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i 1 - I - 1,1 I I I 1 I I L 1 V"' rf-j y "J 13 pi ' -' - ' -,- - - " - ';V. " -3- - fi!i AC rr ? ""tV'v"?? ,nt o i Ml ilv rnubif a I WU'Mv LABUK n EN up no ED- BY GREENSBORO TRADES COUNCIL. a- D O Jt FI'irlPwTI I . A"P A mm mm tmm mmx m mmm mm. m,m mm, m m, mm mm mm . . 1 . . 1 . T M J r 1 "i .,. i i lit. ii SsmmJ&rm .TP OTT THE PEOPLE'S CAU1BE., . The people's - cause, in spite - of all its foes, Is moving on,' ? ? Their night of pain is drawing to a close, ;.-.....: -m ?i Twutoon:;ie',gone:f:tr, I And with, the passing of the night will come .... .. . . ' A season of sweet rest, of perfect home. , H '. . The purple east is rosy with the "dawn Of coming life; The fatal glamor is at last withdrawn From toil and strife. . , .. And now,: for all, Hope- shoots its gleams afar, And love shines forth, a perfect guid ing Star. - We hail with joy, this last new birth of time, Tranquil and calm Peace, plenty, brotherhood in every clime Shed healing balm; And life, new life, pulsates through every vein, ' . . Justice and love o'er all the earth doth reign. G. J. Wardle, in London Railway Review. , . : WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? By the Rev. Charles Stelzle. It is not an ecclesiastical rite. To be baptized or to? attend a communion service is to some men the sum and substance of Christianity. ' Others have insisted that the Church repre sents all that there fs of Christianity. Unfortunately, while the church has been the instrument by which the truth has been proclaimed, it has not always been true to its own message. Others have said that religion is Christianity. A man may be very ro ligious, and yet. not be very much of a Christian. There is a great differ ence between Christianity and "Relig ion." Sometimes it is said that a man has become insane because he had too much religion. That may be true, but you never heard of a' man becom ing insane because he had too much Christianity. . What then is Christianity? There is a text in scripture which reads: "If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he Is none or His."' .Christian ity is a character and a life; the pos session and the manifestation of the spirit of Christ Some men have given! us distorted, pictures ot : that life, aid others loosing on, have said, "That' is Christianity." It is not the life of the monk. Some great and good men and. women have, secluded themselves from the sin of the world and the power of its temp tation by entering monasteries, but Christ, in praying for His disciples, said: "I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." The world needs its best men and ' women as forces for righteous ness. Neither is the Christian life the life of the stoic. The Puritans were noble characters, but for most io them this world was a howling wil derness. To them laughter and mirth were the signs of an unregenerated soul. Christ does not command that a man should shut his heart and his mind to the good and the beautiful things of the world the flowers and ferns, the rocks and rivers, the skies and the sunshine, the melody and music. Christ's life was a constant protest against the narrow spirit of the Puritan. The Christian life is not the life of the Pharisee. The Pharisee was a man who thought himself too good to mingle with ordinary men for fear of contamination. Christ had noth ing but words of condemnation for such men. The Christian life is not the dual life a double life. Sometimes men separate certain acts, and say of them, "this is my religious life;" and ofanother set of acts, "this is my sec ular life." Christ never made such a distinction. He taught that every act of a man's life is a part of his Christian life. It is no more of a religious duty for you to go to church on Sunday, than it is for you to go to the shop, or office, or store on Monday. One is Just as sacred a duty as the other. The life of the pieacher is nc more a "religious life" .than the life of the day laborer should be. They simply serve in different ways. Christianity is. not an ether 3al thing somewhere up In the sky. It has to do with the here and now. There is no more" practical thing in the world. What that life and that spirit is Christ has tbldf ih His i teach-r ings and in His own life upon earth. Here, then, is the test Qf every , man's Christianity "if any man have, not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His." FROM PHILADELPHIA. Editor Labor News: In answer to a series of questions, propounded by a prospective settler, an Eastern pa per gives a full report concerning the amount of government land still open for settlement. More than half of the seven hundred million still left are located in Alaska, mostly unsur veyed and inaccessible. Then from Nevada with its sixty-one million and Montana with its forty-six million, down to '- Nebraska and Minnesota with three million and 1,700,000 re spectively; much of it undesirable and unproductive. The same report says that in Oklahoma and Kansas nearly all of the land is taken up. This part of the report had the most interest to me. As Oklahoma is the newest state, let us take it for an example , of what la sane system of UW UWUO J.VS4 ULM state.. ' Suppose at the opening of this state foe 9 settlement the-1 government fbad discarded both the "ground rushVand lottery rsysteinrcif; aUottJng the land of tOklaon)aWd i instead cbad allow ed anyone who wanted to Bettle there to do so; providing, said settlers paid every year,' in form of tax, the. annual rental value of . the land. With ' this system in operation' It would noir.be impossible for the title holders"! of the choice spots ; (the more fertile land, the mineral land and the town lota) , to' ..hold . thenv, idle and unused 'forspeciflativepult The . land-, of -Oklahoma, before the "opening up" had no "economic value, but with- the present and prospective population it is reasonable to expect that it will have a great value ini a few years. Can any sound argument be advanced,- why this value should not be taken in the form of a tax for the benefit of fall of its citizens? OIJyER M'KNIGHT. . FIFTY THOUSAND INCHES OF PUBLICITY. Newspapers Give Greatest Aid In the War on Consumption. Consumption isj receiving nearly one-half mile of publicity a week, is the unique statement which the Na tional Association .for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis issues to day. According': tQ ! some recent sta tistics compiled by that body, the various newspapers of the United States printed articles concerning tuberculosis, which, when measured, amounted to over 50,000 column inch es of space in two; weeks. The investigation which the Na tional Association conducted includ ed all of the daily and weekly news papers throughout j the United States as well as some of the larger journals and magazines. In the two weeks which! were taken i as a standard, it was found that 51,557 column inches of space was devqted to the subject of tuberculosis.- If all of this mat ter was gathered! together at one time, it would "make a newspaper the ordinary size of $69 pages printed solid, without any advertisements, all" on the subject of tuberculosis. If it were arranegd in one long chain, It 'would make " a single 'column of matter four-fifths pf a mile long and two and one-quarter inches, wide. J. Among the numerous.: agencies rwhlcn are today' Idfnlng-ln the'lIghTF aeainst tuberculosis, such as the school, church andj labor unions, the press is in the foremost rank. Never before in the .history , of American journalism has thef press taken such a lively and continued interest in a subject pertaining to human, health. When it is considered that tubercu losis alone kills njearly 200,000 peo ple In the United States every year, and that there are at the present time at least 600,000 cases of this dis ease in the various mparts of the Uni ted States, a sufficient warrant for the activity of the i press is given. The following states are leading at the present time in the amount of publicity being given to tuberculosis: New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu setts, Connecticut, iNew Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, Texas ahd Illinois. How ever, there is not a! state in the union in which the press is' not devoting some space to the subject of tuber culosis. I Not only is the campaign being pro moted by the weekly and daily press but it has also been taken up by the various magazines, weekly story papers, trade journals, religious pa pers and others ofi a similar nature. Even the ioreign ! papers are inter ested. A bulletin Isent out recently by the National 1 Association was printed in five different languages. An instance of the readiness to co operate in the campaign against tu berculosis may be j. noted in the ex perience of one prominent weekly journal which devotes itself entirely to philanthropic and charitable sub jects. Seven years ago when this paper started to publish items on tubercu losis, a number of its readers consid ered it extremely bad pblicy, because of the' apparent indifference and re pugnance of the subject Today such articles are read eagerly and thor oughly. . The National Association declaras that consumption will never be wiped out until vhe prevalent ignorance con cerning this disease is overcome. To combat successfully this lack pf knowledge, immense -amounts of lit erature of various sorts are being dis tributed constantly.'; . Within a year's time, thousands of tons of leaflets, ag gregating over on?,, hundred vmillion pages are distributed by the various organizations engaged in the warfare against tuberculosis. But - .more than all of these individual agencies, the National Association believes that the press is the greatest means of educating the masses concerning this disease. If the present rate of in terest on the part of the world's news papers continues, ii is estimated that within a few yeark, every man, wo man and child in ;the United States will have learned the simple doctrine of tuberculosis. j The Perfect Man. There is. a man who never drinks, Nor smokes, nor jchews, nor swears, Who never gambles, never flirts, And shuns all sinful snares He's paralyzed! i There is a man who never does A thing that is not right; His wife can tell Just where he is At morning, noon and night1 -He's dead! f j Exchange. .CHIPS FROM ROHR.T('-f(,n It is difficult these days to pick up a , labor papec - without: 'noting' 'some thing to, the effect of patronizing the blue1 label of the CigaraakersUniori. In other rword3 those labor papers, are advertising; jthe business of the ; men whoemploy. union , labor, and rdo not receive one penny for doing so. Hpvt many ; other. crafts rare there who;ye ceive,thi same, free advertising,, and on the' other band, give a very'par simonioua support to their ; labor pa per. , It f J .would , appear .jthatuiioiv men are - willing,4 that labor papeik should - boost their n labels " and f their contentions f orr a -fair ..wage and fair hours, but when It ..comes to reciprc eating, - that Is another story. There is no r success like reel prosityjou help me, and HI help you. Again, it is like using one hand1 to wash ' the other; .one .hand cannot wash itself satisfactorily, but put two together, and give them a piece of soap (a live labor paper), and they - will make a clean job of it It should not be necessary to beg or ask a good, true blue union man to subscribe for a labor paper. It is a duty he owes to himself, his family and to posterity. Recently a deputy factory inspector secured admission to a cigar factory wherein a cigar by the name of "San Felice" was manufactured. When the inspector got through" with that rat concern and child-employing ' shop there was an aggregate of thirty eight convictions under the labor laws of Ohio, and an aggregate fine of $950 assessed against the concern. The convictions were had under violations of the hours of labor and the employ ment of children. If all users of to bacco cared at all for the lives of the little girls and boys, they would smoke nothing but blue labeled ci gars and tobacco. Men and women Would mjtee those cigars, and the little ones would be in the schools and enjoying the springtime of life. As it is, the people who traffic in the labor of children care nothing about anything but the making of money, and have no compunctions in rolling the lives of little children into the non-union products which they ask a beneficent, but all-too-easy public, to purchase. Discriminate against child and sweatshop labor by taking nothing but what bears the union label of the organised worker. W. J. Rohr, In Cincinnati Chronicle. WHO WANTS A JOB? "Rev." Boectker's contract as sec retary of the Citizen's Alliance, ex pires May 1st, and the "open shop" crew is casting about for a new secretary- The job pays $2,500 a year. To date, two men have been men tioned a young lawyer and a former business man, who has met financial reverses. Both are immensely popu lar, but certain trade unionists have warned them of what they were step ping into. Boectker has been retain ed, so far, because It was impossible to secure a competent man. At first glance, the position looks "good," but the applicants don't fancy the social ostracism that goes with the job, and the liability, also, that the "open shop pers" organization will fall to pieces, for the most enthusiastic will ac knowledge they are not as strong "aa they might be." The Citizen's Alliance Is thorough ly discredited. Every one knows its purpose. This can account for the quietness around its offices since the Laundry Workers' strike. It has lost its force in the com munity. Henceforth, it will be an insipid, lifeless employment bureau, and as business men realize its worth lessness, in view of the activity of the Chamber of Commerce, Business Men's Association and Transporta tion Club, the Citizen's Alliance will slowly lose strength, and silently fade away. Toledo Union "Advocate. "PROPERTY RIGHTS" . IN 1856. The instincts of money getting are the same the world over the same here as in ine most grinding despot ism of Europe. Money Is cold, self ish, heartless. It has no pulse of hu manity, no feelings of pity or of love. Interest, gain, accumulation are the sole instincts of its . nature, and it s. the same whether invested in manu facturing stock, bank stock or black stock of the South. Intent "on its own interest, It is utterly regardless of the rights of humanity. It would coin dividends out of the destruction of souls. It is here, sir, in these halls, in desperate conflict with the rights of humanity and free labor. It is struggling to clutch in its rino grasp the soil of the country. .Slavery must have a wider field or the money value of flesh and blood will deteriorate. Additional security and strength must be given to the holders of human stock. What, though humanity should shriek and wail. Money is insatiate capital i sdeaf to the voice of its pleadings. To bow down to this money power to do. its bidding to be its instru ment and its tool, is doubtless in the esteem of the gentleman (an oppo nent "from Illinois) to stand upon a "broad and national platform." Feeedom and humanity,, truth and justice, Is a platform too. narrow for his enlarged and comprehensive mind the universality of. slavery- can alone fill its capacious powers. Sir, the gentleman, no doubt, sees fanaticism in a . bold and fearless advocacy', of the right. . With some minds, nothing is rational and prac tical except that which pays welLr Speech Against Slavery in Halls of Congress by David Wllmot, July 24, 1856. THE AwAkENINQ 6f! THOUGHT. Whoever! 'laying ' aside Prejudice andtlself -interest, s ;-vlll - honestly : and carefully; , inake up his mind as to the -causes! and the care of the social erutvthat sarec so apparent, does,1 in thatythei most important thing in his pover toward their removal. ThtsierTTnited-rStates and i Canada. Cin- primary obligation -, devolves upon us individually as citizens .and as men; Whatever else We ' may be , "able V to do - this must come first, for if "the blind lead i the blind they both shall falLlnto the diteh ; Social reform ,1s not to be' secured by! noise and . shouting; by complaints and ..denunciations r by the formation of t parties, or the making of 'revolu tions; I f but . , by the ; awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. TJntil there be correct thought there cannot be right action, and' when there' is correct thought right action wHl.follbwi Power is always in the hands of the. masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted-selfishness, j The great Work for the present of I every man and every or ganization of men is the work of edu cation the; propagation of ideas. It is? only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work ev ery one who can think - may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact. Henry George, in Social Problems. WHAT SOME OF US ARE DOING. Cincinnati laborites have formed a Boy's. Union Label League. The kids are taught to boost the label. Cleveland has a union of moving (picture operators. The new union now has 108 members in good stand ing and is still growing. Initiation fee. has been raised to $10. That the strike of the telegraphers, which was called in August, 1907, was justifiable has been the finding o the : Department of Commerce and Labor in its report to the United States Senate; A year ago the union lathers of Cleveland voluntarily reduced wages $1 per day. Now it Is felt that busi ness will warrant a restoration of the, old wage scale, but last week about 40 were forced to strike to get it The Rochester (N. y.) Labor Tern nle Association is meetine with srnod result, . TTheIroriMdiders! ;unionotfUeN,f:2:i account - wattomitTi that city has subscribed for $1,000 worth of shares, the journeyman Tail ors' for $500 and the Paperhangers for $50. The Machinists' correspondent in the Cleveland Citizen had this to 'say last week: "During the past week we had more positions vacant than we had machinists to fill them, and it does look as though business in our line was getting better. We understand, however, that there are yet hundreds of non-union machinists walking the streets. In fact, we have had quite a number call on us and promise to join if we get them jobs, but we generally tell them to join first and we will talk job afterwards." Painters of New Jersey have in corporated the "Painters' National Home Association," which will found a home for sick, disabled and feeble members of the craft on the individ ual cottage or colony plan, in North Carolina, to get the help of an ideal climate. They will aim to make the institution self-supporting by engag ing in such work as the inmates of the "home" are able to accomplish. This action followed long and unsuc cessful attempts to have their na tional organization found a home. EMBLEM OF JUSTICE. The union label speaks an eloquent language. It tells of men's rights to the enjoyment of life's best blessings and how they may be obtained. It tells you that the goods you buy carrying the emblem were made in a union shop by union workmen, under union conditions. This is the mission of the label. It is up to union men and women 'to make it a glorious real ity. The label is beyond reach of the injunction; it cannot be adversely affected by any court decision; when you patronize It you do your part to wards solving the questions of black lists and boycotts. Keep in mind- that every dollar spent for an article made by non-union labor is helping to -deprive some union man or woman of employment. We urge our union people not to become indifferent in regard to the importance of boosting the label. Let every union man and woman be a label booster. The time has come when we must concentrate all our energies toward - increasing the power of the label. RICHARD BRAUNSCHWEIG DEAD. IS Last Tuesday the sad news reached this office that Richard Braunschweig Treasurer of the Amalgamated Wood workers' International Union, died suddenly in Reading, Pa. The news was truly sad, for a bet ter or more loyal fighter for the up lift of the toiler never lived. Brother Braunschweig never lost an oppor tunity to raise his voice in defense of the oppressed. He was firm in his convictions and fearless in express ing them. Kind and loving was his disposition, but in defending the prin ciples of trade unionism he was as ferocious as. a lion. "Dick," as he- was familiarly called, was some sixty years of age, and apparently in the best of health when the cold band of , death struck him. his body j was ; shipped to Chicago, where the officers of mated ; Woodworkers the Amalera- International Union .took, charge ofi it; . His remains were. cremated, r ;.j I v. "Brother Braunschweig's death wiir oe mourn ea Dy trades unionists in cinnati Chronicle. FRENCH WORKER8 CAUSE ' alarm! ' Press dispatches tell as that France is terror - stricken because , of r the ac? tivity of workers. . Only recently a move was, made- to unite 800,000 men, and for the first time the trades unions in stateowned industries and private concerns,'- have uniteu. Here; tofore, these two elements have been bitter opponents. This j friendly feel ing has resulted in tthe appointment of a secret committee, with power to call strikes. This move was advo cated to protect the active workers. Many of the delegates called on the workers to refuse to work or enlist In the army if war was declared. This refusal to stop bullets has caused the idlers and : plutocrats to howl In , horror at the . unpatriotic French, who are uttering strange sen timents about fraternity,, brotherhood and solidarity!.-" More than this, they are united for the, first time. SPECIAL LOW RATES VIA SOUTH- ERN RAILWAY. $19.45 Greensboro, ;N. C, to Louisville, Ky., and return on account Southern Electrical and Industrial Exposition. On sale April 11, 12, to 19, 20, 1909. . Final limit April 2o, 1909. $10.70 Greensboro,, N. C, to Wash ington, D. C-, and return on account of meeting of Daughters of American Revolution. On sale April 15, 16, 1909. Final limit April 28,. 1909. ' $9.30 Greensboro, N. C, to Charles ton, S. C, on account Omas Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. On sale April 21, 22. Final limit April 23, 1909. $3.85 Greensboro, N. C, to Char lotte, N. C, and return on account of Grand Lodge of North Carolina I. O. O. F. On sale May 8th to 11th inclusive. - Final limit May 17th,' 1909v $19.45 Greensboro, N. C, to Louisa ville, Ky., on account Southern Bap tist Convention. On sale May 10,-11,1 12, 13. Final limit May 22, 1909. Ex tension of limit may be secured by da positing ticket and; paying fee of $1.00. $5.95 Greensboro, N. i C;, to ; Ashe- P; A. .of America. On sale May 25, 29, 30, and morning train of 31st.Fi nal limit All : tickets good to leave Asheville from but not including date of sale. . $12.85 Greensboro, N. C, to At lanta, Ga., and return. Dates of sale June 19, 20. Final limit June 25th, 1909. Approximately low rates from all other points. For further information, Pullman reservations, etc., call on or address, W. H. M'GLAMERY, P. & T. A Greensboro, N. C. 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 xve 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 more than once at these so-called special sales, give you 9 cents worth 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 we 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 th6 same way. There's not a line that 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 that we have 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 IMPROVED ORDER RED MEN. Minneota Tribe, No. 52. Bevill Building, North Elm Street Meets every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m.f 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. in. ' , Degree .of Pocahontas. Washita, No. 8, Revolution Mills. x f : Meets every Saturday' evening' 8 -pi m., from r April to October;: October ? to April, 7:30 p. m. OFFICERS STATE FEDERATION OF r : xomj- labor, v sPresIdenLqELfsSiCheek, Raleigh, N. C - "---.. - ' Sewetary-TreaauTerSamuel ft wal- droPi -AsheYllle. scjiiocr x-. : . Second . .VIBresident-r3JkLThamp-son, Asheville. , . Third,, . Vice-president Beverly Moore Rocky v Mount " A . Fourth ' Vice-President H. G Har rington; Raleigh. f ,FifthrVce-Prefident--K. R. Thomp son, High Point' w w v" v SizthcTice-Presideni--R. : RT Wyrick, Greensboro. vM-n mi-' Seventh Vice-President J. D7 Nash, Asheville." " J Eighth' Vice-President W.s y8. Brad ford High Point.? .i Bomhs&oQ aife Ninth Vice-President Samuel Pate man. Granite Quarry: 1 E. S CheefciRligh. W. C Framc-rAsheville. Jno. C. Benson, Greensboro. ' M. C. Reaves, Winston-Salem. W. H. Singleton, Raleigh. V UNION MN.i . fj- Patronize the merchants who adYertlsefa 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 firp in this city that could stand out openly and say it did not care for the workingmen's 'trade, but names could be mentioned of bus- ness men who have nothing but hard words to nand ia 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 NEWSadvertisers; with as good treatment thrown in,J ; as from any i or. all : others combined. Patronize Home , Industry. ) : z, PatronizeQu.rlAdyertisers' ' Help your Friends., '- -Get Union Label Qoods. ' : ;i Jmi. Smoldng Tobaecc io made lay oRillod union labor. Every bag lias tho blue labol on it and is the niieot smoKe tbat can. bo produced r of cost;. 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