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BARRINGER QUESTIONS EVERYTHING ' (Continued from Page One;) S^nera.1 and C- -P.Bar ringer's in particular. ' • j. f. b. Bariager’c Letter. it*. James F. Barrett, f, Editor Charlotte -Herald, Charlotte, N. C. Dtar Sir: I read with much interest and amusement the rather arrogant story and criticism of the Septem ber 5th issue of your paper (The Herald) and I have carefully noted the lack of abstrahent connotation in what you had to* say regarding me and my attitude towards your speech on Labor B&y at the Greensboro, celebra tion. There are a 'number of Brings in your remarks that you are assuming, and you have clear ly dodged the issue in which I was criticising your remarks and I laconically want to point out or in other words I want to spill scane moje “ignorance.” X know I am an ignorant, al-, most illiterate, unpopular, de " spised, labor cuss, but I have a * few peculiar, ignorant ideas of my own,.-and I express those ideas straight ijfrom the shoulder, 'in my oWn peculiar, ignorant way and v straight ito the one intended. The game 11 play, though crude .and . ^Ignorant; as it may be, is open did abo^e board, which is more than soihe of the so-called labor leaders of North Carolina can say of all their actions. Were it not for the fact that r I just recently heard you stand I before audience and plead with the people not to believe all I ' thfcy heard about me, and other ? labor leaders, I no doubt would feel hurt over your lambasting and joculating remarks of reading me out of the' political side of labor's game. . But when the memory is so fresh is my mind, I ju£t can't help taking the Written epistle id the same ironical, sa tirical, sarcastic vein in ;which it was written, and the advice so Wfell given and applying the same opinions to your remarks, as you would have others apply to things they hear about me. And I am going to believe ail you have said and I feel sure that there are others who have'" the same opinion .eiative to the situation, r ^ 1 have heard you, on a number of occasions, say thaty“if the labor leaders would spend their time and energies fighting for the la boring cause and the laboring people, instead of fighting me (Jim) the cause would accomplish much more.” I have wondered at this myself. But through the col umns of the last edition of your paper this has been answered. I wrote a letter and furnished you a copy for your information, and as a result of playing a fair, square, honest and open game, I; have been cussed, discussed, ridi culed, lambasted, bombarded, kicked, knocked, bruised and pounded all the way from the first page of your paper to -the latter part of the fifth page. That is what a man gets for trying to treat you fair, and play a fair, square, honest and .sincere game with you. Cheap publicity? So I no .longer wonder at the la boring peoplei papers, and leaders of the state fighting you and your attitude in the issues that7 come before these great people. I appreciate very mu^h your statements relative, to the employ er who sits on the dry goods box and hands out ballots to the em ployes to stick in the ballot box. How many employers have hand ed you a ticket and said, “Bar rett, let the ccdumnsrof The Her ald support this or that candidate for such and such an .office in the coming primaries and Clectiony and you dared not* do otherwise? Why has the attitude "of your paper' been so different from the other labor papers in the great political i issues of our. state? Doesn't all labor; papers work; for the uplift-, ing of the laboring folks? Doesn’t ail labor papers want to educate the workers along the lines of economic, and political freedom? Then" why does yours differ* from those published elsewhere in the slate? Is yours right and all the others wrong?; . Isn’t this suffi cient evidence that other employ ers are ? handing vdut tickets and saying vote them? Then why blame the illiterate ignorant fel low for voting the tieket when it is being voted daily,, weekly, monthly, .and yearly by the high ly educated inour movement? 1 think you should pity us ignorant workers more than to ridicule us for our action^ when clothed in ignorance we know no better. . i Is it not a fact thatrth© vested interests do all they possibly can to keep a wedge driven in the ranks of labor? And you know this better than I. Then why give them additional material with which to Work upon & Why help the employer; by telling to the world that there is a difference of Opinion relative to the thifigis meant and said by labor leaders and speakers on Labor Day? Why condemn, ridicule, lambast and damn the opinions of. the other fellow openly? Does this kind of publicity make conditions any better? I really am surprised at a man of your intelligence, abil ity, and experience in the labor movement resorting to* the chil dren’s kindergarden game of ‘Til tel] teacher on you” and /‘I’m gonna tell my daddy when I git home.” Now, Jim, you know bet^ ter than that. You knew it would do you no good and also it would do me very little harm, yet ypu, resorted to such methods and tac tics, .and you did it with a vim, with vigor, with all the flowery, bombastic, vociferous language at your command, and you knew darn well it would result in noth ing beneficial for either of us or the cause we represent. You even made it a leading story m -your paper. What does this mean? Hiave you sold to the vested in t erests ? Have you affiliated your, self with these vested powers? Are you catering to the special privi leges? Are you promoting .the cause of Labor? ^ In giving your explanations of the following quotations, why did you not give all the explanations ? Why did you stop before you had finished? “The next eight weeks will determine whether or not the workers, of the United States -Will depart from the ways which have brought th£m to their present high plane of progress. One of the things that labor has stood for and fought for is education, and through education the workers have learned ;to think . for them selves. I thank . God that the workers have learned to think for themselves as people in other lines of endeavor and business are do ing.” It was good as far as you went, but you failed to finish it as you finished it. iji Greensboro. You -brought it in as a connecting Jink between the comments? upon the progress bf the labor move ment and its entering into an in dependent non-partisan political campaign. It was not the word ing that I was quoting but the sense that if made,. Not only me but othei*s and a number of them not as ignorant as I, are of the same opinion. You were throwing ail the pressure you could against the Wst .B&ItetteWfcwto ^aanpaigw Without mentioning it very clear and in your mind you will admit it, so "why dodge the issue by putting out the impres sion that I wapt the workers to go backwards,, yet you did if.. Yon in all your wisdom took advantage of a .poor ignorant, insignificant, unpopular president of the State Federation of Labor and made it appear as though his ideas of prog ress were that the workers should go to7 that period where they were not able to think for themselves and the right of thinking be de nied them. I have not tried -to take the thinking powers of privi leges from any worker, on the con trary, I am trying to make then} think for themselves, and that is one reason why I am replying to ! your criticism td get the workers to think just how little you ap parently try to carry out the en dorsements of the Executive Council of the American Federa tion of Labor. Also, that jjA the ^.fggepn-.. I , wi’ote . to Mt. Rompers and Mr. Morrison relative to your remarks at this Labor. Day Cele bration and how you desecrated this day by criticising the endorse ment of those who have fought -a^d won- the fight by having-this *day set apart for. those who toil. I hope all readers of your paper will think of this, then they can better judge what kind of a labor day orator -you are by Spoiling a perfectly good speech and a beautiful, cttar, sunshiney day, all spoiled under a political camou flage by a labor day speaker. You wrote of being overwhelm ed^ of being flabbergasted. Were you ever overwhelmed? Were you ever flabbergasted? You must have my permission to speak. How ^(Continued on Page 9.) I THE MAKING OF A He sees a house he v^ants.to ,buy; ' Or a bond; Or a car; * > ■ Or json^ething for the family. He opens an account. ' ' He makes pay-day deposits. Saving, he discovers, is easier than he thought. In V few: years he reaches his goal and sets a • .. • higher one. 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