. Some time since a gentleman
was in this city for the purpose of es-
tablishing a home industry magazine.
Union Labor would give such a maga-
zine its support and encouragement
It is understood, however, that the
powers that be in the chamber of com-
merce refused to give any support to
the tent ure and the matter was
dropped, because the representatives
of the men that such a publication
would benefit most were not Inter-
ested.
The lawyers do not permit appren-
tices to work at their trade, as other
unions do. The apprentices in this
business must learn the trade and
pass a rigid examination before a num-
ber of "professional jawsmiths" before
he goes to work. After going to work
the new attorney is expected to join
the lawyers' union the Bar Associa-
tion—and thereafter maintain prices.
And this brings to mind. also, that the
lawyers union has "scabs" the same
as the trades unions. A few days ago
the writer heard a prominent lawyer
bemoaning the fact that a competitor
had taken a case away from him by
quoting to the client a much smaller
fee. The term he applied to his
brother member was that he was a
"snitch." We are of the opinion that
this means "scab" in labor union par
lance, if not, what did he mean when
he used the term?
According to the headlines of all the i
Chicago papers the strikers were rio?
ing and shooting in South Bend yester
day. There were calls for the troops.
There were wild scenes of violence—
in the headlines.
When the story was finally dug out
of tin' mass of falsification and exag
geration it was discovered that A
PINKKRTON THI'I! HAD SHOT A
CAR REPAIRER IN THE HACK.
There were 110 mobs. There were
no riotous strikers. There was no
.killing by strikers. No shots were
fired by strikers.
Do you think the writing of those
headlines w as an accident ? Do you
>me imitation imagine that the carefully framed-up
union men decryfhg the "union" shop, story which so artfully concealed the
evidently because they wish to stand truth and so craftily suggested the
The smile is a valuable asset in both I in witli their boss, or because they are falsehoods, was the result of blunder
social and business life as well us pol ignorant of its necessity and ad van- |ng incompetency?
tages. In either case they are tne That story and those headlines were
dead weights. Loosen 'em up a little, prepared in the manner most suited to
(let others into the union. Organize throw discredit upon the strikers, turn
Refuse to buy scab goods the same as publicr opinion against them and af
you will refuse to work with a scab— jor(j an excuse for the introduction of
then we will begin to see the clouds j tj,e militia and the regular army,
clear away and labor will come into AND WORKWOMEN BUY AND
its own tlie emancipation of the wage SUPPORT THESE PAPERS.—Chi-
slave. ! cago Daily Socialist.
The only straight ticket to vote is
the one with all the crooked names
scratched off.
Bill Cross is dead, but he will live
long in the memory of the people of
Oklahoma.
tous
hear of Messrs. Kirby, Post, etc., ever1
letting the profits get away. > ou
never hear of "sentiment" in business
it's all hard cash and profits, to h -
with the working people. I had to
look out lor myself, let them do the
same. Then we hear
)er
Successors to ]. H.'^Marshall Co.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Private Ambulance
120 North !T$roadu:a))
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'Phones 900 and 183 6
i
Sometimes when we want plenty
politics we get little.
Nothing is law that is not reason.
What became of Conger?
hot weather expressions
(Ready-Made. I
Whew !
Hot, ain't it?
Is it hot enough for you?
We had a summer like this in 1854.
Some hot today.
How do you like it?
if hades is any hotter than this, I
am going to mend my ways.
Last year it was the middle of May
before 1 pawned my overcoat.
Ain't the ice man happy?
Been down to the shore yet?
Didn't sleep a wink last night.
Yes, mine's beer; make it a tall
one.
little gems of poetry.
(Authors Unknown.)
thanks. awfully.
Next April there will be an election j
of city officers and it is the opportune
time right now for labor unionists to , Oklahoma Labor lTnit has en-
get together and prepare themselves tere(j upon its third year. It is a
for this election. A list of all the un
► ion voters in the city should be pre-
pared by preclnts and active work
commenced at once so that our rights
may be maintained. Labor has never
been known to get any representation
splendid force in the war for the in-
dustrial uplift, and grows stronger
each day bcause the wage earners of
Oklahoma City are standing loyally
by it. The Labor Unit is a splendid
labor newspaper and we wish it con-
except through Its own efforts and il it tinued success —Wageworker.
does not bestir itself and through uni- ]afo0r union men everywhere
tied action go after the offices for men woui(j lend more encouragement to
in its own ranks then it will have noth- (jieir labor papers, there would be
ing to complain of if its best interests many of them more prosperous and of
are not protected. Now is the time to a greater benefit to the movement,
act, and quit complaining at the slaps j|ie \*nit has attempted under its
you have been getting of late when j present management, to print as good
Man is a funny cuss at best.
And likewise is his gait.
He takes a crooked course because
He drank his whiskey straight.
The street car hog
You can't affront.
He'll stick to his seat
And grunt and grunt.
Ever lose a Pullman pillow?
Wake up with a sudden fear?
Hunt that pillow in the darkness''
Find it stuck behind your ear?
I do not care for money,
No joy in wealth 1 see
a simple little million
Would be coin enough for me.
you have gone to the city officers and
city councilmen for trivial favors.
to the federal courts
The street car trust of San Fran
cisco has lugged the municipal Geary
street road ordered by the people into
the federal courts and asked for an in-
junotion restraining the city from issu
ing bonds. If there is any excuse
by which the city can be held in the
grasp of the pirates the corporation
lawyers on and off the federal benches
will find it. The allied street car trusts
fear municipal ownership worse than
anything else for it is sure to extend
when once tried. The nickel fares
are fully half pure stealings and graft
wherever collected and none know
this better than the corporations milk-
ing cities like San Francisco and Port-
land.—Portland Press.
a paper as the patronage deserved,
and as the patronage increases we will
also attempt to improve the paper ac
cordingly.
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greater than any
other in world
Organized labor is a great edu-
cational institution—a mighty
polytechnic university in which
more handicrafts, trades, profes-
sions and constructive workmen
engaged In practical world-build-
ing exist than in any other organ-
ized school in the world.—Ed-
mund Norton.
Union Printing Offices
entitled to use of this label.
j TRADES fe°?| COUNCIL £
Fair List Allied Printing Trades Council
*(98) Daily Times, 117-119 West 2nd.
•(97) Times-Journal Printing Co.. (Job printing) 218-220 W. Grand.
*(96) Western Newspaper Union. (Publishers) Cor. 2nd & Haryev.
*(95) Warden Printing Co., (Job printing), Lee avenue, between
Main and Grand.
*(94) Tfie Daily News, (Newspaper) 328 West Grand.
(93) Okahoman Job Office, (Job printing) 16 South Robinson.
(92) Manley Office Supply Co., (Job printing) 20-22 So. Robinson
*(91) Daily Pointer, (Newspaper) 218 West Grand.
(90) Rridgers Printing Co., (Job printing) Basement Majestic Bldg.
(89) Wand & Son, (Printing, rubber stamps, etc.) 304V& W. Main.
(88) Bays-Burnett, (Job printing) 10 N1. Broadway.
(87) A. S. Ferguson, (Job printing) 111% W. Main.
(86) Dunn & Sons, (Job printing) Room 15, W. N. U. Bldg.
(85) Baer Printing Co., (Job printing) 200V& W. Main.
*(S4) Francis Typesetting Co., (Linotype) Basement Majestic Bldg.
(83) Farm Journal, (Newspaper) Western Newspaper Union Bldg.
! (82) The Peerless Press, (Job printing) 20 W. 1st.
! 181) Engraving & Printing Co., (Job printing) 1-3 W. Main.
(80) Union Printing Co. (Job printing) 304 W. California.
*(79) Oklahoma Typesetting Co., (Linotype).
(75) A. E. Samples. (Job printing.
(77) Mol^an Printing Co., Uoli printing) Indiana Bldg.
(76) Okla. Specialty Co., (Novelties) 118 W. Second.
(75) Western Bank Note ^o., (Job printing).
(74) Buck McMaster, (Job printing) 1230 W. 13th.
(73) Thomas Print Shop, (Job printing) 127% W. Grand.
(72) Hommas & Wilson. (Job printing) 212% W. First.
(71) Advocate-Review, (Job printing) Cor, Robinson & Reno.
(70) Truth Printing Co., Capitol Hill.
(69) Iska Publishing Co., (Newspaper) 225 W. Reno.
(68) Markwell Printing Co. (Job printing) 129% W. Main.
(67) Printers Publishing Co., (Publishers, Masement Majefltjc.
union offices but not entitled to use of label.
! * (99) Daily Oklahoman, 502 North Broadway.
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•Offices having Linotype machines.
! Offices having Monotype machines.
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