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i ; 3 C ft 1 r J c V '" 'i. it 1- ORGAN OF THE STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. 'ENDORSED BY GREENSBORO TRADES COUNCIL. X 14 - i i 4 . . MOTTO : ORGANIZATION EDUCATION AND ELEVATION. f .- " i . - . F ' . ? QREBKSBOHO, N.'C, 3FRIDAY AUGUSTJ7, 1909 VOL V. : . -"!- ' i. i I j ' w- :I i ft 3. . 1 mi N i v .; P1:- , J It;-. . S , it.-' c-r ? '4 !- :f J' , - : . ' : j 'r .1 ' .lit f I:.- .,; , ' f ' "i . . . ' : -: i : .. ? . . . J. 3 The Labor News Unshed ;;JsE!r;;r;'h" ing Company. A. J. WILLIAMS, Edtor; "p0BIJSHEDBVERY FRIDAY. P. V. $1-00 One year Six months Enterea as second-class matter May 27th 1905, at the postoiflce in Greens boro N. C, under act of Congress of March 3d, 1897. Amnion fLABEL xTnr thAn it is the aeroplane hat for the ladies. " Of course, they will nat urally come high. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. C. F. Pinnix, operator of Mill No. 1 on the DailyNews, is the proud est boy in Greensboro. It's a girl, a ten pounder. Courage, like-cowardice, is unduobt edly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch " it. George D. Prentiss. "The United State is the only coun try that can afford bad roads," says the Kansas City Star. Only very rich and fertile land can stand the waste." The. average town farmer in these parts puts Tin a Sed or riadislies-aiid-one bed of onions and then sits idly by and watches the weeds grow. Then he brags about "my garden." Greensboro needs a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and needs it bad. Hardly a day passes that the need of such an organization is not felt by the animals, at leat. "I dont honestly believe," said a Guilford County man the other day, "that a licking ever did my boy a bit of good, but it has frequently done me lots of good to thrash him." As was exDected. the tariff on dia- mnnds has been increased by the new tariff bill; so get busy, ye slaves and wage-earners, and get in your supply before txxe new law goes into force. Tt is said that Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, will make a personal and aggressive campaign for the Democratic nomination m iyi The people will have the last and best say, however. a commission firm out west has tak en a contract to deliver twenty car loads of eggs in New York City, lne shipment means a total of more than three million eggs, many of which are supposed to be fresh. It is said that the surplus eggs pro duced in Missouri in 1907, placed end to end," would extend around the world. And by this time they might also smell to heaven. Certain North Carolina editors who cannot afford motor cars for them selves have been giving away high priced machines to their subscribers through the medium of "voting con tests.". Mr. J. s. Pender, who has until re cently been the linotype operator at the Christian Advocate, left Tuesday night for a trip to New; York and sev eral other northern cities. He took his family with him and will be gone several weeks. J Gary, Ind merchants are up to .snuff. They are giving away a bottle of beer with every large purchase. The town being dry, many of the citi zens were doing their trading in wet Places. Wonder how that would wrk in Greensboro? Now that the tariff tinkers have very materially increased the cost of living, what are the American work ers going to do fbout it especially those unorganized workers who have only their "individual liberty" as an asset? - K. v. ' Subscription Price: If you do not build a few castles in the "air, you will never own any that are built on the earth. "Can Cannon defeat the bill for postal sayings banks?" asks the Min nesota Union Advocate. He has he has "And he will continue to defeat that and any other bill that is for the benefit of the common people. The only remedy is to defeat Cannon and Cannonism, and then, perhaps we will be able to ,get what rightly belongs to us. But. we' will never get it from Uncle Joe or any of his kind. A correspondent of the Daily News from Thomasville says the town needs a cotton mill more than any other in dustry, as all! the male inhabitants employed in the wood working plants, "and the female population out of employment." Did it ever occur to this correspondent that if the male population got- decent wages there would be no call for the females to work? The males should organize. The estate of $60,000,000 left by the late James Oliver, the plow manufac turer, gives a hint of the enormous increase of American fortunes. There are not many North Carolinalans who knew even the name of this western millionaire, except through advertise ments of the "'Oliver Chilled Plows," who bequeaths an estate three-fifths as large as that which made Commo dore Vanderbilt the richest of Amer cans thirty years ago. "Gee, dis is an awful town for a bo to get ditched in," said a tramp, who had been : hustling the town of Raliegh while ihe legislature was in session. "Every house I butts into is a boardin' house and dey invites me wash about four million dishes or do some other such in pay for me feed. Say, when do de next train leave for de no?t, pard?" Edwin Markham, the poet, made fa mous by tne poem, "The Man with the Hoe," is tired of the east and will re turn to his old ihome in California as soon as he can settle up affairs in New York, where he has labored for the past several years. He says he will continue bis work as a writer and worker for the cause of humanity un til he dies, and thinks the change will give him renewed strength and inspir--atioawJL, .,.r - -. Once more in the history of the iron and steel workers of Pittsburg and vicinity there has been a massacre of workingmen, similar to the great Homestead murders several years ago. The outcome of which made it possible for many people throughout the United States, Greensboro includ ed, to enjoy I?) the privilege of going to a library for their reading matter, purchased with the blood of men and women who were striving to better their condition. The daily papers tell the story. In the course of a few years some other steel magnate will be building libraries purchased with the blood spilled in this 1909 strike. It seems as though the whole state of Georgia had gone bug-house that Is, the lawmakers. Now comes At lanta, which city is supposed to be up-to-date in most everything, and springs a law on the people that is not only ridiculous, but nonsensical. Atlanta has an Anti-kissing ordinance, and recently a man was arrested and fined for kissing his wife In a public place. Such damphool laws are enough to make a cow laugh, and it would seem that a judge who will en force it is a bigger fool than the chattering chimpanzees who framed it That was a rare old find Governor Brown, of Georgia dug the other day. The governor recently named Col. G. U. Saussy to be be on his personal staff and 'he Adjutant General mailed the old soldier his commission, to gether with the oath of allegiance to the State of Georgia and the United States. He changed the oath to suit his own notioh of how it should be, as follows: "I ; except to the twelfth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. I am a Confederate soldier, still on parole, and, (while pledged not to again bear arms against the United States, I still ! retain the views I had when I entered the Confederate army, I have never taken the oath of alleg iance to the United States, and.while God gives mejlife I never will." Phew! that old codger don't really know whether the war is over or not When it all is said and done, and the shouting all over, the fact remains tbatjthe service of all wealth Hps with "The Man With the Hoe." Witness thlls "Boost" ad. in the Greensboro Tjelegram of recent date: "This is the 1 jeweler who needed some dools aou buucb ouu , heeded. , -- What he was told by the shoe man s And went and bought the best he had, ? , . And paid with the hardware merch- -u fMII- - Which came from the furniture deal-? ers till - . ...i , Where It went when he clothing . ri dealer, bought , 'v i. j Front the dry goods man, which the the butcher got - ' From the'giocer, wntffcad settlement made - . With the: money the honest working-, man pald ; j About, election time, or during the campaigns there is always more- or .less talk in the partisan newpapers and by spellbinders about Organized Labor going jin to politics. If organ- Ized Labor should espouse the cause of any political party, the opposition sets up the cry that for Organized Labor to em ark in politics would surely disrupt the organization Just as if they cared, feut $ it to on the side agreeable to the party the paper represents, Oragnized Labor is praised, to the skies. In other words if the representatives of the workers es pouse the cause of protection, they are jumped on by the Democrats with both feet; and if they plead the cause of the Democrats, the Republicans groan and - moan ior the welfare of the American workingmen. So what is the nnprotectedlaboring man to do? In the lights before us, between two fires, Organized Labor can do nothing better than to take the advice of "Old Man" Sam Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. He advises the workers to do as the "interests" do make the candidate agree, in writing, that he will work for their interests, if elected; then go to work and elect him. The only draw-back to this plan is that the workers have no blocks of stock of paying investments to offer congress men, senators court judges, etc.; neither have they the cash to buy them outright. That leads the problem of "Labor in Politics" just where it has been all the time in Labor's own hands, and if they are not intelligent enough to vote their way out of the wilderness it will have . to be done by future generations, for all classes of laboring men and women are grow ing wiser, and wiser all the time. Perhaps, in the dim distance, they will get wise to the blandishments of the leacnes of both parties. BEST IN THE WORLD. (Says Rev. Charles Stelzle of the American Workingman) "All things considered, the" Ameri can workingman is as true a man, as moral a man as you can find any where." Such was the tribute paid the great body of artisans of this country by Rev. Charles Stelzle in an address in the Amphitheatre at Chau tauqua, New. York. Mr. Stelzle is a man who knows. Born in the tene ment house district, and living on the East Side of New York City for twenty-five years, he is familiar with the social conditions of the masses. ITot -eight years - he was a machinist in the largest shop in that city, where he had an unusual opportunity for studying the industrial problems at first hand. Now, as Superintendent of the Presbyterian Department of Church and Labor, he is probably do ing more than any other living man to solve the problem of the relation of the workingman to the church. "America has learned," said Mr. Stelzle, "that the prosperity of the whole country depends upon the pros perity of the workingman. We believe it as a matter of theory, but not al ways a matter of practice. Only, too frequently the employer acts as if he were in business simply for his own interests. No wonder that the average .workingman feels that he too, must work for his own interests. If the in terests of the employer and the em ploye are common the American workingman ought to know it in such a way that there will be no dispute about it; if their Inter ests are not common the workingman will soon find it out" Unions and the Labor Question. - "The labor unions do not, . the speak- I pose, constitute all the labor question. If the unions were wipea out or ex istence, the question would remain in a more aggravated form. The 25, 000,000 socialists throughout the world in a more aggravated form. The 25,000,000 socialists throughout, the world, 9,000,000 of whom have cast their ballots for socialist candidates; the 9,000,000 trade unionists, the Rus sian peasantry, the movement among the working people in Prance", Bel gium, Australia and-the social unrest in our own country, were cited as phases of the labor question. "And they are all," said Mr. Stelzle, "fight ing for industrial democracy and they are going to win." Because the American workingman has caught the spirit of the democracy he resents anything that savors of pa tronage or paternalism, thinks Mr. Stelzle. He does not want social wel fare work as much as he wants a clean shop, reasonable hours and fair wages." To this Mr. Stelzle ascribed the failure of the social welfare work of the National Cash Register Co., and the Pullman Co. The workingman of America is or ganized, and the labor represent his sentiment better than other organi zations, was the speaker's contention. He showed that the labor unions con stitute one-half of those engaged in such trades as may well be organized. If the farmers, servant-girls, profes sional - men, and those - engaged in trade -and transportation be subtracted from the 29,000,000 wage-earners in this country, only 7,000,000. will be left, and the labor unions have en rolled nearly half , of these, and the most ?of the other half ? are in small towns or' otherwise ' so situated that they are scarcely able to organize. The speaker said that the American workingman is the best workingman in the world, he has more comforts than any other workingman: ; but he Is not satisfied because he feels that he in f irofH-nr his r nroBortion of - what he' produces. This battle for labor's fair share, thrnKSJvir ieiie, . wim be; i fougbt; by; the ignorajit foreigner. but by the skilled artisans, and the Homestead strike of the high-priced Stee workers was noted as an ex- .' ; a - - , -- - . ; .. e. ! ' ; amp! American Workingman Temperate. " "The American workingman is the most - temperate workingman in the world." said Mr. ; Stelzle; and in evi dence he quoted the testimony of Mr. John Burns of England, and his own experience in the British Isles and on the Continent He declared that the days are rapidly passing when the sa loon! can be used as a meeting-place for; labor organizations, and ascribed the strength of the temperance move ment in this country to the temper- anCf sentiment of the working class. 'The American workingmen are standing lor a square deal for wo- meit" he continued. . "They are con tending for equal pay to men and wo men; for equal work. The child labor evil also Isbeing combatted by the labor unions. The American working mail is demanding that the. little chil dren be given a chance. His own children are dying three times as fast as. hose of the more favored casses, and! he Is determined to stop it. Trade Unions an Americanizer regard to the solution of the im- ation problem, Mr. Stelzle quoted approval Carroll D. Wright, who "No organization, is doing so rnuqh to Americanize the foreigner as the I labor union, not excepting the church." He showed how the immi grants come to this country with the idea that all government is hostile to then interests, but that through work ing together different nationalities in .the same labor union they catch the American spirit. He said that some day there will appear the typical American workingman, ideal in every respect, and the trades union will have a good deal to do' with the. job. As well as breaking down racial prejud ice, the labor unions are breaking down, the speaker asserted, the . an tagonism of different creeds. In Ger many, France and England there are different labor organization for Cath olic and Protestant. In this country they work together. "The workingmen," said the speak er, "are "fighting for universal peace. Some day war shall cease, but if we wait for the edict of a Peace Congress at .The Hague, we shall lose our pa tience. The workingmen will call a universal peace strike and then war shall cease. He is anxibus that war be absolutely Wiped out" v The workingman, contrary to gener al belief, is generally religious, the speaker contended, and in proof he cited his own experience and that of workers sunder his direction in shop "meetings, throughout the country. He said that the workingman despises the minister who apologizes for his pro fession, for the Bible and the Church, and admires the man who tells him what he ought to know about his sin and his salvation. We can talk religion to the American working man because ne is interested in it He is deeply religious even if he does not manifest that religion in the ordinary way. THESE BE OUR MASTERS. They own us, these task masters of ours; they own our homes; they own our legislators. We cannot escape from them. There Is no redress. We are told we can defeat them at the bal lot box. They own the ballot box. We are told that we must look to the courts for redress; they own the courts. We know them for what they are ruffiians in politics, ruffians In finance; ruffians in law; ruffians in trade, bribers, swindlers and trick sters. No outrage too great to daunt them, no petty larceny too small to shame them; despoiling a government treasury of a . million of dollars, yet picking the pockets of a farm hand of the price of a loaf of bread. They swindle a nation of a hundred million and call it finance, they levy a black mail and call it commerce; they cor rupt a legislature and call It politics; they bribe a judge and call it law; they hxre blacklegs to carry out their plans and call it organization; they prostitute the honor of a state and call it competition. Frank Norris in the Octopus. The big lightning bug Is brilliant, But he hasn't any mind; It travels through the darkness With its headlight on behind. OUR FRIENDS OF CRIM-CANTRELL FURNITURE CO. . Furnitore, Stoves and Rugs. - This firm are hustlers from way back, but their present methods of conducting business makes everything move like clockwork. They carry ev erything to furnish a house and their charges are reasonable. It is one of; the proud underlying principles of or ganized labor to foster and encourage, to the fullest extent a deservingg andl creditable firm. We will be acting im accordance with the truest principles; of unionism of supporting this deserv ing furniture concern, whenever it is. In a movement like this, which has for its object a better understanding between labor and its friends among: the business men, it is but right that the Crim-Cantrell Furniture Company; located at 307-309 Main street, should be given due recognition and a; prom inent place In the list of honorable: firms, and it is with a feeling of satls- faction that the committee appointed for that purpose, recommep.ua ui LABOR DAY AT SALISBURY. Monday, September 6, Labor ' Day, there j will be speaking 'and a big barbecue at Salisbury, Fulton' Heights. Col. Dick Maple, editor of the Nation al Ripsaw, and R. Don Laws; editor of the Yellow Jacket, are slated ; to discuss the subject: "Republicanism vs. Socialism," provided Mr Laws will fulfill his promise to meet the doughty Colonel. Speaking will be at 11 a. m.; barbecue at 1 p. m. Members of farm ers Union are specially invited to par ticipation! in this celebration. Quite a crowd of I the workers of Greensboro will be there. As there will be no "goings on" In this city, all are cor dially Invited to go to Salisbury this year. There will be special railroad :rates.. - 7: v - . - .-: A STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Realizing the growing shortage in the isupply of timber suitable for the use of our wood-using industries and the consequent gradual modification in thin rAniHremoTifg ' fivod vtr - Ihooa consumers, and recognizing the value j to both the producers and the con I sumers of timber of a more Intimate knowledge of local market conditions, the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey Is now co-operating with the U. S Forest Service in a statisitcal study of the wood-using In dustries of the State. Statistics cards will shortly be sent out. from Washington to about four hundred North Carolina firms who use timber in various forms. Information will be asked relating to the kinds of wood, used and what it is used for; the amount in board feet, cords, etc., that Is used , with the average cost delivered at the factory; whether the material is produced in this State, and if not, in what State or region it is grown; what are the products manufactured and in what market are they sold. Information will also be asked as regards the form In which the raw materials of each kind of wood is de sired, whether as dimension stuff, boards, bolts, cord wood, etc.; the grades of material required for the different uses, namely, size and quali ty; and the smallest sizes that can be profitably used for each specific f purpose. This last question has in view the possible modification of re quirements, looking to a more com plete utilization of the timber now av ailable. The data- thus- acquired will farn ish the basis for a report which, is soon to be published by the State Geological and Economic Survey. It is intended in this report to in corporate a list of all the wood-using industries of the State. This will not only furnish a reliable market guide to all who have timber in Its various forms to dispose bf , but will be a valuable advertisement for the firms who may be listed. It is very desirable that this list be as com plete as possible. The great Geolo gist, therefore, requests all firms con suming timber in any form in their factories, who do not receive a ques tion card within the next few days, to send their name and address to the Chief of Wood Utilization, Forest Service, Washington, D. C, asking for a card of Inquiry. It is expected that this report will have an excellent effect, by bringing the buyers and sellers of timber in North Carolina into closer touch and making them better acquainted with laws of demand and supply. Its in fluence will, however, be experienced far beyond the bounderies of the State, not only by making known the extent of our 'manufactuers, but by publishing the fact that the forests of our own State furnish, as they "un doubtedly do the greater part of the raw material used in our different industries. Our forests have too long been treated with indifference and neglect, but when it can be realized that for est protection is not a mere matter of sentiment, but is business through and through, for on the forests depend the very life of many of our chief in dustries, then and then only, will the the producer and consumer of timber join forces to protect and perpetuate the source of timber supply. THE TWIN. CITY cern for an increased patronage and a closer friendship during the ensu- ing year. -; VAUGHN-CRUTCH FIELD CO. The wholesale manufacturing drug gists have for their specialties Red Seal Brand Flavoring Extracts, which flavors are perfect and go twice as far and Yerkes' Palatable Extract of Cod Liver Oil, with Malt and! Hypophos phltes. - This Is '' generaly conceded to be one of the best tonics for thin, and worn out people. It will build up, in crease weight and Impart ; tone and vigor to ! the entire system; ? It Is also a valuable ' remedy for winter coughs. Prevents Consumption; Nervous Pros tration, etc. ' .;. This preparation is pleasant to take and agrees -with the mot. ' delicate stomachs. v Yerks Palatable Extract of Cod Liver Oil Is extensively pre scribed by physicians and sold by all dealers at $1.00. per ; bottle, which places it withkvthe reach of all, and we highly .recommend it "'-. ; LABOR'S, NATIONAL PLATFORM." . 1. The abol -on . of all forms of in dustrial servitude except as a pun ishment for crime. . - - . 2.- Free schools; free text books and compulsory education. ' - 7 3. Unrelenting protest , against the issuance and abuse of: injunction' pro cess' in labor disputes. ?: r, '' "4. A work day ' of not more than eight hours In the JLtwenty-four hour day. - - : j - , v -5.; A strict recognition, of not over eight hours a day on all federal, state r or municipal work and at not less than the prevailing- per -diem wage .rate bf the class of- employment in . the - vicin ity where the work" Is performed., 6. Release from employment, one day in seven. . 7f 7. The abolition of - the contract system on public work.1 ; 8. The municipal ownership of pub lic utilities. " , i. The abolition of the sweat . shop system. . 1 -j : . 10. Sanitary Inspection of factory, workshop,' mine and .home. 11. Liability of employers for - In jury to body or loss of life. . -- 12. The nationalization of telegraph and telephone. - ' "l 13. The passage of antl-chlld labor laws in states where they do not exist a&d rigid defense of them where they have been enacted into law. 14. Woman suffrage co-equal with man suffrage, the Initiative and refer endum and the imperative mandate and right of recall. 15. Suitable and plenyful play grounds for children in all cities. 16. Continued agitation for the pub lic bath system in all cities. 17. Qualifications in permits to build of all cities and towns, that there shall be bathroom and bathroom attachments In all houses or compart, ments, used for habitation. 18. We favor a system of finance whereby money shall be issued ex clusively by the torernment, with such regulations and restrictions as will protect it from manipulation by the banking interests for their own private gain. - l4Tfcit and - referendum and the, imperative mandate and right of recalL The above is a partial statement of the demands which organized labor, in the interest of the workers aye,of all the people of our country makes upon modern society. Higher wages, shorter workday, bet ter labor conditions, better homes, bet ter and safer workshops, factories, mills, ana mines. In a word, a better, higher, and nobler life. Conscious, of the justice, wisdom and nobility of our cause, the Amerl- " can Federation of Labor appeals to all men and women of labor to Join with us in the great movement for - - Us More than two million wage-earners who have reaped the advantages of or ganization and federation appeal to their brothers and. sisters of toll to unite with them and participate in the glorious movement with its attendant benefits. There arc affiliated to the American Federation of Labor 118 International Trades Unions with their 27,000 local Unions ; . 3& . State Federations ; . 537 City Central Bodies and 650 Local Trade and Federal Labor Union b hav- ring no Internationals. wi hare "nearly;. 1,000- volunteer and special organizers as well as the of ficers of the unions and of the Ameri can Federation of Labor Itself always willing and anxious to aid their fellow workmen to organize and .in .every other way better their Conditions. SAMUEL GOMPERS, Pres. FRANK MORRISOM. Sec'y. IMPROVED ORDER RED MEN. 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. MANAGER We want a good, 'man who has $1,0004)0 or more to invest, to' manage a branch office., for- us In . the Loan, Real . Estate and Invest ment business. - We can offer "the right man a contract ; which' has . some future to it. It will payybu to investigate 1 this proposition. Na tional Loan and Trust Co., Tlfton, Ga. i ' - v? - LADIES, 10 Oil ! : If you are thinking of buying: anOs-' trick Plume any time soon, It will be to our advantage ta write; for oar price ;Ust. We can save7 yon at least one-third of the price. Osh or installment. . , -t AGENTS WANTED -: THE EAGLE M. O. CONCERN, " Box U4L, Raleigh, N.C. .: f
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