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ijPi7M3 Indorsed By Every Craft in Charlotte and In jt The State CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPT. 14,1923 VOL. VI. NO. 7 .01 .j 1 iff An mfT' FI 11 Jr ■ 1 Ilf 111. j; 1 II i I i ■4 i 1 Ilf TT U1 111 r 11 DICK EDMUNDS IS PANDERING TO PLUTOCRACY Orthodox as Bryan; Ignorant as David Clark and Apes Annas and Coiphas. (By Tom P. Jimison.) Dick Edmunds is editor of The Manufacturers Record, a Baltimore publication, which makes a subsist ence by pandering to the plutocracy. Edmunds is a writer of ijtediocre abil ity and a business man of rare judg ment. He is a disciple of Roger Babson, the high priest of Big &tisi ness, and is an apostolic successor to Annas and Caiphas. Religiously h'e is as »orthodox as Williams Jennings l&yan, and as ignorant as Billy Sun - day. Economically he is as uncom promising as Elbert Gary and as ig nt&ant as David Clark. Socially hfe is as arrogant as Herod Antipas,, and as reactionary as Henry Cabot Lodge, filis editorial fulminations inspire this / belief. Recently Dick has taken his pen in hand to' write on the textile indus try. With a flourish of hospitality he welcomes northern mill ownei-3 to the South, but suggests to them that they do not bring their “foreign and union labor” with them. Mark you the learned editor links the words “forcin’’ and “union” together, lie reckons that they are the same. Many folks hereabouts think the same thing*- They ignore the fact that trade unionism is now, a distinctively American institution. The workers of Jwssia and fietmamy and Austria industrial, and that Workers practi cally control those countries. In E^land a labor party has been form ed which holds the balance of pbwer in the British Empire. Only in America does the trade unioii exist as such. And such birds as Edmunds are doing more than they know to bring about a labor party, a class organisation and a proletariat up rising in this country. , — Dick Edmunds has more - sense than his writings would indicate, lie i” knows that the poorest paid and the most dependent class of labor in America is to found among the cot ton mills of the South. He knows that a form of paternalism exists here that would not be tolerated for a moment by the textile workers of New England. His talk about the Southern workers being so bloomipjg * independent is half hluster and the other half buncombe. They put up with most any sort of treatment be cause they only have a house for a week and a job for a. day. Such j has been the decision, of one pf this, most learned jurists in the entire city of Charlotte. He knows, too, that the Southern operators, would gladly import workers from across the seas were it not for the fact that the oper atives of Britain and .Belgium have reached such a degree of enlightment that they would be a menace to the safety of the present policy of the Southern mill owners. Dick Edmunds also knows that the Jenckes Spinning company, which operate in New Eng land with the sort of labor wpich he thinks ought not to be brought to the South, lest it embarrass the, opera tors, also has a plant in North Caro; lina. Although t the New England mill owners keep agents abroad for the purpose of importing foreign \ labor, Jenckes has brought none here* having found that that they can make more money with the “satisfied hands” of the South, whom Brother Edmunds thinks are so independent. Furthermore, with the strike on in4 New England, Jenckes have foiitid the mill business so profitable here, that notwithstanding; the loss in Hfej North * the chain of mills has been enabled to declare a handsome, divi dend. i,,. . . . Fact is the mill owners ia thfe Sdiilh are fearful of an invasion: of union workers from the North. They ffeaf that the “hands” will assert their ih^ dependence sure enough/ And they know that in such ah event there ie going to be a re-adjustment in this country which will look like red rev olution to the standpatters. "THfe Southern “mill hands” are going id wake up some day. When thfey do sufficiently to stand together indus trially and politically, a new day Will dawn in this part of the natioh. And t it will be a day undisturbed by sUbh' blusterous advocates as Dipk Ed munds and other special plfeadferfc who make their, living, by pimping for the plutocrats. , ’ ^ ’ LABOR DAY, 1924 IS DISCUSSED At CENTRAL UNION Highbrows Among Workers Scored — Plans Made for Nett Year. Startin’ this week to make plans and preparations for next Labor Day, the Charlotte Central Labor union ex pressed satisfaction and pride in the Labor Day just passed. It was point ed out that many things were in the way of a real successful Labor Day celebration. Charlotte is the center and the hub of the anti-labor, open shop fight that has been wage<j in the Carolines during the past three years. Then there are any number of boll weevil workers here who never heard of Labor Day before, and they’re working at the various trades, more especially in the building trades, and they worked right on through Labor Day. It was pointed out that Charlotte will not be bothered with this class of “mechanics” ere another Labor Day rolls around^ for it is said the cheap buildings and poor workman ship that is ruining Charlotte todajr will be so apparent by the time the winter winds and rains and snows beat down upon them, that the pub lic will not have such alleged me chanics when aother spring comes around. - v Another element that hindered the proper observance of Labor Day was the spirit of the workers themselves. There arq workers in Charlotte, it was pointed out, who dres» elegantly And seldt^havA a square meal; they think more of their appearance’ than they do of their stomachs; they would rather be seen tagging, along behind somebody whose great-great-grand father was born in Mecklenburg county than to ride in a Packard car all their own in a labor procession. They’re willing to belong to the union and draw the pay the union has se cured for them, but they do not want to be seen in the company of work ers. No, No! That/wqpld be awful. It is said there are several just such fools as that in Charlotte, and it is proposed to have them lined up on one side or the other before another Labor Day comes. Then there were a few merchants who failed or refused to close for Labor Day. These merchants will have many visits from the Central body during the coming year. It will be pointed out to them just how-val uable it is to the merchants to co operate with the wage-earners of Charlotte. It is hoped to have all business houses ready to not only close their stores on Labor Day, but to join with the workers in observing the day. Many other matters were attended to at the meeting Tuesday evening, hut the Labor Day question had the biggest end of the discussion. SOUTHERN TRAINS ON SCHEDULE TIE t -5 Washington, D. C., Sept. 12.—H. W. Miller, vice president, in charge of operation of the Southern railway system, announced today that out of 15,179 passenger trains operated on the system during the month of Aug ust, 14,017, or ninety-two and three tenths per cent reached their final temination onjtime, while 14,479, or ^iriety-five and three-tenths per cent, maintained schedule or made up time while on the Southern. CARPENTERS RAISE WAGES. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 12.—Car penters in-this city have raised, wages from 90 cents an hour to $17 PLAN TO ESTABLISH SOVIET DICTATORSHIP IN THE U. S. Rigid Investigation Discloses Whole Plan—-Already Three Efforts Have Been Made to Launch Armed Insurrection In America—$1,110,000 Sent In One Lump Sutn to Bring About Revolution-—First Step in Revolution Program Is to Capture Labor Unions—“Boring From Within" Is the Plan Adopted—High Time U. S. Becomes Aroused to Dangers Threatening This Nation. / 1 Thu is the first and second of a series of six articles prepared by the United Mine Workers of America dis closing the attempt being made by the red forces, under the direct supervi sion of Moscow, to seize control of the organized labor movement of America and use it as the base from which to carry on the Communist effort for the overthrow of the Amer ican Government. t These'articles are the result- of an independent search ing investigation on the part of th« United Mine Workers of America which^led directly to original sources. ARTICLE I. New Yorlc, Sept. 10. The United Mine Workers of America with this article begins an expose of. the Communist revolution ary movement in America, as pro moted and fostered by the Commun ist International at Moscow, and deal ing with it as it involves the welfare of the miners’ union, and other sim ilar labor "organizations, and the in terests of the American people as a whole. rne purpose and object of the UWted Mine Wooers of America in bringing tor,.Uie -attention of the American people the far-reaching and intensive activities of the Communist organization in this country is two fold. The United Mine Workers of America? wants the public to know what this thing is. It. wants the pub lic to know something about the fight which the miners' union is waging to stamp it out. First, it desires to re veal and make known the sinister and destructive groups and elements at tempting to "bore from within” its own ranks and membership and to seize possession of the organization, and, through such seizure, to later gain possession of all legitimate trade unions; second, to inform the Ameri can people of the scope and purport of the hostile and inimical movement being carried on within their midst. Imported Revolution in U. S. Imported revolution is knocking at the door of the United Mine Workers of America, and of the American people. The seizure of this union is Ba^ng attempted as the first step in the' realization of a thoroughly or ganized program of the agencies and forces behind the Communist Inter national at Moscow for the conquest of the American continent. The overthrow, and destruction of this government, with .the establish ment of an absolute and arbitrary dictatorship, and the elimination of all forms of popular voice in govern mental affairs, is being attempted on a more gigantip scale, with more res olute purpose, and with more crafty design, than at any time in the history of this nation. 6,000 Active Leader* in America. The Commnniit regime at Moscow^ bent on world conquest, is promoting and directing one of the besi: organ ized and moit far-reaching campaigns in America that any country has ever been confronted with. The Com munist organization on the American continent is composed of more than six thousand active leaders and lieu tenants, and approximately one mil lion members adherents and sympa thizers, scattered in every «tate and province of the United States and Canada and who |re actively or tacitly promoting the scheme to import Bol shevism add Sovietism to th|* side of the Atlantic. X, , _ Underwood Will Visit This K I City On September 25 th Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick .and mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce are planning a real reception for Hjon. Oscar W. Uhderwood, 'when he visits Charlotte on the evening of September 25. It is expected every citizen of the city will join in ex tending a welcome to the„ distinguish ed southerner who is a candidate for presidential nomination on the dem ocratic ticket. Regardless of wheth er one is for Mr. Underwood, or against him, for president, all Char lotte and Mecklenburg citizens recog nize the bigness of the man, and will join in welcoming him to the Queen City. ^ : This campaign affects the people of the Dominion of Canadi as much as it does the United States. The revolutionary agents of Moscow are working as actively and energetically among the people of the one country as they are' among the people of the other. Proof of this statement is found in the recent red outbreak among the misguided miners of Nova Scotia, where armed revolution was preached; where an illegal strike bc curred and the red movement was only broken by the vigorous and forci ble action of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Overthrow of Government the Aim. The major points in this revolu tionary program of the Communists as aimed against the United Mine Workers of America and other legi timate trade unions, arid the people of the United States and Canada, are: 1. Overthrow, and destruction of the Federal, state, and provincial governments, with the elimination of existing constitutional forms and foundations. 2. Establishment of a Soviet dic tatorship,* absolute in itsJMcerciseigaf power, -owing allegiance wh- arid con ceding tfofe authority oniy of the Com munist, or Third International, at Moscow, as a “government” sub stitute. 3. Destruction of all social, eco nomic, and political institutions as they exist at this time. 4. Seizure of all 'labor unions through a process of ‘‘boring from within” them, and utilizing them as a strategic instrument in fulfillment of their revolutionary designs upon organized and constitutional govern ment. o. invasion oi w uiuteu wwite Workers of America, with the ouster of its present officials and leaders and the substitution of a leadership of Communists, that it may be used as an instrumentality for seizing the other labor unions of America, and for eventually taking possession of the country. 6. A well-organized movement is being promoted Within the four rail road brotherhoods and sixteen rail road trade unions to amalgamate all railroad workers into “one depart mentalized industrial union,” con trolled by a single leader of Com munist principle and affiliation, and owing allegiance to the Communist organization. . 7. Seizure of the American Feder ation of Labor, with the ouster of its officials, and through such seizure gaining control of all its affiliated units and trade unions. £. Conversion of all craft trade unions into single units of workers within an industry known as “indus trial unions,” with coordination un der a super-Soviet union owing alle giance to, and accepting the mandates of, the Communist International; and its subsidiary, the Red Trade Union International, at Moscow. * 9. Through conquest and subjuga tion of the labor'unions, and conver sion and mobilization of farmers and other related groups, the overthrow of existing institutions, and the crea tion of a cpndition similar to that which now prevails in Russia. OfficaL Data. The data and the facts set forth in this and the following articles rep resent months of careful independent research among original documents and records covering the whole of the Communist movement in America and Europe, particularly as it has been injected into the ranks of the Ignited Mine Workers of America, the American Federation of Labor, apd labor organizations in general. The movement has been traced back to its original purposes and in tents, and followed in all of its phases to its present status in this country. Manifestos, programs^ of action, communications, and revolutionary documents have been examined and compared. Through these factors it has been possible to weigh and gauge the design and purpose of the Com (Continued on Page Two..) CHICAGO COURT NFORCESTHE YELLOW DOG On the Worker* — Playing Right Up to the Role a* Protector of Employers. .From Chicago comes the informa tion that the federal judiciary has again placed itself at the disposal of anti-union employers. , A firm in that city enforced the “yellow dog” on its unorganized gar ment workers. By sighing this docu ment, before they can secure employ ment, these workers agree that they “will not become t member of any labor anion, and will' hare no dealings, communications or interviews . with the ofgcers, ' agents or members of any labor union in relation to said employ ment.” - An organizing campaign of union garment workers interested some of these non-union workers,' apd the former were enjoined by the federal court. They were ordered not to do anything that idight have a tendency to cause the non-union workers to ignore the “yellow dog”—to break thejr contract. The “yetlow dog" was legalized by the United States supreme court, De cember 19, 1917 (Hitchman Coal Co. vs. United Mine Workers). At that time the court upheld an in junction issued against the miners, who were ordered not to interfere with the “yellow dog" contract the Jl$tchman concern enforced on its I unorganized miners. % » ' ,These courts call the “yeBow dog” a fair contract. .«• This is ridi culous. v- ’ It is a principle of law that neither party to a contract shall be uhder duress—must not be subject to coer cion or unfair advantage. An unorganized worker in search of employment is not on a parity with the manager of a coal mine or the owner of a garment factory. That worker is not a free moral agent. He is subject to the employ er’s duress, power, forces the wjprker to sign away rights because those de pendent upon him must be sheltered clothed and fed. The right of the worker to join a trade union is undeniable, and yet federal courts will stand behind anti union employers who force workers, through necessity, to sign away that right. , The court defends its position on the ground that the worker is “free and independent." This is illusory. It is fiction. It is nineteenth century stuff unworthy df any judge who pro fesses to note- developments in in dustry. The court’s aid to the “yellow dog” can not be justified by any legal or moral standard. The employer vio lates the first rule of equity procedure when he comes into court with this request. Hje has forced, the worker to surrender a legal right and then asks the court to aid him in this wrong. , The employer does not come into court with clean hands, and some time some brave and fearless federal judge will take that position. It may be said that the worker has the right to quit hip employment. That is no answer to the principle involved. Rights can not be restor ed to men by the Simple process of their leaving the scene of their wrongs. That is not justice. . It is a miserable defense of the injunction iniquity. It is elemental that men should abide by their pledged word and their (Continued on Page 3.) BARRINGER, OLD CABARRUS BOY “COMING HOME” Will Speak in Concord on Sat urday, the 29th-—Rev. Mr. Short to Speaks Concord y^rkers are looking for ward to the visit of “President C. P. Barringer, of the State Federation of Labor, on Saturday, September *29, when the new president will make a public address in the Cabarrus county court house. President Barringer is a natice of Cabarrus county, and the workers there feel an especial pride in the president of the state labor body, and it is expected that a pack ed house will greet Mr. Barringer on his first public appearance in the county of his birth. Rev. Mr. Short, a Concord minister who has many friends among the workers, will be another speaker on this occasion, and the officers of the Concord union are congratulating themselves upon securing President Barringer and Rev. Mr; Short for the public meeting. » The union is not making as rapid gains for the past few weeks as the officers would like to see, due to the strenuous campaign of propaganda that has been waged against the local. The workers are. beginning to see, however, that there is a deep laid pur pose in this campaign of abuse and misrepresentation of the union, and are now asking themselves why the employers are making such strenu ous efforts to kill the organization. Since the workers have begun to think a little, they are discovering purpose of the campaign agAinst them—to do away with the organization so the employers, will have the entire situation in .their own hands. r . x The tide has turned now, and the Workers are coming into the organi zation at a more rapid rate. The of ficers hope to have 90 per cent organ ization at least by the beginning of the year, and much dependence is being placed in the big meeting bn September 29. PRES, BARRINGER AT MOORESVILLE (By James T. Robertson.) MooresviUe, N. C., Sept 12—Local Union No. 1221, U, T. W. of A, was honored with the presence of Mr. C. P. Barringer, president of the State Federation of Labor,? at the regular meeting _ Saturday night, September 8th. ' President Barringer made, one of the very best speeches ever made in this hall, and there was a good at tendance. It was not an open meet ing,, but was for members only. Mr. Barringer gave an outline of his program for the year, and men tioned among other things that he would use his time and influence to see that the four dominant industries were more fully organized, namely: textile workers, tobacco workers, furniture workers and common labor. Mr. Barringer will always find a hearty welcome awaiting his return to MooresviUe. \ - : sgt~ > HUGE DRUG PROFITS. New York, Sept. 12.—In six months the United Drug company made a clear profit of $1,285,687 after it set aside funds for deprecia tion and doubtful accounts and paid dividends and interest charges.„ North Charlotte Scabs Are || 'Now Getting It In the Neck “The way of the scab is rough and rocky,” is the manner in which some of the North Charlotte workers are describing the situation over there in Anderson Town, on Mosely street. It is said several of the 'workers who scabbed during the recent strike have been laid off by the mill management 'since the strike was called off. Some have had the axe for one reason, and others for" other reasons. Regardless of the reason, however, those who listened to the blarney of the bosses and .scabbed on their fellow workers, 1 and who now, as always, find them selves kicked out in the rain, are wish ing some one would kick them for not standing with the workers when standing meant something to all the workers. It is not good sport to say, “I told you so!” Yet it is" hard for some of the unionists of North Charlotte to refrain from saying that very thing to the scab* who now find themselves turned off by those who first prevailed upon them to become that most hate ful of all things—a scab. - t ' Together With Mothers - Who Are Forced to Labor, Le«W ing Little One* to Die. Results of an extensive inv tion into ihfabt mortality a: cause in Baltimore, Maryland, jdst been indde feublie'l>y j®e; States Department of Labor the Children’s Bureau, s i; This study is thfe latest andr many respects the most iiirr ' of the Bureau's infant morta1 ies (previous investigations „ been made ip Johnston, Pa., Chester, N. H., Waterbjary, Brockton, Mass.; Saginaw, New Bedford, Mass., Akron, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Gary* Inc The Baltimore study is espec important because Baltimore'ii^i largest of the cities studied, and i because it is, in its populatioSr variety of its industries, and tbi Ti of infant mortality prevailing,' i ical American- city. . .. . Poverty, employment of, motl v *side the home, housing below . ■ §er standard* short internals' tween births, and the death of lho era at or soon after child-birth among the conditions causing death rates amonfc certain grout babies under one year of age ife j timore. Similar conditions found responsible for *igh mortality rates in othef cities^ > A summary of the findings -isf ‘ Baltimore report is as follows:' The mortality in the ei of 10,797 legitimate. ! was approximately the infant mortality w$k~ United States birth-regist for the same year, IV Mortality rates marked!! the average for t|e entire group occurred among the families, foreign-born Polish." and the very poor native wt ilies. . Low mortality rates—apppw ly those in Nhw Zealand, .wKj,, the lowest in the World—were, among the babies of foreidni Jewish mothers and in fainU: highest earnings groups. Breast-fed babies in every of the population had lower mb than artificially-fed babies & same group. ’ I <SR£ Rochester, N,; Y., Sept. New evidence is afforded bj Baltimore study that poverty •: important factor in infant morU.., Eliminating differences in colof i nationality and considering only j babies born to native white motF the facts showed that infant .1 tality rose as the fathers' wages.; In the poorest families studied \ one baby in six. died within the in the most prosperous families ■ one baby in twenty-six died the year. Employment of the; mother, from home during pregnancy was chiefly in factory Work) companied by a high pen premature births and hl„. mortality, especially froni the peculiar to early infancy. Eip., ment of mothers away from.; during the first year of their lL lives also markedly increased; hazard to the baby. Room cl tion and lac£ of sanitary equaj in the house were accompany death rates hbove the average^. First-born babies pad a slightly higher than second and , babies, but among the lat&i oi-def birth the mortality rose steal?’* Babies of mothers under 1, and of mothers of thirty-five', or older shows higher **&*miim than other infants. Births following by an interval of less than two had a higher mortality than L ccurring after a longer interval babies born to the 105.il* ers who died within the year ing the babies’ birth hid the Hi mortality in the entire group. 7 the mothers died within two m« after the babies’ birth, the jhj mortality rate became six til high as the rate for babies mot •VA^t 4-kClC T/\ A j" --„--r -r~,-httH'.; ed an organizin drive that elude every section of, the city,; their call for unity the tailoip clare that “the organized labor ; ment is the protector and dc of the wage earners.” «£|g| '-SW
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