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I™ E CHARLOTTE HERALD (Founded January, 1917.) i |Official Organ of The North Carolina State Federa tion of Labor, The Charlotte Central 12 Labor Union and Affiliated Crafts j And | The North Carolina Farmers’ Union. * j Published Weekly By The Herald Publishing ' Company of Charlotte | At 32 South College Street, Charlotte, N. C. | Telephone 4126. Postoffice Box 163. JAMES F. -BARRETT_Managing Editor TOM P. JIMISON_Contributing-Editor DR. H. Q. ALEXANDER..Farm Editor Six Months_$1.00 One Year_$2.00 Always boosting for a better community, stronger men, protected womanhood and unlimited ’ opportunities for childhood. . • We are endeavoring to promote a closer affilia tion and a more effective co-operation between producers and consumers for the common good of all. Communications on any and all subjects of gen eral interest solicited. No communication, how ever, containing a personal attack on any man or woman will be published. Words and acts of public men and women may be as severely criticised as the writer may desire, but the line is drawn on personal attacks. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Charlotte, N. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. WHAT IS A GOVERNMENT? Blind,* idolatrous worship of a government is not patriotism. It is dam-phoolishness. A gov ernment is simply an administration of public affairs by individuals chosen, elected or selected to do that particular part of the public work for which he is selected. Every office holder is just a human being, endowed, burdened and cursed with all the frailties of human nature. The ideals and provisions of the American governmnt is one of the most beautiful, most perfect man-made things in all the world’s history. When any man who is chosen to fill a niche, and become a cog in the wheel, to put into practic the ideals of the government, and fails or refuses to do so, then he ought to be kicked out of office. Yet there are fanatics in America who think a criticism of a public official is un-American, un patriotic and “^gainst the government.” The people of the United States is America—its heart and squl and very being. So when any officer of the government is not taking proper care of the masses of the people, he is the one who is a traitor, and often has the help and assistance and influence of good men and women whose blind, idolatrous worship of “the government” causes them to ldse sight of the real thing that the government was established for. . The man or woman who looks over the heads of suffering childhood, over-worked and under nourished womanhood, and the bent forms of toilworn men who are being imposed, upon, and see nothing but the glamor of a government of ficial, and in that glamor their sight is dimmed to the human suffering brought upon the people of the country through the acts of the same govern ment official, is the real enemy to the ideals of the very government they so blindly worship. It is an admitted fact that the American people are not far removed from the idol-worship stage. The regard in which the United Stats supreme court is held is evidence of this fact. Nine men, always politicians, at that, constitute the Supreme 'cuort. They’re just human beings, and thfeir early training often has been that of the corpo ration lawyer or professional politicians. Any one who knows cornfield beans from an ostrich, knows .what kind of training both politicians and cor poration lawyers receive. In spite of this knowledge, there are tens and, tens of thousands of people in America who think .it is an act of violence, disloyal, hateful and un .pardonable, for any citizen to criticise or disagree with a decision of the United States Supreme court! And this m the tace of the fact that nine mem 'bers of the same court are often, nearly always, divided in their opinions! It matters not if four of the nine members say one thing, and the other five take the opposite view on a question, one must not criticise the decision of the Supreme icourt! No, Sir, that’ll never do. The Supreme ‘court is sacred, don’t you know, and whatever the 'Supreme court does, is right, don’t you know - again? ! VV^e’ve often wondered how such people feel toward the four members of the Supreme court who voted against the five. They’re all members of the same sacred court—and one group or the other is wrong. But that makes no difference to some of our ■idolators. Don’t you dare criticise the decision, although four members of the court voted against ■the five. If you do, you’re not a good American. This country would be infinitely better off if .fchesp people worshipped the ideal of the Ameri ean|government, and would see to it that the office holders do those things that are provided for in the basic principles of the government that was given us, instead of simply standing in high places and shouting their Americanism to the world. CUSS LABOR ALL THE TIME? Every once in a while that great daily news paper, The Charlotte Observer, takes a whack at the “high wages” paid the workers of the land. On last Friday The Observer published an editorial that does not sound at all like the writings of our good friend, Col. Wade H. Harris. It read more like a syndicated editorial sent out by the steel trust or the efforts .of some understudy in The Observer office whose lessons in journalism were taken from some correspondence school. - The Observer was taking up that old, worn-out, frazzled, and long-dis6arded argument that high wages of industrial workers .is the <?ause of the low income the farmer gets for his produce. Never, in all the billions of remedies offered for the solution of economic problems, has there been a more false argument thhn this. The industrial worker constitutes the largest single group of customers the farmers have. The '.better wage the factory worker gets, the more he ■can buy from the farmer, r Here’s one trouble .with this country: There is one food dealer for every two farmers. Just think of this one moment. Let’s say it again: . ~ i Wherever two farmers are found, there is one ■dealer, making a living foriiimself and his family, ‘on handling and selling the products of the two farmers. i Cut of every dollar the wage-earner spends for the products of the farmer, th^t farmer receives only 33 cents—the balance, or 67 cents, go to the dealers, the carriers, etc. 1 Of a million dollar payroll received by labor and spent for the products of the farm, the farm ers get7$333,000, and the dealers and middlemen get $667,000. These are not our figures—they’re government figures. Why cuss labor all the time? Why: not have somthing to say about the men in between? • Labor costs in a five thousand dollar house are only a little more than $1.300., The architect’s fee, the contractor, and the financing agency gets that amount, less a few dollars. In other words, the architect, contractor and financier get, with in a few dollars, as much for the erection of a five thousand dollar home as all the common labor, the carpenters, the plumbers, the electricians, the brick layers, the plasterers and painters com bined. Wjhy not have something to say about this element that enters into the cost of building, in stead of laying it all upon the shoulders of the workers? Many cotton mills hereabouts pay 10 cents a day for running a loom for 11 hours. Just to see how little the cost of labor enters into the cost of living, read this assertion: To reduce the wages of every one employed in a mill 20 per cent, would make the cost of a 3-yartT dress about 2 3-4 cents lower. If everybody in a mill worked for nothing, and said, “Thank You, Sir,” at the end of the week instead of drawing pay for that week’s work, would reduce the cost of a 3-yard dress less than 12 cents. These are not our figures. They’re given out by the secretary of hte Pacific Mills, Columbia, S. C. Then, there being only two basic sources of wealth-jr-the raw material and the conversion of that raw material into the finished product, it stands to reason that every dollar accumulated' by ane one in the whole country, is an accumula tion of profits on either the products of the farmer or on the finished products, which work is done by labor. What about the fight promoter, who takes hun dreds of thousands of dollars for an exhibition of brutality? Does he not figure in on this condition of which The Observer speaks? And baseball clubs, and dance halls, and pool rooms, and churches, and schools, and colleges, and good roads, and newspapers that are growing richer every day, and presidential parties junket ing all over the earth, and Daughertys stopping at Grove Park Inn, where it costs a dollar an hour to breathe? Every dollar so spent comes directly from the producer of the raw material and the men who convert that raw material into the finished product. Why not lay some of the blame of the predica ment of the farmer at the door of the cotton, cattle and grain gamblers of the nation? The Observer." very often speaks words of praise of men in Charlotte and other sections, who raise no cotton, nor do they take the cotton and convert" it into the finished products. All they do is to buy and sell the cotton after the farmer has pro duced it. And these cotton buyers -make 1 more money, much more money, than any of the men who grow the cotton. Who pays these bills? When a cotton buyer takes a profit of a cent a pound on a bale of cotton from the time he pays the farmer for it until he sells it to the man who manufacturers it into cloth, who but the dear public pays for this cotton buyer’s activities? No, the thing is never discussed fairly. The farmer and the wage-worker are the two absolutely essential groups of people in this coun try. These two groups do the actual work of the world, and work harder, have less and are more bitterly assailed and denounced than and other group or groups. They should, by all means, have the greatest enjoyment of all people. If there is any group that should go hungry or go on slim rations, it is that group in between the workers of the field and the workers of the factory. Those groups live by their wits, and cuss if they can’t get "all that is made by the two big essential groups. Who paid the bills in the case of the Lowell Cotton mill, where Mt\ Ross received, on a $1,200 investment, 70 additional shares of stock in that mill, ,$3,290 in cash dividends, and is now suing other members of the firm for an accounting of an additional $792,000 profits—all in ten year’s time? Don t this same dear public that -we hear so ;much about when workers are asking for a wage increase, pay Mr. Ross and his associates this ex orbitant profit? Then why cuss labor all the time? Wjiy not take a fling at such groups at these? Why rile about “high wages,” in . a land of millionaires, private yachts, golf links, sables, dis play of diamonds, and where gamblers who never produced a thing in their lives, live in luxury, and take the lead in church and community af fairs? ^ All these things enter into the conditions as they exist today—and all the Hoovers, all the Daughertys, all the Garys, and all the writing and raving on earth will never change these condi tions. ( What can you expect in a country where there is one food dealer for every two farmers? What is there to boast abo^t in the advance ment of a state when a $1,200 investment is worth more, by nearly one-third, than a full year’s work of a man engaged in the biggest industry of the section? • After all, why harp on labor all the time, and never chirp about the loafers, the gamblers, the speculators, ajnd that vast army of rich idlers living lavishly on the profits inade on the product of the farmer and' the labor of the man who con verts the raw product into th$ finished article? -o BAREFACTS. By J. M. Baer, The Congressman-Cartoonist. By' International Labor News Service INJUNCTIONS FOREVER! It used to be “Freedom Forever” but now At torney General Harry Daugherty “thinks” it’s going to be “Injunctions Forever!” But Daugherty has another think coming. In fact he has several thinks coming. Harry says that the Chicago Federal court order issued by a judge he recommended making permanent the sweeping injunction asked by Ihe Government in the shopmen’s strike “forever settled” the law, insuring the public against a strike tying up inter state commerce. “Forever” is a long time, Harry, and all sorts of changes are likely to occur before it is over. It’s even barely possible that you and the Ad ministration and the judges it appointed may be gone from the scene before “forever” has ended. No court that exists can stop men from refusing to work. If this refusal to work ties up interstate commerce the cpurts can’t do more than fulmi nate. True, th^y can issue outrageous injunc tions, such as the Daugherty injunction, but the injunctions won’t prevent men from going about their normal activities as long as the Constitution of the United States stands. As President Gom pers of the American "Federation of Labor said: i“The men .... will continue to exercise the normal activities .guaranteed to them by the laws an,d the Constitution of the country.” The only thing that the Chicago court’s decision settled “forever” was the fact that labor can expect nothing from the present Administration. As long as the injunction was only temporary, there was hope that the judiciary might see a light and realize what a deadly blow at freedom the purpose of the decree was thought practically it amounted to nothing. .1 But now that the injunction has been made per mannt, labor knows once and for all what to ex pect from this “friendly” administration. The /decision shows beyond g, doubt the labor policy of those who are in control of the national govern* ment. * •'-(fr'IMM The President may make professions of love for the workers but now they know that “for ever” Daugherty with a dagger for labor in his hand is hiding behind the Chief Executive. -6 THE DEVIL WAS RIGHT, AFTER ALL. From the very beginning of the newspaper business there has jbeeii eternal warfare between the editor and the “devil” boy in the printing office. Just why the apprentice in a newspaper or printing office is called the “devil,” is another story. Yet the title fits him for a nicety. Nb newspaper editor has ever, so far as we know, discounted his ability, knowledge and importance. His only rival in self-esteem is that confounded “devil,” the apprentice. After two weeks’ in an office, the “devil” is confident that he knows more than the editor ever will know. Sometimes he is right, and that is what hurts the editor. All of which leads up to an acknowledgment that the “devil” was in the right last week. W’e were writing about the wonderful maps of North Carolina being given away by the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Charlotte. President Wilkin son’s name was changed to “Wilkerson.’* The “devil” boy told the editor he was wrong—that it was, Wilkinson.' Quite an argument followed. The boy offered to show, by the telephone direc tory, the dictionary, or in any other way, but that old, old feeling of hatred all editors have for smart “devil” boys blinded all reason, and the name went through—wrong. So it is all through life. Stubborn, unreas onable, stiff-necked prejudice always * blinds men to the right. We .apologize to the “devil.” Incidentally, the Merchants and Farmers Bank has a few of the North Carolina maps left. They’re wonderful—and they’re yours for the asking. MEN DON’T LOVE 12-HOUR DAY. Men don’t like the 12-hour day. Common sense tells • us this. Yet Judge Gary and other steel magnates go on declaring steel workers just simply dote on the 12-hour shift! But if any proof is needed that the 12-hour day is unpopular, the Colorado' Iron and Fuel Company can supply it. J. F. Welborn, head of the company, in a letter summarizing the result of the change from the 12 to an 8-hour working shift at the company’s steel plant, wrote: “A factor of added interest is that fact that, with almost capacity operations at our steel plant during the last few months and employing over six thousand men, we have experienced no short age of labor. Our operating officials have fre quently expressed the belief that this condition iis due, in large part at last, to adoption of the 8-hour shift.” Judge Gary assures the world that^here is a shortage of labor in the steel industry. It is likely that if the Steel Corporation.had put the 8-hour day into effect it,. like the* Colorado Iron and Steel Company, would have experienced no diffi culty in obtaining help. It stands to reason that men will not work 12 hours in a steel hell unless they are driven by dire necessity. If they can earn their living elsewhere by working a reason able number of hours, they will give the steel ipills a wide berth. Men have no love for the 12-hour day, Gary notwithstanding. If Gary persists in asserting that steel workers are fond bf the 12-hour day,, 'he’ll gain a reputation for “nerve” exceeding that of a man who will flirt with a woman standing in a street car, while he himself is comfortably seated. ’ TtF NO MORE RAILROAP STRIKES. Well, boys, there’ll never be another raliroad strike. The Asheville Times has said so, and of course, that ends it. The Times says the country will never permit another tie-up of the roads like that of 1922. No. no. It just shan’t be done, you know. Wje’re sorry for you, boys, but The Asheville Times has told the world that there shall 'never be another railroad strike, so there’s no hope .for you, only t<£ take the medicine little Benny •Hooper and his chief, Lord Daugherty, hands out to you. You needn’(t think of striking in protest ;of any of their decisions, ultimatums, wage-set ting, etc. You simply can’t strike, for The Times has said so. I Gosh: What is it that gets into the craniums of such men as the editor \of The Asheville Times, that they so emphatically make such statements? It must be an awful disease. No wonder such men are angular of frame, and have that hungry, starved look. It is the suffering from that awful malady that prompts them to say to the thousands of railroad workers of America: “It matters not what people may do to you. It matters not what conditions are imposed upon you. You HAVE to go ahead and do the trans portation work of this nation, regardless, for we’ll not have you striking again!” Aaint’s it awful to be that way? ! Say, you engineers at the throttle; you conduc tors in charge of the trains; you firemen who do more work in one day than the editor of The Times will do in a lifetime; you trainmen who swing from moving cars, run on slippery ties to throw switches, race for miles to flag trains and protect the lives of the passengers; you shop men who work In din and noise; you trackmen who take the cold winds, the rains and sleets and snows, and the boiling sun, to keep safe the tracks ior traveling numanity—how do you feel when the editor of The Asheville Times tells you that no more shall you ever strike, regardless of any ■and all conditions that may surround' your lives and those of your loved ones? Yes. Wte’re sorry for you railroad men. It is hard for you to hav eto give up your only weapon of defense. But you are already forbidden to ever strike again. D. Kiden Ramsey has passed the word down the line, and the die is cast, the ■future is sealed, the past must not be thought of any more. • . - . Poor railroad men! -o It used to be the “walking delegate” who kept industry in a turmoil. Now it is the "talking delegate” who raises hell all the time, and keeps up a. furor in industry. Most of thos^ “talking delegates” are camouflaged as newspaper editors, and who feel that in order to make their paper ^a favorite with the powers that be, it is necessary to itonstantly ding-dong about the awful wages paid labor, etc., and so on and so forth. Labor dispensed with the walking delegate. Now let the employers clip the wings of the talking dele gates, and then the workers and their employers can get togther, unmolested, and speedily and sat isfactorily settle their differences. _---:-0— There is just .as much value to be gained from a “company union,” that is, a union of workers formed by the employers, and fostered and fond led by them, as there would be in selecting a board of directors for a aorporation from among' the workers in that industry. Could you imagine any corporation going into the shop and selecting a board of directors to run the affairs of that corporation ? A group of workers who would al low the company to form the union for the work ers, name the officers and otherwise run the union, are just as big fools as a corporation would be to select their direcWFs from among their work ers. - • s WANTED To trade for House and Lot in Suburb j , $3,275 7-Passenger Haines Car in Good Condition -at 401 Severs Aye. or P. O. Box 885 IMPERIAL Four Days Commencing MONDAY “MAIN STREET” From the Novel by SINCLAIR LEWIS Monte Blue in the Cast FRIDAY —and— SATURDAY Return Engagement Harold Lloyd “GRANDMA'S BOY” Adults 30c Children 10c All Next Week W ALTON'S INSOME INFERS OPENING BILL “Hello Havana 1VIth “Cracker” Quinn Late Star of Neil O’Brien Minstrel Matinee Daily 3:30 Night 7:30—9 *v j.'i**1' PHONE. 1^8S*J GET YOUR MATTRESSES AND BOX SPRINGS RENOVATED Made over like new. Our Work and service is first class in every particu lar. J. T. A. LAWING’S MATTRESS FACTORY Charlotte, N> C. FORDS All Models—All Prices Special Sale Every Day We average 10 or more used Fords on hand all ithe time, * ' Pick your car and make your own price. All cars guaranteed as to condition. HIPP CHEVROLET COMPANY Eighth and North Tyron “Headquarters (or Used Fords” ‘ NEW STOCK GARDEN SEED All Varieties In Bulk ONION SETS , Stock and Poultry Remedies CHARLOTTE DRUG CO. 1. N. Edwards, propi Corner E. Trade and S. College PHONE 2663 •” 1 1 N A GOOD PLACE TO EAT New York Cafe AND DINING ROOhf | For Ladies and Gentlemen | Our Motto: Sanitary Service and Popdlar k Prices ALWAYS OPEN 29 West Trade Street Charlotte, N. C. Phone 1306 *. ■ "..i.- ——————-m—| The BuyersfiPGuide Arranged herein in alphabeticalwill be found a guide for those who want information concisely and quickly as td the whereabouts of the most con venient and dependable places M which to shop. Those merchants whose advertisements are listed below are reliable Charlotte business men whose wares* will, pass the test of the scrutiny and who may be depended upon to represent their products as they are. * ,1^1 % Just run down the alphabet until you find the name of the article you desire to pur-ehaie? and you will find instantly where it may be procured. Say You Saw it in The Charlotte Herald A If You Want to Buy, or Sell, or Paint a Car SEE ME We Fix ’Em, Sell ’Em and Paint ’Em O. G. THOMAS * 304 S. Church * Phene 5210 B C EAN’S SHOE SHOP 511 West Trade Phone 5447 .' Qualty Shoe Repairing Prices Most Reasonable harlotte Specialty Shop Button Covering, Dressmak ing and Hemstitching W. A. Denny Miss L. Smith 33 W. 4th St. Phone |005 ‘I D AMERICAN RY CLEANING CO. Cleaners and Dyers 1406 South Tryon Street Work Called For and Delivered Reasonable Priced E very Make of Safety Razor Blades Sharpened ALL WORK GUARANTEED 17. East Trade Street Upstairs, Rooms 2 and 4 F AUTOLINE OIL Is a Perfect Lubricant For Ford Cars Martin’s Service Station. 254 North McDowell St. Phone 4204 G ET A POLICY— on your chil<^,from birth, re gardless of its being issued in pther companies, by the LaFAYETTE LIFE INS. CO. 301% W. Trade St.” H AIR DRESSING MAR1NELLO SHOP “A Beauty Aid For Every Need” Mrs. M. McGee E xpert Operators in Attendance 12% North Tryon Street Permanent Hair Waving I NSURE YOURSELF AND CHILDREN in the LaFAYETTE LIFE INS. CO. Office— 3014 W. Trade Sir i UST THE PLACE Men’s Hair Cut__85c Children’s Hair Cut_25c Shave 20c; Tonic_25c Bath- 25c Open From 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. HOLLER’S BARBER SHOP 201% West Trade Street I K t INNEY’S “The Home of Good SHOES At the Lowest Prices’’ NOTHING OVER $4.98 217 South Tryon St. Charlotte, N. C. OYAL O. O. MOOSE Takes care of you and your wife while you live. Your children educated and taught .trade. Ask any Moose or see |W. R. Wiseman, representa tive, 224 N. College Street. I Phone 3785. I M OVED TO 318 SO. COLLEGE ST. W« give best work and quickest service in city. ED WRIGHT’S PRESSING CLUB. Phones 4043-4908 N DRINK U GRAPE 'A Flavor You Can’t Forget In Nu Grape Bottles 0 UR TIRES Guaranteed 5,000, 8,000 and 10,000 miJLes. Our prices are right. 30x3 H* $7.25, $9.50, $11.75 All Sizes—Special Prices. Giant Tires Sales Co. : 203 South Church St. P urity Market Western and Native Green i Meats and All 'Kinds of Smoked Meats • 202-. South Church Street Phone 3020 Q UEEN CITY Chinese Hand Laundry W6!lDo All First Class Work 'ivat the Right Price ",uri Prompt Service 14 South Poplar Street R Abators EPA1RED and rebuilt By Expert Workmen Save, your old ones, we buy, (Sell pnd exchange all kinds. CHARLOTTE RADIATOR , . f)n COMPANY 210 East Fifth St. S WENTZ IG NS 216 E. Fifth Street PHONE 516 , % , Oldest Sign Business In ' Charlotte T IRES 4- FALLS TIRES ^ ■ and ^EVERGREEN TUBES “GeQEge Says They’re Good” GEO. A. NEWMAN 2? NT College St. Phone 4257 U KN$W THE LaFAYETTE ^ijfE INSURANCE CO. is a Home Company See Supt. Merrell at 301 1-2 WteSt Trade St. (upstairs.) VULCANIZING Oar1 Specialty Phone 287 (By Men Who Know) Any Size Tire Can Be Repaired from 3 to 9 Inches Free Quick Truck Service 512 South Tryon Street MOTOk‘ACCESSORIES CO. We Recharge Your Bat in 24 Hours N,0 Charge for Rental Battery ' i f* ■nr.iissfflj -\ SERVICE niUdld J STATION Phone 5444 610 South Y'ryon St. X Y TRA GOOD MEALS nm.- AND ROOMS ** ■'Please Our Customer* Call on Us ' Southern Hotel and Cafe, W. Trade St. OU GET ” First Class Food At Right Prices Al/j>jlN’S RESTAURANT North Charlotte See the. Fat Man As Proof ZpINDEL’S HYGIENIC BAKERY 5(T6,, South Tryon Street %iv" n Phone 3253 I # ea.d, Pies, Cakes and Fancy Pastry Use Them and Be Strong -‘____ The Mecklenburg Dairy Company, Inc. HIGH GRADE DAIRY! PRODUCTS Corner. East Fourth and Caldwell1 Streets J. A. YARBROUGH ROBT. E. M’DOWEjfcJdt N. J. ORR President Vice-President *s—-Secretary-Treasurer Distributors Of If Utfv '■ PASTEURIZED, SAFE, SANITARY* QUALITY ’ “MECkO” Sweet Milky Butter, Sweet Cream and Buttermilk “MECKO” JCE CREAM in REGUL^ and SPECIAL MOULDS of FANCY DESIGNS. QUALITY FOOD. PHONES 3636-4855 ‘ ‘ CHARLOTTE, N.X.
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