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1 - .ill,. i 4 23 4 " " ' 1 1 111 . ii ,, EQUAL RIGHTS TO AlLL; 8PE0IAL PBIVTLGES TO NONK Vol. FAYETTEVILLE, IV. C, AUGUST 1- No. lf OFFICIAL OKGAN OF NOTH CAROLINA KNIGHTS OF LABOR. AS OTHER SO NO OF THE SHIRT. The emigration investigation in New York took a new turn Wednesday. When the committee assembled a pleasant faced young lady entered tbe room and; took tbe witness chair. She gave her name as Mary Berg, and said that for six years past she bad worked for Herrman Berg, a flan nel shirt-maker, n East Forty-first street. When she Hist went there there were 200 girls at work. They worked with foot machines. About a year ago steam machines were put in and gradually some fifty Russians and Poles were put into the places of the girls. Previons to the employment of the Poled and Russians the girls made from 66 to $8 h week. Now they have to work hard to make 35. Sbe had known married men who worked there for $4 a week to take tbe place of the girl. She overheard the proprietor ask nn of the four men first employed if they oil4 not get him more of their countrymen. Tbev told Dim they could, but would have to send to En- rooe after them. He told them to se-id Hiid he would employ them. There had been oontinned redactions since the Poles and Russia us came. She left th factory 'this week on ao- co'int of a redaction' in the scale of These f.rei j laborer!?, she declared, wr rapidly driving out the American tfirN nt only in the shirt-making, but c'-'r and c'o ik-rnakinff tnids. A shirt that vhs in -id e ibr 60 contain 18S4 is 'made' now tr 40. and one that was made then or S3 is now made for S2. Witness was a skilled worker and bad bfen making S5 to 9 a week, but now she rolild not make more than $6 to $7. She said that tviany of the Rus Bian and Jroic;? work here ana save m''cev, then go home an 1 -spend it. and I come back again to make more She knew one man who saved $250 here and went home, where he invested it in business and lost it. He repeated te experiment, and now is hack here for the third, tirne.-and working1 for 34 a week iu place of girls who bad been di.chari d iurs. iiu-irioD freston, a cloak ann suit maker, employed by Oppenheimer As Adler on Broaowav. was j the next witness She sid she bad workt-d for tae firm about three years. When fcbe first went there she could make S9 and 810 a week; now she makes from S3 to S5. All this, she says, is due to the chep foreigu labor which is supplanting that Ot the wo men. This foreign labor is mostly that of Russians and Poles. Ex. WHO WILL BE ELECTED. Of the various individuals nominated for tbe Biiperfluons office of President of the Uni'.ed States, it is toleaably certain that either the candidate of the 'democratic" machine nr. tbe candidate of the "republican" machine will he elected. In either case what will the work- ngmen gainr i Lither one or tbe other will fe elect ed tecHUse tbe great bulk of working- ia. - .. i a . a $ ' congress MHke your candidate for write a letter giving bis views on tariff reform, dear money and railway mo nopoly.; If bis manifesto is not satis factory, don't vote for him. Every man nominated for congress in tbe wes can readily be pot under moral bonds that will hold him through his self-in terest, if not through bis conscience. farmer's Voice, men will east their votes for th dem ocratic" or urepublieau" presidential electors. i, One fact islthat the workingmen are reing bool winked into the belief, that the "republican" party will protect them in the matter of wages, or the I 'demo cratic partv will see to it that thev I . w can buy commodities cheaper. Auotber fbCt is that tbe voters nave been used to take a sort of rambling interest iu the presidennal election, and having sized up the can Vhiates, usually shout tor their favotifcos, just as they do at a horse race. Another tact is that the workingmen as a class are not alive to tneir own interest, and therefore permit their votes to fo swayeo according to nase- less conviction or (-porting preference. . While this is o it may he safely an swered that one of th candidates of capitalism 'will he elected, ajid the Work'ngmen will neither benftit nor lose iu the balance between t!he two. unless as individual betters on (the re sult. Some workinrrnen will not vote for President at all, nor will they bother themselves ahout the eletion. These will have time to attend to more im portant bnii-ness for their own Lift theio work hrd tor and education Rx. benefit organization SEVEN HUNDRED AND T MILLION DOLLARS. This amount has been paid on tobacco within tho st twent ers grwi upon 600,000 HCies; is a tax of SI, 200 per acre At 852. 17 tax Which acre every year. rENTY as tax v-three Thi upon each v is a Heavy tax on land not worth more than S to S7 perajcre. S580,00'J,000 of this has been paid by the former Slave States. Virginia P"'1" 1 and North Carolina . let the democrats will vote for a dem ocratic Congress to exact the tax out of them. j I he working man suffers, he does the work to make the tobacco And then has to pay about 50 per ceiit taxes on it before he can me it. He has to pay five taxes on it tefore he can use ...I . i. .i i wnai iie uisRes on nis own saipi It is an outrageous imposition upon the la 1 . I J x 1 . k uoruiif man, me ucirine mat Uie can do without it, is uobodys busings but bis own. He don't ask to l ave bis appetite dictated to him by parties who allow no such liberties tak.n with them. Ail the prevailing schemes now tend to niaae me ricn ricner ana tne Door poorer. This mnst be amended or revolution for more equity forced upon the Skylocks. mi kht be The strike in the mines near Gordon Texas, has been settled satisfactorily and everything is running smoothly at that place. j Equity. he bill Gov The President has signed ?rantinr the emnloves of thl eminent Printing Office a thirty day leave of absence annually, with full Pa- AGAINST THE TRUSTS, .The State of New York has now niored against the er eat tragi abuse. Two soils were begun yesterday by the service of papers on the defeodanU, Cfeneral Kogar A. Pryor taking charge nf the case in the absence of tbe At torney General. I bey are civil suits, and tbe combi nation selected is the sugar trust. Oae of the suits is against the individual members of the trust, Tbey are charg ed with acting as a corporation without being dnlv incorporated, and with tx ercising privileges not granted to them. The Court is asked to oust and enjoin tnem trom tbe exercise of such privi leges. 1 he other suit is against the North Ri?er Refining Company, one of tbe members of the trust. The complaint recites that this company is a corpora tion formed under the laws of New York, and then sets forth tbe steps it hit taken in entering into tbe trust. Tbe acts, it is charged, are in violation of tbe company's charter and an abase ot its franchise. The remedy asked for this wrong is that the cnarter oi the company be vacated and its corpor- at existence annulled. These are test cases. If tbey prove successful similar suits will be brough against other trusts. Tbe people wid a ait the result with keen interest. It is of, vital concern to know whether there is any power in tho courts to cope with a growing abuse that threatens mischief to our entire industrial and commercial system. If it should turn out that the courts are powerless, that the existing law affords no remedy, then the people must look to tbe lawmaking power. N: Y. Herald. THIS MEANS YOU. It is useless for organized lador to temporize further. If it ever intends to do anything more tban maintain a mere debating society it must act in the -living present. First, all the petty quar rels must be buried, and a united front displayed; then it mnst have a powei- ful press to clear the way for ac ion. A starving press is of little value, and a subsidized press is of a little less. A press with the club of Hercules held over tbe head will be a slight aid in tbe cause 'about as useful as one that fawns for favors. We need a labor press free and uutrammeled; and that can deal sledge hammer blows in defence of the right, regardless of tbe conse qoences. Until the hosts of Labor are provided with such a valuable auxil iary any great national movement must prove eutirely abortive. Labor Trilf une, Ftttsburfff Fa. There is more truth in the above short article than most men are aware of. The trouble hss always been with the laboring class tbat they would not sup port tbeir own papers, but allow them to live a lingering; death and finally compel the editor to sell his soul to one of the two old part?e3 to save himself . . and family trom tne poor nouse, wnne those for whom be was laboring would give their spare change to the monopo list press and thus aid those who were tbeir worst enemies, while their friends were left to starve. "These are facts, and there is no dodging them; and un til tbe laborers come to the rescue of their friends they must bear the con sequences. Lewuton, Me., Advocate. EUiLGERS, CCftTRlCTCaS, And others about to BUILD HOUSES, FENCES, Should call on or write to tbe undersign ed for prices of building material, such v Moaldings, Ceilings. Siowa, Pzooiwra YEATHERB0JO3B, FLC0ui:5 PALI36S. 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