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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ' '_ .> is he THe black sheep? is asked. EditorrThe Herald: I read with interest, and some surprise, about tl»e way the hoodlums, evidently at the direction of the mill officials, treated the textile union or ganizers at Hoskins a tew days ago. I know some of the Walters family. The ones I know are members of organized labor. I understand they are brothers of the Superintendent Walters you flayed so hard in The Herald. > The Walters I know are good union men, railroad workers, and I can’t understand the make-up of that Hoskins Walters, unless that old saying about a “black sheep being in every family” is really so. Your Waiters, that Hoskins mill superintendent, must be the black sheep of the .Walters family. Fraternally, - ' ’ O. R. C. MEMBER. Charlotte; N1. C.' YOU’RE RlGtti BROTHER. A. gang of yonng ruffians at Chralotte, N. C., broke up an open-air meeting of textile Workers while tfie superintendent of a large cotton mill, seated in his auto, looked on With great glee. Such rowdy tactics may be extremely amusing to somei folks, but they may later find it expedient to ap peal to those same workers for protection against the Anarchist and the red'whose path is made rosy through ill treatment of honest American Workers.—From The Chattanooga Labor Wjorld. THEY'RE 100 PER CENT AMERICANS, ALL RIGHT. Editor, The Herald: : 1 read in a New York paper about the gang at Hoskins mill treating you organizers to music by tin cans and pans. I am anxious to know, more about the thing. I am sending you a dollar. Please send your paper to me that much, and please send that one about the meeting at Hos kins. ... ' •; We are interested here. We have been told so much about the gentlemen of, the souhtland, the good manner which the employers treat the Workers, and all about the bosses and the work ers of the south being of the same blood, and being good personal friends, and how good Amer icans the workers there are, being 1 Of) pej.- cent Americans, and we cannot fully uiidrestand, how 100 per cent Americans ca'n be denied the right to listen to labor speakers or to any other speak er* they want to listen to. MjEist of been one clickens of a time, according to the New York papers. Good hick. Keep it up. • A. T. CLONTZ. Fall River, Mass. ^jj4NTS TO KNOW WALTER’S PEDIGREE. Editor, The Herald: / " I read in your paper about that gang of rough necks at Htoskins mill breaking up^ your meeting. If that Walters there,-the superintendent you spoke of, ft any kin to the Walters that used to be here, then you need not be surprised at any thing they do. The one that was here is a thief, a crook, a robber, a defaulter, and most nearly everything else that is low down. Wish you’d let me know if that Hoskins Walters is any kin to the Walters that was here. You know the crook. TEXTILE WORKER. Kannapolis, N. C. A SOAP BOX SERMON. Dis is my first sermon an my text is, whah duz dem riches cum from an how duz dat poverty git dar. I is goin ter start out wid assertin de propersition dat de rich am too rich to dair hurt and de pore am too pore to dair hure. D^y aint ennybody happy but dem who has only rrtiff too be confotable an dey haint as happy ^as dey orter be fo de rich am a bearin down on dein on pne side art de pore am a scourgib -dem on de udder side. Some folks say it haint.no harm to be rich an it haint no crime to be pore but dat is jist jumpin at ’elusions an dis hot July Day I puts dis question to be aggregation whah duz dem riches -cum from an how duz dat poverty git dar. Dar haint no use in tryin to kiver up things wid a blanket when de blanket am full of holes. W,hen de white man its up in de mornin an diskuvers dat sum ob hi* chickens has dun disapeered durin de night, he cums to bde ’elusion dat dem chickens was stole. Dat am jist jumpin at ’elusions an if dar is a bad niggah in town he spects dat niggah stole dem chickens and if he fins dem chickens in de posesion of a bad niggah he jis cums to de elusion dat niggah dun stole dem chickens an dat is jist jumpin at elusions, and it is jist de same wid a bad white man as hit is wid a bad niggah. Whenever you fiti de stolen goods you cum to de elusion dat de thief am not fur off. An novr, my frens, we hab all cum to be clu siorfdat de chickens belongs to de man what raises dem, and we laso includes dat de man dat steals ennff chickens will git rich an de man what raises dem will git pore so dar is one hole in de blanket dat youens can see what is under it if you will jist look in an de same logic plies to all kines of prop erty dat is stole from de man what made k. An my frens I is gwin ter tell youse one thing. De man hoo has got mor property dan he wroked fur he had it gib to him or he stole it but we will giv him de benfefit ob de daut an jist say be stole it. De man hoo steals is de worstesfc .sort ob sinner cause-he make hisself rich an udder folks pore. One time dar was a young man hoo had lots ob dem chickens an he got victed of his sins an dar was no mourners bench in de neer cinity an he went up to Jesus an axed him what to do an Jesus tole him to gib back dem dar chcikens he had stofe an cum an go wid him an dat let de cat out oh-de bag fur de Bible say he was sorry dat he sprung de question on Jesus in de place ob goin to sum preacher hoo would a tole him to cum to Chiitch every Sunday an gib him ten dollars worth ob dem chickens an he wonld be all right. We don’t know what becum eb dat young man it am plain dat he didn’t aim to gib hack dem chickens what he swiped from de pore. Dar aint much daut in our mines dat he jist went on an jined de republicans an udder sinner and went rite on swipdn dem chickens an udder> things, wha tde pore workin people had to raise an so it is—the idle rich jist keep ort a swipen dem chickens an a gittin richer an the pore folks who is raisin dem dar chickens a gitin porer. An now, brudders and sisters, in elusion wlil shy, I hope I hab shoad you dem holes in de blanket an hope I may be able to lucidat sum more on dis ■subject at some more eonvient time. I will now ax d aggregation to stan an be disgraced and may the laud hab mergy on you while you is tryin to cheat each udder swapin knives. -o—*—-•—* Every man, woman and child in i^organton should stand solidly behind The Morganton News Herald in that paper’s efforts to secure an under pass at the railroad crossing near the Moiganton passenger station. ’ No worse death-trap exists in the state than this crossing. The News-Herald is doing a big work in agitating for this underpass. It is actuated by a desire to save human life. That is always a worthy effort. RAILROADS URGE DIRECTORS WRITE TO REPRESENTATIVES '* Whshingt<5p, July 18—Railroad fi nanciers and managers are urging their stockholders to petition Mem bers of Congress to make no change in the' transportation act. The roads would like to see the duties of the railroad labor board turned over to the interstate com merce commission, on the theory that the same board that sets passenger and freight rates should set wages. This logic is not applied, however, in the case of steel rails and other pur chases made by the companies. They are not asking that a government board tell them what to pay for steel rails, ties and lubricating oil, but they insist that wages be handled that way. It is risky business for the roads to lobby for a, change in the railroad labor board, as their present strategy is to “leave well enough alone.” Un der the act the railroads are assured a fair return and the interstate com merce commission has construed this to mean 5 6-4 per ecnt interest on a valuation set by the commission. With no cheek on their expendi tures madegtp eoneerns whose direc torate is inspr locked with the various railroads, the transportation act is proving to be what is popularly known as rfsoft” for the railroads. They want present rates maintained and they fear that if Congress discusses any amendment, this wlil be the sig nal for a general attack on the law. This is the last thing the railroads Want. Hence . their campaign to stand pat. ' It is now clear that the backers of the transportation act have? failed in their purpose to make the railroad labor board the final word in wages and working conditions. It will be recalled that when Con gress was considering the transporta tion act, organized labor defeated a “can’t-strike” proposal after the hard est kind of fighting. That the back ers of the law did not abandon their hope to handcuff labor to its task is shown by the hubdub that was raised when the shop men struck last July. Government officials and newspapers shrieked that the workers were “de fying government” because they sus pended work. The Pennsylvania rail load is the latest of more than 100 instances where managers have ig nored the board, and the United States supreme court has ruled that the board’s decisions have not the finality of law. ( The workers have smashed the pro gram to make the board a sort of LaTour Writes Letter of Force to the Ry. Clerks -? II. A. LoTour, secretary of tbe Railway Clerks union, has written the following telling letter, to the members of his organization: All Members, Greetings ;; "Many of y<Ju are contemplating taking your vacation in the near fu ture and I know there are a few who have already had the pleasure of ex periencing what it is to be able to take a vacation. This is the second year the Clerks have had this pleas ure. Many of you who have been with the company know that prior to September 1st, 1922, you did not en joy this privilege.. “Now then, let us consider how this vacation of twelve days with pay came about. Or in case the company is unable to .grant you the vacation you are paid double time. < “Was it the generosity of the com pany you worked for that this was granted you? Not hardly. You are now enjoying the vecation because you with many more Clerks decided that it was best for all concerned that you have a little more voice in what was best for your welfare. “So than you joined what was known as the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. You then appointed a gener al committee to represent all the clerks on the Southern Railway Sys tem. You sent them to Washington, D. C-» to interview the management. Now this is what your general com mittee or system board has done for you. First you were granted the 8 hour day with pro-rata time for the ninth hour and time and one half time for the tenth hour and there after. Extra pay for Sundays and all holidays. ^Seniority. Second, you were granted what is known as Sup plement No. 1 effective September 1st, 1922. This is where you received your vacation, sick leave, and Satur day afternoons off. “You can now begin to realize that the little Railway Clerk is becoming a little something of importance. That he is making progress. He has to his credit a seven story buildihg of his own in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then beginning Octobey the first he will open up his own bank. It’s a Nation al Bank. Perfectly safe to deposit money. Then Uncle Sam thinks a whole lots of the Railway Clerk. He ! has rented five stories for offices to be | used for vocational training of sol diers. Then through your national organization every clerk that becomes a member, is entitled to the benefits of the Life Insurance Department. There are no extrac harge for this. “So now that we know The Broth erhood of Railway Clerks have been of much benefit to us let us try to convince oar non-members that they are receivings something for which they are not conrtibuting one cent to its support. H. A. LaTOUR, Fin. Sec.-Treas. TYPOS WOULD WAGE BIG CAMPAIGN OF ERUCATION . - Indianapolis, Ind. July 18.—Plans for an educational campaign to in struct union members on the true re lationship of Communistic ideas with ' the labor union movement and to equip each member with arguments in favor of encouraging unionism through use of the union 4abel have been formulated by the Allidd Print ing Trades Council, according to an j announcement made at headquarters | of the International Typographical j Union here. _ I “Leaders of the printing unions believe that more general recogni tion of the justice and soundness of the trade union principle will gd for ward toward preventing spread of dangerous and troublesome ideas of ^government reform,” said J. W. Hayes, secretary-treasurer of the ty pographical union. “Sympathies of sensible men can be drawn to revolu tionary movements only when no other avenue for escaping economic hardships can be discovered. “It is hoped that by arming each craftsman in the printing trades with a thorough understanding of union ahns and policies many thousands of men and women, o'utside^the ranks of unionism, may be reached. Each union man may be able to clear up misconceptions in the minds of friends and acquaintances.” Aims and objects of the typograph ical unions are gjven as follows: “To establish and maintain an equitable scale of wages and protect ourselves from sudden and unreason able fluctuations in pay; to protect just employers for unfair competi tion; to defend our rights and inter ests as working men; to create an au thority whose zeal shall constitute a certificate of character, intelligence and skill; to build up an organization in which all worthy members of the craft can participate in the discus sion of problems affecting their wel fare; to foster fellowship and broth erhood. and shield from aggression the isolated toiler; to aid the destitute and unfortunate and provide for the decent burial of deceased members; to develop and stimulate by associa tion and social converse those kindly instincts of humanity that most high ly adorn true manhood; to encourage the principle and practice of concilia tion in differences between capital and labor; to incite honorable effort for better conditions of labor and greater enjoyment of the ‘amenities of life, to concomitants of culture j and civilization; to defend the de-1 fensele^s, befriend the friendless, and j in all charity iiieulate lessons of jus- j tice and good will among men,” Be On The Safe Side r ^ k! . 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YOU NEED ONE’. I king that would issue orders none j j dare disobey. No one says a good1 | word for the board. The workers j do not trust it and rsiil managers and i financiers hare lost faith in it be- j . cause it has fatted to “deliver the I goods” for them. USED CARS Biggest Values in J Town HjUPMOBILES R-Teuring (Dernstr.)_-$525.6G Cash (Balanee in 10 months.) R Coupe (Demstr.)-$635.10 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Model R Roadster---‘-$350.48 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Model ft Touring.-$372.30 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) OTHER makes Ford Coupe --$175.20 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Liberty Touring_-$218.00 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Dodge Touring^_$109.40 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Studebaker Touring-$219.00 Cash (Balance in 10 Months.) I Maxwell Touring-$109.40 Cash j (Balance in 10 Months.) Ford Coupe __$219.00. Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Dodge Touring_$212.45 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Essex Tearing___$240.90 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Milburh Electric __^___$219.00 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Ford Touring_$164.25 Cash (Balance in 10 months.) Don’t think of buying a used car elsewhere until you see our line. Charlotte Motor Car Co. j 501 East Trade Street PHONE 961 BOYS AND dlfcLS, LOOK! 'S Present* fair Everyone W* give NATIONAL CERTIFI CATES with each purchase of 25e or more. Come to-— QUEEN City, CYCLE CO. 42 N. College St. Phone 81? FORD • Transmission Bands Relined with Raybestos special Ford lining by brake experts in one hour and thirty., minutes. Our method reduces chattering and gives your bands longer life. Our ./flat rates will saye you money. . BRAKE AND BATTERY SPECIALTY CO. Authorizd Raybestos Brake Service Station 219 West Fourth Street Entrance Auto Hotel Phone 3321 iJust Received i Carload of SIMMON’S * , Metal Beds & Springs Special prices for next Wteek only. Your credit is good with us. Iperry-mincey CO. 15 S. College St. It’s Easier To Make Friends Than to Keep Them j Some people ^attract friends easily and lose them quickly. It's the same with typewriters. Some Took attractive but they don’t wear. ' , I The L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter binds its friends by chains of sei*&ce. ,It , gives lasting satisfaction and makes lasting friends. Send for booklet. " % I L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. | 31 Weft 4tl» St. Phone 2374 ~ Charlotte, N. C. | ■- ; . ■. /.'■ • ' ';i-v/' " • >: 4 SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ANNOUNCES Popular Excursion to 1 ''.Jjff* Washington. D.C», July 27,1923 \ Round Trip Fare From Charlotte i.00 $10 Tickets Good' Three Days \ . Schedule Special Train and Round Trip Fares Leave: Schedule RoumH Trip Fare Charlotte---- 9:05 P. M. $ - $10.00 Concord-.**.-9:40 P. M. 9.50 , Kannapolis -9:50 P. M. 9.50 Landis -9:55 P.M. , i 9.50 9 China Grove — ___10:00 P.M. 9.5(h Salisbury--w-10 ;25 P. M. 9.00 Arrive Washington 8:50 A. M., July 28. Round trip tickets on sale all Southern Railway stations North Carolina §ast of Raleigh. Pullman sleeping cars and day coaches. N- - Big League Baseball Games . Washington Americans vs. Detroit Tigers, July 28, 29 and 30. See Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Harry Heilman and other great stars in action. Tickets good returning on all regular trains (except No. .37) up to and including train No. 33 leaving Wash ington, D. C., 9:35 P. M. July 30, 1923. Stoecial train returning will leave Washirfgton 9:35 P. M, July 30. This train will have sleeping cars fdi* Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Salisbury, Charlotte, Ashe ville and all intermediate points, filso day coaches. Let us make your reservations returning.’ Make, your sleeping car reservations early. For detailed information apply to ticket agent or address, R. H. GRAHAM Division Passenger Agent ^ Charlotte, N. C.
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