Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
Marshall & Harper
PRIVATE AMBULANCE
Phonet: Walnut 900
Walnut 123
lOlO N. Broadway
F I N N I N G E R
DIRECT IMPORTER AND TAILOR
134 Welt Main Street. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
WALKING SUITS, $25, *30, $35 SUIT
jjfegTATK PRINTING N STATIONERY
& Publishing Co. 1THUS11EHS.
ENGRAVING, LITHOGRAPHING.
Oklahoma City.
Grand and Walker,
A. M. De BOLT Builders
Dealer in
Lumber and Coal upp les
Down Town Office
No. 2 West Reno
Phone PBX 0 «
Lumber Yard,
Santa Fe R. R.
8th. & Rth. Street
Phorie Walnut 9
The Metropolitan Cigar Co.
130 West Main Street
Distributors of
"La Sola1', "Plantista"
"Cora Tanner" Cigars.
"John Hull", "Cornell" and
M. B. Schofield Company
Coal and Cement
Phone Wal. 8
20 W. Twelfth St.
OKLAHOMA REFINING CO.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA.
Manufacturer* and Diitribalors ef DIAMOND BRAND
Gasoline, Coal Oil, Auto Oila, Lubricating Oil, and Grea.e.. Houie and
Barn Paint. Lin.oed Oil, Turpentine and Naptha. Retail Station,.
1 OS W. First Street 1 1 1-J3-1S W. Third St.
Diamondfljf.
A. F. Fricke
Jeweler and Optician
16 North Harvey St.
Oklahoma City
Phone W. 526S
Watches
Cut Glass
Crites Broom Co.
BROOM MAKERS.
Call for Red Star, Fancy Parlor and Daisy, our guaranteed Brooms
for quality brooms. Medium grade brooms. Ladies Favorite or Little
Gem Cheaper brooms are No. 30 and No. 20.
E. J. CRITES, Manager, 220 East Main Street.
Butter Krust Bread
MADE WITH MILK
Divided Loaf
Furrow & Co.
FLORISTS
120 West Main St.
Curtis & Gartside Co.
Manufacturers of
Sash and Doors, Interior and Exterior Finish
Bank and Office Fixtures, Stairs, Screen Doors
Largest Factary in the State . STRICTLY WHOLESALE
701-723 West Main Street .. Oklahoma City
Phone Walnut 76.
Robt. M. Scott
Druggist
Free Delivery
Phone 4532 Walnut
Monarch Billiard Parlors
25-27 West Main St.
State Federation Notes
Ollie S. Wilson
Both Sizes
Phone Walnut 218-219
l
227 West Main Street.
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Only one more week in which af-
filiated unions will have the right un-
der the law to vote for officers of the
Federation on the second ballot. It is
hoped that all unions will participate
and have the returns in to Chairman
Atkins at Shawnee within the specified
time. An unofficial report , will be
made up by this office and mailed to
all unions pencfing the official count
unless a decision is had to make the
count immediately alter the election
closes.
Conditions of the trade are reported
fair by the following unions: Miners'!
| No. 3021, Coalton; Machinists No. 527
j Sapulpa; Carpenters No. 276, Okla
aia
e op the
unemployed
(Taken from a scrap book.)
In the great city men rushed back
and forth jostling each other. Hut
there were some who neither rushed
nor jostled, but wandered aimlessly
or lounged spiritlessly.
"Brother," said the newcomer, to
one of these, "will you please tell me
where I can get a job?"
"Say," was the answer, "if I knew do
you think I'd be loafing around here?"
"Why, is work scarce here?" asked
the stranger.
"Is it, do you know any place where
it isn't scarce?"
"But the land is broad and rich," the
stranger protested, "millions of acres
lie untitled, mines of untold wealth are
unopened, garden and fruit and grazing
lands are overgrown with weeds, and
in your city here are hundreds of va-
cant spots beside crowded tenements.
Why are you idle men not improving
these lands?"
"Don't bother me with such talk,"
snapped the other; "what bothers me
is how to get a job."
"Don't you see the cause of your en-
forced idleness," insisted the stranger.
"Don't you see that I have pointed out
unlimited opportunities for men to
work?"
"You're crazy. Don't you know that
all those opportunities are owned by
somebody? You'd have to pay more
than their worth before you could
touch them."
Then why don't you and the other
unemployed and the workers protest?
Why don't you insist that those who
are withholding these opportunities
from us either put them to use or let
others do so?"
"Say, Mister, I don't know anything
about such things and don't want to."
And the victim of his own and his
fellow's ignorance would hear no
more.
homa City; Printers No. 619, Sapulpa;
Railway Carmen No. 29, Shawnee;
Boiler Makers No. 293, Shawnee;
Stage Employees No. 312, Enid;
Plumbers No. 291, Oklahoma City;
Printers No. 613, Enid.
Dull conditions are reported by the
following: Miners No. 2416, Coalton;
Miners No. 2201, Bryant; Miners
1819, Lehigh; Carpenters No. 1178,
Pawhuska; Miners No. 1306, Adamson.
Stage Employees No. 312 of Enid
is a new union of the official roster of
"the Federation, affiliation having been
received this week. C. C. Thrasher
is the financial secretary and B. E.
('ope recording secretary.
"Haven't any money to buy any-
thing with."
"Go to work and earn some."
"Can't get a job. There are too
many looking for work as it is."
"Then go to work on this great tract
of land; raise wheat, corn, potatoes, I
all such things, see?"
"The owner wants more for it than 1
can pay, and more than would be
profitable for anyone else to pay."
"Does one man own this land?"
"Of course."
"Well, I'll be bio— Say, didn't God
make this land?"
"I've heard so."
"Didn't he make it for all his chil-
dren, that they might live?"
"I—I've heard so—I guess so—I
dunno."
"How does it -happen that one man
owns it all?"
"Why tile law gives it to him, of
course."
"Who makes the law?"
"We do, of course."
"Who's 'we'?"
"Why the voters. We the sovereign
people of this country. We govern
ourselves here you know. Haven't
any king or that sort of thing. We
have the freest and best government
on the face of the earth."
"And you make laws giving one man
a great fertile tract of land like this,
which he can let lie idle if he chooses,
while you and many others beg for
work and starve for food?"
"Ye-es."
"Would you kindly take off your hat
and let me see the shape of you head?"
And the Martian sailed away fepeat-
ing to himself: "What fools these
earth mortals be."
Who are your Friends?
Mr. Laboring man—isn't it the firm—who makes your
dollar do the most buying—we claim to be—and ask you in
our store to prove it to you. Our stock is in the best of
shape at all times—and we can please you.
"The Peoples Favorite Store"
DOC & BILL
TI IE HOUSE FURNISHERS
CASH OK PAYMENTS.
108 W. Grand
Phone W. 260
Wilkin-Hale State Bank
135 W. Main Street
Terminal
Arcade
****& Walnut
125 W.
Main St.
Walnut /ru_, /-Mil
4929 ' & Market 4929
THE CASH STORES OF QUALITY
H O R I G A N & M c A T E E
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
205 West Second Street. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phone Walnut 600
PRIVATE AMBULANCE
fa Hat CUtsrfaiCs
WESTFALL DRUG CO.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Phone PBX 77
Menengcr Delivery
THE FREE AMERICAN'S
(Adopted from George W. Carey.)
"Anyone approaching this country
in an airship and looking down oh it
and seeing our great and fertile fields
and rich mines and the comparatively
small population, and then seeing the
number of unemployed—the number of
people who are not employed as they
should be—would think this was a
lunatic asylum."—George W. Perkins
before the Commission of Industrial
Relations.
The airship navigator from Mars had
decided to investigate the incompre-
hensible situation described by Mr.
Perkins. After landing, he noticed a
free-born American citizen looking
very miserable and forlorn.
"What's the matter?" asked the
Martian.
Big Suit Fiiea.
Tulsa.—The Southern Oil Corpora-
tion has brought suit against Dr. H.
Weber and the Black Panther Oil
Co., for failure to deliver oil on three
contracts. One of the contracts calls
for 500,000 barrels «t 30V4 cents a
berrel; the second contract calls for
200,000 barrels at 28 cents and the
third calls for 100,000 barrels at 28
cents. The Southern Oil corporation
is engaged in buying oil and shipping
by pipe line to the railroad for deliv-
ery to tank cars. Damage in the sum
of $200,000 is asked.
Rate Cases May Be Continued Again.
Oklahoma City.—While no definite
announcement has yet been made, it
iB believed that further continuance
of the trial of the Oklahoma 2-cent
passenger rates cases will be asked
when the case comes up for trial in
federal court on May 24. Corporation
Commissioner George A. Henshaw
and Attorney General S. P. Freeling,
who are in charge of the case for the
state are now in Chicago where sta-
state's contentions in the rate ques-
tion is being obtained.
Okmulgee merchants and boosters
made the second of their trade exten
"I'm hungry," said the free-born sion trips over the county last week,
American. taking in the eastern portion of the
"Why don't you eat?" county, traveling by auto.
The Union Man
(By Guy E. Miller^
How can you recognize him?
? What are his distill-
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.
B« loyal to your brother workman, demand union overalls made at home
NEW STATE SHIRT and OVERALL MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturer, of New Stnt* Brand Union Made
OVERALLS, PANTS and JUMPERS
1132 4 W. Foirth St. Oklahoma City. Okla. Pk«n« Wd«.t 1M2
Who is he?
guishing traits? ...
He carries a paid-up card as evidence of his membership in the
union of his trade or industry. That is a means of identification. The
fellow who never contributes anything to the cause of unionism, yet
insists that he is just as good a union man as those who do, is a fraud.
He is a nioocher, a panhandler, with all the vices that belong to
his trade. He always has plenty of excuses; we all know him.
A real union man attends the meetings of his organization when-
ever possible. He knows that the union is a business institution to
aid the worker in maintaining and improving, conditions. He does
not expect a business to run itself. He gives his time, his thought and
his money to the cause. The cause of unionism does not suffer reproach
because of his conduct.
He studies the history of the labor movement in order that the
present may avoid the mistakes of the past and also to be able to
l>oint out the contributions of the labor movement to the cause of
human freedom. He keeps up with the chief events of the day, social
and industrial movements, the trend of legislation and judicial decisions,
so that he may be able to intelligently aid whatever is helpful to labor's I
cause and oppose that which is injurious.
He- exhausts peaceable methods of redressing grievances before
advocating or resorting to * strike, realizing that whatever contributes
I to the establishment of amicable relations between the employer and ne
employe promotes the well-being of labor; that an unnecessary strike,
whether lost or won. injures labor's cause.
When the strike is on he lends his fullest support to it. He claims
the enjoyment of his rights as a citizen, but is wary of the emissaries
of violence. He places the facts before the people as a brief for tlv
strikers' cause. Outside the strike zone he is active in their behalf and
pavs his quota as an invstment for improved conditions. |
The union 'man is a thinking worker putting in practice the gospel i
of brotherhood.
Popular government is not in itself a panacea; it is no
better than any other form, except as the virtue and wisdom of
the people make it so.—J. R. Lowell.
PHONES: Maple 306; Walnut 5605 122 W. California
PRICE & SON
MEATS, POULTRY AND FISH
Wholesale and Retail
Frederickson-Kroh Music Co.
221 West Main
PIANOS, PLAYER PIANOS, TALKING MACHINES
and Everything Musical
The only store in Oklahoma handling all makes of Sir.chines
and records. VICTOR - COLUMBIA - EDISON
We Want Your Trade
Buy Your
Hardware and Tools
from the Exclusive Hardware Store.
Storm & Erickson Hdw. Co.
Ill North Broadway. Phone W. 2419.
A. F. Rueb
Phone Walnut 2955
A1 Rueb
Ruebs Cafe
112 Nortli Robinson The Neatest Union House in Town
31 N. Robinson St.
Leeds Woolen Mills
SUITS TO Q1 C
MEASURE
Oklahoma City, Okla.
UNION
MADE
A Complete Line of the New.it Pattern. Fit
The Only $15 Tailors That Gives You The UNION LABEL.
% bail:
303-5 West Mam Street
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Phone Walnut 204
Leech Paint & Glass Co.
Glass. Paints, Wall Paper
Painters Supplies
118W. Grand
Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma Sash & Door Co.
Manufacturers of
Mill Work. Jobbers all Kinds of Glass
Hill's Business College
LEARN MORE TO EARN MORE
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Phone W. 3434
Heliotrope aud Choctaw Flour
Oklahoma City Mill and
[Elevator Co.
"OK" Portland Cement Co.
We farnuh Free information on CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
Ask Your Dealer For "OK CEMEN1
Plant at Ada, Oklahoma
1110 State Nat'l Bank Bids. Oklahoma City, Okla j
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