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THE CHARLOTTE HERALD (Founded January, 1917.) Official Organ of The North Carolina State Federa tion of Labor, The Charlotte Central Labor Union and Affiliated Craft* And The North Carolina Farmers’ Union. Published Weekly By The Herald Publishing Company of Charlotte At 82 South College Street, Charlotte, N. C. Telephone 412G Postoffice Box H'3 JAMES F. BARRETT™.Editor TOM P. JIMISON_Contributing Editor UR. H. Q. ALEXANDER_-Farm Editor f -" : ■' ; — jfr-— 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 Eeneral interest solicited. No communications, owever, containing a personal atatck on any m«n 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 8, 1879. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1924 POOR, POVERTY-STRICKEN DEVIL. Justice Daniel F. .Cohalan, of the Supreme court of New York, has struck. He is agitating other judges to strike. He has struck for higher wages. He is not satisfied with his. pay. It is too small, and he struck, that’s what he did. Justice Cohalan received only $56 a day for sitting on the bench four or five hours each day when court was in session. That $336 a week isn’t enough pay, the jurist says, and he strikes, [ by granny! What’s the salary of $17,500 a year amount to in Justice Cohalan’s sweet ilife? It f isn’t sufficient, and there seemed no chance of a fifty-cent increase, so the judge struck, he did. The New York Law Journal, the official union paper of the New York Lawyers’ U.nion, in com ment’ ng upon the strike of Justice Cohalan, says: ‘■His resignation calls attention again 'to the inadequate compensation which is paid to our Su preme Court justices. There has been no increase in salary for over a generation. The salary of $17,500 per annum, which once seemed generous, , is now recognized as grossly inadequate, measured by the rewards which a successful counselor may x glean in practice.” Of course The Law Journal calls is “resigna tion.” It’s just a plain strike, .like other union men pull off when they want their wages raised. Now there’s evidently been some Yankee agi tator talking to that judge. Some long-haired bloshevik has been interfering with the New York Supreme Court, and the public will most surely suffer from the ill effects of having the mills of justice stop grinding until some strike-breaker can be recruited to fill Judge Cohalan’s place. In presenting his grievances to Governor Smith, thie judge said: “I am moved to do this (go oh strike) by reas on of the difficulties which I have met in trying to bring up a large family on the salary ($17,500 / a year) received by a justice of the Supreme Court in the city of New York.” . Now the judge has a wife and seven children, but who told him to have such a large family? it, isn’t the* public’s fault that he has so many children. He shouldn’t inconvenience the public by striking. Why, the man is totally indifferent to the rights of the public! Poor man! itignt down nere we can take him to a man who has a wife and six children, and he gets only $11 a week, working 10 hours a day, and this man here has said never a word about striking. It will take this man here who has a wife and six children 30 years and ten months to make what Judge Cohalan makes in one year, and this map here has never thought of striking, like the judge went and done. We suppose the reason is that the man here is a one hundred per cent pure Anglo-Saxon American, with the same blood in his veins that flows through the veins of the cotton mill owners, and that is the reason he is willing to work 30 years and 10 months for a sum that is so small that the New York judge goes on strike rather than to live on that sum for one year. These union lawyers are awfully unreasonable in their demands, however, and the fact that Judge Cohalan strikes for higher wages ought to cause our newspapers and bull sheets to wake up and point out these dangerous radicals in the lawyers’ union. They should be condemned by public opinion, strung up by self-appointed critics and made to understand their place. COME CLEAN OR CHOKE TO DEATH. In this, the first issue in the New Year, The Herald makes bold to speak a few plain words to a few men who have knocked the union, the Officers of the Central and in some instances The Herald. If those men are true to the cause they claim to be interested in, they will stop their clatter on the street corners, and will come like men, fearless, open and ab'ove board, and present their charges against whoever or whatever they thihk is wrong. We are positive that the offi cials of the Central Labor Union will gladly meet these critics, and if those officials are proven to be wrong, after a full hearing shall have been held, they are men who will graciously yield to the will of the majority. We are positive that The Herald will listen gladly to any criticism. We are just human, deeply interested in the cause of unionism as the working man’s only vehicle of advancement. If The Herald is making a mistake, then if you are sincere1 and honest, you will tell The Herald in stead of vomiting all over tow(n about this, that and the other thing. Of course, if you’re just a natural born kicker, /f^Y and a coward with it, then you must of necessity on wit^ your Pr°gram> for neither hell nor V K ijheaven can change a chronic kicker, a grouch, a V v \yspeptic devil who, has dysentary of the mouth \ £ lhd congestion of common sense and paralysis of v lie brain. Death is the only thing that will stop V . wch men, and even then the mounds over the V V paves of such critters will sprout nothing but cuekle burrs and Spanish needles, producing hate ful little things that spoil the clohing of any who happen to pass by the graves chaining the moulding remains of these chronic lepers. Constructive criticism is good. We welcome that, apd we feel sure the Central officials also welcome any suggestions that will help to advance the cause of the workers. But the labor union hall is he place to give voice to these criticisms— not on the street corners, where drunks, and har lots, and gamblers, and bootleggers gather to spot their prey. BEWARE LYING PROPAGANDA! Rpresentative George Huddleston of Alabama performed a distinct public service in his recent vigorous attack on the lying propaganda which presents the farmers and thr jfiUsr Wdi^rs as op posing forces, having nothing wnatevef^in com mon. i i* . %% . ‘ Speaking iri’ the Hduse/MivHuddlestonJpointed out that the farmers and jmdustrial wori$brs have much in common. He exposed, the fa»ity of the “arguments” of those who assert otherwise and showed how the propagandists falsify and ignore facts to bolster1 up their contention that farmers and industrial workers must be at swordspoints. Declaring that the possibilities of economic co operation or partnership between farmers and wage earners are stpendous, Mr. Huddleston cited instances of how the producers and con sumers are gouged. He said that it is estimated that in 1922 the farmers of the United States re ceived a total of $7,500,000,000 for their produce and that for the same produce the consumers paid $22,000,000,000./ The farmer who produced the commodity received less than 30 cents from each dollar that the consumer paid for it, so that there went to handlers, speculators, dealers, car riers, and other middlemen 70 cents from every dollar that consumers paid, Mr. Huddleston added. Mr. Huddleston went on to say that the highest duty of the statesmanship of America is to bring the producers face to face with the consumers in direct dealing so as to permit the least pos sible intervention of middlemen. This is a sentiment to which the masses of America can subscribe, with the wish that the day is not far distant when the nation will see its way clear to bring about that cooperation that Mr. Huddleson so srongly advocates. HERE, MR. SUNDAY, PLEASE TOUCH THEM UP ON THIS ONE. In that powerful sermon preached Thursday by Rev* Mr. Sunday, when the master preacher took “Mother” for his subject, and which is published in full in today’s Herald, nothing of mother love, and mother’s duty was (left out. It was a great sermon, but there is one phase of a mother’s life that Mr. Sunday did not touch upon. That phase is the treatment accorded the Mother of a family by the employer of that family. The following letter was received a few weeks ago by The Herald. It is filled with tragedy, and tells of a condition that should not exist in a civilized community, to say nothing of a Chris tian community. It tells of an industry where the husband and father cannot get a job, simply because the wife and mother in that home cannot work, or will not work. Read it, and score such practice. Here is the letter: “Editor, The Herald: “Please send my Charlotte Herald to the address below: “L. 0. Blackwelder, Statesville, N. C. “I had it sent to Troutman some time ago, and when I went to work they wouldn’t work me because my wife wouldn’t work, so I had to move. I wrote two weeks ago to have it sent to Statesville, but they still come Troutman, and that is too far for me to walk for my paper, so please send it to States ville, NV C. “Yours truly, “L. 0. BLACKWELDER.” i Rev. Mr. Sunday is eternally right in what he says about the influence of the Mdther, but what about the home where the mother has to leave her children and go with her husband into the industries, that their combined earnings may eke out an existence for the family. What about a condition like that disclosed in the above letter, where the father is denied work, simply because the wife and mother does not go to work with that father and husband? In the proper settlement, which means the elimination of such conditions, will motherhood be raised to that standard so clearly set forth by Rev. Mr. Sunday. \ PRISON CRUELTIES NOT ENDED. Grave doubts as to whether the United States is as civilized as we have been led to believe are aroused in the mind of every thinking person who considers the treatment of convicts in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville. Despite the long agitation for humane and fair treatment of convicts, which has accomplished much in some states, West Virginia.still maintains a prison system which has drawn strong condem nation from prison experts. Apparently not con tent with its bad record on the industrial field, with its armies of gunmen and thugs maintained by the non-union coal operators, West Virginia is adding to the blackness of its record by the way in which it treats its convicts. A few facts on the Moundsville penitentiary, as revealed by J. Howard Holt, chairman of the committee on crime of the State Bar association, tells the story of West Virginia’s prison cruelty. Mr. Holt says that most of the 1,585 men in Moundsville are exploited by contractors, who secure this labor for 70 cents a day. “Under this contract,” says Mr. Holt, “each prisoner must average from 12 to 18 workmen’s shirts a day. This means that one of these shirts costs frorti four to six cents. The material costs 36 cents, and the shirt sells for $1. It is under stood that there are now more than 500 convicts working under this contract and the contractor and associates make a profit qf hundreds of ^thous ands of dollars yearly.” ~ ' Directing attention to the fact that, .cells in this prison are five feed wide, eight feet long and seven feet high, Mr. Holt says: “Into many of these cells the sun has never shone. And it is needless to say thaft in sudelim ited space there is no room for exercise.1 In nearly every case two men are confined- in each cell. With the utmost care that can be exercised by any administration these conditions breed im morality and degredation. There are only about five acres of yard space for these 1,585 men to occupy. They are crowded in the shops, in the yard, and at night confined in •’these unsanitary dells. Men are infected with tuberculosis. Some of them die within the walls and some of them go forth to spread the disease in the outside world.” Watch the fireworks start in Washington. Sen ator “Bob” LjpFollette is back in harness. PROFITEERS MUST WORK. Editor, The Herald: Europe has beerf for several months trying to kick up another war, and drag the United States into it. Every move for War is the direct clamor of capital, and should be protested from one end of the land to the other by the workers. We have plenty to attend to here at home to promote peace and happiness, which means more to the American people than dragging our young men over the seas to spill their blood for the classes. The profiteering devils are at the bottom of all that disurbance over there, just as the private ownership of the public necessities of their counr try is speading misery and suffering over America today. Thousands of columns of matter is being printed daily about strikes, but there is very little space ever given to the cause of the strikes. Just so long as men are given a legal right to oy/n the necessities of /life, and rob the masses by privileged profiteering, the gluttonous marauders will practice it, and there can be no improvement in the wretched condition of strikers who are having their God-given treasures stolen from be neath their feet. Private ownership and distribu tion lies at the bottom of every strike that has occurred in twenty years. | Governmeht control of all public utilities, oper ated for and by the people collectively, will put an end to strikes forever. Just use your head to think with a little; it is healthy—and good for you. J. A. MULWEE. Belmont; N. C. TWENTY YEARS IN THE MILLS AND HAPPY. Editor, The Herald: Inasmuch as many have spoken of those con ditions that exist in the various textile centers, it seemed good to me, also, having had twenty years or more experience as a textile worker, to write. I^ike Peter and John of old, we textile workers Cannot but speak of the things that we do see and know. We have just celebrated the birthday of Him who came to bring peace and happiness to all. While many were rejoicing other hearts have been made sad becauce there are many in our midst who are in very destitute circumstance^. They are in almost every case textile workers. There is a cause, of course, for this. They should be removed. Now it is not my purpose to knock the mill owners, but to speak to the worker through our paper. We should, I think, know each other better. We have been taught that every child is born with four distinct natures. They are: Physical, social, intellectual, and re ligious nature. Textile workers; look around you and ask your self the plain simple question whether or not the thousands of children found in our textile centers have a chance to develop along these lines as they should? As a textile worker myself, I don’t think they have, or ever will, under the present condi tions. There is, then, a great work to be done for the textile workers of the South. This work can be done by the workers themselves, through united organized effort. Let’s get together then and build up an organization that stands for the making of every one the highest type of citizen. We textile workers will never pe considered an asset to our town in the broadest sense of the' word so long as we allow ourselves to be used as a tool in the hands of the other fellow. The boy or girl who is put in the mill when young, to work long hours, deprived of the privilege of an educa tion, will grow up a weakling, both physicially, mentally, socially and otherwise, and therefore bcomes that type of person who is referred to as an undesirable citizen. The God who made us created us equal, and has made ample provision for alj. We are told also that the Lord helps those who help themselves. Then if we would make the highest attainments in this world, we must put forth special effort. It is time for us old tallow-faced, oil-soaked, hide bound wretches who have been hanging around these cotton mills for half a century or more, to wake up and look up, reach out knd take hold of the possibilities and responsibilities of this life, and see to it that the next generation of textile workers is an improvement over the present and over those who have preceded us. Bu somebody says: “I can’t feed, clothe and educate my family at the present rate of wages.” That’s alright, my brother. That is one of the things wre must consider. Another says: “I can’t do these things and buy and operate a car or a Ford,” while another says: “If we could get a child labor law that would be constitutional, then we might do something.” . In my judgment the best thing we can do under the circumstances is just get together and say to h— with child labor laws, the Fords and all the other things that are robbing the youth of those things that make for progress. Thqre is a law, my friend, that is constitutional, and that law says my child is entitled to the very best the public school system has to offer. Also to fair working conditions, and fair wtages. I believe it will stand the test any time the fathers and moth ers get together and say they shall have it, be cause duty requires it and eternal justice demands It. Textile workers, think it over and talk it over wih your fellow worker, every day. Let’s make up our njinds as a great people engaged in not only the leading industry of the South, but one that is destined to become even greater, to step out and take our righful place in the social, educational, political, fraternal, religious, and industrial life, if you please, of the community in which we live. We can do it, and we are noth ing but a gang of cowardly weaklings if we don’t do it. I believe we will, some day, and woe to the man or the set of men that undertake to defeat us in our high resolution! Because it’s a work of love prompted by Him who is the source and embodiment of the same. We go to church and sing, “Send Us a Shower of Blessings,” and “Lord Plant My Feet on Higher Ground,” forgetting that life’s pathway is liter ally paved with stepping stones to higher and nobler achievements, but we walk around them. Let’s begin the New Year with a definite purpose in view as individuals and a people working to gether fof the advancement of the textile wtorker of the South, and when we have done that I be lieve we will not only have served our day and" generation in an acceptable way but through it and by it we will have rendered effective and effi cient service to our country and to our God. B. C. BROWN. / ' Concord, Dec. 27, 1923. If the republicans just keep it up, next No vember will be another 1912. Steam rollers are things of the past in American politics. Repub licans sought to be allowed to express their choice for a candidate. "in i.iui iuM, U. S.sTRADE COMMISSION t > : i - ACCUSES COAL DEALERS OF UNFAIR COMFETION By International Labor News Service. - WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The Illi nois & Wisconsin Retail Coal Dealers’ Association, including its officers and members, are cited by the Federal Trade Commission in a complaint charging unfair methods of compe tition in the sale and distribution of coal. The association is composed of retail coal dealers of Illinois and Wisconsin, and according to the com. plaint such dealers are qualified for membership under the definition of a retail coal dealer, adopted and ap-' proved by the association, which defi nition is in substances: Any individ ual, firm, or corporation regularly and continuously engaged in selling .coal at retail .and maintaining an of fice regularly open business, an,d equipped" with stales and adequate storage facilities to meet the public needs of the community in which he does business. The complaint recites various methods by which the association and its members enforces its cooperative scheme of'- boycotting so-called “ir regular” or “illegitimate” dealers, such dealers being determined by the association as being outside of its definition of a retail coal dealer. The complaint further states that the association’s acts constrain pro ducers and wholesalers of coal to confine the distribution of coal in respondents’ so-called “regular chan nels” and to prevent so-called “ir x-egular dealers,” cooperative associa tions and groups of purchasers from securing coal at wholesale or from any other source than from “regular” or “legitimate” retail coal dealers, thereby unduly obstructing and hin dering free competition in the distri bution and sale of coal in the asso ciation’s territory. Pick-pockets and profiteers, Skin-flints and thieves, Pass on to the workers What capital leaves. GET YOUR MATTRESSES AND BOX SPRINGS RENOVATED Made over like new. Our work and service is first c^ss in every particu lar. J. T. A. LA WING’S MATTRESS FACTORY Charlotte, N. C. PHONE 1S88-J DR. L. S. FOX Dentist PHONE 3896 21 1-2 West Trade Street Over Yorke & Rogers Good service guaranteed. Prices i as low as good service will permit. I appreciate your business and do my utmostj to please. ■' ■ i USED FORDS AND CHEVROLETS All models; all prices; easy terms. Open evenings until 9 o’clock. HIPP CHEVROLET CO. North Tryon St., Corner Eighth D. J. BOST ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Announces the opening of offices at 305 % West Trade St., Rooms 1 and 3, Charlotte, N. C. Phone 3753. GOOD MONEY IN LOOKING YOUR BEST Keep your clothes cleaned and pressed, and notice the difference in the treatment accorded you. Men and women who know Charlotte send their clothes to Wright’s Pressing Club Phones 4043—4908 320 South College St. AUSTIN’S MARKET The up-to-date market, with a full line of all kinds of' Meats, Fish and Other Good Things to Eat Prices reasonable and service Complete AUSTIN’S MARKET 305 WEST TRAtiE ST. • Queen City Chinese Hand Laundry We db all First Class Work at the right prices. Prompt service, too, is a boast of ours and a pleasure to our pat rons. 14 South Popular Street Kenny’s fEAS and COFFEES Enjoyed by thousands of people in and around Char lotte. Try therh and you will agree with us.; KENNY'S 23 So. Try^n St. -■j-r., .■ .A-.,,, STANDARD^ OIL VALUES jy**F $779,000,000 N,EW YORK, Jan. 2.—This is a happy New Year for upwards /of 100,000 Shareholders^ in 16 leading Standard oil companies whose mar ket price has increased 25 per cent over the lowest selling price of 1923. These increases total $770,473, 200. One half of this gain is repre sented by increased value in three stocks, Standard oil of New Jersey, Indiana, and California, with a total gain of more than $404,000,000. GUN ,M£N IN STRIK PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2.—Gfl men are used against striking elec trical workers employed by /the Northwestern electic company. 'The • company has refused to arbitrate-and organized lhbor and sympathizers are aroused at the despicable efforts to establish the anti-union shop. The state conciliation board is holding hearings to acquaint the public with the facts. Holidays Gone! Looking Ahead! Now} that the holidays are but sweet memories, tte cold, hard facts of life call us to attention. Folks boast about Charlotte’s growth, and wve bd« w<ith them. When a city grows, it is because there has been build ing going on. ' > • When there is building going on, then there are me chanics at work. Wherever building mechanics are at work in this f section, thfere you will find mechanics’ tools that canje'" from our store; v It is this personal touch, this big fact that our place has had much to do ^yith it, that makes us so proud of Charlotte’s growth. Let the Queen City continue to grow. We have the tools and the builders’ hardware that must be used in the city’s expansion. Just continue to come on here for your necessities in the building line, like you have done in the past, and we’ll do our dead level best to co-operate with you. Just ask any of the Boys about CLARK-WIGGINS HARDWARE CO. “If It’s Hardware, We Have It” 235 South Tryon St. Charlotte, N. HOW TO GET IT! You have long dreamed of the time when'you would own a home, your very own. But, you have possibly not taken the first necessary step in the direction of realizing your dreams. What is that necessary; step? Why, it’s Save! Save! Save! How Shall I save? By taking shares in the MECKLENBURG BUILDING AND LOAN ASSO CIATION which is the best medium known for saving. THROUGH BUILDING AND LOAN you can save and buy a home or, you can save and use the money in a hundred other ways to better your condition. To have an amount of cash available, whether large or small, is always a comfortable feeling. Our Fall Series opened Saturday, September 1st, but it will remain open for several weeks yet. Come in any day and take shares. MECKLENBURG BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION 36 Weit Fifth Street , ' C. H. ROBINSON, PreaidentA. G. CRAIG, Secy. & Treaa. A New Issue by Mechanics Perpetual The recent wonderful growth of Charlotte h^s tried the resources of the Building & Loan Associations to the utmost. MECHANICS PERPETUAL has on file now applications amount ing to about $1,750,000.00. ■' J With the Ordinary income of the Association it would take from fifteen to seventeen months to reach new applications. With this condition in mind, and in order to provide funds to make loans in a more reasonable time Directors of this Association have authorized the issue of $100.00 Paid Up Investment Shares Bearing 5 per cent interest, payable 2 1-2 per cent on January 1, and 2 1-2 per cent on July 1st each year. These shares are not placed in any particular series, but may stand until surrendered or called in by the Association. The shareholder pays no tax on these shares, and the income up to $300.00 is exempt from Federal Income Tax. . , •> Any information about this issue will be gladly supplied. ( ) New Series Will Open On Jahuary 5 The usual series of Installment shares will be opened on the above dates. These shares cost 25 cents per week, and if carried to maturity will yield 6 1-4 per cent on the average amount invested. Install ment shares form the ideal investment for your weekly or monthly savings. Applications for loans will be accepted on this series. Absolute Impartiality in making loans is our watchword, and all applications are paid off in the order filed. Mechanics Perpetual Building & Loan Ass’n. 225 North Tryon Street ESTABLISHED IN 1883 Seaboard Air Line Railway Announces Low Round-Trip Winter Tourist/ Rates From All Principal Stations to Winter Resorts in FLORIDA Tickets on sale from October to April with liberal stop-oyer privileges at intermediate stations in each ; direction, carrying final return limit June 15th, 1924. Fast through trains with convenient Pullman Sleeping Car service during Winter tourish season. v i;„ For further information call on Ticket Agents, ^dr address > W. L. Morris 1 General Passenger Agent Norfolk, Va. i E. W. Long Division Bassenger Agent Charlotte, N. C.
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