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A" 1 .J ORGAN OF-THE STATE FEDERATION OfJlABOF." fllftDbRSED BY GREEriSBORO.TRAQES nnilHr.il MOTTO: ORGANIZATION, EDUCATION AND ELEVATION. VOIi, TV. GBEBKSBOHO, 2. C., FBIDAlT, APREL 1909. NUMBER 40. 11 JJJ U E-i J A r 0 ) m ; i : . ; r: ni .:; VJ : - -. ; I THE BUCK STOVE AND RANGE CO Norman D. Lippincott. Ever since that famous decision, We have been compelled to desist From printing the name of that corn- pay In our "We don't patronize list." And now one Justice Robert decides Our comment may be iree, So long as our "We don't patronize list" Omits that company. We can say how much we love it And its owner, one Van Cleave; Oh! how we'll boost and shove it, And our feelings we'll relieve. Small favors received thankfully But we are sorry that you've missed The Buck Stove and Range Co. In our "We don't patronize list." THE UNION LABEL. Norman D. Lippincott. The employes of a certain Eastern manufacturer, who was "running an open shop, made a demand for a closed shop agreement. The manu facturer considered their demands f6r a while and then offered to run his factory on all union lines, provided the men, were abiding by union rules themselves. This looked like an easy victory until he went up to a number of delegates and commenced examin ing their clothing, hats and the con tents of their pockets in search of the union label on the merchandise they bought. It took those employes over two months to meet their end of his perfectly fair proposition. From the highest officials of organized labor down to the local treasurer who pays hall rent there Is a continual demand for money to meet expenses. There is never sufficient money on hand to carry on the work mapped out. This is the history of every organization working for the benefit of the many. Yet there is one enormous fund which the unions control that is today ap plied only in part to further the union cause. It is safe to say that the av erage union wages in fair times would be $60 per month or $720 per year. There are over 2,000,000 organized la borers in this country.' Here is a fund of $1,500,000,000, which could be easi ly applied to the union cause by the simple demanding of the union label on all goods purchased. No decision of a corporation Supreme court could affect its application., to this purpose. It would beat a , hunger strike in a Russian nrison all hollow as a means of advancing your cause, and you would not have to go hungry, but the dealer might. If a small part of the members of each union local showed half the de votion, fortitude and heroism which those suffragettes in London are showing today, we would not read of enforced wage reductions through the country. The union label is the strongest, simplest weapon you have, and its use requires no particular ability. Read this article to your wife. FROM PHILADELPHIA. To Editor of Labor News: For years I have been interested in the question of the unemployed and the relation it bears upon the treat ment of land. I have collected some information that I think is of im mense interest, "but in order that my - fn.- j-iTr TTTIO-W T"i C 11 f- fer about the amount of food that can be produced on a small portion of land, I will select the most conserva-1 tive statement I can find and use it Mr. A. R. Sennett in "Garden Cities in Theory and Practice" after show ing results of what can be accom plished by scientific cultivation, then, in order to show our wasteful and ex travagant methods, says that "it takes two acres of ground as at present cul tivated to feed each one of the peo ple of America with grain and vege table products." J'aking his figures as correct, does not show an intense relationship between the question of the unem ployed and idle land? If we consider that each man, woman and child in the United States could get their two acres in apiece in the State of Texas (which is 166,000,000 acres) leaving the rest of the country to furnish clothing, fuel and shelter. In our daily papers we read of starving parents "stealing" milk for starving babies off the doorsteps of their more fortunate neighbors, of de tectives and policemen after investi gating a "criminal's" record making up purses from their own funds to supply the families of these "thieves" with necessities of case after case of suicide from poverty or the fear of poverty; and all this in a land where one corner of it could supply the en tire population with food in abund ance. How unjust and unwise has been our treatment of God's gift to all, when it is possible- to see in all our large cities "bread lines," soup so cieties, public and private charities, etc. organized, not for the relief of the poor unfortunates, but for the re lief, of strong, able and willing men deprived from working on that source which only requires the labor of men to supply all their needs. Let the reader of this get his mind to work on this relationship of idle men and idle land and not put it aside with the remark that "these People will not go on the land." This remark which is often made we know to be untrue. Whenever land is thrown open to use, whether it be an Indian reservation,, vacant lots in our , cities or amid the ice and snow of ..a -Klondike, people will and do go upon it. Oliver Mcknight. ouuiALiSM AND THE CHURCH. wnere the Church Stands Bv the Rev. Charles Stelzle. t., . J . . While the church cannot accept and ftdvnoftto cni q 1 tam ioa n"" " j?irsi, mat a man nas a perieci vinced aat sociaUBm is morally and economically souna. a tvioti rv HA o PhHati.n o 41 XZ " r:r"""r" rrrr; socialism which are not antagonistic to Christianity although it should be remembered that there is no neces sary relationship between the. two one being an economic system "and the other a religion. Third, the church does not stand for the present economic system. It stands only for so much of it as is in accordance with the principles laid down by Jesus Christ The economic system under which we are living Is not iaeai. xnere is mucn in it wnicn must be remedied, and good men everywnere must seek to bring about a xairer conamon in Denan ot tne toners. 1 nis win never De accom- plished by soup kitchens and bread jines. worangmen demand justice and they are right. t ourtn, tne cnurch does not preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to maKe men satisnea; witn tneir present economic condition, nor because they desire to oner it as a mere sop. it aues nut preacu tuis gospei, ieanui J J. 1 -A-1 3 1 f 1 1 lest; workingmen are about to bring a great revolution; but it preaches the same gospel with all of its hopes ana aspirations as wen as us amies and obligations to workingmen and employers auKe. While the church may not be able to introduce the program of the so- ciansts, it surely must seeK to ODtain tor tne workers many tnings ior wnicn socialism is contending; dui each must labor in; its own field and in its own way, respecting one anoth- er and giving each the credit of be- ing sincere, remembering that neith- er has the right to lampoon the other because it does not accept its pro- gram. As a matter of fact, the church has as much rignt to insist that the socialist shall come into the fhnrnh and nent Its nroeram as the socialist has to insist that the church 0 I member shall come' into the ranks of socialism and introduce all of its doc- trines. The time will come when men 1 will enter the labors movement in the I same spirit and. with.. the .same devo- tion that others today" enter tne wotk of the Christian ministry. Some of I these will come from the ranks of I socialism and some from the church, but only those will build upon a per- manent foundation wno bund upon the foundation laid by Jesus Christ and the prophets. SOME GREAT FALLACIES AND WHAT THEY HAVE COST US. . "The farmer, the common laborer of any sort needs no training. Edu- cate him and youi spoil him. The poorer you keep him, the richer will be the upper class." These have been our great pet fallacies. And a long time have they been preached. Hugging the vampire delusion, the Southern plantation; owner has seen vast areas abandoned to broomsedge and guillies, in spite of the fact that them productive a ithousand years. v,; v.. foUi A-wtTa, tha I merchant has sold Western meat and scooters and tobacco, when with pros perous patrons he might have quad rupled his profits . by selling sulky plows and harvesters and carriages and pianos. Deluded by this fallacy, the states man has struggled against fate, only to die and be forgotten by people too nnnrlv educated to I read his biogra phy, and too poor in- property to build a monument to his memory while smaller and meaner' men in sections unshackled bv these ancient errors, re famed in son ir and storv. Writing editorials ! in support of the aristocratic instead pf the democratic theorv of industry. 1 the editor has sen his natent-outslde weekly fail of support when a properly trained and notai Tor.niQ wnhiri have hrons-ht him wraith as the head of a nrosDer- ons dailv FiP-htine- nnhlic taxation for better schools and other methods of train- incr qt1h nrichinr the averasre man. vonr manufacturer has ' struggled along with a small 1 business when a nrncmmnc averac-eiman would have 0 oroor inHiUta-ifl Hire those in the North and West. Still areuing that1 education and trair.ir.o- would snoii Ithe workine man. and that "cheap labor" is what we need, your banker has complained that the South offers no opportunities for the great financier, forgetting that .viooti iinm-osneronis labor means -w ravoHXr. for better schools, the railroad, hauling cotton ir, v.o fQn and low-frrade fertilizers in the spring, have ifought passenger rate reduction as a life and deatn mat or when a well-trained neoDle would sunnly the vdrious traffic and the heavy dividends lof the other sec- tions. : I Your lawyer, doctor, preacher, teacher each falling; in line with the ' ancient heresy, has apaid the penalty . in diminished salaries, diminished in nuence. Victims of the vicious teachings I am pointing out, your - men of talent artist, sculptor, poet, oratoir have t o often fled to other sections, or else have died with ivision unfulfilled among a people untrained, to appre ciate .their, genius-r-when but ...for these things you might see! statues of South ern leaders in every Southern city, I the work of Southern artists in the world's greatest galleries, the thought 01 soutnern poets the common heritage of mankind. It Is not that I we have had no mighty dreamers: it 1 , T? L ' "" uegiuusa graves trampled under foot by war, and tsiw 1. ESSiJj2R Pn,p vr x Qu. ' I ouuulci ai 111 VTiV zette before the Southern Commer- cial Congress, Washington, D. C. FOR CHILD LABOR LAWS. Southern Conference Makes Imoor- tant Recommendations. The Southern child labor confer ence In New Orleans adopted a reso lution on March 30 embodviner a nnm ber of important recommendations fnr legislation in the South. The follow- ine are the recommendations, in sub- stance "The employment in factories of no child under the age of fourteen years : i the employment in a mine or quarry of no child under the age of sixteen years: the employment of no child under sixteen years in anv gainful oc- cupation except agricultural and do- mestic service, unless such child can I read and write simple sentences in the English language: that no bovun der sixteen nor girl under eighteen years, excent in agricultural' or do. mestic service, be emnloved between the hours of 7 p. m. and 6 a. m.. an eight-hour day law for children under sixteen and for all women: employ- ment under the certificate nlan: the employment by the state of proper officials for the inspection of "all mines and factories, with the nower to Dros- ecute violations ; thorough sanitary and safety regulations Oliver R. Tivelov. of New YnrV general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, addressed the conference. He declared that the South wants capital, but that capital must conform to reasonable statutes for the guarding of the welfare of children f RESTORATION TO THE PEOPLE. wiauou. xes, uiat is ui ngm Tl A. A-1 XT XI 2. 1 11 word. You confiscate what lawfully and rightfully belongs to a man; but wben you take back and give to the rightful owner what he has . been .wrongfully deprived . of-you call J Txestorauon. Let us lay down another proposi tion : One generation has no right, under the higher law of eminent do- mam, to sell or give away public irancnises or natural resources wnicn of natural right belong to the succeed ing generation. Under our present system, the mines, water powers and other natur al sources of wealth have nearly all been taken up by a few men, and they are withheld from the people. These are all unlawful holdings and should e a once restored to the people. And if this were done, there would then be no more need for taxation, because the income from nature's treasury would be sufficient to meet all the financial requirement of government If socialism would take up and em phasize this one point, without threat ening to revolutionize our entire eco- r"";aTS we win di ways have nabobs and serfs so long as any set of men are al lowed to appropriate to themselves the rich gifts which Nature has pro vided for all her children. Industrial Era. FIFTY CENTS A DOZEN FOR MAK ING MEN'S TROUSERS. A dispatch from London, England, says during the last week Parliament discussed the sweating evil, which af fects a number of important trades, though chiefly the making of clothing The earnings of many thousands of women engageo. m tne ciotning traae are ior tne most part pmaDiy smaii For making a dozen, pairs of men's trousers the maximum price paid to a sweatshop worker in London is 50 cents, and in the provincial cities it is less. By the utmost exertions one of these workers cannot earn more than $2.50 a week, and half of this is usu- ally devoured at once by the landlord The government's bill for the relief of the sweated workers aims to raise the standard of wages, "and for this purpose proyides for the establish- ment of trades boards, but exactly how these bodies are to operate does not yet appear. The Unionists en deavored to raise an alarm over the supposed prospect of foreign sweated goods being dumped on the English market at dangerously low prices if the home standard of wages was I raised. They prepared an amend- ment- to exclude foreign sweated goods, but the government refused to countenance its incorporation in the bill, and upon a division It was re- jectea A GRUESOME LIST. Only a few weeks ago three hun dred miners were killed in an explo- sion at Marianna, Pa. A few days later fifty miners lost their lives in Bluefield, W. Va Two weeks later, on January 12, a second catastrophe was reported from Bluefield, W. Va., in the same mine, where nearly one hundred workmen were killed. Now comes the news about another horrible explosion in the Leiter mine at Zeigler, 111., with 26 men killed. It was on April 5, 1908, eight months ago, when fifty-one miners lost their lives) in ; the - same Leiter amines in Zeigler. ?V';new8 of labor. Indianapolis, Ind. The following national officers of the United Broth erhood of Carpenters and Joiners have, been elected: President, Wil liam '"''D. Huber; general secretary, Frirak Duffy ; general treasurer, Thos. Neale'all of Indianapolis. 'v. Winnipeg, Man. It is announced here .that the Canadian Pacific Rail war t will spend $30,00,000 in con sttuction work this year on its west ern line. Second Vice President Whyte will leave this week for-Mon treJaJrto present the proposition to the executive committee of the company, Minneapolis, Minn. Stationary fire men of Minneapolis and St.- Paul are discussing a proposed state license law for firemen, along the same lines as I the law controlling the stationary engineers and the St. Paul union, at its last meeting, unanimously indors ed'the proposed law. 'Grafton, W: Va. The Tygart Val ley ..Glass Company's plant, which closed a few days ago, throwing 200 out of employment, resumed opera tions. The breach between operators anJ employes has been temporarily healed and the plant will resume as an "open shop." New York. A large percentage of the members of the Photo-Engravers' International Union is afflicted with tuberculosis, and the international in tends to establish five sanitariums for their care in various sections of the country. Denver, Col. The . strike of the shop men of the Denver & Rio Grande system, which has been In effect since last March, was declared off. About 1,200 men resumed work. The settle ment was a compromise. Toronto, Canada. The chefs of this city have cooks and decided to send for an A. P. of L. charter to Washington, so that they may become part of the great army of labor. Boston. Boston central labor un ion again went on record as irrevoca bly - opposed to the substitution of contract work for day labor in any city, state or national department. A SEVERE CRITICISM. The militia of the State of Pennsyl vania made a record while participat ing in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington, D. C. The National Guardsmen of the Keystone State in showing their devotion and loyalty lt4Jjjajpreservation ot "law - and-or- der looted lunch rooms, appropri ated the contents of cash registers and even burglarized private resi dences. A few of the citizens of Washington are now preparing bills for damages against the State of Pennsylvania. The lawless ruffians who perpetrated the outrages in the city of Washington are samples of the uniformed thugs who are usually used by employers to crush labor when striking against the despotism of exploiters. Miners' Magazine. Labor's Weapons. The strike and boycott are not new weapons of warfare. They have been in use since a very early day. Says a writer : "Neither of these was made by the union at its own forge. In some essen tial particulars the exodus of the peo ple of Egypt was a strike. It was an industrial revolution of the working men of a great nation. They stopped work and betook themselves out of the land, to the consternation of the capitalists. A similar foreshadowing of modern manners is to be found in the Book of Judges in the agreement of the tribes to have no dealings with the sons of Benjamin. They boycot ted the Benjaminites. That is, the strike and the boycott are imple ments of warfare which are common to human nature, and are as ancient as hands and feet." DEMANDS THE UNION LABEL. If the present Mayor of Dayton, O., ever had any sympathy with the Van Cleavites, he has undergone a change of mind. News comes from the city, which has been known as the head quarters and fountain head of the Citizens' Alliance, that the Mayor has given emphatic orders to place the union label on the official letterheads of his office. And this right in the bailiwick of Marshall Cushing and other rabid Van Cleavites, too! Eas ton Journal. FIFTY YEARS A CARD MAN. Mr. W. A. Roberts, of the G. P. O., celebrated his 71st birthday last Wed nesday. Incidentally the day was tne anniversary of his oath of allegiance to the Typographical Union, having carried a card for 50 years. For a number, of years he has worked on the night force at the G. P. O., and he can turn out a good day's work in spite of the three score and ten years that he has been coming down the line. May he live to be a hundred. He's a gran a old man. Trades Un- onist, Washington, D. C. HANG IT ALL. The village carpenter had given so generously of his services and sound advice toward rebuilding the school that when it was completed the vil lagers agreed that he should be ask ed to speak after the luncheon which was to follow the opening service. The day and the carpenter's speech came. "Ladies and- gentlemen; dear friends." he began, his brown face very red indeed, "I am a great deal better fitted for the scaffold than ior public speaking." . Then he realized what he had said, and sat down, amid roars 'of laughter. London Telegraph. THEORY PROVED TO BE WRONG. The visiting parson was handling convict 99 consolation in small chunks. "You should not complain, my mis guided friend," he said, "it is better to take things as you find them." "Yer on the wrong track, parson," replied the prisoner. "It was practic ing that theory that got me nabbed." Stray Stories. WOMAN'S WIT. Wife For mercy's sake, if you must smoke, smoke cigars, and not tnat norrid pipe. Husband I smoke a pipe for the sane or economy. "Do you smoke a pipe In your of fice?" "No-o, I smoke cigars there." "Well, you smoke your pine there. and tell the firm it's for the sake of economy. They'll soon raise your sal ary." New York Weekly. HE GOT NONE. "What's a pun, father?" A pun, my son, is a play upon words. There are three kinds of puns: good ones, which you laugh at: indif ferent ones, which you take no notice t J 1 J mum ui, anu Daa ones, wnicn maKe you tnrow something at the punster." "Can't you make a pun, father?" Of course, my son! Now, you're thinking about your supper, aren't you?" "Yes, father." ((TIT-1 T i.1 a . . w en, mat s-upper-most in your mind at the present time. That, you see, is a play on Here, you young rascal, wbat did you throw that book at me for?" Philadelphia Inquirer. ROOSEVELT A SCRAPPER. Four grimy urchins sat on the street curb eulogizing President Roosevelt. "Say, dat guy Roosevelt '11 fight at d drop of de hat!" declared one youngster with widened eyes. "I read in de paper only last week where he bit a man's ear off!" None of the others had read that, however, and they eagerly requested the speaker to give the details. "It was like dis, accordin' to de pa per, explained he. "Durin' a discus sion in de White House over a meas ure de President was in favor of, one of de party started to say somethin'. against it, when de President quietly leaned over and got dis guys ear!" The Circle , Magazine. . Ben Billings was a printerman Whom striks threw out of work. As farm hand he engaged himself, For never did he shirk. 1 One morning, handing him some eggs, The farmer said to Ben, Just take these to the barnyard, please, And set the old black hen." Ben beamed at that familiar word, To printer phrase still wedded. With absent mind he paused to ask, "Set solid, sir, or leaded?" May Lowe, in American Printer. WHY LOSE MONEY? Why do you not, when you have a hard-earned dollar to spend, go where you can feel satisfied that you get the full value of that coin? If we were to use this whole page we couldn't illustrate and describe the real down good bargains which we have for you, and goods that we can absolutely save you money on and are saving our customers money on every day. We don't run any skin games (and right here we would like to know if you haven't been skinned lore than once at these so-called special sales, give you 9 cents worlh of nothing to skin you out of a dol lar and a quarter on something else) We have just opened one thousand dollars' worth of sample shoes. These e sell at 30 per cent, discount. These are real bargains. We took the entire lot of odds and ends in children's clothing and men's "cheap pants from one factory. These are real bargains, and it's all the way through our entire .stock" the same way. mere s not a line tnat we carry (and we carry almost every thing) that we can't save you money on. We have by far the greatest and cheapest line .of goods thatwj&Xtiave ever shown and you are standing in your own light if you do not at once decide to make our store headquar ters for your buying this year. Its only a pleasure to us to show you, so come and see. Yours for business, , The Original Racket Store, A, V. SAPP, Prop. 318 South. Elm Street, "'Looking unto Jesus is the secret of strength." "Looking unto Jesus" then, let us go forth to take our part in the work of building, and in the work of gathering. And though we shall have to hand on the work un finished to our successors, yet, if we have done . our part faithfully, we shall hear, at the end of our journey; the. Master's "Well done, good and faithful -servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. J. F, Wlnnlngton- Ingram. IMPROVED ORDER RED MEN. Minneota Tribe, No. 52. Bevill Building, North Elm Street. Meets every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m., from April to October; October to April, 7:30 p. m. Eno Tribe, No. 61. Graded, School Building Revolution Mills. Meets every Thursday even ing 8 p. m., from April to October; October to April, 7:30 p..m. Degree of Pocahontas. Washita, No. 8, Revolution Mills. Meets every Saturday evening 8 p. m., from April to October; October to April, 7:30 p. m. AMERICAN FEDERATION OFFICERS. President Samuel Compere. James Duncan First V.-president. ' John Mitchell Second V.-Frestdent. James O' Conn ell Third V. -President. Max Morris Fourth V. -President. Dennis A. Hayes Fifth V.-Presldent. Wm. D. Hubert-Seventh V.-Presldent. Jss. H. Valentine Eighth V. -President. Jshn B. Lennon Treasurer. Frar Morrison Secretary. UNION MEN. .: Patronize the merchants who advertise in your paper. THE LABOR NEWS is appreciated by merchants who are in sympathy with the workers' cause, or who look for the business of the wage earner, and they use its advertis ing columns. There is hardly; a firm in this city that could stand out openly and say it did not care for the workingraen's trade, but names could be mentioned of bus- mess men who have nothing but hard words to nand in return for a generous patronage. Stand by the business men who stand by you. You can purchase as cheap ly and advantageously from THE LABOR NEWS' advertisers, with as good treatment thrown in, as irom any or all others combined. Patronize Home Industry. Patronize our Advertisers. Help your Friends. Get Union Label Goods. Pride o f Rddsville Smoking Tobacec is made by a Killed union labor. Every bag has the blue label on it and is the finest smoKe that can bo produced regardless of cost . 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