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Indorsed By Every Graft In Charlotte and In The State VQLu VI. No. 17. Henry Ford’s Second Biggest Plant To Be Located at Charlotte, Giving Employment to 800 Men, and Making Charlotte the Recognized Southern Railway To Btrild An Office Building Costing Quarter of a Million Dollars-4-Hotel Charlotte About Completed—Ivey’s Big Store s, the Finest Store in the South, Adding the Finishing Touches ahd Already Doing Business on the Inside—The Textile Bidding 1 Buildings in Charlotte—City Hall to Be Erected at An Early Date That W£H Do Justice to a City Like Charlotte—Numerous Business Importance—Hundreds of New Homes—$2,000,000 To Be Invested in School Buildings As Soon As Voters Say the Word. fh Kingship Sixe Let’s Go! USE SCREEN TO PROMOTE OLD REACTION Government Helps Griffith in Making Pictures. OPPOSES IDEAS Of, All Changes or Advance ments—Want Folks to Be Quiet and Good. Here is the latest development in the art of propaganda: David Wark Griffith, noted scifeen director, is- making a picture entitled “America.” "Hie thought is that everything in this country is just right, and that anyone who suggests a change is “a dangerous radical.” Of course, Mr. Griffith 1ms a per fect right to make such a picture if he desires to dio so, but the point which will interest ordinary citizens, especially the workers, is that Presi dent Coolidge and Secretary of iVar Weeks have turned over the United States army to Mr. Griffith so that he may get the necessary “patriotic” eff^Pts. This generosity on the part of President Coolidge and Secretary of War Weeks will save Mr. Griffith a very large sum of money, because the army will work, for him for noth, ing, as Unde Sam will pay all the bills. .The picture is to be put on the screen just before the presidential primaries, when Big Business will be urging the voters to support re actionary candidates. Will Hays, late -chairman of the with having originated .this idea. * happy UnBitb 1 banks Coolidge. Griffiith called on President Cool idge at the White House $he other day to tell him of the progress made on the picture and to thank him for assitance given by various govern ment departments. After he left the President Griffith made this state :nt to the assembled newspaper re porters: “There seems to be a tendency among many people in various sec tions of the country for a change, and we want to warn them against this and stamp out radicalism. “We hope to impress upon the peo ple that they are better off today than they have ever been before. The ordinary workingman today has more luxuries than kings enjoyed when the country first started. “President jCoOlidge and other of ficials of the administration hdve been very generous in permitting us to use government regiment, tanks, guns, and other war equipment, • as well as historic battlefields and build ings and enable us to portray historic scenes and other interesting inci dents much more effectively and ac curately than we could otherwise, and I called to thank him today.” Saves Him Lots of Money. Assistance given by the govern ment in making the picture, which will be shown under the title, “Amer ica,” was admitted by Griffith to be worth many thousands of dollars to him. Army officers maneuvered for days many thousands of troops, tyith all their war paraphernalia, without a penny of cost to the producer. In fact, Griffith declared, the. gov ernment had generously and “at con siderable cost” assisted in the pro duction, the administration believing that it would have a “wholesome and quieting effect upon the people” to know “just how well off they are to day.” Griffith further stated that the pic ture woujd be ready for distribution early in Februarv when the presi dential primaries in many states will be gaining headway. It will be prdouced simultaneously in all sections of the country through the presidential campaign and up to the November election, and as much longer as there is demand for it, said Griffith. S. S. liOME VISITATION DAT NOV. 23 KANNAPOLIS MILLS RUNNING SHORT TIME KANNAPOLIS, Nov. 13.—This mormng was rather blue for the textile workers of this great little city. The Cannon mills here went on the three-day plan, or less. The announced plan is to start up Thurs day morning and stop Saturday at noon. This gives the night hands two nights a week. The workers are rather non-pluss ed. Winter is setting in, and this curtailment means a hard blow to the workers. It is not known just how long this plan will be followed, > nor has any statement bOen made jBgnerally as to the reason for the <*Curtailhient of the work. WAR By VICTOR HUGO I ET us dishonor war; glorious war does not exist. It is not good, and it is not useful to make corpses. Ho. It can not be that Life travails for Death. Oh, mothers that surround me, it can not be that War, the Rob* ber, should continue to take from you your children. It can not be that women should bear children in pain, that men should be born, that people should plough and sow, that the fsntter should fertilize the fields, and the workman enrich the city1; that in dustry should produce parrds, that genius should produce prodi gies, that- the vast human activity should} in the presence of: the starry sky, multiply efforts and creations, all to result in that frightful international exposition which is called a field of battle! CHARLOTTE IS REJOICING ABOUT FORD Big Plant To Be Erected At Queeh City. ^WORKERS GLAD Because of 8-Hour Day and Wages Paid in All tbs Ford &ents. Ford s long-talked-oi plan to es tablish his- second largest plant in Charlotte is now a certainty, and there’s much rejoicing all over the state because of this certainty. All details in the big arrangements were completed last Saturday, and the news went for that the .plant is to really be established here. For many months the Chamber of Commerce and other interested citizens have been working faithfully with Ford officials and property owners and power officials and railway companies to get all adjustments made that would make tie establishment of the plant here an actuality. It will mean much for Charlotte and Piedmont North Carolina. It means much to the business life of the community, but the greatest ef fect from the standpoint of labor is the fact that Mr. Ford observes the 8-hour day, and with this big plant in operation here, it is a. known fact that it will do more to create public opinion against the long hours work ed by some of the industries than anything else”could do. Ford pays good wages, too, and the Wofkers throughout this section will be greatly benefitted from this angle of the coming here of the great plant. - 4v +' uiu ctxpu gets entcient wurit uuiie in his industries, and there’s no fool ishness in the business .during the work-period, and this, too, will have beneficial effect upon industry in this section of the country. The one big outstanding feature of the announcement of the selec tion of Charlotte by the Ford offi cials is the recognition of Charlotte’s superiority over all other Southern cities as a distributing point and as a business center. Other industries will follow Ford here', because his engineers and experts have placed their approval upon the advantages of Charlotte. Announcement has been made by Ford officials that local labor will be employed in the big industry. Al ready workers are filling applications for jobs in the new industry. There is one danger to the city, however, in the publicity that has followed the announcement that Ford has finally decided to come here, and that danger lies in the. number of working people flocking to Charlotte, hoping to get work, in the Ford pjaht. Winder is just beginning, and the worst thing that can happen to a city for large numbers of workers to come into a ‘city at the beginning of winter ,and find no work to do. They must live,' somehow, and every idle man and woman is a tax upon some one or some group of people. On amusing incident of the Ford affair was furnished last Sunday, when hundreds of people drove out the Statesville road to look at*the land where the plant is to be erected. The announcement was in the papers Saturday and Sunday morning, and early Sunday the procession began to drive out the Statesville road, to view the site of. the plant. Of course nothing had/ been done. The land was lying there, just as it has lain for centuries, and many of those driving out to look at the place have passed there time and tune again. While United States Talks and Talks of Ending Child Labor Other Nations Take Action To Free Young Toilers By InttrsstUsil Labor Nawi Service. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—White the United State* ha* been talking about child labor, but doing little to aboli*h it, other nations have been going ahead and freeing their child slave*. Take supposedly "backward" Mexico, fpr instance. Fifteen mil lion Mexican children between the ages of four and fourteen haw been liberated from a working day lasting from sunrise to sunset, Senor F. Roel, New York Consul General from Mexico, told the In. ternational Humane -Conference at the opening here of a three-day session on child welfare. Under the Mexican Constitution, Roel said, a maximum day’s work fbr children between 12 and 16 years of age is six hours and child labor under 16 has been abolished. The Mexican Goernment is open ing both night and day schools for the development of child workers who were formerly driven, to pro longed labor which harmed them physically, mentally and morally, Roel added. Over in England, the factory re port for 1922 shows that last year only 496 children under 14 submit ted themselves for examination un der the factory act for certificate of fitness to leave school and be gin work. Compared with 1921, this means a decline of 92.2 per cent. The cause of the big - drop- in child labor is due to an order of the Educational Board, put in force at the beginning of 192X0*0 apply the clause* of the education act of 1918 refining to child em ployment. From l904, due t© pros perity in the Cotton industry* an appalling numbe* of children- en tered the mi|ls- But Engliiud- has now apparently' become aroused to the enormity of child labor and it is probable that never again will industry be permitted to. exploit the labor of boys and girls. Meanwhile children are still be ing forced to work in the United States under csnditpns that men ace not only themselves but the national welfare. A good example of the intolerable condition* that surround many child workers here « is given by Maryland truck farms which employ migratory child toil ers. The Children's Bureau of the United States Department of La bor has just completed an investi gation in Maryland which shows be yond dispute how unfairly Ameri ca is treating vast numbers of its children. Living conditions which beggar description, exist on the Mary land farms investigated by the bu reau’s experts. On this subject the report says: “Seasonal workers are housed by the fwqi'pwoert on their own land in what are referred to locally as camps. .... Most of the camps i contained but one building, known as the 'shanty,’ which served as sleeping quarters for the work ers. .... In most camps it was weather-beaten or unpainted and the windows usually lacked either glass or shutters or both. -^Ai a rule there was but one room on each floor with stairs on the out side leading to the upper room. In Some si partition divided the low er floor was about 25 by 30 feet, into two rooms. On each side of . a narrow aisle down the center of the room the floor was divided into sections or pens by boards 10 or 12 inches in height. Each pen was about six feet long and from four to six feet wide and covered with straw for a mattress. Each fam ily was allotted one of these pens,’ the larger families sometimes se curing those six feet in width.” The employment of young child ren for long hours on the truck farms is also condemned, because of the loss of schooling it entails. Nearly one-fifth of the white child ren in the area studied had been absent from school because of farm work for six or more .weeks of the school year. v Boys from 12 to 16 were found plowing, harrowing, and machine cultivating for nine or 10 hours a day. WANT LIDDEU PROPERTY USED FOR A CITY PARK Central Labor Union Asks Other Organizations to Make Stuldy of Proposed Plan. -— Secretary Claude Albea was in structed to aet with E. F. Snaken berg, J. U. Whitesides and R. L. Lyles, in communicating with the va rious civic organizations and the city commissioners to secure the active in terest of all people in crystalizing sentiment for the establishment of k park at the above mentioned place. Mr. Snakenberg introduced the res olution. ’ '' That Charlotte should have a pub lic park in keeping with the city of today and the city it is to be on the morrow, was the firm conviction of delegates attending the Central Labor Union last Tuesday evening. That the city now has in its possession a block of property that is already an ideal park and playground* sec ond to none in the whole country, was also pointed out in a resolution that was adopted by the Central body and copies mailed to .civic or*, ganizations, women’s clubs, and the city commissioners. The Central body would urge the city to use the Liddell property as a park, and build the municipal build (Continued on Page Eight.) "WE CANNOT SAVE THE PIOPLl UNLIM WI TKACH THKM : Wl CANNOT TKACH THKM UNLESS WK NKACH THEM” To visit every home, fire printed Invitations to all tbe people, lnrttln*1 then to attend the Church, Temple. Synagogue and Sunday School of their choice, and ts secure reconls of the church connection or prefer ence of every Individual, which will be (Iren to the Pastor, rrtest. Rabbi or Orjanttatlon preferred. CHARE MOME VISHfA^ION 3% THE INTERN ATIONaE^RTN, CAROLINA STATE ANDmSkiSnBURG COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS Uuder the auspices 4f the Protest**. baUioIIc and Jewish Sunday Schools. Churches and Synagogues. Ministerial Association. CathoUc Clergy. Jewish Leaders. The Young. Mens Christian Association. Knights of Cwunbus, Young Men’s tt,KN>w Rmsa, Ymtn* Women’s Christian Association, Catliolia Women* J Women’s Society. Youzuc 'Peonies’ Socieltes. Mlaslor ,, —__ - _ ___. _ Hebrew Society. Young Women's Christian Association, CatlmUq Women s Boo tomen’s Society. Young Peoples’ Socieltes, Missions. Salvation Army, The Clubs. The Education, Social, Commercial, industrial. Welfare and Cldc Organizations, Etc.. Etc., Etc., Etc. VISITATION DAY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 23, 1923 v.. , „ HOURS* a TO 4 O'CLOCK . _ Society. Jewish PASTORS' COMMITTEE (Every Pastor In the City) Bantlit Rev. Luther Little Her. Joseph A. Gaines Bev. W. A. Smith Rer. L. R. Pruett Rer. R. D. Carroll Rer. T. L. Cashwell Catholic Rer. Ambrose Gallagher Bev. Leo Frierson Church at Christ Rer. C. B. Mashburn Bishop E. A. Penlck Iter. George Floyd Rogers Rev. John L. Jackson Rer. R. B. Owens . Rer. Lewis R. Anschutz Jewish Pres. Will Weill Pres. Sam Swartz Lutheran Rer. Jno. F. Crigler Rer. W. A. Lutz Methodist Rer. J. B. Craven, P. E. Ber. Henry Grady Hardin Rer. J. E. Abamethy Rer. L. D. Thompson Rer. J. H. Ambrust Ber. Geo. H. Herman Rer. T. L. Higgins Rer. C. M. Short Rev. W. B. Davis Rer. A. B. Surratt Rev. J. A. Smith Bet. E. P. Bilhtps Presbyterian Ber. A. A. McGeacliy Rer. W. B. Mcllwalne. Jr. Ber. M. F. Daniels Rer. J. F. Ligon Rev. G. F. Bell Rer. S. B. Lyerly Rer. H- M. Pressly Rev. C. C. Anderson Rev. J. G. Garth Rer. H. H. Cassaday Rev. J. C. Wool A. ft. Presbyterian Rer. W. W. Orr Rev. D. G. Phillips Rev. W. B. Lindsay Rer. W. S.' Boyce Bev. C. O. Williams Rev. E. G. Carson Methodist Protestant Rer. George L. Curry Reformed Ber. Shuford Peeler Adventists Ider Charles E. Ford Advent Christian Ber. James A. Downs Moravian Bishop Ed. Rondtlialer COLORED CHORCHES Baptist Ref J. H. Moore Congregational Rer. J. H. Stevenson • Methodist Bev. W. M. Wells Methodist A. E. Rer. C. M. Reid . Methodist A. E. Z. Rev. N. D. King Presbyterian Bor. B. P. Wyche Y. M. C. A. David L. Probert K. of C. Thomas Walsh Y. M. H. A, , David Nabow Y. W. C.. A. Miss Josephine Kelly Catholle Wpmen . Mrs. Raymond Pulhdtfl Jewish Women Mrs. Will Weill Women's Committee Mrs. J. A. Durham Mrs. C. H, Govef Mrs. Chas. K. Hecht Miss Emma Hall Miss Maude McKinnon Miss Annie Wilson Mrs. W. B. Lindsay Mrs. W. H. Graves Mrs. E. L. Mason Mrs. C. A. Williams Mrs. Albert Ezzell Mrs. C. C. Hook Mrs. W. A. Miller Mrs. D. H. Johnston Mrs. Brent 9. Drane Mrs. H. Smith Mrs. John P. Kennedy Mrs. T. C. Toomey Mrs. J. O. Simons Mrs. S. E. Hilton Mrs. G. G. Doggett Mbs. W. H. Bethea Mrs." F. D. Lethco Mrs. J. A. Yarbrough Mrs. Jennie Price Mrs. Joseph B. Boss Miss Louise Erwin_ General Chairman J. B. Ini' General Vloe Chairmen O. A. Williams Louis Llpinskj International Chairman Albert F. Sittloh G Mitral Superlntendenta A J. Shrero Durham International Supt. Hama Vlaltation | . D. W. Sima Gtatral Ant North Carallaa, S. S. A. D., A. Hargett. Secretary Meeklenbun County S. 8. later national Repreeentativea A. l>r. Marion Utwranea J. M. Broughton wr. nugn 9. - Dr. B. It. Hopkins Lansing F. Smith General Chairman Olttrlcte J. J. Breen General Chairman Visitors Miss Julia Alexander Gen. $hm. Classification David h. I’robert Gen. Chairman Conservation J. V. Sutton HEADQUARTERS HOME; VISITATION, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, SECOND FLOOR, IS WEST FOURTH STREET TalwlMM 4839 *" CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA Mr. James JP. Barrett, Editor, The Charlotte Labor Herald, Nov. 7, 1923. Charlotte, North Carolina^ My dear Mr. Barrett: For many years I have said throughout the International Field—that if we could only get all people right with God and with one another, it would solve all life’s problems of human relationships. - \ That, of course, included all the industrial problems, as I am sure that if all those representing all capital, and all those repre senting all labor, were right with God and wjth one another, all industrial problems could and would be solved with justice to both capital and labor—and my association and work with you in the Charlotte Home Visitation prove the fact of that faith. Your Christian spirit in which you are doing things—the policy of your Newspaper, the Charlotte Labor Herald, of which you are the editor, which is the Official Labor Organ, and which now gives a large part of a page to announcements of the Churches and the Sunday Schools of all faiths in your City, and all to attend, as well as such large spacer editorial and news, to the Charlotte Home visitation, will help make Charlotte a Better and Greater City, and solve the problems in justice to all interests. You may not be right in all your views—few of us are. Capital interests may not be right in all their views, yet I am sure with the Christian spirit—all can get right. I am sure we are on the w,ay. With joy I look into the future, for with the Christian spirit you have, with the President of the State Federation of Labor at this moment attending the State Conference of the Churches, of which he is a member—if such leadership can be secured in those who 7 represent Labor* and in those Who represent all Capital, suspicion, distrust, hatred and all such* will fade as a fog before a noon-day sun, and confidence, co-operation and brotherliness Vrill take the i place—then there will be no destruction of lives or property, by either side, and justice w$ll cotne to all. . ’ Sincerely, yy J. Shreve Durham, JSD—LMT ^ v INTERNATIONAL SUPT. SUNDAY'SCHOOL Superintendents (Every Supt. In the City) T. 8. Franklin H. G. Ashcraft .T. H. Bostick Boyce Helms J. L. Dabbs E. W. Koblnson C. C. Thomas B. A. Sutherland F. O. Clarkson David Yates C. V. Palmer John J, Parker J. V. Sutton W. Ji, Dixon D. E. Henderson E. B. Bucher J. B. Ivey J. Jj. Wolfe G. W. Dooley . M. W. Evans L. M. Smith ■ W. F. Frazier , L. E. Anderson R. 8. Garmon Willie Wilcox B. H. Lafferty A. M. Gray H. G. Robinson D. H. Johnson Clyde- Stewart E. B. McCaU W. E. Price _ M. W. Woodside G. M. Beatty Fresco Brown T. L. Kirkpatrick W. E. Norman W. W. Kale John Sellers * A. A. Short B. J. Summerow C. M. Triplett Salvation Army Major J. H. Crook Board of Education Supt. HtP^ Hardin* Mayor J. O. Walker Chamber of Commerce C. O. Kuester Labor Union James F. Barrett Etc.. Etc. Laymen's Committee R. A. .Dunn W. M. Cowbii Chas. K. Heclit E. P.' Tlngley J. H. Cutter E. R. Cannon J. H. Little J. M. Harry Dr. Geo. W. Pressley W. C. Dowd C. F. Linthi cum ■ M. B. Smith L. C. Withers I. P. Hackney F. C. Abbott C. E. Thomas J. B. BosS A. G. Jackobson J. A. Jones F. H. Blerman S. W. Dandridgs D. W. Fink C. H. A. Rupp oJe Garibaldi George E. Young Joseph G. Monahan Dr. S. Levy John C. Sheppard Peter S. Gilchrist J. Henry -Warren Arthur- Craig V. J.- Guthery A. J. Hagood Henry J. Allison W. F. Enneking - Arthur Goodman Dr. A. M. Wh Ian ant Nat White Judge Heriot Clarkson WllUam Fleming George M. Rose Julian 8. Miller - Wade H. - Harris O. M. Lee per B. Silverstein A. H. Burch J. L. Snyder Dr. J. R. Alexander C. Valaer W. F. Pennell C. W. Ramsey W. M. Mather Henry -aNthan Dr. J .. Simmons J. D. Ramsey A. C. F1U Fred W. Glover J. H. Boss C. M. Banner W. T. Shore — W. H. Bobbitt P. G. Kiser H. C. Alexander W. J. Phifer J. Arthur Henderson FULL TOT OF DECISION IN HP. TAX CASE Most Important Decision in Many Years. NCJT PUBLISHED In State Papers—Clearly De fines Powers of Taxation for City Purposes. Because of its tremendous impor tance, the full decision of the Su preme court! in the High Point Cham ber of'Commerce is being published in full in The Herald today. As this decision affects the levying, collect ing and spending of public tax mon ed, and clearly defines the question ' of municipal government and govern mental . agencies, the decision .will l.ong stand as an authority on such matters. While the decision was written by Chief Justice Walter Clark ,and bears evidence of his clear' thinking an<^ broad mind, Charlotte people are interested especially be cause the decision was unanimous, and that means that the Hon. Heriot Clarkson, of Charlotte, associate jus tice of the Supreme court, concurred in this, the most important decision rendered by the Supreme court in a quarter of a century. The publication of the full deci sion in The Herald today is the first time it has been given the public, state papers for some reason failing to print the decision in full. It follows: Ani other tax-payers of the city of High Point to test the validity of Chapter 208r Private Laws 1923, entitled, “An Act to Aid in the Development of the City of High Point,” which ! provides that the “Mayor and City Council of the City of High Point shall annually set apart and appro priate from the fund derived annual- !, ly from the general taxes in said city, ah amount of not less than one 'thirtfeth of one per cent, nor more than one-tenth; of one per cent, upon the assessed valuation of all real. ■ and personal property taxable in said city, which fund shall be used and expended under the direction and control of the Directors of the Cham ber of Commerce of High Point, N. C., under such rules and regulations as they,shall prescribe for the pur pose of Aiding and encouraging the location of manufacturing, industrial ,and commercial plants in and near said city, the encouraging of building railroads thereto and for such other purposes as will in the discretion of the said Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of High Point increase the population, taxable property and bus (Continued on Page Eight.) is. AND CHURCH WORK HOLDING THE BOARDS NOW Home Visitation Day Nov. 23 Will Be Huge Success—All Churcheslnterested. At a largely attended meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Thursday afternoon final plans were made for the work to be done on No vember 28, which is known here as Home Visitation Day. This work is being done under the auspices of the International Sunday /School asso ciation, and Dr. J. Shreve Durham, general superintendent, has been in the city several days working on the details of the campaign. The purpose is to visit every home in Charlotte on the 23rd and invite every man, woman and chUd to at tend the Sunday' school and church of their choice. Every church in Charlotte is taking an active' interest in the movement, and for once all re liigous forces are co-operating in one great-movement. Protestants, Jews and Catholics are working side by side in promoting this work, and al ready a new interest in religidus work is being felt throughout the city. Many men and women will gladly leave their regular work and their homes on the 23rd, and actively en gage in this visitation work. It is planned to extend an invitation' to every one throughout the city to at tend the Sunday School and church of their chqice. _ ___
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