Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 25, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
Compliments
Armstrong Byrd Music Co.
211 W. MAIN OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
OKLAHOMA CITY MILL &
ELEVATOR COMPANY
HELIOTROPE CI A| ID
CHOCTAW • LUUR
S. E. Clarkson, Pres. A. W. Boyd, Vice-Pres.
W. H. Vick, Secy and Treas.
Oklahoma City
Hardware Co.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
EXCLUSIVE JOBBERS
Cheap Freight and Short Haul
We Solicit Your Patronage.
We Guarantee Satisfaction
Custom-Made Shirts and Underwear
Lehr-Flora
Shirt Company
Third Floor Gross Building
Phone Walnut 7249 116 West Second St.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
c
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^HIS is Mrs. Jones,
Mrs. Brown; I
called up to let
you know I have just
had a telephone in-
stalled in my home
and I'll not have to
bother you any more.
—You've been very
nice about letting me
your telephone,
I know I must
have been a perfect nuisance.—Now
that I have one of my own, I wonder
how I ever did get along without it.
Thank you again so much. Good-bye.'*
A telephone in your own home frees
you from the embarrassment oi
using your neighbors.
Pioneer Telephone
and Telegraph Company
use
but
For Good Clothing at Reasonable
Prices.
-SEE"
JONES-HELTON CO.
118 West Main
OKLAHOMA CITY
Rhinocerous Bird Chirps
1
Now comes the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers with a warning
against the Committee on Industrial
Relations.
Below is an abstract from the "spe-
cial Washington correspondence" of
"American Industries," the official
monthly publication of the Association
I that employed Mulhall to corrupt pub-
lic servants.
I The article is written by one of
those rhinoceros birds that are so com-
mon in Washington. The rhinoceros
bird also flourishes in African swamps.
He perches on the back of the rhinoc-
eros and feeds on the insects that he
finds on its thick hide. In return for
this favor, ho warns the rhinoceros
of the approach of an enemy by flying
into the air and uttering shrill cries.
This particular rhinoceros bird
chirps as follows:
"Two dangers confront the business
interests of the country, both are im-
mediate and pressing dangers, al
though the interests have heretofore
either wholly disregarded one of them
or looked upon it as very remote, one
to be considered sometime in the dis-
tant future. The first is repressive
and oppressive legislation on the part
of the national and state legislatures,
and the second is the rapid growth of
socialism in the country.
"As to the first, it is true that Pres-
ident Wilson has tentatively declared
that no further radical legislation is
contemplated, yet all indications point
the other way. The renewed aggres-
I siveness on the part of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the hints
I and suggestions that have been thrown
out by the Federal Trade Commission,
the activity of labor organizations and
the demands they are preparing to
make on Congress are all warnings
I to the business of the country that a
hard battle is before it. There was a
brief time when the Interstate Com-
merce Commission gave hope that
transportation lines were to be given
some little opportunity to make earn-
ings large enough to enable them to
| meet the demands of the public in the
I way of betterments, but such hope has
been rudely dispelled, and today trans-
portation lines are once more amid
the breakers
For some years organized labor has
maintained in Washington a most per-
sistent and energetic lobby, filling the
galleries and lobbies of the Capitol,
land besieging members of Congress
at every turn. Today a second lobby
is added to that headed by Mr. Gom-
pers. The new lobby is under the di-
rection of Mr. Walsh, chairman of the
late Federal Industrial Commission.
; He has opened up headquarters and
bluntly announced what he and his
I followers propose to demand—not to
|{«sk—of Congress. One demand is a
law taking away from the courts the
power to declare Congressional en-
actments unconstitutional especially
when such enactments have to do with
labor in any form. Another is that
mittee." The committee is composed
of twelve members, seven of them be-
ing rather notorious for their radical
ism regarding labor, and the other
five are well known agitators, and ad
vocates of impossible Utopias. A pub-
licity bureau has been opened and the
press is to be fed with rank argu-
ments favoring the declared purposes
of the Committee. Politicians, as a
rule, are notable cowards when it
comes to facing demands made by la-
bor organizations and a threat of loss
of \otes frequently frightens them into
(loins things their better conscience
condemns. It was such a scare that
forced them to pass the Clayton law
and the Federal Trade Commission
act."
PRINTING TRATES IN
ARDMORE NEXT WEEK
EXPECTED THAT OKLAHOMA CITY
WILL BE WELL REPRE
SENTED.
The annual meeting of the State
League of Printing Pressmen and As-
sistants of Oklahoma, will be held in
Ardmore, December 31, and January
1, next.
The pressmen of Oklahoma formed
their state league in the fall of 1914,
at which time a temporary organiza-
tion was entered into. Permanent or-
ganization was eff.ected in January,
1915, al Oklahoma City, at which time
officers were elected and a constitu-
tion and by-laws adopted. The state
league was originally planned to be
a strictly pressmen's organization, but
as there was no state organization of
the other printing crafts in Oklaho-
ma, it was the belief that the state
organization would be strengthened
by the organization of a league com-
posed of the typographical, stereotyp-
ers, book binders and pressmen's un-
ions over the state.
At the last meeting of the state fed-
eration of labor, plans to this end
were temporarily entered into and all
| local unions of the different printing
trades were asked to send delegates
to the meeting to be held here, at
which time permanent organization is
expected to be effected.
It is planned to have the different
crafts hold separate meetings on the
first day of the session here, says the
Ardmoreite. On Saturday all will hold
a joint session and effect a permanent
organization of the printing crafts.
The stereotypers, bookbinders, typo-
graphical and pressmen's locals at
Oklahoma City, also the allied print-
ing trades council there and the state
federation of labor will send dele-
gates to the meeting here also the lo-
cal organizations at Tulsa. All five
oi the pressmen's locals in Oklahoma
have signified their intention of being
all supplies needed b\ the govern- J represented here.
r.ient, including vessels of war, muni- j The Ardmore Pressmen s union has
nous, guns, etc., be made in govern-1 had committees at work for several
ment plants. A third is the organiza-1 weeks arranging for this convention,
tion and arming of a well drilled army
of labor, and fourth that neither the
regular army nor the national guard
yhall ever be used against striking la-
bor organizations.
"Mr. Walsh calls his new organiza-
tion "The Industrial Relations Com-
Greetings
We take pleasure in thanking the merchants through-
out the state for the favors bestowed on our firm during
the year just closing, and extend to all our heartiest
wishes for Health, Happiness and Prosperity for 1916.
T. D. Turner & Company
Oklahoma City
Branches at- Altus Chickasha Clinton
Enid Guthrie Lawton Tulsa
which is expected to prove one of im-
portance to all printing trades organ-
izations of Oklahoma.
A woman will boast that she trusts
her husband, but still insists on carry-
ing the poclcetbook.
Are Now
All Furs
Priced Half
And in Time for Xmas
The beautiful mild weather we have experienced so far
this winter has played havoc with the selling of furs.
We are Overstocked. We must unload
CHOOSE ANY FUR IN OUR ENTIRE STOCK now at
t Price
Included are beautiful Red Fox, Eastern Mink, Beaver, Mole,
Hudson Seal, Black Lynx and Ermine.
Oklahoma Supply
Company
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA.
R. I. GOFF. President
Wholesale Shellers of Pecans
Manufacturers of Liquid Wash Blue and Ammonia and
the Family Beverage "OSCO" Phosphate
17 East Reno Phone Walnut 3531
Oklahoma Gas
Engine Company
Gas and Gasoline Engine and High Class Automobile
Rebuilding and Repairing
General Machine Shop Practice Cylinders Reground
New Pistons and Rings Made Welders
of any known metals.
317-323 Western Ave. Phone Walnut 2053
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
TOWLER'S
LAUNDRY
16 and 18 Norlh Lee
Oklahoma City
Phone Walnui 6730
Welcome to the
home of union made
CLOTHES
Everything that Men Wear from
Head to Foot
44+++W4++++
We Wish You a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
"The Store Ahead'
IO 3 MAIN
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
H. LE.WINSOHN & SON, New Owners
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