The Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 4, 1911 Page: 7 of 8
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C. M. Blanchard
Atwood-Blanchard Lumber Co.
City Phone Main 102
Established 1898
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Stock Yards Phone 3792
Established 1909
Kerfoot-Miller & Co.
Wholesale Dry Goods
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Makers of Strictly Union Made Overalls
ASK FOR "BRONCO BRAND."
LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL
MAIN OH1CE —9-11 W. MAIN ST.
FACTC R i 217 N. HARVEY
Oklahoma City
WE SAVE OUR CUSTOMERS FROM
8"*' to 20^' cn their groceries and meats. Are you one? "
more you buy the more you save." Spot Cash and no delivery.
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PHONE P. B. X. 40
Phone 3743
New P. 0. Building
Cor. Main & Hudion Sti.
SOUTHERN PHARMACY
G. ROSS GOODN1 R
PROPRIETOR
A RFALDRUC STORE
OKl^vHOMA CITY
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DRUG TRADE ONLY
Acme Manufacturing Company
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Home Made Cookies, Potato
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Theodore Maxfield Co.
WHOLESALE
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212 West Second Street
Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Office Phone 3400
Residence Phone 2355
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MILL and MACHINERY
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Oklahoma City, Okla.
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306 W. MAIN (NEXT TO MELLOKS)
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The Duke's Adventure
A Tale of the Trams
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Why
(From the Daily News, London, Jan-
uary 23, 1907.
The Duke stood on the Embankment,
bis mind revolving a great adventure.
It had occurred to him suddenly that
morning, and had possesses him with
a kind of feverish excitement all day.
A duke in a tramear! The thing
sotiuded like blasphemy—like a pres-
age of "red ruin and the breaking up
of laws." A tramear was a symbol ot
Socialism. Its profits went not to
dukes, but to the public. It was a hor-
rid menace, flaunting itself in the pub-
lic streets.
The public streets? Why were the
streets "public"? That was where the
evil had begun. If only they had been
private streets, with toll gates and toll-
bars—
The Tooting tram glided up to \\ at-
erloo Bridge, and the crowd of men
and women on the pavement boarded
it eagerly.
Tooting? Where was Tooting
Beemed to have heard the name.
not go to Tooting?
The Duke stepped on the footboard
just as the car restarted. He paused,
uncertain where to go.
"Plenty of room upstairs," said the
conductor.
The Duke went up and took a vacant
seat. Who were those men sitting
smoking their pipes and their ciKar®1-
tes, and reading their papers? Clerks
he supposed, and people of that sott.
A carpenter came up and plumped
himself down beside him, dropping Ins
tool-bag at bis feet. The Duke winced
slightly, and half regretted his adven-
ture. He had never had a workman
rubbing shoulders with him like this.
Probably the man did not wish to be
offensive, but—. And the tobacco he
smoked! Really, he wished that he
hud gone downstairs Instead of up.
Indeed he was disposed—
"Nice bit o' money the Duke has
made out o' this little bit o' land,' sa!<|
the Carpenter, whisking his finger
the direction of the Strand. ^
The Duke realized with a snuuder
that the man was speaking to him. And
in such a horribly familair tone! WUat
was he to do?
•'I—I—beg your pardon?
"I was just saying as the Duke has
made a nice little pile out o' this land.
"It's meant millions to him and the
Norfolk family. And they tell me that
when the Embankment was made he
cot £20,000 for allowing 'em to im-
prove his property. There's no flies on
the Duke." And he laughed good-
naturedly, blowing a cloud of smoke
out before him.
••But it's—it's his property, said the
yes, it's his property all right,
tho' how It comes to be his I d«nn°^
But who's made it valuable for him .
Not him, eh? No, he's done nothing.
It's them as work and eat and live and
Bleep here while he's away in his
castle, drawing his rents and leaving
Oh, it's
them to pay the rates, too
a lovely world for dukes."
"Are you a Socialist?" said the Duke,
with something of awe, for he had nev-
er spoken to a Soeiaist.
"A Socialist? Not me. 1 dunno#s
I'm anything in partikler. Hut 1 do
know as I'd make the ground landlords ('h?
lieve in. What do you think the muni-
cipality ought to do, Mister?"
The Duke winced at the horrible
word; bi" he mastered his emotion
with an effort.
"I think," he said severely, that the
business of the municipality is to pave
the streets and light them, and look af-
ter the parks, and pay for the schools
and make the sewers, and—and things
of that sort."
"Oh, I see," laughed the Carpenter,
"they've got to do everything that lias
no profits in it, and leave the profitable
things to the people with the money,
And then we chaps have got to
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V01E RICH!
CONFERENCE HELD WITH EXECU-
TIVE COUNCIL OF AMERICAN
FEDERATION.
NEW UNION ORGANIZED.
1 The International Photo Engravei f
I I'nion of North America, Local No. 56,
. has organized in Oklahoma City and
| will affiliate with the allied Printing
Trades. All of the members of the
new organization are employed at the.
standard Engraving Co., Erwln Roth-
schild is the president und Calvin Per-
son, secretary.
pay their share o' the rates. And I do Pay the rates and the ground landlords
know as I'd stop any more increase in are to draw their millions of rents rale
the land values going into their pock- tree. Oh, oh! And then you Moderate >
ets. Let the people who make the val- fellows with your Duke leading yon,
ues pocket 'em sav I." | come along and sympathize with us |
"Why," said the Duke, with horror in Poor chaps because the rates nro so,
his tone; that's confiscation, my man." "ign.
"Confiscation Is It? Well, all 1 can , ''""derate fellows," said the Duke
say is that it seems to me we want a risi"S. his face aflame with wounded
lot o' confiscation. The landlords have I)r'"e-
had all the confiscation so far. liut i "Well, 110 harm, Mister. I'm only
what can you expect, with 'em sitting : putting it in my rough way, you know."
across yonder making laws for us in "You are a very rude person," said
their own interests?" and he waved his the Duke as he turned to the stairway,
hand towards the Houses of Parlia- j ..Qh well gaid the carpenter, "if j
ment scornfully. y0U take it that way, all right."
"And that ain t all. \\ hy, they tried rp^ i)uke went down the stairs. He
to stop our trams coming across the woui(j no^ Tooting. He would
bridges. They wanted to confiscate get ofT fhis hateflll lram llt once. He
wanted to confiscate
our bridges and keep 'em for motor-
'buses and their own carriages."
"And quite right," said the Duke, hot-
ly. "Private enterprise has made Eng-
land, and this municipal Socialism is
going to destroy it."
"Oh, I'm for private enterprise, all
right," said the Carpenter. "But in its
right place, you know—you musn't
have private enterprises where monop-
olies are concerned. I got a lesson in
that when I was a little boy in the
country. 1 had to go along a road that
had a toll-bar, and every time you
passed the toll-bar you had to pay a
penny. That was private enterprise
with public monopolies. And I ain't
forgot it.
"Now, what. I say," went on the Car-
penter, "is that private enterprise is
all right,in the grocery trade and doc-
toring and lawyering and tea shops, away.
"Yes," said another, might ha' been «ral other countries in connection with
stepping from his carriage. Lucky he his trip abroad and study lubor condi
didn't break no bones." tions. The matter of insiructions tc
...... The Duke has never made another Mr. Duncan in eonnc ion with hn
I ve set up in a little bus. reach the wilds of Tooting, mission, were discussed at length, but
doing very well, except, the gnai decision as to what these in
to be were kept se
DEPENDS UPON WHO
COMMITS THE CRIME.
and that sort of thing. Competition is
good for the public then—it keeps
things reasonable, you know. Let ev-
eryone have a fair field and no favor.
Same as me.
iness, and ai
for the rates and the taxes. That s
what made me a bit savage with them
ground landlords. But when it comes
to gas and water and trams and mar-
kets—well, I say, 'hands off to private
enterprise. They are public privileges,
granted by Parliament, and they
oughtn't to be used to put money in m, t Wizens f
my private pocket or yours Why, f ^uburh wreokp(I „ s,
we d had these monopolies in the hands
of the people from the beginning they'd
pay half our rates by now, and the
other half would come out of the land-
(By Pan-American Press.)
Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.—The
Executive Board of the Farmers' Na-
tional Union of America, consisting
of W. R. Callicotte, A C. Davis, E.
| Cabanisi and R. W. Cox, has just held
a long conference with tne Executive
Council of the American Federation of
! Labor in which it is unofficially stated
united political action was decided
upon, it was agreed that the officers
of both organizations should again
meet to devise ways and means to
j carry the project into effect.
' In a bulletin just issued by the Ex-
ecutive Council of the A. F. of L. there
is the following hint *of drastic action ;
to be taken in the case of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
• of America:
I "Inasmuch as the Building Trades
Department has suspended the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
: ers, and the International Union of
I Steam-Fitters, the Department asked
A policeman came and helped him to that like action be taken by the Ex-
his feet and clapped his hat on his ecutive Council and to suspend thes<*
head. j organizations from the Federation."
"That ain't the way to git off a! The report of the condition of tho |
tram," said he, kindly. "Did you hurt Federation for the first three months
yourself?" I(,f the fiscal year showed an income
of $40,355.61 and a balance on hand
January 1. of $177,767.7! .
Nineteen charters were issued to
A small crowd gathered and watched r|(y (,(,ntral bodies, 26 to local trades
with Interest fhe Duke, flushed and be- „nlong all(1 nine f,.,|,.ral labor
smirched, while the policeman bailed linlongi ,|uring these three months,
a cab. ! v)r0 I'rcsilient Duncan, who was
"Got off the tram like a woman," elected as a delegate to the Inter
said one of the idlers as the Duke rode national Labor Congress at Budapest, |
August, 1911, was directed to visit scv
would go home and cleanse himself of
this contamination. He would—
He stepped into the roadway; but
the tram was going at ful speed, and he
was unaccustomed to alighting, and
measured his length in the mire.
Hi
"No, no," said the Duke hastily,
me a cab, please."
Get
structions were
cret.
Says the Burlington Hawk-Eye, one
of the great papers of the Middle
West:
"Up in Des Moines a number of
BOYDTON HERE.
Sam Boydton of McAlester, head
arpenter for the Oklahoma peniten
itizens from a fashionable tiary, was in the city this week.
reet car because it I —
was not heated, and threw the wreck- RETURNS FROM COLUMBUS.
age into the river. They were demand- j
ing their rights. It's a fine thing to be Fred Price of Lehigh, Okla.. dele-
i prominent citizen. If the same thing gate to th<
w 0 _ United Mine Worken
lords.^They're the biggest monopolists jjeen done by common working Convention, lately held at Columbus
°f a^-' men, perhaps they would have been Ohio, has returned, and renewed a«-
"Put that's municipal trading," said dubbed anarchists, and they would quaintance with his many friend ir
the Duke. have been prosecuted and everybody Oklahoma City yesterday Mr. Pricc
"Call it what you like," said the Car- would have advised them that there is one of the most popular miners ir
penter. I don't see any tradint? ire laws and courts in this country to the district and had an interesting re
where there's no competition. But if , whom all can appeal who feel ag- port to make of the woik of the great
it's municipal trading, that's what I be-1 grieved." I convention.
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