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r "EQUAL EIGHTS TO ALL; SPECIAL PRIVILGE8 TO NOKILj Vol. fZ. FAYETTE VILLE, IV. C, SEPTEMBER 7 1888. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF NORTH CABOLINA KNIGHTS OF LABOR. &(lDf' 111 MPT at 3 4? 0 o 0 13 Ml IS S f I LABORS CHIVALRY. BT GERALD MA.SSBY. Uprouse ye now, brave brother band. With honest heart and working hand; We.are but few, toil-tried and true, Yet hearts beat high to dare and do; And who would not a champion be, In labor's lordlier Chivalry? We fight! but bear no bloody brand, We fight to free our Fatherland; We tight that smiles of love may glow, On lips where curses quiver now! Hurrah! Hurrah! true Knights are we In labor's lordlier Chivalry. Oh! there be hearte that ache to see Thday dawn of our victory; Eyes full of heartbreak with us plead, And watchers weep and martyrs bleed; Oh who would not a champion be In labor's lordlier Chivalry? Work, brothers mine; work hand and brain; We'll win the Golden Age again; And Love's millenial morn shall rise In happy hearts and blessed eyes. Hurrah 1 Hurrah! true Knights are we In labor's lordlier Chivalry. Winstox, N. C, August 29th 1888- Mr. Edttok: I am gla i yon organ, ized the U. L. P. at Raleigh on the 14, I was ready and anxious t go, bat owing to sickness I coald not leave home. I regret verj much not being there. I shall now start organizing Union Lbor clubs. if yon need me on the committee or anything else command m, I am wil ling to work anywhere. The farmers are awakening up in my neighborhood. They will never again be driven to the poll under the party lash at- they have in the past. Request all friends of the TJ. L. P. to put on the harness and posh the work of organizing (J. L. Clubs and report to yon so you o in publish them. I have spoken to some Alliance men and they all say we ouglit to organize at once. Pla let us know soon who ihi committee are. I win accept and be organizer for f riytb county provided you cau t get a better man. Fraternally Yours S. A. EL Wilmington, N 0., Sept 2d 1888. Mr. Editor: I hpn you wifl allow me 8ace in yonr paper-to aay that I am glad to see the nmes jf St'reeter jnd Cuiiningham at your masthead, n-nniiiet-s for President and Vice Presi dent of the Union Labor partv. If ee?y workingman is of the same mind as I t lie y would take their seats in Washington next Man-h. Mr. Editor, I cn't see wby it is that workingmen can vote for either of the old pHrtien. Both ate oppressors of labor ot all kinds. As to my nart I can't see any difference in them, they are both friends to the workingman just before the election, and if every man had the same opinion as I have these old fossils would stay where they belong at home. I want to see this country governed by machinists farmers and workingmen, tlev know each others wants and would nut sit in Congress and growl over tariff when there are issues a great deal more im portant and when anything was done it wonld be in the interest of Labor and not Bankers, 11. Es., Monopolists, Bdndholders, Trusts, Rich manufactu rers, &c O! God deliver the people from such oppression. Yours Fraternal I v K. WHXT IS CO-OPERATIONt Newspapers published ia the inter est of the labor element make frequent reference to the benefits of co-operation, bnt, so far as we have noticed, none of theso joarnals consider it worth while to tell'us or make us understand what they mfcti by co-operation. True, it we hunt up the word in the dictionary, we learn that it mons "concurrent ef fort," or "joint operation." This oon vevs only a crude or imperfect notion of the sense in which the word is most frequently used by the labor papers. They use it in the sense of organized and special effort by some order or so ciety in some certain business from which it is hoped profits will result; some enterprise mutually owner! or controlled by h-i menu-era, who appoint officers, managers, clerks, etc., from their own ranks, and who are themselves aUo customers of the concern. It may be termed co-operation for two mules to pull together iu the same wagon. So it is for a thousaui con victs to hftumer on the same rock-pile. It is eo operation, for land barks and Congressmen to go divvy in a land steal, or for one crarksman to blow the safe while his pal runs away with the swag. But the effort of our labor re formers and our Oi-opertiou agitators Inward something entirely different from and to something above all other seuses in which this much-abused word has been frequently used. The existence of robbing and thiev ing association, big and little, from time immemorial, and in every avenue of life, made it necessiry fir honest peo ple to combine, organize an 1 co-operate for mutual protection. Such a plan was necessary in order that civil people might be abje to concentrate in one place enough power to repel the on slanght of the robber power. Thus it Was that tribes and afterward govern ments were established. Self-prtec-tion is the first law of nature, and the protection of one's family, property and frien-ls is ouy a part of the same law. The principle is, in the first place, a God-given right, and education, expe rience and civilization only confirm the law and cause people to seek ont new methods of enfor5ing it supremacy. Even the brute creation has this in stinct. A herd of buffaioes att tcked by wolves, will present a line of horns and ho ifs toward the common foe, while the female and young ones seek to es cape. When a martin box is beset bj a flock of blue-birds, who propose to capture the little home, the martins do not go out one at a time to be killed in detail, but all at once they assail the more valiant leidersof the blue robbers, whip them, and thus preserve their home, their nests and their little ones. The contest between scoundrels and boo: si men has not, however, reunited in victory for the latter. In the effort of civil and honest people to bnild homes, live honorably and save something, they have been outstripped by the in?o nuity of the robber element. Skill, industry, honesty, economy and pa tience weigh as nothing when put in the balance against corrupt laws, water ed stock, shrewd rascality, combined brnin-power and aggregated money. Our advantages of fine climate, prolific soil, free schools and model govern ment mnt all go down before the syn dicate, the trust, the combine aftd the robber pever, whose name is legion. The valor of our armies and the ex penditare of millions' of lives and bill ionsof money freed the black slaved, 'tis trne, but where will arise the army and where will we fbd the treasnry to liberate 60,000,000 white shares from mortgages, extortion,! overwork, igno rance and poverty ? Some tell ns to look for relief in co-operation, bat they do not tell us how to co-operate. We know that we must combine r co op erate, or the robber power will take all. The shysters, the mortgage fiends, the the corporations and rings all know how to combine, but the laboring, hon est people are going as they please and doing as best they can. ' The distinctive feature, or one of the distinctive features, of co operation is that each workman being a participator in the profits, be will from self-interest work harder and practice more econ omy in the business than he would for w-a-ges ouly. It is presumed that in numbers there is strength; thU num bers bring increase 1 influence and pat ronage; that risks aref distributed; that losses, if any, would be more easily borne; that capital aggregated can be more economically handled than if dis seminated. These and very many other advan tages are claimed for properly-managed co operation. It is almost invariably toVnterprises of this kind that tht la bor pi ess refers wheu! it uses the word co-operation, and, as a rnle, it refers to those societies eompoyed exclusively of members of the secret order with which the paper is identified, as the Knights of Labor, Farmers Alliance, Graage, etc. What we all Want to know, for instance.', is the details for getting op, organizing and maintaining a co oper ative society of, say, forty to eighty members (or families)' in a small com munity for the purpose of running a store, factory, mill, or some such affair wheieby the meml ers cod Id trade with iheir own bouse, getting a good quality of goods at market rates. It mnst be on a small scale, witlj small shares, and run with few attendants and few ex penses. Managers, elerks and latarers mut be members or shareholders. The funds of the concern must be secure be yond all question. The honesty and capability of the men in"charge must rest upon something more solid than the fact that they are good, clever fellows. There should be a small but promptly paid dividend, say, yearly; and a sink ing fund or reserve to increase busi ness, guard against fire, dull seasons, panics, etc. 1 Let well-informed or well-experienced persons toll us what they know about this sort of co-operaiion. Charles R. Barrott in J our rial of United Labor. When we are miking magnificent preparations to protect American la bor from foreign pauper labor, wonld it not be well to devote a little time to the protecting ourselves from the mo nopolists at home, t institutions that Know more in a minute about skinning people than any foreign oonntry knows in a year. T. V. Powderly. The Semiannual j statement of the Mutual benefit association, made up entirely of the employes of the Michigan Stove Company of Detroit, Mich., indi cates an enviable condition of prosperity. The association was organized in IS82 and has paid nearly $10,000 in benefit. Tbe organiznion now etnlodies 2.V5 members. HEADQUARTCS. FAUIir SROCERr 4IFAK5T SUPflT ST01E. THOMSON Moved to Thorxtn.v Block . Near the Market House. The ost Attractive And leading House in the City. Biing a central point, and best goo.K comparing prices and efficient help. I ENLIST A MUTUAL INTEREST- Call at TDOSISON'S, HEADQUARTERS . , 1 -t-WHEN IN g NEED OF-tJ- DRY GOODS, 6R0CERIES Hardware 9 fcc- Call on A. V. Maultsby. Full weight, honest goods, prices Uw as possible. For Bale A valnble building lot la the growing town of Dunn, N. a, Lot Is 25 X 100 ft. is looated in the centre of the "basinass houses. For furtker term apply to T. J. TfABJLZS, FXTETTHVrLXX, N. C. For Spring 1888, THE NEW CHEAP STCIE HOf M. Folb & BboI Is loaded to the mnxzle with seasonable Jgoodsl Clothing, Dats, Shoes, Tnmhs, SATCHELS " VALISES NECK WEAR HOSIERY N OTION8 (B'S, JewelrY fco. Newest ad Nobbiest Scarf is M. F!b iBrt.'s DAISY. We are buying goods as low as any one, and selling' just as low as possible, and we are selling large quantities. Call and se ourgoods and prices before buying. ' M. FOLB&BRO. 44 South Person St. FAYETTE VILLE, N. C. MANUFACTURED OF nRlCff IfjANUFACTUREIl OF JRIC t3TRemember, I make the best Brick made in the State. "Will XI. rSuitH, RANDLEMAN. N. C, Practical. Tin i5D Copfer Smith Iron, Tin and Slato roofing done with neatness and despatch. GUTTERING and ROOFING a specialty. Best mate rial, lowest prices. Satisfaction guar anteed. Give him a trial.
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