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f 0R3AN OF THE STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. ENDORSED BY GREENSBORO TRADES COUNCIL MOTTO: ORGANIZATION, EDUCATION AND ELEVATION. aREBNSBORO, K. C, FBI DAJJC SEPTEMBER 11. 1508. VOL. IT. , IfLTMBEB J 1'; , v K in V II 1 I It I I' I I :VJf I 1 M J UJSDJ LAV 1-'..' . ! .- , ' 1 I ft ' ' : : . - . i . -k- - "VI ma CHANGE OF- DATE. The meeting of the" State Federa ation of Labor is, by order of Presi dent Miller, postponed to the second Monday in October. President Miller corresponded with members 'of the Executive Board of the State Federa tion, and the answers ' received indi cated assent to the request of the Greensboro Trades Council. STATE CONVENTION EDITION. A large edition the lAbor News, gotten up in "the best at shape, will be issued during the ' ineeting of the State Federation of Labor which con venes in this city the second Monday In October. Mr. C. L. Moore will have charge of it, and we can assure those who place advertising in his hands that they may rest assured of getting a square deal. This being fair week and centennial week combined it will be an excellent time for adver tisers to get their business before a large number of people from all sec tions. . . THE PRIMARY RESULTS. The Total Votes Cast by Guilford Democrats Last Saturday. The official returns from all of the twenty-seven precincts in the county have been received by Mr. E. A. Brown, chairman of the Guilford coun ty Democratic executive committee and they show that the several candi dates received the following vote in the Democratic primaries held last Saturday: Barringer, senate, 1,149; Gordon, house, 1,027; Kennett, house, 577; Murphy, house, 776; Jones, Sher iff, 1,283; Kirkman, register of deeds, 714; Rankin, register of deeds, 606; McKinney, treasurer, 607; McNairy, treasurer, 661; Weatherly, treasurer, 75; Wood, coroner, 1,228; Gilchrist, surveyor, 1,161. Commissioners: Bradshaw, 1,106; Tucker, 1,085; Da vidson, 1,131; Ross, 472. As has been published the nomina tions were made for all of the officers except treasurer, and this will be de cided by the county convention to be held tomorrow at 11 o'clock in the Grand. All Democrats in good stand ing are entitled to seats in the con vention and the nomination of a can didate for treasure will be made by each precinct casting ; the votes to which it is entitled based on the vote polled by Democrats in the last elec tion. An address will be made by Ex-Governor C. B. Aycock and it is expected that there will be an unusually large attendance. The balcony and boxes will be open to ladies and they are cordially invited to attend. i TIMELY TOPICS. The president took a good deal of credit to himself for having "hit hard" at the oil trust by the hand of his ap pointee, Judge Landis. Unfortunate ly for him, Judge Baker and Judge Seaman are aslo his appointees, and Judge Grosscup owes his place on the bench to Mr. Roosevelt's revered predecessor, President McKinley. Exchange. Terrence V. Powderley says: "The recent business depression has been the best thing for the cdtmtry in one sense that could have happened. I mean in the spread of American ideas in Europe because of it. The return to their old homes of the thousands of workmen because of the industrial shutdown has meant that to almost every nook and corner of the world there has gone some" apostle of Amer icanism whose precept ?a.nd .practice, however humble . ajad ,; insignificant they may be, still cannolwork but for Watch the politician!, See. hqwt care ful they will be to have' their print ing done in label offices. So far so feobd. But what about the candidate whose little card of announcement bears the Allied Printing Trades label, but wears a scab hat and shoes and treats his shouters to a non-union ci gar? Does he imagine that the one little good he does is going to cover uphill of the bad things he does? If a candidate's recognition - of union principles does not extend beyond his printing he is about as safe to tie to asyany other scab. By all means' en courage the use of the label in all bat ters. . ,, . In 1896 William Jennings Bryan told millions of peonle the evils that could and would arise from, govern'- iii5UL uy injunction. ome oi tne cit izens of the country east and west know by experience what government by injunction really is. The Sherman anti-trust-: act did not prevent the Steam Schooner Associa tion from advancing the price of lum ber from Puget Sound to California ports in 1906,- just followlngf the vflre in 'Frisco. The raise -was only about 75 per cent, from the schedule pub lished in January that year until May. Possibly the association was not acting in restraint of trade -probably they were. At any rate, the Long shoremen in their present' difficulty are only seeking to do what the? Steam Schooner Association did do :income. The association wanted more profits -they saw a chance to get but of the 'Frisco disaster. The Longshoremen want more pay. Read the August Everybody's and see what a longshoreman does, how he works and what he gets for it : f Were all union men to vote as they strike' the Democratic national tick et -this ; year 'would get the full strength-of organized labor. The ma jority, of those most active in union Affairs favor such action as likely to bring the quickest relief from legal injustice, and 1n labor disputes the minority . abides . by the verdict: Among union men there are. all. shades of opinion in regard to industrial. af? fairs. Some want reduction in hours; some want higher wages, some want; all -they produce. Realizing: that only by concentration can anything be ac compllshed the majority . decide what shall be -striven for, and those what disagreemake the best of it. "by falU ing in line. When unionists begin tot do the same iri politics, a long steps will have been taken toward greater justice. And the nearer to justiM humanity approaches the greater de-; mand will there be for Its complete possession. This is a most wonderful campaign and is keeping the politicians busya At the time of Bryan's nomination any kind of an old Democrat would have told you that he had no 'showing on earth. Now the careful man who figirrt-s on the result, will tell you that the chances of Bryan are as good as those of Taft if not a shade bet ter. W are speaking of the man who is conservative, .notof - the wild-eyed "man of either party. It is at least extremely interesting. It seems to be ti; tcneral opinion that at this stage of the game things favor Bryan, but rhis as the case in 1896 at about this datv when Mark Hanna touched up his nag end cane under the wire ahti'd iy a good lead. Will the nag' be touched up again in the same way, and if so, will she respond as before? In other words, if the money is raised can the Republican party make it as effective? The boast has always been made by the Republicans that they, can "control" the labor vote, which means they can buy it, either direct ly or by bulldozing methods. But may be this cannot be made to work this time. Greensboro livening Record. STATEMENT FROM MR. COX. High Point, N. C, Sept. 7, 1908. Mr. A. J. Williams, Editor, Greensboro, N. C. Dear Sir: I have a copy of your paper of September 4th, in which ap pears a letter from W. A. Neal, Char-, lotte, as well as a number of thrusts at me on your editorial page. While I have not - the pleasure of your acquaintance, I "do not believe you want to do -an Injustice 'to any man, consequently r am enclosing you herewith copy jf a statement signed by a number of Democratic manufac turers in High Point, the original of which I bave in my office. Suffice it to say I had no more to do with the lockout in High Point than you did. I was aware at the time of this trou ble that some of the people were of the opinion that I had something to do with it, but I supposed by this time everybody had learned different. I have never locked out a man in my life, and furthermore never inquired or cared of any man in my factory here or elsewhere whether he belong ed to the Union or not, and I have never bad the slightest objection to organized labor. Besides my factory in High Point, I am interested in six others, and my own factory and five of the others in which I am interested went through this trouble without the slightest friction, and only one in which I am interested had any trou ble, and that was beyond my con trol. Hoping that you will receive this information in the spirit in which I am giving it, I am, Yours truly, J. ELWOOD COX. Mierh Point. N. C. SeDt. 5. 1908. To the Public : We. 'the undersign ed, manufacturers, residing ;in HighJ Point, and Democrats, put Deiievmg in fall? -'play, desire" to -say; that, of our own personal knowledge Mr. J. El wood Cox;- of Higbj yorht, was not a member of the? ofrgaizatio'iT. o jnanu facturers, who, ia the 'spring bf ;1906,. had trouble ; with their labor, ahd we know Mr. Coxjjad nothing . whatever tn rtn with th o-called ilockout, and the only times he appealed befote this3 The impresion; has. prevailed ' some?.! what that tne Manuiaqturers viuu, ui. High Point, had Isomefhing to do with the lockout., is ? was, notthe case, ( the Manufacturers" Club had nothing: to do with this" trouWer ' t .Furthermore, we know ; Mr. Cox txT be largely interested in. manufacturing'; hot oj -aWfl ftispwHere. and' that 'he has spent his life in encouraging same.'! AOU 111 eVCIJ , uiuvciuom, ..v. by the business men of High Point to $eedre equitable" rreignt raiesr ueici onninTYiPnt for shiooinsr our products, and better service in handling same, Mr. Cox has -rendered' invaluable aia in bringing about more favorable con ditions for shippers -: "iyh J. P, REDDING, rSii ,-HWFRAZIERv-: " 0-J . TOMT JNSQN 7 ; s: 'X" davist : ''' FRED. N. TATE, f J; HARRIS, O. : KEARNS, A. E. TATE, W. GJ BRADSHAW, CHARLES RAGAN, " A. SHERROD, vA. M. RANKIN, X. K. RICHARDSON. GLASS FLY TRAP8 CATCH ALL the flies, easily, cleaned, last for ever, 25c. at Hagan's China Store. Stone jars, , fruit, iaxav-4elly .glasses; "etc. -4' Largest stock bt (DbJna and glassware in the city.. ANOTHER LIE NAILED. In the Industrial News of Septem ber 6th, appeared an article signed by a number of High Point manufactu rers. The signers claimed to be Dem ocrats and desirous of seeing fair play; as proof of their love for fair play on April 2, 1906, they locked out their union ehiployes. The essence of the article is to the effect that Mr. J. Elwood Cox did not take a part in the High Point lockout or "labor trouble," as these fair-play gentlemen designate it. He was not a member of .the' gang and only appeared on the stage as a mediator. ' ' His "mediating" is now history. After the men were locked out, Messrs.. F. C. Roberts, Of the A. F.' of L., Henry Ott, of the Amalgamated Woodworkers, and Gustave Theimer, of the Amalgamated Glass workers, called upon Mr. Cox in behalf of the men, but there was nothing doing, the spasm had passed, the Great Media tor no longer mediated. About two years ago a railroad bond election was held in High oint, par ties interested had circulars printed and circulated, and the following is reprinted from an original copy: A WOODWORKER. A Lie Nailed By Two Sworn State ments. North Carolina Guilford Co. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a notary public inand for the said county, J. P. Powell, who, af ter being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that before "the re cent lockout of the laboring people in the city of High Point, Rev. Eli Reece visited the home of the said J. P. Powell and in effect and to the best of the deponent's knowledge and belief, that Dr. W. G. Bradshaw and J. Elwood Cox were contemplating lock ing out the laboring people of High Point during the winter months, but that he, the said Elf Reece, had pre vailed upon the said Bradshaw and Cox to withhold action as regards the lockout until spring. . That the said statement the depo nent solemnly swears was made in the presence of one J. R. Brooks and the deponent's son. J. P. POWELL. Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 6th day of September, 1906. J. S. GRIFFIN, N. P. North Carolina Guilford Co. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the sai4counJ;y, J S. Griffin, who, being duly" sworn according f6 law, says that J. P. Powell in the presence of J. R. Roach, that J. P. Powell in the presence of himself and J. R. Roach and in effect and to the best of this deponent's belief and rec ollection, stated during the recent lockout of the laboring people in the city of High Point, Rev. Ell Reece vis ited the home of the said J. P. Powell and stated that Dr. W. G. Bradshaw and J. Elwood Cox were contemplating locking out the laboring people of High Point during the winter months, but that he, the said Eli Reece had prevailed upon the said Bradshaw and Cox to withhold action as regards the lockout until spring. J. S. GRIFFIN. . Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 6th day of September, 1906. J. MATT SECHREST, J. P. The Southern Railway crowd will stop at nothing to defeat the bonds. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES RE CRUIT SCABS. Alluring Promises Held Out and Men Kidnapped. s That employment bureaus beguile unemployed men to break strikes in other cities under conditions other than contracted for is evidenced by the recent experience of Charles Muth, a butcher, of 750 Melrose ave nue, who was a victim of one of these unscrupulous agencies.' Mr. Muth, among many others, an swered an advertisement for non-union butchers at an employment agen cy at 243 Canal Street a few weeks ago. He was hired but was not told the locality of his job. Mr. Muth says he signed a contract calling for $25 a week and board, and a nine-hour workday. . . - On the following day -he, with a score of others, were put on a special oi- tho Ppnnsvlvania railroad. The doors of the car were locked and six armed guards placed to watch them. While some of the men were professional-strikebreakers, most of them were, bowever, men looking for em ployment and were surprised on be ing so treated. Guarded like' prisoners all the way, the train finally brought them to Washington, D. C.,. where they were taken off and marched to a slaughter house, there to break the strike of un ion butchers for the nine-hour day. - Mr. Muth says that he had to work ten hours a day instead of nine, and at the end of the week received only fifteen dollars. He promptly went to the police authorities and told them his story. He was informed that they could do ' nothing in the matter. He then left for. New York. , Mr. Muth intends to bring charges against the employment agency More the Commissioner of Licenses. N. Y. Evening Call. SHAME TO AMERICA. "America can feed the world, is the protia boast of its citizens. So much the more shame to America. What stronger indictment of the profit system does anybody want than the fact that this country's productive ca pacity is sufficient to feed the whole world, and yet not only does it not do it but allows thousands of its own people to starve and millions to bare ly exist Progressive Worker. : THE EXODUS OF FOREIGNERS AND WHAT IT REALLY :iHi-'r - MEANS'.' " One reason why: the west has great er - difficulty than usual this year in obtaining farms hands to help in gath ering!. the harvest may be found" in a bulletin issued by the Bureau of Im migration . at Washington. The bu reau: reports that nearly , 1 500,000 la? borers - have left the United States since' last October, returning to their homes in Europe. During the first four months' of this year 239,010 la borers went back to Europe, com pared to 96,731 for the same period of 107. tn addition to this drain on the;, labor supply, the bureau says, the number of immigrants who arrived in this. ' country ; in the first four months of this year was only 124,392, as comv pared with 404,332 who landed be tween January and June of last year. The net loss to the. labor supply for the i four months was 114,618, while theJoss since last October Will be in excess of 250,000. Nevertheless, the number of men out of employment in the! large cities should be great enough to guarantee farmers abun dance of help. Kewanee Labor Her ald. , The fact that a great number of la borers have left our shores does not indicate that they have left the coun try for good, but emphasizes the fact that? they are able to come to this country, pay fare both ways, work in America as long as they can find em ployment, and then have many times more money to spend in the old coun try than they would had they remain ed there in the first place. It costs the foreigner very litte more to go back to Italy than it does for an American to go to New York. Not only do these foreigners do the work while the American, citizen remains idle in search of a job, but they carry by far the- greater part of their earn ings out otthe country. Many of the industries nere on the coast will not employ ah American if they can fill up their works with foreigners. It is stated upon good authority that such as the case with at least one firm ere in this city. The employes of the Bryant Lumber Company are largely foreign and the workmen en gaged there send at least 65 per cent, of the wages paid out by that com pany pback . to the old country! Japs are hot thei&ttly people engaged in making trahtp; ; and paupers out of the native . (rjborn American work ingmen. Seattle Union Record. CHILDREN BOUND OUT. bjlSSfebwing account of oV the American Tobacco Company conducts its business in Chicago should give a very effective jolt to those who pat ronize the products of that concern. Twelve-year-old children go to "school" at the tobacco factories on the west side. The American Tobac co Company does not employ union labor if it knows it. As a result all along Halstead, Twelfth, Fourteenth, and Eighteenth Streets there exists so-called "schools" for cigar-making. At these factories only children are employed. At one on Newberry Ave nue, thirty children, mostly Russians, are used. They receive no pay and are bound out to learn the trade. As with the American Tobacco fac tories no one is admitted to these shops, and no child is taken unless its parents are known. The American Tobacco Company is capitalized at $71,000,000. It thrives on cheap women and children labor. Over 80 per cent, of the tobacco work ers in the trust factories are women and children. One factory containing 797 workers has nothing but women. Unorganized woman labor is cheap labor. Here wages are paid in trust factories and in union factories. For the making of 5-cent cigars the Ameri can Tobacco Company pays $1.50 to $8.00 per thousand, averaging $4.50. For the same work the union factories pay from $6.00 to $10.00. Twenty per cent, of the girls work ing in the trust factories receive but $3 per week. Demand the label and such condi tions will not exist Labor Unit. PUT AWAY YOUR HAMMER. "It is the man who does, things" who counts in this busy world of ours, for such men must of necessity be' mentally and physically strong. I is so much easier ..to drift with the tide thah to breast the stream so much easier to avoid the "knocks" and. "knockers" than to op pose them. And many are the men with ambition who are anxious to, do things, know how to do things, who have the, moral courage to oppose those Who are jealous and pessimistic and knookers. "For this' reason the' men "who do things" are few m com parison with the knockers. But we want inore of them, and oil i a little." There WC O LXJ ought not to be a union man so cow ardly as not to raise nis voice ux mpn who are breasting the storm and fighting the battles for "the labor world and in opposition to the fellows who would destroy. Jealousies must De cast asiue u nc moVa tho ff-ains we want We must render great assistance to those who are willing to take off their wtrir for -the workingman, and. very loath to believe evil of them. The one rule tnat snoum ue violate is never to knock a man until after charges have been made and proven. Baltimore Labor Leader. ' ... r ' TYraiTiAM alone will often change had road into a good one, while on the other hand the best road may be destroyed by the absence or gooa drains. - ' CONSCIENCE HURT HIM. Winston-Salem, Special. A con science striken man, in New Mexico has sent a letter to Mr. W. T. Baynes, a merchant here,' writing as follows: "Dear Sir: Please find enclosed 40 cents for some tobacco and watermel ons I stole from you several years ago, and , I ask your forgiveness for stealing them. You may ask why I am sending this money for, that pur pose, but the Bible commands me to straighten up our back, life, just as much as it does not to sin. So I send this 40 cents, hoping you will under stand it" The forty cents was enclosed and a man's name was signed. Mr. Baynes thinks he remembers the occasion of the petty theft He will send the man a receipt. v BUTTERICK'S GREAT LOSS. Paragraphs In the Financial World and the New York World show the Butterick Publishing Company has suffered a exeat loss since it hp?9n to fight the Typographical union. It ; steadily grows worse and its assets ' are not likely to . sell for much if the ? company fails. In 1906 and 1907 it i paid out in dividends over $219,000 more than it earned, and it is pre-j meted this year the showing will be still worse. . Even though it were now made a union establishment it is doubtful if it could be saved from financial disaster. 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 -business 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) and that 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 to" 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 this 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 noills 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 w paid for it, the difference at what we would sell it at then and 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 year "is not ex cepted.and why? Simply because .ev-r ery customer that 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 yearl We guarantee to save you ihoney 6n your purchases. Get your sale .price and come and see us. We will do the rest ' Yours for business, The Original Racket Store, A. V. SAPP, Prop. 318 South Elm Street " , WE WANT YOUR.; PATRONAGE. All kinds of China, Glass-ware, Tin ware and household necessities at reasonable prices. Hagan's China Store. DONT FORGET U8 WHEN YOU have to buy a wedding present. We sell cut giass, hammered brass, fan cy china, fancy lamps, etc.; at rea sonable prices. Hagan's China Store. Perhaps the true way to, do. good is not to make ' a conscious, effort to do it, but to have, a character - that will of itself do good. ' ; I An essential, feature, of a good road is good drainage. PRK01 SmoMhn neco io made" labor r.-.XSvbrsr bag Has tbe bluo label on it and is tho finoot smollo that cat bo pr odticeo! rerjardlooo of coot . ': - $Cn.001n!trc;t;afor$in.OQ J U LEARN AT HOME I U OomplAt lMtructlon doable ntr7 bookkMpbi4. bwibimiMp, baalBM tormm. Booka, nuttertal trt M ottMr outlay. Good podtioov wilting. Dp. U CWetflO BodlMtt Tnlniiiflf School, ChlM SEEDS Buckbee's "Full of lafe" Northern Grown Pedigreed Seeds have a reputation of 38 years of -successful seed growing behind them. It pays to plant the best. Seasonable Specialties: ' BBANS Earliest Red Valentine . . $30 Bushel Refugee Extra Early . . $3.25 Bushel New Stringless Green Pod . I3.70 Bushel Wardwell's Imp. Kidney Wax I4.50 Bushel Davis New White Wax . . I4.75 Bushel Currie's Rust Proof Wax . $4.50 Bushel PEAS Extra Early Alaska . . . 93.50 Bushel New Early Gradus .... $5.5 Bushel Horsford's Market Garden I3.50 Bushel Buckbee's Lightning Express $5.00 Bushel . Lettuce, Radish, Tomato and a full line of Seeds, Plants and Bulbs at lowest growing prices. Send for complete catalogue or submit a. list, of your requirements and willquote prices. Buy direct from the grower Save Money. ' - Write today. Mention this paper. H. W. BUCKBEE 1618 Buckbee St., Rockford Seed Farms, Rockford, IT. Pure Drugs These two words mean a great deal. v Purity . of . drugs and accu- racy of compounding are of the utmost importance when , it .is a. particular case, and you want to be absolutely sure. Come to us. Bet ter come here all the time. We appreciate your business and you are always welcome whether you buy or not. FARISS-KLUTZ DRUG CO. GREENSBORO, N C. OUR RALEIGH FRIENDS. Some firms who believe in . helping those who try to help themselves.. S Thos. A. Pari Company ui Eayeawnit st. Raleigh, N. C. The New Dry Goods Store.- r 7 ; t-A f, Ladies' Ftirniori- inl and Novelties Give uo a call. , T.B. raleighVn-c. ..... , :-. !: : - . 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