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Baerfacts BY J. M. BAER, The Con greet ni&n*€artoonist. International Labor News Service RADIO yP-TO-DATE 4 Being internationally known , as an expert on radio because it is something that I know 1 r-nothing about, I shall take a how to go about the destruc tion of a radig. ■Take a teapot, filled with oil of high naval reserve voltage and mount same, on an old cab inet—also oiled so it can see its own finish. Then select an au tomaton of high station and get some good wirepullers to stretch the antenna or aerial from the wall in Wall Street over the Capitol to a point in Florida, having it run aground on a ranch in New Mexieo. Get some Doheny and Sinclair high finance batteries prepared with a (Me) Lean mixture and obtain 3 connection with the oil exponent members of an Old Guard administration. atoms with three component moment of your time to show RECORD OF Ma/ GEORGE L. BE^y (Continued From Pag**/18’' men back inunediateli!^ that order failed suspend* *oca* /and called upon Ioyaj^ ni<?n ^l1671 f from other cities tfl/ n *d^e presses. & . '“This is,” he vd/ a stnke m violation of a coi?ct and aSainst your Internatio/ ^mon. \Draw upon the Intero^°na‘ „7or SUCa funds as you need> , Thp reuncru/was immediate and ten days af/ 7t had begun, con ditions in Jfw York were normal and Majon^erry was speeding to the annua^onven*don ^ the Amer ican Fec^at70n °f Labor in Port land, QOgon, where on his arrival he wa/acclaimed as a hero. In a big ^y be had demonstrated that unj^ labor stands for the sanctity 0f is contracts. /.ess spectacular, but none the /ss characteristic of the man, was Ais treatment of the outlaw strikers. /The preponderating^ majority of these men were loyal American trades-unionists, anxious and willing to do the> right thing. In their ranks, however, were many who had for years fought the Berry policy and who, in forcing the strike, hoped to destroy it and him» It would have been easy and- excusable to deny working cards to this minority. Cards, however, were issued to all but two men whom the 2,500 dis illusioned strikers insisted should be barred for their part in precipitating the trouble. “It is not a Berry victory,” Mr. Berry told reporters as he left New York, “it is a victory for American principles and the sanctity of con tracts.” - „ More, l^owever, wias involved than the keeping of a contract. Though suppressed at the time, the strike leaders had insisted upon at least one occasion of saying what a paper should print. Their success would have meant the extension of that policy and the beginning of the end of a free press in the United States. This policy of “shooting straight” gave Major Berry his start in the labor movement. In San Francisco where he was last employed as a journeyman, its enunciation led to his selection as a delegate to the International convention of 1907 in Newj York. H’e went into the con vention almost unknown. He came out president of the - organization. The post was not exactly desir able, The organization had been rent’ by strife and was nearly bankrupt. In it employers had SERIES 70 MATURES On January 12, Series 70, with 2,311 shares reaches its last payment. MORTGAGES ON 106 HOMES amounting to $127,250.00 will make a cheery blaze on many hearth stones. THE REWARD OF 98 PERSONS will be the distribution among them of $103,850,000, representing the amount they have saved with ,6 1-4 per cent interest. SHARESS WILL BE PAID OFF COMMENCING JANUARY 16TH The January series has opened in great style. Shares may be taken in this series any day, and will net 0 1-4 per cent if carried to ma turity. 5 Per Cent PAID UP DIVIDEND SHARES, Non Taxable are making a great hit. We expect to drag to the light much hidden coin. / Mechanics Perpetual Building & Loan Ass'n. 225 North Try on Street ESTABLISHED IN 1883 And Other Makes —in— A Nice Assortment ATTRACTIVE PRICES AND TERMS Rust Motor Company . 514-16 S. Tryon St. \ , Charlotte, N. C. Quality Smokes ... INDIAN GIRL Our New Blend CIGARETTE Absolutely will not make you cougb. Try thein and be convinced, as thousands of others have done. ANTE-BELLUM Smoking Tobacco “THE BEST THEfeE IS" - , Manufactured by ' \ J. H. McELWEE, Statesville, N. C. Independent Manufacturer for 60 Years ,, SAVE THE COUPONS ASK YOUR DEALER ir ■. _ ^ / • .The position paid no greafa week and palled for but $3fvel, usually in day coach end led expense account was also ee^^rand out of the $31.30 a d to be' maintained the wife, whom he had but re married.’ ~ ng with little, however, was . new experience to the new* presi dent, who at, eight vhad begun to Support himself as a printers! devil on the Jackson (Miss.) News, and who until he was past sixteen could neither read nor write. Between times, he had worked all over the country at his trade of pressman, when he could get work at it, at gold mining in Nevada when gold fields were new and the erase at its height, as a laborer on railroad con struction, or as a farm hand. Some times he .served as a dishwasher when funds were low and the de mand for food keen. “I believe,” he says sometimes, "I'd have been the champion dish washer of the United Staes had I stuck to it. Many times 1 was offer ed a regular position because I did a good job.” > This "doing a^good job” explains much if not most of Major Berry’s success. At least it explains why to day the speech of the man, who at sixteen could not read, is the speech of the educated man. “I’ll believe you if you say that Mr. Berry never went to school a day in his life,” a teacher of na tional repute said to the writer at an industrial conference in. New York, “but I say to you that his speech today was one no university man need be ashamed of, either for diction or grasp of economics.” This transition was accomplished by solitary study at first, and later with his wife, a brilliantly educated woman. . - "I was,” he has told his friends in reminiscent moments, "fortunate in that somehow or other I never cared much for the rough and tum ble things most of iny fellows in the old days went in for. There is no special credit due me for that, for these things did not appeal to me. I was fortunate, too, in realizing eatfy what a handicap my lack of schooling was, and to appreciate that if I worked hard I might over come it, in part at least. It was not easy, it isn’t easy now, but it has been worth while. "But I’ve learned one thing— education is the greatest labor sav ing device in the world. That is why I insist, so far as it is in my power to insist, that every child, rich or poor, shall have the chance at education, that I didn*t get when I was a child.” For years Major Berry continued on that $31.30 a week salary, though from the start of his admin istration the organization grew, in numbers and in- wealth. He saw, however, that something more was needed than the union had offered. For one thing tuberculosis of the lungs was taking heavy toll of its members. For another, it made no provision for the superanuated and the disabled. For, yit another, it did nothing toward Improving the craftsmanship of its "members, in creasing their efficiency or their out put. Clearly he saw the need of a sanatorium, a home and a school. In Hjawkins County, where he was bprn, Kale Springs, for generations health resort, had become unfash ionable and fallen on evil days. He acquired it* for the traditional song and proceeded to put his ideas into practical form. He was still build ing when the war came. The sana torium had been in successful oper ation for several years. The home Was caring for scores of old and dis abled pressmen. In the school was more than $500,000 in presses alone, on which journeymen pressmen were perfecting themselves in the skill of their craft. A modern' hydro-elec tric plant supplied all with power, light and heat. Well cultivated farms supplied most of the needs of the place. Pressmen’s Home, Tennessee, had its own post and telegraph of fices. The war called him from all this. First, President Wilson sent him to Europe on important labor missions, for he had risen high in labor’s coun cils on both sides of the Atlantic, and the backs of labor iirthe allied countries needed stiffening. On his return he declined further civilian duty and returned to France as a Major of Engineers, serving with the sons of men who had served under his father in the Union Army, or under his grandfather and uncles in. the Confederate army. Before entering the army Major Berry ruled that all members oft the union who enlisted or might be drafted, should continue in good standing and that the dependents of those who might not come back be paid the insurance that would have been due had they continued at work and paying dues and assessments. This threwi the burden of support ing the insurance and other bene ficial funds upon those not entering the service'. Against this, in his absense, radi cals in the organization revolted and succeeded in preventing several of the larger'lbcal unions from pay ing dues. On his return from France Major Berry again faced an empty treasuiy and a mass of litiga tion, in which the integrity of his administration was challenged. The fight was bitter, but ended in the union that began the litigation ask ing permission to witdraw the suit, accompanying the request with cer tified checks for the amount of dues that had been withheld. Here, as in the later case of in subordination ip New York,, oppor tunity offered for harsh treatment not undeserved for those who had created the trouble. None, however, were disciplined. “They hurt nobody bdtr" them selves, the union is stronger than ever, it has proven its strength,” President Berry said then, “What, they may have said about me doesn’t matter. Between these major developments M*\ Berry has found time to do many things/ . In every recent Pres idential campaign he has stumped for the democratic party, he has be come a land holder in Tennessee and Kentucky, where he successfully works large farms, and he has been active in fraternal Society work, be ing a Shriner, a past Brand of his Lodge of Odd Fellows, an Elk add an Eagle. In New York he is a member of the Lamb’s club. In re ligion he is- a Baptist. Vote For aekwt Bonds Majr Oth THE OLD AJRMvCHAlR. I love it, 1 love it, and who shall dare, To chide me for loving that Okl Arm-Chair? I’ve treasured it long as a holy prize, I’ve bedew’d it with tears, and em ' balmed it with sighs; ’Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart; Not a tie will break, not a link will start, Would ye learn the spell?—a mother sat there, fjj And a Sacred thing is that Old Ap Chair. ’ In childhood home, 1 lingered near The hallowed seat with listening ear; And gentle words would toother g$je, To fit me to die, and teach me*to n live. She told" me shame would never betide, With truth for my creed, and God for my guide; She taught me to lisp my earliest prayer, As I knelt beside that Old Arm-Chair. I sat and watched her many a day, • When her eyes grew dim, and her locks were grey; And I almost worshipped her when she smiled, And turned from her Bible to bless . her child. Years rolled on, but the last one sped My idol whs shattered, my earth Star fled; I learned how much the heart can bear, When I saw her die in the Old Arm Chair. ’Tis past, 'Tis past, but I gaze on it now, With quivering breath, and throb bing brow; ’Twas there she nursed me, ’twas there she died, And mem’ry flows with lava tide. Say it is folly, and deem me weak, While the scalding tears start down my cheeks; But I love it, I love it, and cannot bear My souT from a mother’s Old Arm Chair. Vote For School Bonds Msy 6th TECHNICAL MEN MEET. Washington, April 80.—Excellent progress was -reported- by officers and delegates to the seventh annual convention of the Technical Engi neers, Architects and Draftsmen’s unions, held in this city. These tech nicians are affiliated with the A. F. of L. In cities throughly 'organized 10 and 12 per cent gains have been se cured and prospects are good for a steady increase in / membership, it was stated. This federation is considering im mediate participation in the organi zing campaign now being conducted in Pittsburgh and Chicago by the A. F. of L. metal trades department. Veto For Softool Bond* May 6th George Mills, who drove the first train into the City of Bombay, died recently at the age of 88 in To ronto. SPRING IS HERE! And with the warn days conges the call of the open road—the call to the great open spaces and the green hills. And for real enjoyment and “get there” qualities, WILLYS-KNIGHT ~*and*» OVERLAND have few, equals and no superiors. We have ne'Wf cars and many nearly new1, cars al ways on hand. Payments Arranged Dad-Overland Co. 436 W. Trade Phone 2S96 ■5" Used Automobiles , 1 BUY NOW WHILE YOU HAVE AN ASSORTMENT FROM WHICH TO SELECT THE CAR YOU WANT. THESE ARE REAL BARGAINS:— 1 — Ford Touring Car Late Model —. __$150.00 1 — 1918 Buick Roadster Good Condition - - - —— $125.00 . ^ 1 — 1920 Auburn Beauty Six Touring Good Shape—rExtra Tire -----——-$180.00 1 — 1919 Buick 5-Pass. Touring Car Good Condition -1-____-_-_—j-$300.00 TERMS — IF DESIRED C. C. CODDINGTON, Inc. RETAIL DEPARTMENT WEST TRADE STREET CHARLOTTE, N. C. WORKERS CAN’T LEAVE GEORGIA UNLESS STATE OFFICIALS CONSENT UNION MADE COLLARS. It was reported to the Central Labor Union Tuesday night that the Wonder Store, 315 East Trade istreet, is carrying a full line of Union Made collars for men. The advertisement of this collar is to be ; found in The Wonder Store’s ad vertisement iia this-issue. The wages of workers in Queens land average $18.50 a- week. WHY GO HUNGRY? Regular Dinner Like Mother Used To CooTk ONLY 40 C ENTS Long’s Cafe 12 South Co llege St. AUSTIN’S MARKET The up-to-date market, with * lull line of all kinds of Meats, Fish and Other Good Things to Eat Price* reasonable and service Complete AUSTEN’S MARKET 305 WEST TRADE ST. . --. ^ • ~ - S - ■_- . _ - | Atlanta, Ga., April 30.—The state federation of labor convention de nounced a Georgia law that pro hibits workers from leaving the state except uhder certain conditions. In interpreting this law state of ficials frankly express the serf idea that labor must be held for the con venience of exploiters. This is the theory of injunction judges, who restrain those who "injure business" by inducing labor to quit employ ment. , /The law provides that before any one Pan induce workers to accept employment outside the state, he must secure a labor-agent permit and furnish an indemnity bond sufficient to cover any valid debt owed by any or aN of these workers. Hal M. Stanley, state commission er of commerce and labor, hassled that under this law no one lan in duce workers to leave the state un less county and municipal officials furnish him (Stanley) a written statement that this labor "could well be spared." A local newspaper credits Com missioner Stanley with this state ment: v “I shall not, by any act of mine, permit any additional labdr to be carried from Georgia. If any is se cured, it will be over my protest and alter I have exhausted every possible means to prevent it.” Cohttnissiofcer Stanley also ruled that no permit can be issued to a corporation, as the law only applies to “persons,” and under the intent of the law a corporation is not a person. The state attorney general has Upheld these rulings, which would make the wage workers of Georgia subject to the whim of those who exploit them. In condemning this law the union ists declared that it is not the busi ness or the duty of this state to de cide whether individual labor is necessary to the Welfare of Georgia. -It was declared that the law is “a vicious attack on the liberties of the people,” and that "every citizen should have the privilege of leaving the state on his own account.” Njo worker should be stopped from leaving if he is so disposed unless he is a criminal, the convention de clared. Ther orange oil industry in Jama ica is. proving of great value, and is a means of getting money from oranges which ,would otherwise go to waste. vl “Wet Wash Float-Ironed” Light Weight Spring and Summery Clothes Require Delicate Treatment The modern laundry with its modern equipment and modern methods is the natural solution for your summer lundry. You may ki\ow that your clothes are clean and absolutely sanitary. Call on the laundries below for satisfactory work. . • )' .1 “Ho-mestic” “Prim-Prat” THE CHARLOTTE LAUNDRY MODEL STEAM LAUNDRY SANITARY STEAM LAUNDRY
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