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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1916
Page
10
New York labor unrest centers on garment workers locked out in a closed shop dispute. 60,000 marchers are expected in a major May Day parade with mass meetings planned after the demonstration.
Chicago May 1 Police guarded the Deering plant of the International Harvester Company to keep peace as 5000 twine factory workers strike for a nine hour day with pay for ten. The strike began a week ago and May Day opens with a tranquil labor scene attributed to strong demand for labor and recent employer concessions.
Two thousand machinists in Youngstown Ohio did not report for work on May 1 causing some plants to close. Other workers reported as usual but idle numbers may rise later.
Thousands walk or ride to work as the Pittsburg street car men strike shuts down operations for 3200 conductors and 500 other workers. Railroads run extra local trains and businesses dispatch autos to move staff while wage talks end with a maximum 32 cent offer.
Absence of labor troubles and renewed activity define the Rocky Mountain industrial scene on May 1 in Denver. Labor leaders call conditions satisfactory. Silver camps in Leadville and Aspen revive, gold camps show life, and Pueblo’s Colorado Fuel and Iron plant workers win a 10 percent wage increase.
The state industrial relations committee says there is not a serious controversy pending between the employer and employee, and an additional increase has gone into effect.
A scale conference will open in Kansas City within ten days to fix a new rate for miners in the Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma district as the old agreement expires July 31. Workers will stay on the job after that date if no agreement is reached until negotiations conclude or a formal announcement of no hope is made. Officials report better conditions in the three states and expect a satisfactory settlement. A Muskogee railway strike last week was resolved with reinstatement.
Alaska engineering commission officials said wage increases after a recent strike would not raise overall costs. The strike settlement includes a rule that frequenting resorts or saloons is grounds for instant dismissal. Locomotive engineers will earn about 225 to 275 dollars monthly.
In Texas on May Day labor conditions are reported as the best in two to three years. Leaders say demand for workers, especially unskilled labor, is increasing while no strikes are in progress and none are anticipated.
Labor representatives from France Italy Belgium and England plan a Paris meeting to address postwar disturbances in friendly relations caused by large numbers of foreign workers employed at low wages.
Atlanta says the labor situation in the South is tranquil with central organizations for reports. The statement notes no immediate strikes and describes a calm regional labor climate.
Six hundred Eureka Air Hose Company workers in Jersey City walked out on May 1 demanding a 10 percent wage increase and a nine hour workday.
Taxpayers in San Antonio are reminded that fiscal year 1915 taxes are due now. Delinquent after May 31 incur interest and penalties. Notice from J. F. Garland Commissioner of Taxation.
A ranch deal in San Antonio closed Monday with the J K Kirkpatrick Company selling Kinney county land known as the Silver Jake ranch to J Blake Alexander for about 50000 dollars. The Nueces river property lies among the west’s most beautiful ranches and the new owner plans to stock cattle and irrigate about 200 acres for alfalfa and other forage crops.
Professional work is essential when troubled with teeth. This is the day of specializing and the teeth are the mainstay of digestion. Be sure of your dentist. Your health rests as much in his hands as in a medical doctor's.
The Grand Commandery of Knights Templars of Texas will convene in San Antonio in April 1917. R L Ball of San Antonio to be elected grand commander. San Antonio Commandery No. 7 praised as Texas’s most efficient. meeting aims to set a record with three days of drills and social events.
About 200 visiting Knights Templars will attend a meeting with Field Day exercises by San Antonio Commandery on May 16. The Red Cross Temple and Malta degrees will be conferred on a class of candidates. Work begins at 9 a.m. and runs through the evening.
Thieves broke into Muller Tire and Rubber Company at 449 Main Avenue early Sunday and stole two new adding machines a typewriter tires tubes and accessories valued about 600. Detectives had no clues Monday afternoon. Evidence shows burglars pried at a rear window failed and used a wagon to remove the loot. A stone wrapped in paper was found inside a shattered window and the front window was broken. The rear door was found unlocked.
The American consul in a Mexican town waits in a hotel dining room for Ferdinand the head waiter who was promised for dinner. Ferdinand has joined the army and earned a rapid rise to general, prompting the hotel proprietor to explain the promotion.
Fire damaged stock at M Kaufman’s dry goods store 712 West Commerce Street soon after 3 PM Sunday. Wilson-Schwegmann printing shop at 206 Navarro Street saw a second blaze at 8:30 PM, likely from oils, with minor damage. R Myers injured slightly at home from gasoline fumes igniting a lamp.
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