United labor bulletin., 1913-10-25

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Insulted by the insolence of lies,
Truth never dies.
Truth answers not; it does not take
| offense;
But with mighty silence bides its
time.
AS some great cliff that braves the
elements,
And lifts through all the storms its
head sublime,
So truth, unmoved, its puny foes
defies,
And never dies.
o o O
| When Commissioner of Property
Otto F. Thum reached his office in the
City Hall Tuesday morning he dis
covered that some one had presented
him with kit of golf tools. Be it
known that in line with the usufruncts
of his office, the commissioner has re-
Gently caused to be created municipal
golf links at City park. where pie
beians may go at will and cavort in
the plutocratic game. Some of the
wise ones about the office limited that
the tools were the gift of John Beeler,
manager of the Tramway. company,
given with an eye single to business.
Because If the commissioner becomes
an adept in this rich mans pastime,
it will popularize the public links, and
each person who goes to engage in or
see the fun will contribute at least
ten cents to the exchequer of the
Tramway company. Be this as it may,
at early dawn Wednesday, Otto and
John were on the links doing heavy
practice stunts and acrimonously de-
batting skipstops during breathing
spells.
The county jail is once more enter
tanning its most distinguished guest.
Mr.. Otto Robinson arrived this week
from his summer rambles and is
spending his nineteenth winter sea
son in the hotel SO ably presided over
by Commissioner of Safety Nisbet. He
generally asks for and receives a SEN
tence of ninety days, comes out and
requests to have the dose repeated, so
that he has a steamheated furnished
room, food at the rate of 80 cents
worth day, laundry and other per
quisites free of cost until the balmy
breezes of spring again lure him to his
travels. The county jail was built
twenty years ago and the second win
ter, and each succeeding winter. Otto
has registered as a season visitor.
Mr.. Robinson is 5s years old and
boasts that he has never been sick a
day. He also asserts that work has a
tendency to make a man cash in his
checks before the life game is played
out
! Did you ever stop to think why
girls are exclusively employed in the
Denver telephone exchange and all
others throughout the country. The
reason was given by w. C. Mcdaniel
at meeting of the Telephone Pio-
neers' Association in Chicago the
other day. He said at the beginning
of practical use of the telephone
young men were engaged, but lacked
| patience and girls were soon substi-
tuted, and have remained on the job
ever since. Mr.. Mcdaniel gave his
personal experience as follows: There
were four boy operators in my office.
| One day when it seemed as If every
subscriber wanted to talk over the
| lines at the same time, | walked in
to the switchboard room and listened.
One Of the boys was working fever
ishly. when suddenly he blurted out:
Wait your turn, you crazy IDIOT
Right then reached the decision that
we would have to get girl operators If
we wished to keep our business. We
hired the girls and the trouble ceased
o o O
Tony Costello, barber. left Galevs-
ton, Tex, Wednesday morning. Octo-
ber /, with a message to Samuel
Gompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor, which he expects
to deliver in Washington on the an
niversary of the labor chiefs Gath
birthday, January 27, 1914. Tony is
to walk the entire distance, and
1makes the trip under auspices OF the
Galveston Labor Dispatch, of which
]. w. Young is the efficient and versa
tile editor. Costello made the start
encumbered with no equipment other
than the clothes he wore and a case
containing guitar. He was without
money and will work his way to Wash
ington, singing, playing his guitar.
and distributing souvenirs. 1t is part
OF the program, also, that where meet
ings are arranged he will sing and
play and make a speech.
| O o O
Governor Hiram w. Johnson of Call
fornia, as soon as he received the
news of Andrew J. Gallagher's election
as supervision, telegraphed his con-
graduation to both Mr.. Gallagher and
the city Of San Francisco. Gallagher
ia n-eafdent of the San Francisco La