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Id) ui A Y U J:( ;i IJJy ? lliA V III tM,ftr;s s . " "5- ORGAN OF THE STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR BY GREENSBORO TRADES COUNCIL. MOTTO ; ORGANIZATION, EDUCATION AND ELEVATION. 's-'- VOIi IV j : GBBKSBORO, N. C., FBIpA, ATJGTJST 8, 1908 , "-4"'20JMBEB HOW TO ADVERTISE THE TRADE UNION. V. The Element of Time. By the Rev. Charles Stelzle. It rarely happens that an advertise ment which has appeared for the first time, no matter how good it may be, really accomplishes very , much in di rect results. The effectiveness of an advertisement depends upon the fre quency with -which it is brought to our attention. How often the same advertisement should appear in pre cisely the same manner must be de termined by circumstances, but the same subject must be presented many times before there will be a percep tible movement on the part of the public. Trades union workers are often dis appointed because there is usually so small a response following the distri bution of a few, thousand tickets ad vertising a special meeting. It is the steady, rythmic blow that counts. A pugilist once told me that he always tried to find his opponent's weakest spot. Then he showered blow after blow upon it. At first there appeared to be no effect, but soon the blows would begin to tell, finally his opponent would collapse as the result of this persistent punish ment. The successful advertiser .works hard and long to create an atmos phere which would be favorable to his business. After this had been se cured, and the interest and the confi dence of then public have been won, the rest is comparatively easy. The trades union must endeavor by continuous and thorough advertising to get the public to believe its pur pose and in its mission. it must make men see that it stands for those things which all good men should stand for. When there is a common platform upon which they can agree, even though their interests may not be identical, tne outsider will be apt to take more stock in the pro gram of the labor union. A man naturally makes up his mind slowly to do a certain thing. He grad ually brings himself to the point where he acts in the matter. Influ ences have all the time been at work which were molding his thought and opinion, although he may have been unconscious of the process. Suddenly he seemed to completely change his mind, but this was merely the out ward sign of an inward growth. An unusual advertising campaign may bring immediate results, but it must overcome this natural law by which most minds are influeiiced-.- itls onjjr by the ?bigness of the enterprise, which thus attracts so much more of his attention, and which factor natur ally makes the mind work more quick ly, that a man may be persuaded to act at once. An advertising campaign which can accomplish such results will naturally cose more than the steady, persistent method, and requires a far greater ef fort than it is possible for the average trades union to put into it. , The most satisfactory ' method, therefore, is the campaign which al lows for the element of time, thus fit ting most closely into the natural workings of the human mind. Editor the Labor News, Greensboro, N. C. Dear Sir: "We have in this coun try three forms of taxation. These are public direct taxes, public indirect taxes and private special privilege taxes. The two forms of public taxes are known as the straight and crooked taxes. The direct or straight taxes are paid by the citizen direct to the tax collector. The indirect or crook ed taxes are paid by one citizen who acts as tax collector for the govern ment. He simply lays out, the tax money and collects the tax j5y adding it to the price of the goods he is sell ing which are taxed by the govern ment. He gets his pay for; doing this in' that he figures the selling price to include the tax money; and naturally he figures his profit on the sum' total of both the cost of the goods and the cost of the tax. Hence the, name of ; crooked for this method of fooling the consumer. No matter how our government lev ies its taxes, either direct or indirect, so long as such taxes are levied on .things that are produced by labor we find that they .-are very costly, and exceedingly hard to collect; arid at Hhe same time tend to discourage the "production of such things. The private special taxes are the easiest, and cheapest of all methods of taxation to collect "as far as the collector is concerned. Take for in stance the privilege granter' ' to indi viduals to own and control certain parts of the earth. You and I needing . ujjjroc uci Lain pciris , ui iue caiiu in ,:live on and do business on, 'nat urally are willing to pay. to. thepwn ers of such privileges all that.it is worth to use these certain parts of the earth. They, therefore, are ablet to levy a tribute a tax really to the fullest extent that the traffic will bear. This tribute or - tax fs today jCalled rent. It goes into private .'.-"feb'ekets. The collector of the rent boxes cad have a good time at our expense, be cause we allow ourselves to be taxed by the government on the good things we make and want (wealth) and at the same time pay him.6r the use of his land. We therefore pay double taxes one set to the ' government in direct and indirect public taxes and one set to the individual in rent for his special privilege to certain parts of the earth. If it be granted that the private or special taxes are the easiest" and cheapest to collect, then why not'abol ish the costly direct and indirect tax es we are trying so hard to collect to day and in its place take In the form of a tax for the use of the government the rent of the land 'Which private and individuals are today collecting. CHARLES D. RTAN. URGES LABOR TO STAND BY FRIENDS Gompers in Communication Virtually ' Requests Support of the Democratic Ticket. "Oppose and ftefeat Our Enemies, No Matter for What Office They Run. ; The labor leaders - in Greater New York yesterday received from Samuel Gompers, president qf . the American Federation of Labor, a communica tion calling upon labor to stand intact and not shirk responsibility, and vir tually requesting their support for the Democratic .ticket. This appeal was read on August 16, at the various assemblages , of labor. It says: "The issues, confronting the new na tional life are labor j issues primarily and fundamentally. "Organized labor cannot, if it would shirk its responsibility here. "The toilers should not be on the defensive with respect to vital issues affecting them. They should and must devise an offensive movement looking. to a firmer and more stable establishment of their Inalienable rights. "Nothing is voluntarily contributed to the interests of labor on the part of the wealth possessors or. of parti san politicians. "It is the paradox second to noije in the line of human evolution aid progress" that ' Labor, the sovereign, should plead for safeguards at the hands of its own creatures. "Congress and other law making bodies must be made to feel that La bor is entitled to its just share in en actments particularly affecting its own rights and interests. "Labor has little to expect at the hands of those in responsible charge of the last session of Congress. "We have much to look for. in poli cies outlined and sought to be carried forward that have their initiatives in the organized labor movement. "In improving the condition of the workers, in securing for them their rights, liberty and sovereignty, there is not involved the tearing down or the destruction of any one or of any thing. The labor movement and its results encompass the well-being of every man, woman and child the coun try over. Organized labor is not de structive but constructive. "It devolves upon organized labor by organization, agitation and educa tion to" shape the next Executive and the next Congress to ends that will justify the , maximum efforts which may be put forth in behalf of the great cause of the rights of the work ers, which, in its essence, is the cause of human liberty. "We call upon the workers of our common country to stand faithfully by our friends, oppose and defeat our enemies, whether they be candidates for President, for Congress, or other offices, whether Executive, Legislative or Judicial." Hunter Criticises Gompers's Ideas. Robert Hunter, the 'parlor social ist," has replied to Samuel-Gompers, president of the American Federation 6f Labor, on the question of injunc tion and trial by jury. Mr. Hunter says in part: "Mr. Gompers is quoted as greatly, pleased that the Democrats promised trial by jury for cases of indirect con tempt. "This means virtually that in case a union man offends a judge who has enjoined him from doing his duty and exercising his constitutional rights be may be tried by jury. "But Mr. Gompers surely knows that a jury has no right to pass upon the law.' The jury ' accepts ' the law from the judges. It takes its instruc tions from the court, and it passes solely upon the question of the guilt or innocence of the ' accused. "Thatis to 89,$, ; it 3l- judge enjoins Mr. Gompers rfrpm-rcaillng. a strike the jury j will . not decide whether Mr. Gompers did or did not "have a con stitutional and legal right to call 'a strike. It will xjnly -decide whether or not Mr. Gompers DISOBEYED HIS ROYAL EMINENCE, TTJE, JUDGE.. m otner words, Trial by jury does not affectthe"WRT of injunction In the slightest! k "What is wanted is the abolltionfftf injunctions. So long as judges have this power they are monarchs. po long as injunctions are granted in in dustrial disputes, just so long can one man override our constitutional rights. So long as a single judgeis able to make illegal whatever he die sires, just so long will that power-vfee used to cripple unions, to break strikes and to override free ' speech, of a free press, and of peaceable "as sembly. " ' "When you tell us, Mr. Gompers, that Judge Parker was your most en thusiastic supporter in Denver you convince us that you have been' out witted ,nd the- cause of labor be trayed. ,. ; "The Socialists intend to abolish in junctions. "As the head of 2,000,0u0 union men which of these propositions is most acceptable to you?" Pittsburg, Pa. Awage agreement, has been reached between representa tives of i the Amalgamated Associa tion of - Won, Steel and Tin Workers ana the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. The new agreement amounts to a five per cent, reduction in the pay of -the .tin .workers' and a jbiit of two , per' cent. . in the scale for the sheet department. About 10,000 men are affected. OFFICIAL 8TATEMENT FROM ; AMERICAN LABOR PRES8 ASS'N In Riply to Cowardly Attack by Ro chester Labor Journal, Which Does Not Happen to Be a Member. To All Members of the A. L. P. A.: Under, date of August 14th, the La bor Journal, of Rochester, N. Y., which is not a member of the Amer ican Labor Press Association, and which has no knowledge of the objects of our Association or of the business methods pursued, either from a mo tive of Insane jealousy or wanting to surprise the public with something sensational, or else prompted by some 'irresponsible transient adver tising solicitor, made a cowardly and unwarranted attack upon our Assoc! ation. Although the paper in quesion devoted a large part of its front page to a cunningly worded but shallow line of abuse, in addition to giving a long editorial of the same character, yet any intelligent reader can easily see the motive behind it.. "It talks a lot .but says nothing." The gist of the whole is that the American Labor Press Association is a fake and ev erybody connected with it are crooks, and "the Labor Journal" knew it from the start! The ninety-three labor pa pers which comprise the Association, many of which have been members almost two years, are all apparently devoid of sufficient wisdom to know what they're doing, and it has been left to the Rochester Labor Journal to be come their Moses and try and lead them out of the error of their way. We have no lengthy reply to make. This is all left to the papers that are connected with the association, all of which are familiar with the work and progress of the organization and the benefits being derived. The officers and advisory board are made up of active trades unionists, located in va rious parts of the country, men above reproach who have made and are mak ing many personal sacrifices in the interest of the labor press, and while we do not hope to succeed without some "knocks" on the way, yet these knocks cannot dampen our ardor or destroy our faith in the publications we represent. One object of this association is to secure desirable advertising' patron age of a national character for our members. Sometime ago a large num ber of papers asked us to try and se cure some advertising from both polit ical parties. Before closing any con tracts, however, we communicated with such papers as we had not heard from asking for their views upon the matter, as we did not want to close any arrangement for political adver tising laaleft -rave knew It would beHTyrpathy with the mevemHti. i and acceptable. There was some doubt in our mind whether they wanted any Republican matter and we wrote to them for information. The Union Sentinel, of Fort Smith, Ark., a mem ber of the Association, evidently mis taking our purpose, immediately with drew from the Association and pub lished our letter with severe editorial comment on same. The letter has been published and speaks for itself. It merely asks whether the paper wants any Republican matter as ad vertising. The Union Sentinel has evidently now seen its mistake, as it has since declared itself to be a mem ber by running our seal in its col umns and is running advertising mat ter furnished it by us. The A. L.' P. A. owes allegiance to no political par ty, and its Influence is not for sale. Our business is to secure legitimate advertising for our members and ad vance their interests in every consis tent way. We are performing our duty to the best of our ability. So long as the papers which make up our Association have no complaint to of fer, we will continue in the good work we have started. So long as the la bor papers of the country get an ab solutely "square deal" (and no one is in a better position to know this than the papers themselves) we have rea son to believe that attempted attacks by outsiders, regardless of what the motive may be, will be taken for what they are worth. The American Labor Press Association is based on too sol id a foundation to be shaken by false and libellous assaults. AM'N LABOR PRESS, ASS'N. Per D. W. HARTER, Sec'y. ASKS THAT LABOR DAY BE OBSERVED Governor Glenn Issues Proclamation to Laboring' Men. Urges People Who. Toil to Observe September 7 As Day of Rest. Expresses Grati fication at Fact That Panic Has Af fected Laboring Men No Worse. Raleigh, Aug. 26. A proclamation is issued by Governor Glenn for, the observance of September 7 as -Labor Day in North Carolina. He calls on all who labor with their hand or brain to observe this . day as a day of rest, recreation and thanksgiving. The state offices will be closed and all state employes are asked to refrain from work. The governor calls upon the people of the state to suspend all business as much as possible. The proclamation expresses gratification that the panic has not affected labor and business interests in North Caro lina anything like as badly as in oth er states east and west. He wants the day to be one of good cheer for both capital and labor. Union, S. C The textile mills have gone back . to full time work. This means that they are putting in 60 hours a week instead of four days, which was the time that some of the mills had curtailed .to several weeks ago because of the slight demand for cotton goods throughout the country. PYTHIAN DAY, WEDNESDAY, OC TOBER 14TH. Greettsboro's Centennial and Home- i : Coming Week, October ...,.. 11-17, 1908. . Wednesday of Centennial Week if signs; do not fail, promises to be a day tibt only of enjoyment, but of in terest and instruction to all observ ers, enjoyment; to all Pythians, in terest; to. the uninitiated, instruction, that "'within the confines of our state there exists an order surpassed in numbers by only one other order, and influence and good works peculiar to fraternities surpassed by none the Order of Knights of Pythias. The Centennial Committee consists of twelve members, loyal and true, and jlooking forward to the eventthey are feurely a busy body of men. C. C. McLean is chairman of the commit tee. ' Later on a program will be given ou( which even at this early day promises well. The following address to the Pyth ians of the state has been issued by the Pythian Centennial Committee: To All Knights of Pythias of North Carolina: Fraternal Greetings: The Board of Managers of the ' Greensboro Centen nial have set aside October 14th ,to be known as "Pythian' Day", a dis tinct honor to our Order, and a recog nition of the progressiveness of the Knights of Pythias. Guilford Lodge No. 69, Proximity Lodge No. 158, White Oak Lodge No. 187, and Greensboro Lodge No. 80, have undertaken to make this the largest Pythian gathering ever held in the state. The largest and most spectacular parade ever given in North Carolina by any fraternal or ganization will be placed on the streets of Greensboro Wednesday, Oc tober 14th, and will be composed of members of the Order of Knights of Pythias. We want every Subordinate Lodge in the state to take part in this parade, and the .committee extends to all Pythians an invitation to take part in this great parade and make it a red-letter day in the history of North Carolina Pythianism. The parade will take place in the morning, and we hope to have 5,000 Pythians in line. The meeting of the Seventh district will be held at night in Greensboro's New Auditorium, and the Rank of Page and Knight will be conferred by special teams for the occasion. We want a class of 200 for the Rank f Pagej and every Lodge is asked to go to work now and get up a class to brinip- with them for this occasion. Grfthd Chancellor Webb is in hearty the Grand Lodge has offered $200" in gold prizes as follows: (1) Class A. Visiting lodge having the greatest number of members in parade. First prize, $70; second prize, $30. (2) Class B. Visiting lodge having the greatest number of candidates for the Rank of Page in parade. First prize, $25; second prize, $15. (3) Class C. Visiting lodge making best appearance in uniformity of dress. First prize, $25; second prize, $15. (4) Class D. Lodge having the best float or special feature. First prize, $20. NEWS FROM INDUSTRIAL CEN TERS. Pittsburg, Pa. The Tackmakers' Protective Union of the United States and Canada is the second oldest labor organization in America. Washington. The Central Labor Union refused to endorse the Na tional Temple of Labor Association, whose project is to erect a $1,000,000 national temple of labor in this city. Sedalia, M. Five hundred men gave three cheers when the Missouri, Kansas & Texas shop train pulled out from the station for the shops, whkih resumed work after an enforced va cation of six weeks. Boston, Mass. The largest per centage of idleness in Massachusetts is found in textile cities of Lawrence and New Bedford, while the percent age as a whole is larger throughout the state than in the cities or .Boston, Worcester, ; Brockton and Lynn. New Castle, Pa. Over 100 Pennsyl vania brakemen laid off last fall were notified by that company, to report for work at once to the assistant train master here. Fifty firemen who had been .laid off were recently put to work. Sharon. Pa. The wage scale be tween the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the Sharon Steel Hoop Company ex pired on Tuesday, and will not be re newed. There will be no stride now- ever, and 1,200 men will continue to work without an agreement. New Castle, Pa. Operations have been resumed at the Rosena furnace,, giving employment to about 300. men. The furnace is operated by the Car negie oteel Company. Other furnaces here will start soon, it is announcea. . M V" . The Sheriango furnace company blew in its furnaces at Sharpsvilie Julv 8th. employing 200 men. The company is said to have orders ahead to keep all of its plants busy until Oc tober. New York. Several of the officers and members of New York Typo graphical union No. 6 have been sum moned into court to show cause why they should not be punished for con- temDt in failing: to obey the order oi the courti forbidding them to molest or boycott the Butterick Publishing Company of that city. The injunction said to have been violated was issued March 14, 1906. The plaintiff claims to have suffered heavy pecuniary loss. NEGRO EDITOR FOR BRYAN. - Richmond, Va., Aug. 26. John Mitchell, the negro editor, comes out in a statement to the effect that the negroes of this state and the south are to take little stock in the Repub lican party this year, and that the bulk of them are to vote for Bryan. He says that the Republican party has been making promises to the ne groes since' the civil war. He declares thats the recent race troubles in other states have added to the unrest of the negroes, and that in many states where they hold the balance of power they will either' vote for the Demo crats or stay away from the polls. New York-T-Conditions hitherto ex isting In the electrotyping business in Greater New York have been the un derlying causes of the formation of an Employing Electrotypers and Steorotypers League, on the lines of the Printers' League. of America. The unions of both trades have endorsed the proposition and tendered their hearty support and co-operation. The league now numbers among its mem bers some of the largest and strong est concerns in the city. Tommy: "Ma, can I play makin' believe I'm entertainin' another little boy?" Mamma: "Yes, dear, of course." Tommy: . "All right Gimme some ( cake for him." Philadelphia Press. JUST A FEW THOUGHTS Before You Part With Your Hard Earned Cash. Did it ever occur to you why it was any merchant would have a "sale?" No doubt you understood it's because he has not done the volume of busi ness he anticipated when he bought his goods; we can tell you why. There can't be but one reason (when his goods are bought clean, new, and up-to-date) andthat is he is not satisfied with a small living profit He thinks when the season is on everybody wants his goods, no matter what the price. At the wind up he finds they have bought their goods from a mer chant who was willing, and did sell them their merchandise at what they call sale prices in their great special sales. The great sale price is just the same price that you can get your goods from the Original Racket Store every, day iu the year, without, being faked on any single article. You will notice the people who are judges of merchandise don't fall all over them selves to reach these great sales, for. they know when they reach the scene of thiB great, grand offering of merchandise that they will be only told that the particular item adver tised is out. It's a great game but it's playing out The people are on to it, and it's like every other skin game it don't work very long. We contend and we can prove by our 21 years business experience in one store in Greensboro that there is only one way to do business and exist, and that is to do a straight legitimate business every working day In the year. We don't profess to sell goods cheaper than the mills can make them or Cheaper than they ever came through any auction house in this country for every dollar's worth of goods that is billed to us we pay one hundred cents for, but we do say we turn loose this merchandise at. a smaller profit than any other merchant in Greensboro can afford to and we do it every day in the year. If we were to have one of these great gigantic sales and mark every dollar's worth of goods in our store at exactly what we paid for it, the difference at what we would sell it at then ahd now would be so slight you probably would not notice it They cry hard times; they tell you the working people are not at work. The country people are not coming to town. They give you every other ex cuse in the world because they have not done the business. Right in the face of that our business is increasing every day and this ye!ar is not ex cepted and why? Simply because ev ery customer thajt comes in our store gets one hundred cents worth of mer chandise for every" dollar he spends and he don't have to wait for any special sale to get it He gets it every day ;in the year. We guarantee to save you money on your purchases.. Get your sale price and come and see us. We will do the rest: ' Yours for business, The Original . Racket S.tore, A. V. 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