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Jm. F. Banatt om Ubar Tr»iiM« ia Meant Airy PubiUhed al the nqtHl of the Mount Airy Branch of the Granite Cutter* International Association follow Citiseos: 1 cannot »ay that I am proud to be hi this position. I am clad to ho In Mount Airy; I am |IM to moot and mingle with you men and woman: but I aaaura you it ia with faar and trembling that I approach thin hour. 1 would not for all the w«alth of Um country make a statement 111 Mount Airy that would widen the ■■WMag breach between two of your cWhh, much laaa between two groupe of your citiaenahip. The question than comae up, can a auui say something that will help to eliminate emating mlsuailau landings, 1 stead of craating new trooblae ? If you had no trouble here and if thia waa hiat a gat-together rally labor meeting or community gathering. I would lust lova to aland hare and talk my fool head off, but I realise the ra ■ ponsibillty of the hour, and if I do say something hero tonight that should not be said, I aaaura you It la done through ignorance rather than any malicioua intent. I don't know what ia the boat to aay, I wish to God 1 could Hay something her* to night that would help In solving the problems of thia community. Thia trouble you people io Mount Airy are now experiencing la not a local trou ble. On Nov. 11, IHB, whan the Ar mistice waa signed thai stopped that battle over yood< r i<n<l allowed your son* to return lierv itnd started the shipment <»f ihe bodie< of other* back here on I lint night, the Manufactur er* Association met In the city uf In dianapolm, and I whs there, and start ad that night u warfare against oi ganisctl labor of this country-. the in* «u nui ory upon uiai. p«iinnirin, upon that piece of paper that declared peace among the nation*, until the Manufacturer* Association started another war. and that movement was to destroy the Labor Union in thi' country, and from November 11. 1H18, to thin blciMod night that warfare has not been let up, except in thoae platen where they have been thoroughly and completely convinced that it i* useless to try to destroy the labor organita tionn. Now, mv frienda, there are many people in Mount Ainr who are not con versant, and I an frank to *sy there are some who art ignorant in the city, some who are not familiar with, who do not know what the principles of the American Federation of Labor are. The American laborer doe* not want to dictate to anyone of it* employers. They want to cooperate with the em Soyern, through mutual under*land g. There are only three thing* that ♦he Labor Union wants—get thut now. \* I have already said, they want a .-oice in things — not to dictate, but to simply have the privilege of a voice. Then wage*. hours and working con ■litions. I repeat, the Labor Union <k>aa not want to dictate wagaa, hour* it what working conditions shall be. The employees simply want tKe privi lege or having their chosen repre sentatives meet the lawyers or repre tentative* of the employer* and across the table arrive at a contract in which the employee* have a right to spaak <>n the** question*. If there is a man or woman in Mount Airy who says that the laboring man should not have his right I am ready to get off the tump, ntop my pap< r and g» hack to plowing the old mule in Madison Co. In considering the right* of the workmen, hi* income i* not a mere matter of dollars and cents to him 1 would like to have those boy* on the pay-roll, a» well a* those men who make out that pay-roll, look at it in the light that it doe* not consist of simply so much money in an envelope. It mean* every little bit of feed that goes onto the table for his wife and children; it means every- little gar ment that goe* on the back* of his family, it mean* every doctor'* hill, drug bill, insurance policy, every church donation, Sunday school con tribution, every picture show outing; that is what the pay envelope means to the men who work for wages. That is what wage* mean to eacn one of them. Then let anybody toll me that the man who is working for the wage doe* not have the right through hi* representatives to discus* with hi* employer and decide, what that wage should be. A lit" n«*Ai i^uraviun, umi ui iiuun*, we will consider for a few minutes There is not but one power in exis tence that can give life. Your great scientist* and all of the learned men of the aires cannot tell you but one reason why man lives, and that is through the Divide irift of God Al mighty. That man's life is his, and tt u made up of no many yean, ao many months in a year, so many days in a week, hours in a day, and so on. They belong to him individually by the DIvOm.- Gift of Almighty God and not to an industrial organisation, and if a man wiahes to work and does work, and he gives so many hours of this life to that industry, than who has a l>etter right than that man him self to have a representative apeak for him with hi* employers' representa tives in paaaing on how many hours he shall put into that industry. Nest, working conditions—and this m the most important of all, because if the workmsn i Ufa Is to be ksnt in danger—and many of the workmen who go In that industry ran the Hak of losing their health--then he must have plenty of fresh air, pure water, ale. Then who has a mors sacred light than the workman to talk with his employer aa to what the working conditions shall be in that industry? Now, here locally the trouble was brought about according to this paper, printed tn this city, on account of a contract written by the Company *nd submitted to the man, and they eo*ld "sign tt and go to work or they could reject It and sUrve," according to the reputed statement of one of the offl rials of that company. Now, that ia not settling the question. I wish 1 mold impress upon you this fact, that 1 woaMJmrt as willingly and smphati rally amiciae the actiona of the local labor anion aa I would the actions of 4m ■ of the local asmpany. If I thought the workerawsrs wrong^hut havawKad u^some around tarwn—! take il for granted and hare been told by MVtnl of the bualp<-aa man, that the mmtkm Involved in thU local af fair U th.i redutUon of wagaa of It. Kda/. Now, that a a pntto big i>—I uaad to work for that. lUduc tkon! According to the wwilld •Ulement, mrncd by the vkr«- preai iU nl of one of tha big rompaniea bora, the main object la to InatituU tha American Plan or open ahop. If thara baa ever baan anything mi»nam«d, it ia that of tha American Plan or opan ahop. If thara has avar baan any movement atarted by pollti claaa, if than baa avar baan a liar that deaarvaa———K la tha guy that naiad tha opan ahop tha American r. Thara la nothing Amarkan la Taking tha folda >J tlia flax your 'onifathara fought far and for which aoma of your brothara dlad bafora yon, and uaiag that flag of fr*<-dom, tha naata for which It atanda. Amoricnn lam, ta cover tha plan that drivaa tha workmen of thia country hack Into alavary. Now. tha workara of tha union of thia city mada Mount Airy what it la. Thara la no doubt about it. Four tlmaa thaaa man have batm out. I hava no grudge agalnat tha man who baa money: I wiah I had mum <*f It. No man living today haa a greatar admiration far tha follow w)u> doaa thinga. Tha old pioneers looked toward tha way aklaa of the weat, for oppoilunttiee. Thay hawad In the foreeta;tolled with their hand*, mind you; buildad citiaa and towna. No man admlraa tha man who haa not the grit to back hii judgment with hla money, and I dearly love to itettle a labor trouble with Ufa work ing alda given an equal chance. To day I want out and looked over "Tha Rock," you call It. Through the courtaay of the auperintandant I waa permitted to go over It, aee the work men them flnTahing the work, prepar ing It for tub ( atood upon a portion •>f that rock and aaw the great der rick lakinir load after load down to the «hed. I admire men who do auch aa that; but I would hav* those men n'mfinncr inn, uiai nitiure ■ immi put •hat, rook out ther*. Their company lidirt do It. It i* not worth on* cent of the million* It may represent until the hand of labor go** then-, take* thnt r«>ck out. even to th« tinleat block, puts It into building* and monument*. which all represent the hand of la'.ior. I do not care how much capital the company ha*, the rock itaalf out there ia not worth thi* pitcher of water, in any phase of the work out there. from the time the line* *re put into the ground on through to the 1a*t stroke* laid on it, It i* useless except that work given to it hy labor. I respectfully lubmlt to you people of Mount Airy the fact that your work men and not your capital inva*t«d in the quarry ia do* your flrat and moat sincere consideration. I want you to think over thia, my friend*. There i* a plan of co-operation that ha* exi*ted and ahould be exliting to day, and I believe that if the local management of this company win 1 romp ted by the views of the National Association of Employers, bat inatead follow their own wiahe*, there would not be any trouble hem today. Y«r talk to me of foreign agitation!yl know some of the member* of this i oinpanv, and they are mighty good men. I do not want you to condamn these helpless workman, hut place the blame where it belong*—on haslne**, if It belongs on btisines*. A* to the statement* of the manufacturers eon itrning the workmen who are out. me and Jim Helton will start out in the morning and pension every one of thrm out. not allowed to come hark to work out there. I am told there i* > man in your cit> of a certain com uany (which company ha* the men locked out) who said that they would soon starve these fellows into *ub mission. I am here to tell you that there are 175,000 wnge workers in this State who stand n ady to each give a ! dollar a week before a workman in Mouht Airy *tarves one minute. The thing to do is to aettle this i matter, befor* it goe* any further, j If the workmen arc wrong, I believe they will admit it; if th* mnnufac turers are wrong, they should admit '. Now, some bu^inuM men I have talked to her*—anil you know I have n peculiar idea *b>ut this word busi ness! I am in bunnes* m>self. The two elements of humanity I rvspect more than any other are these: one is the farmer, who goe* out and bring* the products out of the *oil from the sowing of the seed, and the other is j the worker who takes the raw pro duct and makes it into the finished article* for God's children. They are | the two essential*. Now, I nave heard another thin* that hurt mc. I heard this afternoon that it i» thee* foreigners here who j are prolonging this troubl" I got' into town Saturday night, came j straight from the train to the hall, I narked with men who had not gone | hack to work. In that hall were: four Italiani, an Irishman and some thing else—1 did*nt know what it waa. I The real of them ware North Carolina, i Mount Airy, American-bom citisens. | Please, those of you who have heard | these reports, talk to these fellows about it before you accept as gospel truth these things. Now, 1 take it, there are merchants hers and I love I them; I belong to the Merchants' As sociation; I want to brtng thia point to yoat did you aver ait down and figure oat what It means In the man ner of living of the men and their I familiee, the difference between the |6 and 9* wage? These guys who got it haven't Seen able to aava any t hing out of the$». Bom their hands v "ill be eold, paralysed by the drill they handle; then whatT Or hla hnalUi will be broken by exposure to ths dost In that work out there; he most have beef steak the sweet milk so necessary to o»f the effects of the dust of that industry; those of you who have read the statistics on the short Hves of the granite work ers; you will not go to ons of these boys and <tak him to take that reduc tion In wageel It la what connection thia wage Question has with the Man entering the pearly gatee that I am unable to understand. But I want to tall your people of Mount Airy thia, your gran ite workers onion men have made this tows what it is They have made your husinees what It Is. Your gran ite workers' union men buildnd nice homes for your workers to live in. Yoor granite workers, if yon please, ) heve miilderi beautiful and magnifl I cent mansions in which the men at the | head of this business live In. And thin is only mi attempt to break tha* union and the mamifac MM will up* wilh km, I aw »ur«, if you will consider the labor un.on during tha rt forty-two year* In thia induatry, have contributed mora to tha ad vancement of society than all tha fra ternal organisation* or any other or ganisation, even that of tha church not eaceptod, because thla ia tha only organiMHon that haa bom into tha home nnd mad' and tha burdens and MtUa «hildre«^^H And hafora you people ■ ■ Airy take side* against tha mm who ara locked out. In Juetioe to thaaa, vou ihould coiuldcr tHeir pcnition hire, you should Uka Into faliand coasplete consideration tha light and naaibir that tha reduction of wagea la tha laat consideration of thia l|ht that is ha- | tng made afiliMt *aaa boya, but that It la tha alimlniatlon and com plate breaking up of thalr organ!ra tion that I* MdNff ■ttwyfad, aad ll am appealing to you In tha mm of! tha man who aa w tha Induatry in tha tlmr of naad maka Ha runs sacred during tha war becauaa of tha Amer ican Federation of Labor, and haipad these worker* kaep thalr organisation. In tha name of tha children in tha | home* of theae workmen I am appeal - to you to help thaaa boy* Main ... thalr organisation. Before you condemn the foreigner* of thia organist t.on, I want you to com* with mc to Europe, where I waa ) sent by tha A. T. of L. to study enndi tionn there. I saw splendid bill-board pictures of beautiful homes tha Amer- ! ican workmen lived in, which were | pouted by the Manufacturers' Asaoci- > tttlon. They were advertising, and J trying to Induce laborers to come to | this country, and theae foreigners are here, and because the union took them in, and helped them to keep from low- j ciing the sUndard of living in Amer ica; then we are criticised because of the foreigners. We have a movement that will take you and raiae you up, I instead of pulling down, an the Manu- j facturera' Association want to do. I want you to think on theae things, i fituay mom oat, ana i leave mm tor , ■ parting thought: it is not for the; men who are locked out here now, not Jim Belton and the older men who arc almost ready to paaa on; Home whose hand* art- already chilled and paralyzed by the drill, who have Been the middle (tone of life; I have • vary kick mother at home, and a little busi neaa I am engaged in; i do not get one penny from anybody on God's green earth for coming here to apeak to you; 1 love theae men and would land tnem money if 1 had it; would nut be her* to work for then if I didn't; but I wanted to show you what the granite worker*' union is; I want you to think of what the labor union mean* to this little child I am holding up before you, whose future we want to guarantee, and give theae children a better opportunity of advancement and enable them to maintain a higher standard of living than we have at* — < RT Joyce, a former resident of tkia city, waa a visitor bars Monday returning to West/laid, where he is putting in an electric mill and power plant, iflsr ifriillsg °T-js|r Trith [t| lalltWI In WiiMiiiro. A" BUSINESS BUILDERS CABBAGE PLANTS—for sale, fine | stalks from American grown seed. Early Jersey Wakefield. Early AU head. Charleston Wakefield, Winnig studt, Copenhagen Market. Delivered by parcel post, per thousand fl.AO. E.! B. Hsrreld, Prop'r. High Knoll Truck 1 Farm, KernersvllU, N. C. Route 4 box I SI. S Slp. • WE HAVE ONE furnished room for rent, can furnish table board for sis. Apply st 141 Taylor street or phone MB. »®-P WANTED—Reliable white woman to care for old lady with village home. This ia ex. «1 lent opportunity for unmarried or widow woman 40 to 60 years old to secure comfortable home; or couple without home to se cure irood home with enugh fertile land for one to cultivate. Will pay well, and furnish room and board Fred Poindexter, Pilot Mt., N. C. 4-7-c WANTED— Men and Women to handle high class line. Thoroughly reliable firm, unusual offer. Sell*! in every home; all year round. Plea* ant work. Make 140 to $76 weekly and up. Cavalier Chemical Company, I Winston-Salem, N C. 3-24c. CLEANING and pressing—You will find me located on Main street in second building north of Episcopal church. Work called for and deliver ed Phone 199. W. R King. 4-7p. LOST—Silver fountain pen Monday afternoon en graved F J. Finder please return to Mr*. Oreely Jones for reward. 8-lT-p. FRESII TURNIP SALAD—for sal* hyT S. Ashbunt. fhone MS. 4-*t-p. FINE 100 ACRE farm for mU. SG acre* in good cultivation, lay* fine. Right at stato highway, 1 mil* to oounty seat, mgh school and church, rural delivery and phone at the door. Good dwelling and outbuilding* Well fenced and watered and good young orchard. Write tor Ml descriptions to box 91, Powhatan, V*. S-17-p. CUT FLOWERS For All OCCASIONS MI. AIRY DRUG CO. Af«ncy For Sutton New Spring Footwear it' For Men, Women and Children We mrm thowimg now a compUt. Km of foot wur for spring ud Man OMr> An escolloat ifcnrfaj of mr'i Oxfords la oil sixes and widtlu, at pop> ■ t Special Afancy d!F~~ "" ^LOVE GR11 ARCH SUPPORT \ SHOE A Womn'i Oxford* in all the smart and want ad strap sty Us. Abo laca Oxfords in patant tan and black t. Won't you give as the plaasurc of showing than to you? The prica is more moderate than it lias been heretofore, for the quality of shoe. Do not overlook our Red Riding Hood shoes for children. We have just received our new styles. We give special attention to fitting the little foDu. Red Ridino Hood PutShu "" 11111 Jackson Brothers THOROUGHBRED go Mao buff or piMftOB ckkkini, honn tutid, breeding stock and ifp for sal*. L. 8. Ludwtek, 16S Tsylor itrMt. Mount Airy. T-l-p. FOR HA LE—60-gallon Coca-Cola barrels, gallon bottles, 5-gallon Demijohn*. etc. W. 8. Wolfe Drag Co. tfc. BRICK—1 will be able to supply you in brick after March 20. R. K. Hines. Ite. L08T-—Package of dry (roods, ooo taining shirts, bote, etc., Friday night between Pilot Mountain ana Bannertown. D. F. Love, R I ltp. MILK COW wan tad—must be _ one. Mrs. W. A. Bolt, city. ltc FOR SALE—Team of good and fresh milk cow. J. W. Sim mons, Mt. Airy, R 1. 4-14-p. FOR SALE—Brown Leghorn postpaid at 11.10 for 16 or three sittings for $2.00. Mrs. M . E. V. Hines, R. 6. Mount Airy N. O, 3-17-p EGGS—Hatching eggs, from those Prise winning Barr<d Plymouth Rocks. They won eVery 1st prise offered at the Fair. They do It every time, now is the time to hatch your chicks to get your show birds for next fall. Stock and eggs for sale. Eggs |1.60 and $2.60 per sitting. Stock from $2.60 up. If you want something nice ! am sure I can please vou. Ora Roberts. Mount Airy, N. C. Ml-c FOR RALE—Seven thoroughbred white leghorn pullets. First prise winners. $1.50 each While Ply. moth Rock eggs, from first pen and beat hen in fair 1921. $2.60 per fif teen Mrs. E. J. France. R F. D. 6 Mount Airy, N. C. S-ITp HAVE YOU THESE SYMP-i TOMS? If to, Cooubmc* Ttkk| Goda'a P*plo-Mu«u mad Gat Back to Good Hoolth I.ack of vitality, a foaling of tired IMN, bad breath, pal* llpa, coloriaat chaalu. Iota of weight, flabby fl««b, Iiiihi) strength—-all of thaee call for the immediate uh of (lode's Pepto Xuiu. H will poattively produce satisfactory reeulta. Try taking it with your meals for a few waaka and be surprieed with the improvement hi pour condition. Gode's Pepto-Man Bran will help you hack to strength during ronraleeeeaee from any lllnsee. It has been prescribed aucceeafnlly by physicians everywhere for thirty j yean. It la a recognised iron tonic of boneet merit. For sale hi lkprid and tablet form by all diuggleU. Aak for H by the full nMoe. "Oude^i| Pepto-Mangan" Ad*. Brower'a Chalybeate Spring* Brower's 5-Room Bungalow COUNTRY FARM HOME AT BROWER'S MINERAL r SPRINGS FOR SALE!! ini»«ii«u pouewun. If you anticipate a change see this property at once ajui realise Ha many conveniences and advantages for farm, home, health and pleasure. Here on the state highway four miles from the city is a bungalow cottage, 6 large airy rooms, hall, pantry, plunder house, pack boose, feed barn, two tobacco bams, tenement house, young orchard, private telephone line, running water in dwelling, barn and yard. Temporary fish pond stocked, fruits, flowers, scenery and best water in the world. Adjoins apple and peach orchards, apiary and Browert mineral springs. The purchaser gets a perpetual right to use the mineral waters. Four African white guineas and a hound dog goes with the farm for luck. ffl 66 acres at $125.00 per acre. A Bargain, s good investment, dirt cheap. Come, or write, then come. Terms if agreeable. T. M. BROWER, Mount Airy. N. C. Spray Time Is Here We have a large supply of Sherwin-Williams dry lime sulphur solution the best spray solution on the market. Full line spray pumps and fittings. GOOD TYPEWRITER FOR RENT * Holcomb & Midkiff 'if you trade with us we both fain. If jrou donl we both loao."
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