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■V TRADE UNIONISM AT THE ROOTS by Samuel gompers. y^TKATEVER may be the burdens and duties thrust upon the trade union movement, the first duty is simple. It is to get members into the union. Upon success in this first step depends all success in every other tiurection. _ ■The American Federation of Labor stands in ia position of power and commanding influence today because more than' five million men. and women have individually and separately joined trade unions. ,' After they joined they learned the routine of trade union worki The^. have done the hard jobs that lare not particularly interesting, but they ate necessary before all other things. , Trade union strength and influence till goes back to teuch things as keeping books, attending meetings, serving on committees, paying dues, reading trade union publications, looking for new members and serving on wage negotiation bodies. > • ' * * * * '■ I N° outs^e^ can kave any true idea of the vast amount of work that is done without compensation in the trade union movement every day in the year. Men and women are working tirelessly, and with no reward except the consciousness of duty well done—and this work goes on day after day, year after year. ) Today the American Federation of Labor is a great influence in the ppafFairs of the nation and of the world. This is possible only because men and women everywhere perform the small tasks of trade unionism—the tasks that are small by themselves, but that together make up the founda tion of the life ‘of the movement. r * It is important to be a good trade union secretary, a good presiding officer, or a faithful treasurer. These are offices that require skill and work and integrity. And mostly they are offices that call for much work ,!and no material reward. The regard is in a satisfied conscience. It is important to be an able member of a trade union committee ap pointed to meet and negotiate with employers. Ability here may mean advancement or retrogression for the men and women represented. The work of dealing with employers in such negotiations constantly calls for more knowledge, more preparation, more force and tact in presenting the facts and the Jogic. ' • It is important to be a good organizer. Good Organizers bring non* unionists to understand the benefits of trade unionism and they make their impression upon the life of the community in which they work. . . - 4 * * $ 'J’HE American trade union movement is a sound artd constructive move ment. It is thoroughly American. Its roosts are entwined with the roots of our free and democratic national life. It is the one truly pro gressive labor movement in the world because it is the one which sticks to the business of advancing labor’s economic interests and that is never swerved from , that job. Where American labor interposes its strength in affairs that may not seem to be purely industrial, it does so for the purpose of protecting its opportunities on the industrial field—to keep the way clear, to keep the movement safe and sound, to free. it from attack, to keep obstacles out of the way. The main effotff always is in industry, where the work is, where the wheels of industry Are, where the ware eartiers are to be ■’found and whre they give their skill and their effort in production. • i Be a good trade unionist. It is the first and most important duty. Be a member on the job. Ortf that all other things r depend. Whether the movement has five milliojU'Or twenty million members, the great successes can be gained only through individual loyalty and faithfulness. There is and there always will be individual responsibility. The individual who Would have benefit from the labor movement must give his or her mite of service in that movement? • It is worth more tha* all jelse to be a faithful member,, to know the movement at its roots.- There is mine so busy with other w<#k, or so bur dened with other tasks, either in the union or out of it, that he can afford not to be firs> of all a jpod. tirade unionist in the ranks. . <; * j No other exaltation can dim the luster of that simple service. * A. D. LAJOIE : Instructor of VIOLIN Studio: 6 Davidson Building Phone 1318-W WHY GO HUNGRY? Regular Dinner Like Mother Used To Cook ONLY 40 CENTS Long’s Cafe 12 South College St. ALHAMBRA — NEXT WEEK — VIRG DOWNARD’S Roseland Maids One of the Biggest and Best Shows of the Season. YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE MATINEE 3:30 * NIGHT 7:30—9 ^Quality Smokes ... INDIAN GIRL Cigarettes -—-AND ANTE-BELLUM Smoking Tobacco These Goods Are Absolutely As Good As Can Be Made—Try Them and Be Convinced. Munfactured by J. H. McELWEE, Statesville, N. C. Independent Manufacturer for 60 Years SAVE THE COUPONS ASK YOUR DEALER —&--. ~ I ' 1— THE SUPREME COURT’S RISE TO POWER BY LOWELL MELLETT «Q ,Y12A! 0 yea! 0 yea! All persons having business be fore the Honorable the Judges of the suprWe Ctart of fte M Stateg,. ( are pdTn.Qojfshed to... draw, near, and give their attendance, fpr th& epurt is ijow' in session,. G04, saye the panted States, ^nd0l-this, Honorable Court!” , , ~ . \ Haying, business before the .Hon orable Judges, you draw near as admonished, as near as the cou t attendant will permit you. This is the back row of the U. S. Supreme Court chamber, one of the, two rows reserved for tourists and other sightseers. However, the court room is very smal,l despite its im pressive dignity, and you can see and hear fairly well. Your business is to discover for yourself, if yqu can, whether these United States have a government of laws or a gbvernment of men. Somewhere you have read that the ideal government is one of laws, not of men. • Seeing in the flesh the men who interpret the laws may help you to decide. Later, a cer tain amount of historical research may reveal whether these men and the long line of men who preceded them, reaching back into the musty past, have been given us the law as they have found it in the written word, or as they have found it in their own humaiv conceptions. The judges behind the high bench present a pleasing appearance. All are dressed in black, though the dim light of the room does show the silken sheen of their gowns. You may wonder why they wear the bothersome gowns, since only their shoulders can be seen and gowns must be warm in summer. In the middle sits Chief Justice Taft.^ rejected by the voters of all save two States the last time he ran for President, now presiding over that branch of the Government whose powers are alleged to have' become greater than the presidency. He looks competent, though today seemingly a bit bored and restless. This is strange, for it was Taft who once declared in a public speech: "I love judges and I love courts. They are my ideals on earth oi what we shall meet afterward i Heaven under a just God!” Here is reading from a printed brief presenting one side of the case concerning which argument is now being heard. - Offering the ar gument is the lawyer for a corpora tion dealing ip gas and light. You gather it is a controversy between sghi£ city out west and this lawyer’s cbrporation. The lawyer prgues and Chief Justice Taft read?. However he is listening at the same time, for he asks the lawyer a question. On the right of Taf^, is Justice McKenna, a wisp of a man, holding his white whiskers tightly in one hand as he sits stiffly upright against the back of his chair. B^cKenna is 80 yeari old and has set' in one of those nine chairs for 26fcyears. He is paying earliest attention t'- the lawyer’s remarks ?nd occasionally propounds a question iifi a thin, treble voice. a. - On the left of Taft Justice Oliver * Wendell Holmes,, p man older yet than McKenna, though reputed to have one of the youngest, keenest minds of them all. He is 83 years old and has sat behind that bench for1 :.’1\ years. Lev; enough to be set in his ways, you would think, but ik was Holmes who said not long age,: ’ - ; I do not think the United State* would come to an end if we (the court) lost our power to declare an act of Cpngre;? void.” Since it is this very question which is -troubling you, * i'. is worth your while taking another look' at Holmes.. From where we sit he does not show his years. His snow white imperial mustache is almost military, though it Would be a trifle long for the aimy. He takes off his gt’d-rimmed glasses when he asks this busy western lawyer a question and puts' them on again when the lawyer has answered. Next to Holmes is McEeynolds, long-faced and saturnine and quite a bit bald, balder than any of the others, in fact, though younger than most of them . and younger' looking. He isn’t quite comfortable in his seat for some reason and shifts about a great deal, straining all the time to maintain attention. 'Then comes Sutherland, one of the new members. (E^e, .like Sanu ford, sitting at his left, was ap pointed by President Harding. With Butler, absent today, and Chief Justice T^ft, .there are four Hard ing appointees dmoiig the bine.) Sutherland is giving very serious attention to the papers. before him, presumably £he (?ame brief the otlier judges are *hteadirig from, 1 timef to" time. His still newrqr colleague, Sahdjford, is not. if you didn’t death. He squirms about in his chair, rests his head sidewise against his back and, at times, nib bles the ends of his fingers.. And he whispers to the serious Justice Sutherland. There is whispering likewise at the other end of the bench, Van Devanter of Cheyenne, Wyoming, sits next to Brandeis of Boston. Brandeis smiles, as if at what he hdmself is saying; Van Devanter, not amused—or so. it seems at- this distance. 'The Bfaideis smile is not able, sad, not cynicadl; merely tinc tured perhaps by regret that the worljl is not intelligent. ■' •i’ti Ther^ithey »%{■ 1 intelligent, as high-purposed fmdi #inq^e & group pf juries as'; ar$ Aft be found in any country. They re|«ii|t prre^t poorer, the greatest fi§ some; ways among atf American r jfor-, ces,f : greater certainly than similar cpiurls in other lands, ier they fjah and do set aside the will of the1 pfed ple, as expressed by' the people’s c$; -rect - representatives. Yet, you can’t escape the conclusion -that they, .too, are just men.' i:,: As good a ^group of judges, rio doubt, as ever has graced this bendh. In one respect, at least, h1 better group than some that have preceded them, for they still hav<? their health and mental alertness,^ whereas—well, listen to'this: , “During the hearing of some* of, the most important cases Justice ; Gray, suffering from kidney ,r trouble, frequently fell asleep., Justice Shiras often nodded in y slumber, blissfully obiviou* to thep learned arguments of learned'> counsel wl(o often were put at, their wits’ end * to ‘ conceal their** confusion. As for Justice Field, ~ he could life been,' on accakidn af-^ ter occasion, staggering to his seat, all out of breath, his eyesb* bulgii:.;, and his* frame in the1! shiver of extreme decrepitude; *■ he required an assistant to hold him up.” This paragraph is from a descrip-: tion of the court' under Chief Jus tice Fuller, in Myer’s History of the; Supreme Court. There is nothing like that now^x Cooperative marketing associa tions do not buy products from the members but handle the products of' the members and pay them the re sale price less the cost of operation. Resolutions of Respect. •__iJUv' ■ ; In the full bloom of life we are prone to forget that inevitable vis itor—Death. We mingle with our friends and companions for* a while and are shocked aridf' grieved when the Master calls our friend and loved one from us. It is good that we are taught to bow in humble submission to the will of the Father. Were it not for that faith in* the goodness of God our pain and suffering would be unendurable when* death takes oui our friends and towed' ones from us* On February '<4, < John ' Edwin Thorpe, a1 membdrMof our Order, 'a man we loved,' a tr&e Junior and ri loyal friend, was taken frpm us. Wc regret his going, yet that abiding' faith in the God We are taught to* love and honor givefe us hope to be lieve that all is for the best, and' courage to withstand the pain rift parting. ’ -1 To the surviving wife, and his mother and his brother and sister and to his numerous friends -wrif1 would shy a word of solace ana breathe a prayer That their grief may be lessened iri; the thoughts oF the happiness he'! gave them while living. ***; • ',y That the public, rhay know of the1 high esteem in which we held oui11 departed brother, it is ordered by 1 Park Council, N*o. f)0, Jr. O. U. A. M,, that a copy of this resolution be given the’’ press, a copy sent to the1 bereft family and , a copy spread upon the minutes of our Order, that Juniors hereafter may read of the good qualities; ofl i our departed t friend, John Edwin Thorpe. .* Hi. A. STILWELL; JAMES F. BARRETT,— . Feb. 9, 1924. , Committee, 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 . Queen City Chinese Hand Laundry We do all First Class* Work at the right prices. -Prompt service, too, is a boast of ours' afrd a pleasure to our pat Fancy Fresh Creamery Butter Churned in our plant every day. Prices are always right, Carolina Butter Co. 4 N.‘ Brevard St. Phone 8497. Complete AUSTIN’S MARKET 305 WEST TRADE ST. f Gathered EGGS ni.V ~T T + BELK BROS. CO. “Better Value* For Lest” BOK BROS. CO. “Home of Better Values” jfflloJs WE (.•? r ‘ *4 "fu n !>< k «<i s. (jt & Li Every Saving Clean-Up Sale of Sweaters ARE NOT GOING TO CARRY OVER SWEATERS— Here’s the Price to Move Them Out Quick Heavy Rib Sweater*—White Fall Colors Former Values $7.50 to $10.00, Closse Out Price $4.95 $6.95 Sweaters, the Best $4.00 to $5.95 values, Close Out Price $2.95 „d $3.95 Heavy Wool Sweaters ALSO THE NEW BRUSH WOOL Former Price, $2.95 to $4.95, Close Out Price $1.98 $2.48 $2.98 All Sizes and Colors Children’s Knit Wool Underwear --— AT SALE PRICES —— In Drawers, Shirts and Unions 15c 19c 25c 39c 49c „ Ladies’ .Lisle Hose ; 1 Sc, 19c 25c Ladies’ Mercerteed Lisle and Silk Mixed, Y, 48c and 69c SPECIAL VALUES IN OUR H'-* .noSJii:* HOSIERY DEPARTMENT Children h- < *Al tfi !•' f*« • ' > 1 : >mi Extra value in Ladies’ Silk Hose, at i ^ 98c and $1.19 ^Children’s and Misses’ Hose, Good quality , ‘fibbed, at— , . , > !r>> 119c, 59c, 29c ’r:»b lo Men’s Hose in the Very Best Values, at 10c, 18c, 25c Extra Special in Men’s Hose 35c, or 3 for $1.00 MEN'S DEPARTMENT $1.35 98c Men’s Union Suits, extra fine value, at _ _ _ _ r: Men’s Ribb Shirts and AQ Qr* Drawers w. u _OJPC and vvC , . / !fy /in-.' '•/ . -v. M’enis Work Shirts, (full cut, well made, gooti ’ shirts^-__ , Men’s Heavy; Ribb ^Sweaters— $1.69 $1.98 $2.48 $2.98 ' :, v-'/v: Big Counter Men’s Fine Wool Pants. Many y on this counter Worth $5.00 and m,ore. As a special Leader, Per pair _ ___ $2.95 The Bandana Overalls, Union Made. A dahdy good one. Larger and AQ full__ . ______)1.90 vfll! SPECIAL VALUES IN Dry Goods Department VttA 36 inch Sheeting— 10 c, I2V2C, 15c c/ft . .... ’• Good Quality White Outing— >vbtt , 15c and 18c Good Quality D,ress and Apron Ginghams 10c, 16c, 18c M),000 yards Fine Dress Ginghams. No "*better 3Sc Ginghams made, at—■ 25c . Baby Blankets for Less In Blues- and Pinks, with the Bird arid Annual Designs, at— * 79c 89c 98c $1.19 Good Big Bed Blankets Double Blankets $2.48 n0 AQ These are plain greys on large block plaids. COTTON AND WOOL BATS FOR MAKING QUILTS AND COMFORTS * 1 ‘‘This is something unu»ual”-*-Fine Cotton Batting* 72 inches wide and 90 inches long—just ready to put in Quilt. Fine andw<hite, 3 pounds to the package, at— : v $1.25 and $1.50 Sanre thing’in 'all Woo) Bats—172 Inches by 90 inches, at— ri . iffv $L50 £or- the Bundle of 3 Lbs. Splendid Double Blanket—Grey with Borders, Blue and Pink, Good quality at $3.95, as a Leader we make them— $2.95 PA?t V't; BELK BROS. CO.
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