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VOIi. IV.
GrBBBNSBORO JSTC;, FBIDaI,, 1909.
. .... NUMBER 4.
3: .
PvAi''u IPX TO TVT IH7
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AMERICAN FEDERATION OFFICERS.
president78wnuel- qompers. r,:
James Duncao-S-Ftrpt .-Preaident.
John Mitchell Second V.-Presldent.
jamea ; p,ConneH--Thlrd V.-Prealdent.
Max Morris-rPourth. V.-Preldent.
Dennis .A. Hayes Fifth V.-Presldent 1
Wm. J. Hubor-Seyenth V. -President.:.
Jos. H. Valentine Eighth V.-Presldent.
John B. Lennon Treasurer.
Frar. lorriaon Secretary.
OFFICERS STATE FEDERATION OF
LABOR.
President, B. . S. Cheek, Raleigh, 'n.
c. ; ' '
Secretary - Treasurer Samuel Wal
drop, Ashevllle.
Second Vice-President C.M.Thomp
son, Asheville.
Third Vice-President- Beverly
Moore, . Rocky -Mount, a
Fourth Vice-President H. Q. Har
rington, Raleigh. aiA:- to i
Fifth Vice-President K- R. Thomp
son, High Point. f ; ? s n n - H
Sixth Vice-President R. R. "JVyrick,
Greensboro.
Seventh Vice-President J. D. Nash,
Asheville. ' ; , 4
Eighth Vice-President W. S Brad
ford, High Point
Ninth Vice-President Samuel Pate
rcaD, Granite .Quarry. ' !
Executive Board.
E. S. Cheek, Raleigh. .
W. C. Frank, Asheville.
Jno. C. Benson, Greensboro.
M. C. Reayes, Winston-Salem.
W. H. Singleton. Raleigh.
LOCAL UNI0N8.
Greensboro Trade Council Jno. C.
Benson, president; Vernon P. McRary,
secretary.
Iron Moulders R. R. Wyrick, pres
ident; C. L. Shaw, secretary. Meets
second and fourth Wednesday nights
in each month.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners No. 1432 J. W. Causey,
president.
Typographical Union, No. 397 J.
T. Perkins, president; J. S. Pender,
secretary. Meets 1st Sunday, in each
month at 3.30 p. m., in the Be v ill
building.
Aitooidt.n of Machinists A. J.
Crawford .president; John M. Glass,
secretary; R. M. Holt, recording sec
retary. Meets every Tuesday Titght
in hall over , Hennessee's lunch room.
Tar Heel Lodge, Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen Meets every
Wednesday night In Odd Fellows Hall
on Fayetteville street. W. O. Reit
zel, Master; J. G. Whitehart, secre
tary; J. T. Lashley, financier.
$5.95 Greensboro, N. C, to Ashe
ville, N. C, on accqunt Actional T.
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.
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
t& 'know if you haven't been skinned
more than once at these so-called
special sales, give ypu 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.1 ' " These are
real bargains, and it's, all the way
through our entire stock the 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 dp 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:
levi McMillan & co.
F.I.N.E :-; S.RO.E.S
Wilmmgtdni "N. C
Phono 605.
II 1 ' ' 1 1 ' ' .
Official Organ of. the State Federation
. .. Published by
The Labor News Publishing Company.
A. J. WILLIAMS,
Editor!
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The. Labor News is not responsible for the views
? pressed by its correspondents.
agreed to pay the wagescale 4- Typographical
UnioiiNdl; 594 atfd?will l(iereafter operate under
union conditions. ; Tjus company publishes' the
Reliable Poultry Journal; and in consequence
that publication is now, pn' the fair: list. ;.
Governor Harmon, oi Ohio, -has 1 appointed
Charles H: Wirmel to tKe position' of state com
missioner of labor, ' made ' vacant by the death
of William T. Lewis. , I'he new appointee is a
member of : the Steam ;;Engineers, . Cincinnati,
and is a factor in the Central Labor Union in
his home city. "The two' 'Other prominent appli
cants were James .ileynolds, union machinist,
Cleveland, and George jBayage, state secretary
of the United Mine Workers.
centered as second-class matter May 27, 1905, at
ie postoffice at Greensboro, N. C, under act of
'ongress of March 3, 1897.
UNIONg)rABEL
EDITORIAL NOTES.
There are as many fools among the learned
as among, the ignorant.
The more a man learns of the ways of the
world, the tighter he grips his bank roll.
Other Washington papers are so bright that
it is a wonder the Congressional Record does
not speed up a little.
When it is all over but the shouting, there
are those in the audience who do not appreci
ate that form of noise.
Cheer up! The national deficit up to yet
is only $89,429,501. And why worry when we
can always borrow money ?
At.t, the large painting firms at St. Paul have
agreed to the new wage scale and the painters
are happy over their victory.
France will charge German aeronauts $100
each for landing on French soil. Some will
save the money if they only land hard enough.
A Gotham magistrate has decided that it is
no crime to tickle another, which illustrates
what grave questions of law modern life is
continually bringing up for adjudication.
The Allied Printing Trades Council of St.
Louis is going to have an official magazine. It
will be called the Printing Trades Magazine,
and will be devoted to the interests of the Al
lied Printing Trades Council of St. Louis and
vicinity.
Harrisburg, Pa., was selected as the place
of holding the 1911 biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at their
convention which closed in Columbus, O., last
Wednesday. The vote stood: Harrisburg,
289 ; Toledo, 233 ; Columbus, 80 ; San Antonio,
37; Chicago, 35.
State Labor Commissioner L'ee Johnson, of
Kansas, says that labor has fared well at the
hands of the Kansas legislature this winter.
Eleven laws asked by organized labor were en
acted, and a number of bills containing provis
ions detrimental to labor and opposed by the
State Federation of Labor's legislative commit
tee were defeated.
, Dr. Eliot, of Harvard," the recently retired
president, is about to become the beneficiary of
a "shake-purse." He held a rattling good job
for forty years at a salary per year that would
look like a fortune to the average $3-a-day
mechanic, and in his old age finds himself in
a position that appeals. to the charity of his
friends. It is now proposed to raise a fund of
$150,000 to tide him over. Shame! Labor
Times-Herald.
Victims of mail order houses are losers, no
matter at what price they buy their goods. Ex
cited by promises of "cheapness" (never ful
filled as to quality) they are continually pur
chasing articles they do not need and which
give them neither pleasure nor comfort.
Presidnt Gompers, of the American Feder
ation of Labor, will attend the next' session of
the British Trades Union Congress, to be held
next spring, and he has been, instructed to in
vestigate th'e workings of the English law, call-
ed the jiingiisn xraaes cuspuie act, uesigxieu xux
the protection of the funds of the unions. This
he will do with a view to securing material on
which to base a prpposed law to protect the
funds of American bunions. :' . . '
McMein Printing Company, one of the-largest
book fand job plants in Quincy, HI. has
Seventeen of the -twenty-two factories
against which the United Hatters of Korth
America have maintained a strike for five
months Tuesday signed d bill of settlement with
the executive board ; of ' the union which ends
the strike in all factories throughout Connecti
cut, Massachusetts and New .Jersey which; were
affected. They will resume work Thursday
morning. In Danbury alone -2,500 men and
1,000 women are affected.
Suffrage is now the teal iad with Philadel
phia women of clubdom. They are banding to
gether to fight for the right to vote. The most
recently organized bod$ is the Pennsylvania
Limited Suffrage League, headed by Mrs. Jas.
D. Windsor, of. Haverford; Mrs. Joseph P.
Mumford and Mrs. John B. Oakley. This
league differs from the half rdozen or so societies
working for woman suffrage in the city in that
they want the ballot only for those women
whose moral and educational standing in the
community is unquestionable.
Don't kick because you have to button your
wife's waist. Be glad your wife has a waist,
and doubly glad you have a wife to button a
waist for. Some men's wives' waists have no
buttons. on to button. Some men's wives who
have no waists with buttons on to button don't
care a continental whether they are buttoned
or not. Some men don't have any wives with
waists with buttons on toi button any more than
a rabbit. And then there are men who would
much rather button the buttons on a button
less waist of some other man's but what's the
use ? You may have been there. Ex.
r1
The Hon. Leon Brandt was chosen to act as
master of ceremonies and turn on the large
250 ampere switch at Lindley Park Monday
night, and after an address appropriate to the
occasion, the park was officially opened to the
public. It is estimated that the park will be
illuminated with light amounting to about 80,
000 candle power and the Public Service Com
pany will use one of their large engines for
park lighting only. Expert electricians in and
about Greensboro state that it is the greatest
amount of light ever controlled by one switch,
and Mr. Andrews, the superintendent of light
ing, is to be highly complimented on his clever
piece of engineering.
Mark Hanna's daughter, Ruth, now Mrs. J
Medill McCormick, was a delegate to the na
tional convention of the Club Women in Bos
ton recently. She said in her, address that the
daughter of a prominent manufacturer, who
had dealt for twenty years with the union, paid
highest wages, and gave the eight-hour day,
saw where he could and. ought to do more for
his employes. She visited other factories and
invited an expert from the National Civic Fed
eration to make helpful suggestions, which were
carried out. This illustrates how false is the
cry about exorbitant demands of labor; they
have moved slowly and often give the employ
er 's side more consideration than their own.
It is reported that trouble is brewing in the
Longshoremen 's International Union as a re
sult of the selection of D. J. Keefe, now Com
missioner General of Immigration, formerly
president of the Longshoremen, as a represen
tative at the international Convention to be held
at Galveston. , While Keefe is, a member in
good standing of Local Union- No.- 1, of; De
troit, and his selection as delegate is' said to
have been practically unimimpfts,'1 jt ; is 'aHtici
pated that vigorous opposition to hi& taking his
seat as a delegate will be shown -at the ; con
vention. The opposition 1 to Keefe's serving as
a delegate is based upon a constftutibnal pro
vision which requires that all delegates shall
be actively engaged at the business. ;
It is a pleasure to call attention to the adver
tisement of the North Carolina College of Ag
riculture and Mechanics Arts;'1 TCe state great
ly needs industrially trained men, and the col
lege is rapidly helping to supply this need. Its
graduates are busy and successful in many
lines. Many of our farms show.. the,,practical
value of their training. The railroads, public
highways, drawing rooms and shipbuilding
plants call on the College, for. Civil Engineers.
Our lighting and water , plants ? and our ma
chine shops are '-. being j manned by . its
graduates. Not a few of ife metti fire superin
tending or managing cotton; mills . and ( dye-
houses... Its chemists . are. taking r high rank in
experiment stations, industrial plants and de
partinents i of : ( agriculturei "jYoung ,nlen cannot
do better, thaii fit themselves or, t3ieif vocations
at the same time that they aire being educated. -.
, SAM. ;GOMPERg TALKS;
;, In the i Jun Iederatiohist wl Resident GoirP
pers speaks editorially;, txf ther retirement ' of
yauCleave from the presidency 6f th'eTNational
Manufacturers ' "Associatidn". r ' He'says in part t
" In one portion of his Parting Salutation; 4
Mr. YaniCleavesaysr r ' :
:' 'Understdii;T am not retirmg on ac
count of any attacks which ; the ' American Fed--eration
of Labor has made upon me, or .which
it may make. : -1 want ' to- give this statement all
the emphasis that words ' can place upon it. ; So
far as regards any further mjiiry which it can
do to me or to. my t business, that organization's
power is spent. I can laugh at all the assaults
which it ; will make upon1 hie ih the future, if
it makes any at all. Necessarily, however; r
will take a little : time for us to recover fully
from the effeets of the attacks which' it has al
readymade.' n ;
"If Mr. Van Cleave is jiot retiring on ac
count of the defensive attitude of the American
Federation of Labor to repel his savage on
slaughts, why was it necessaiyfor him to give
his denial all;; the emphasis ; that .words can
place upon it? Does it not rather appear that
Mr. Van Cleave ' protests too1 much,' and that
beneath it all1 is1 the real confession of the fact
that there has grown up f a strong Tevulsibn1
of feeling against his . policies among , the
thoughtful manufacturers, members of his as
sociation 1 Indeed, in another part of his let
ter he unintentionally, confirms this. He says,
A few members have left the association in
the past year or two. '
. "How 'few' Mr. Van Cleave would be un
willing to publicly admit, but there is evidence
on every hand that progressive, thoughtful em
ployers, to a yery large extent, are tired, out
of touch and out of sympathy with the lengths
to which Mr. Van Cleave has gone in employ
ing the detective spy system, character assas
sination and union destroying. They are not
in sympathy with his effort to muzzle free press
and free speech.
"It. is true beyond a doubt that there is a
change of feeling among a large number of em
ployers. This is shown by the employers' as
sociation in Seattle and many other cities
throughout the country who have tired of the
Van Cleave slogan of the so-called 'open shop',
and are now in agreement with organized la
bor ; who find by experience that the most com
petent, intelligent, and self-respecting workers
are in the ranks of the much misunderstood la
bor organizations of our country. The Typoth
etae (employing printer's association) recently
adopted a resolution departing from the so
called ' open shop ' policy, giving their members
power and authority to enter into trade agree
ments with the printing trades unions, and to
establish the eight-hour day.
' ' The collective bargain, the trade agreement,
is coming to be recognized as the proper meth
od by intelligent, far-seeing employers. They
realize that these are an intellectual and eco
nomic advantage in adjusting the relations and
labor conditions with employes. ,
"In the recent negotiations between the rep
resentatives of the United Mine Workers of
America and the coal operators in the ; anthra
cite regions, the agreement reached, while not
recognizing the union in specific, terms, yet
agreed that the representatives of the organiza
tion should represent all the men before the
companies and arbitration boards in any griev
ance which they might have. It was agreed
that ordinary business between the unions and
their members may be transacted upon the com
panies ' grounds, and in the mines, and that
men discharged for activity in the cause of
unionism may appeal, have the case reviewed,
with a view to re-instatement.
; "The modification of the Buck's Stove and
Range injunction against the American Feder
ation of Labor by the District Court of Ap
peals, and the recent Minnesota decision of
Justice Eliot, all tend to show the broadening
of the public conception of the rights of the
wage earners to organize, to protect T and pro
mote their rights and their interests, and to se
cure for themselves and their fellows the very
best possible conditions under which they ren
der so valuable a! service to society. ? oi
If Mr. Van Cleave has not yet reached that
state of mental development-, (and perhaps he
never may), it is to his -own disadvantage, ,n:)
"We do ourselves the -additional pleasure or
quoting one of Mr. Van Cleave 's quotations, in
his 'Parting, Salutation,' and one that proba
bly in the future; he will often remember, that
'God Almighty hates a quitter. In bidding a
temporary adieu to our friend Van Cleave, we
beg to quote from one of his letters in the
American Federationist last month, and ask
him whether he believes that his 'Friend Gom
pers will be frothing at the mouth' when Van
Cleave quits his job I
; "As we have frequently said, there is no
personal ill-will entertained by the men of la
bor against Mr. Van Cleave, or any other em
ployer, but the rank and. file, of the men of la
bor of our country ihave , some knowledge ! of
their rights and their interests. They have some
conception of their-"American citizenship and
sovereignty! and the responsibilities which they
entaiL They . are , determined to exert the f orr
iner and anxious to bear the latter,: but in so
doing they understand that as individuals, and
under ..the : chaotic condition of . . the ; so-called
'open shop there is -no, hope for theexercise
of either. ; Their hope i lies in , their, work r and
in their united, intelligent constructive action
m6n:ani;fede Si
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with. ,the-workeraVj causer ? prjwhp
lookfor the; business of the wage
earner, andthe usefltSj advertis
ing i columns.-r, There., is , hardly, a 1
firm in this city that could.atand
put; openly .and say 1 did, not -care
fgro the worklnsmen'a trade, but
names could be mentioned, of bus
lues men.whOj have nothing -Jbiut.
hard words to nand,in return, for
a generous , patronage, SJUmd by
the business t men . whoj stand f.by ,
you '-Ypu can purchase aa, cheap
ly and advantageously from THE
LABOR NEWS' advertisers, with
as good: treatment thrown r.in :as
from any or all others i combined.
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SPECIAL LOW URATES VIA' SOUTHS
r ERN RAILWAYS tfwa'
$5.95- Greensboro; N. Cf - to rAshe-r
ville, and return1 oh1 account i of
National ' JAss6Clation- T. P. t-'Al of
America, uates oi: s-ale, May28,:29?
30,., and morping ; train; of ; : 31st. All
'ticket good?, to ; leave Ashevine re1
turning 30 daysfroinhut not Includ
ing date , of sale'.
$12.85 Greensboro, N. C, to Atlan
ta, ' Ga., and return on account Amer?
lean Association; of Opticians . Dates,'
of sale, June 19, 20. Flnai limit, June
25, 1909.
Approximately low rates from' all
other 'points. ' '--A : : :iKio
For; further information Pullman,
reservations, , etc., call on or address,
W. H. ITGLAMERY,' '
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Greensboro; N.: C.
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