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THE Sanitary Lunch 22 North Tryon. Street Have You Tried Us Yet? Ask Anyone! Branch in Gastonia; N. C. Piedmont Candy Company FRESH CANDY MADE EVERY DAY Stop and Look for Your Favorite Candy WE MAKE IT Best, Highest Quality in North Carolina 18 NORTH TRYON STREET Gompers Declares Labor Insulted By the Politicians 'fcy SAMUEL ROMPERS, President American Federation-of f Labor. “Our executive council Has ap proved the candidacy of Senator La Follette and Senator Wheeler and every resource at our com mand will be used in the effort to bring about their election/’ said President Samuel Gompers today, in a statement dealing with the report on~ political action adopted by the executive council. We have acted in strict accord ance with our long-established policy of non-partisan political ac tion. We have never endorsed a political party or political organi zation, and we stand by that re fusal in the present instance. We have made it clear that between three candidates for the presiden cy we find one distinctly prefer able to the other - two; and the | The Health of the School Children | Gan best be safeguarded by giving them the puresl Ifood. All sensible people agree that I LANCE QUALITY PEANUT BUTTER \ Is the purest, most wjholesome, * nutritious peanut j butter rfiade, ! . Children like it — and it’s good for the children. I Ask your grocer for I Lance Quality Peanut Butter Made right here in Charlotte by ! -THE LANCE PACKING COMPANY USED STUDEBAKER CARS And Other Makes in-a Nice Assortment ATTRACTIVE PRICES AND TERMS , Rust Motor Company 514-l(jt$rTryon St.- r Charlotte, N. C. He Overlooked Compound interest “I planned to save my first thousand/' he said, “by depositing $5 ,a week for 200 weeks. But I had the $1,000 m 182 w|eeks. I had forgot ten compound interest, which shortened my schedule by 18 weeks.” In making your saving plans, figure on com pouad interest and your next $1,000 will look nearer.* • same thing ^applies to the plat Scrips, We have protested against cer tain grave injustices and inequali ties year after year. The plat form” upon which Senator La Fol lette and. Senator Wheeler are canddates pledges definite action to correct these injustices and we propose to do wh£t we can to make possible the correction of those economic injustices through their success at the polls. It is no fantastic thing to look 'for'the success of Senator La Fol lette in the coming election. Amer ica is seething with protest against the machinations of Big Business, the betrayal of public trust and the lack of patriotic, constructive statesmanship in’ the two major parties. From these we have, on the one hand, a frank champion ship of reaction and on the other hand a cunning evasiveness which probably deceived not even the blindest partisans. Our report will immediately be broadcasted to the entire labor movement. In fact that already is in process of being done. Our system of non-partisan commit tees will be in action at once throughout the country. We are going to do our best to elect La Follette and Wheeler. We believe the conscience of America is aroused to the need of®a new deal in our national government and a new morality in public life gen erally. Of equal importance to us is the congressional campaign. While the action taken here is in strict conformity with past policy, it does measurably broaden our field of action and we shall take full advantage of that fact. We are authorized to make known generally the records of members of congress and to give these rec ords the widest publicity. Here tofore we have sent these records into each individual district. It will be our business now to ap prise the whole country as to the attitude of all candidates for con gress, so that national attention may be centered on the congres sional contest as a whole. 1 want to emphasize th^ fact that our support of Senator La Follette and Senator Wheeler does not in any way or to any degree identify us with or commit us to. doctrines advanced by any other group that may be supporting the same candidates. ' We are in this fight, not to quibble with those who may help' the cause, but to win a great victory for humanity, for democ racy, for the great masses of the people of our country. Something far beyond the ordinary political issue is at stake. There is at stake the great and all-transcend ing issue of right against wrong—. and we are for the right with all of the vigor wfhich our great movement possesses. Now that our report has been adopted, it may not be amiss to say that its general lines were agreed upon by ti|e executive committee of the national non partisan campaign committee at a meeting held at Brighton Beaeb on the day after the Democratic convention adjourned, and infor mally we were certain of what our course would have to be some days before that—the day we j were able to have betore us the Democratic and Republican plat forms, to be exact. I say that so that it may be known that we have arrived at our position out of the logic of events and the rec ords of men and parties, and not out of a series of assumed dis agreements between ourselves. That, I think, should be made clear beyond any possibility of misunderstanding." In Pennsylvania employment5 declined 4.2 per cent from May to June and per capita earnings fell "off 5.1 per. cent, indicating a probable curtailment of 0 per {cent in operations. LIBRARIES USED TO DEFEAT LABOR . Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 14.— Great foundations, including the Carnegie Foundation, are bitterly assailed in a report made today by the Librarians’ Union to the American Federation of Labor. The report was referred to the standing committee on education composed of George W. Perkins, Matthew Woll, John P. Frey and Charles Baine. This committee was instructed to investigate the charges found in the report and to bring in a set of findings for final action. The charges are, briefly: 1. That Carnegie libraries are hot controlled by the municipali ties in which they exist and to which they have been given. 2. That such libraries - are controlled by boards of trustees in no sense responsible to the peo ple, but appointed generally by the foundations themselves, or with their approval. 3. Such control, under ijhe terms of the Carnegie contracts, is perpetual. 4. Public moneys, appropriat ed by cities and states, pass out of contreol of~ the givers immedi ately upon their donation and are administered by the foundations or their trustees. 5. That there is rapidly com ing into being a system under which only books approved in a certain manner may be placed on . foundation library shelves and that amounts to a censorship and is so intended. 6. That an unjust certification of librarians is earning into prac tice and is being urged generally as a law of the future; this sys tem exists by law now in three states. The librarians- presented their report after a long study of the situation and they urge, among other things, that civil service be introduced for library employes. They urge that some way be found to restore full municipal or local control of libraries, no matter by whom founded or financed, in the belief that a library is a public utility and that it shelves must pot lie .controlled by any agency except a public agency constantly responsible to the public. “We have long stood for absor lute freedom from censorship of what the public read, as well as of the plays they see,” said Vice President Matthew Woll, who made the report public.- “We have found that the advocates of censorship miss few opportunities to forward their dangerous idea. But we believe' that freedom to think and to know is a real right that belongs to all men and women and not to a* restricted, favored .few. - .a <-, ' “We shall go into the charges . made in k most thorough manner. They indicate a condition of most serious character, intolerable in a free country among free people.” MOVIE OPERATORS. WIN. El Paso, Texas, Aug. 14.—The moving picture operators have unionized five large movie houses in this city. New York Cafe 39 W. TRAPE STREET o-o SERVICE AND FOOD “Tie Best Money Can Purchase** Kenny’s Teas and Coffees Enjoyed by thousands of people in and around Charlotte. Try them and you will agree with us. KENNY’S 23 So. Tryon St. For Every Goofl Thing to Eat - Be Sure to Try the ASTOR LUNCH 33 South Tryon Street REAL FOODS— REAL SERVICE SATISFACTION NEW THROUGH SERVICE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND MONTREAL, OTTAWA AND QUEBEC Via HELL GATE BRIDGE ROUTE SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Beginning Sunday, June 15, a new INTERNATIONAL THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE will be inaugurated by the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD SYSTEM between WASHINGTON, D. C., and CANDA via New York City, the Hell Gate Bridge Route and the Cenencticuitt River Valley, as follows: " NORTHBOUND: “THE MONTREALER” " • Daily Leave Washington, Pennsylvania R. R._______2:05 P.'M. Arrive New York, Pennsylvania Station_____7:15 P. M. Leave New York, Penn. Station, NYNH&HRR..___7:30 fVM. Arrive Montreal, Canadian National Rys. ___ _ _ A. M. Arrive Ottawa, Canadian National Rys.— __ _ _ _ 11:45 A;’ Mi Arrive Quebec, Canadian National Rys__.___8:06 A. M. SOUTHBOUND • HE WASHTONIAN” Daily Leave Quebec, Canadian National Rys._— _1:20 P.M. Leave Ottawa, Canadian National Rys. ____5:00 P. M. Leave Montreal, Canadian Naitonal Rys______8 ;16 P. M. Arrive New York, NYNH&HRR, Penn. Station_8:40 A.M. Leave New York, Pennsylvania Station____9:05 A. M. Arrive Washington, T>. C. Pennsylvania Station_2:20 P. M. Through day coaches and sleeping oars between Washington and Montreal; through sleeping cars to Ottawa and Quebec, without change. •, • , - :rl . This affords excellent service to CANADIAN RESORTS with close connections at Washington with SOUTHERN RAILWAY through trains from the SOUTH. (Direct connection in aech direction with “THE BIRMINGHAM SPECIAL” Trains Nos. 29-30- thus providing service- to Canada with but one change of cars. City Ticket Office: 237 West Trade Street, New Charlotte Hotel Telephone 20 - ^ R. H. GRAHAM . Division Passenger Agent
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