Jm. F. Banatt om Ubar
Tr»iiM« ia Meant Airy
PubiUhed al the nqtHl of the Mount
Airy Branch of the Granite Cutter*
International Association
follow Citiseos:
1 cannot »ay that I am proud to be
hi this position. I am clad to ho In
Mount Airy; I am |IM to moot and
mingle with you men and woman:
but I aaaura you it ia with faar and
trembling that I approach thin hour.
1 would not for all the w«alth of Um
country make a statement 111 Mount
Airy that would widen the ■■WMag
breach between two of your cWhh,
much laaa between two groupe of your
citiaenahip.
The question than comae up, can a
auui say something that will help to
eliminate emating mlsuailau landings,
1 stead of craating new trooblae ? If
you had no trouble here and if thia
waa hiat a gat-together rally labor
meeting or community gathering. I
would lust lova to aland hare and talk
my fool head off, but I realise the ra
■ ponsibillty of the hour, and if I do
say something hero tonight that
should not be said, I aaaura you It la
done through ignorance rather than
any malicioua intent. I don't
know what ia the boat to aay, I wish
to God 1 could Hay something her* to
night that would help In solving the
problems of thia community. Thia
trouble you people io Mount Airy are
now experiencing la not a local trou
ble. On Nov. 11, IHB, whan the Ar
mistice waa signed thai stopped that
battle over yood< r i<n<l allowed your
son* to return lierv itnd started the
shipment <»f ihe bodie< of other* back
here on I lint night, the Manufactur
er* Association met In the city uf In
dianapolm, and I whs there, and start
ad that night u warfare against oi
ganisctl labor of this country-. the
in* «u nui ory upon uiai. p«iinnirin,
upon that piece of paper that declared
peace among the nation*, until the
Manufacturer* Association started
another war. and that movement was
to destroy the Labor Union in thi'
country, and from November 11. 1H18,
to thin blciMod night that warfare has
not been let up, except in thoae platen
where they have been thoroughly and
completely convinced that it i* useless
to try to destroy the labor organita
tionn.
Now, mv frienda, there are many
people in Mount Ainr who are not con
versant, and I an frank to *sy there
are some who art ignorant in the city,
some who are not familiar with, who
do not know what the principles of
the American Federation of Labor are.
The American laborer doe* not want
to dictate to anyone of it* employers.
They want to cooperate with the em
Soyern, through mutual under*land
g. There are only three thing* that
♦he Labor Union wants—get thut now.
\* I have already said, they want a
.-oice in things — not to dictate, but to
simply have the privilege of a voice.
Then wage*. hours and working con
■litions. I repeat, the Labor Union
<k>aa not want to dictate wagaa, hour*
it what working conditions shall be.
The employees simply want tKe privi
lege or having their chosen repre
sentatives meet the lawyers or repre
tentative* of the employer* and across
the table arrive at a contract in which
the employee* have a right to spaak
<>n the** question*. If there is a man
or woman in Mount Airy who says
that the laboring man should not have
his right I am ready to get off the
tump, ntop my pap< r and g» hack to
plowing the old mule in Madison Co.
In considering the right* of the
workmen, hi* income i* not a mere
matter of dollars and cents to him 1
would like to have those boy* on the
pay-roll, a» well a* those men who
make out that pay-roll, look at it in
the light that it doe* not consist of
simply so much money in an envelope.
It mean* every little bit of feed that
goes onto the table for his wife and
children; it means every- little gar
ment that goe* on the back* of his
family, it mean* every doctor'* hill,
drug bill, insurance policy, every
church donation, Sunday school con
tribution, every picture show outing;
that is what the pay envelope means
to the men who work for wages. That
is what wage* mean to eacn one of
them. Then let anybody toll me that
the man who is working for the wage
doe* not have the right through hi*
representatives to discus* with hi*
employer and decide, what that wage
should be.
A lit" n«*Ai i^uraviun, umi ui iiuun*,
we will consider for a few minutes
There is not but one power in exis
tence that can give life. Your great
scientist* and all of the learned men
of the aires cannot tell you but one
reason why man lives, and that is
through the Divide irift of God Al
mighty. That man's life is his, and
tt u made up of no many yean, ao
many months in a year, so many days
in a week, hours in a day, and so on.
They belong to him individually by
the DIvOm.- Gift of Almighty God and
not to an industrial organisation, and
if a man wiahes to work and does
work, and he gives so many hours of
this life to that industry, than who
has a l>etter right than that man him
self to have a representative apeak for
him with hi* employers' representa
tives in paaaing on how many hours
he shall put into that industry.
Nest, working conditions—and this
m the most important of all, because
if the workmsn i Ufa Is to be ksnt in
danger—and many of the workmen
who go In that industry ran the Hak
of losing their health--then he must
have plenty of fresh air, pure water,
ale. Then who has a mors sacred
light than the workman to talk with
his employer aa to what the working
conditions shall be in that industry?
Now, here locally the trouble was
brought about according to this paper,
printed tn this city, on account of a
contract written by the Company *nd
submitted to the man, and they eo*ld
"sign tt and go to work or they could
reject It and sUrve," according to the
reputed statement of one of the offl
rials of that company. Now, that ia
not settling the question. I wish 1
mold impress upon you this fact, that
1 woaMJmrt as willingly and smphati
rally amiciae the actiona of the local
labor anion aa I would the actions of
4m ■ of the local asmpany. If I
thought the workerawsrs wrong^hut
havawKad u^some around tarwn—!
take il for granted and hare been told
by MVtnl of the bualp<-aa man, that
the mmtkm Involved in thU local af
fair U th.i redutUon of wagaa of It.
Kda/. Now, that a a pntto big
i>—I uaad to work for that. lUduc
tkon! According to the wwilld
•Ulement, mrncd by the vkr«- preai
iU nl of one of tha big rompaniea bora,
the main object la to InatituU tha
American Plan or open ahop.
If thara baa ever baan anything
mi»nam«d, it ia that of tha American
Plan or opan ahop. If thara has avar
baan any movement atarted by pollti
claaa, if than baa avar baan a liar that
deaarvaa———K la tha guy that
naiad tha opan ahop tha American
r. Thara la nothing Amarkan la
Taking tha folda >J tlia flax your
'onifathara fought far and for which
aoma of your brothara dlad bafora yon,
and uaiag that flag of fr*<-dom, tha
naata for which It atanda. Amoricnn
lam, ta cover tha plan that drivaa tha
workmen of thia country hack Into
alavary. Now. tha workara of tha
union of thia city mada Mount Airy
what it la. Thara la no doubt about
it. Four tlmaa thaaa man have batm
out. I hava no grudge agalnat tha
man who baa money: I wiah I had
mum <*f It. No man living today haa
a greatar admiration far tha follow
w)u> doaa thinga. Tha old pioneers
looked toward tha way aklaa of the
weat, for oppoilunttiee. Thay hawad
In the foreeta;tolled with their hand*,
mind you; buildad citiaa and towna.
No man admlraa tha man who haa
not the grit to back hii judgment
with hla money, and I dearly love to
itettle a labor trouble with Ufa work
ing alda given an equal chance. To
day I want out and looked over "Tha
Rock," you call It. Through the
courtaay of the auperintandant I waa
permitted to go over It, aee the work
men them flnTahing the work, prepar
ing It for tub ( atood upon a portion
•>f that rock and aaw the great der
rick lakinir load after load down to
the «hed. I admire men who do auch
aa that; but I would hav* those men
n'mfinncr inn, uiai nitiure ■ immi put
•hat, rook out ther*. Their company
lidirt do It. It i* not worth on* cent
of the million* It may represent until
the hand of labor go** then-, take*
thnt r«>ck out. even to th« tinleat block,
puts It into building* and monument*.
which all represent the hand of
la'.ior. I do not care how much capital
the company ha*, the rock itaalf out
there ia not worth thi* pitcher of
water, in any phase of the work out
there. from the time the line* *re put
into the ground on through to the 1a*t
stroke* laid on it, It i* useless except
that work given to it hy labor. I
respectfully lubmlt to you people of
Mount Airy the fact that your work
men and not your capital inva*t«d in
the quarry ia do* your flrat and moat
sincere consideration. I want you to
think over thia, my friend*.
There i* a plan of co-operation that
ha* exi*ted and ahould be exliting to
day, and I believe that if the local
management of this company win
1 romp ted by the views of the National
Association of Employers, bat inatead
follow their own wiahe*, there would
not be any trouble hem today. Y«r
talk to me of foreign agitation!yl
know some of the member* of this
i oinpanv, and they are mighty good
men. I do not want you to condamn
these helpless workman, hut place the
blame where it belong*—on haslne**,
if It belongs on btisines*. A* to the
statement* of the manufacturers eon
itrning the workmen who are out.
me and Jim Helton will start out in
the morning and pension every one
of thrm out. not allowed to come hark
to work out there. I am told there i*
> man in your cit> of a certain com
uany (which company ha* the men
locked out) who said that they would
soon starve these fellows into *ub
mission. I am here to tell you that
there are 175,000 wnge workers in this
State who stand n ady to each give a !
dollar a week before a workman in
Mouht Airy *tarves one minute.
The thing to do is to aettle this i
matter, befor* it goe* any further, j
If the workmen arc wrong, I believe
they will admit it; if th* mnnufac
turers are wrong, they should admit
'. Now, some bu^inuM men I have
talked to her*—anil you know I have
n peculiar idea *b>ut this word busi
ness! I am in bunnes* m>self. The
two elements of humanity I rvspect
more than any other are these: one is
the farmer, who goe* out and bring*
the products out of the *oil from the
sowing of the seed, and the other is j
the worker who takes the raw pro
duct and makes it into the finished
article* for God's children. They are |
the two essential*.
Now, I nave heard another thin*
that hurt mc. I heard this afternoon
that it i» thee* foreigners here who j
are prolonging this troubl" I got'
into town Saturday night, came j
straight from the train to the hall, I
narked with men who had not gone |
hack to work. In that hall were:
four Italiani, an Irishman and some
thing else—1 did*nt know what it waa. I
The real of them ware North Carolina, i
Mount Airy, American-bom citisens. |
Please, those of you who have heard |
these reports, talk to these fellows
about it before you accept as gospel
truth these things. Now, 1 take it,
there are merchants hers and I love I
them; I belong to the Merchants' As
sociation; I want to brtng thia point
to yoat did you aver ait down and
figure oat what It means In the man
ner of living of the men and their I
familiee, the difference between the
|6 and 9* wage? These guys who
got it haven't Seen able to aava any
t hing out of the$». Bom their hands
v "ill be eold, paralysed by the drill
they handle; then whatT Or hla
hnalUi will be broken by exposure to
ths dost In that work out there; he
most have beef steak the sweet
milk so necessary to o»f the effects
of the dust of that industry; those of
you who have read the statistics on
the short Hves of the granite work
ers; you will not go to ons of these
boys and <tak him to take that reduc
tion In wageel
It la what connection thia wage
Question has with the Man entering
the pearly gatee that I am unable to
understand. But I want to tall your
people of Mount Airy thia, your gran
ite workers onion men have made this
tows what it is They have made
your husinees what It Is. Your gran
ite workers' union men buildnd nice
homes for your workers to live in.
Yoor granite workers, if yon please,
) heve miilderi beautiful and magnifl
I cent mansions in which the men at the
| head of this business live In. And
thin is only mi attempt to break tha*
union and the mamifac MM will
up* wilh km, I aw »ur«, if you will
consider the labor un.on during tha
rt forty-two year* In thia induatry,
have contributed mora to tha ad
vancement of society than all tha fra
ternal organisation* or any other or
ganisation, even that of tha church
not eaceptod, because thla ia tha only
organiMHon that haa bom into tha
home nnd mad'
and tha burdens
and MtUa «hildre«^^H
And hafora you people ■ ■
Airy take side* against tha mm who
ara locked out. In Juetioe to thaaa, vou
ihould coiuldcr tHeir pcnition hire,
you should Uka Into faliand coasplete
consideration tha light and naaibir
that tha reduction of wagea la tha laat
consideration of thia l|ht that is ha- |
tng made afiliMt *aaa boya, but
that It la tha alimlniatlon and com
plate breaking up of thalr organ!ra
tion that I* MdNff ■ttwyfad, aad ll
am appealing to you In tha mm of!
tha man who aa w tha Induatry in tha
tlmr of naad maka Ha runs sacred
during tha war becauaa of tha Amer
ican Federation of Labor, and haipad
these worker* kaep thalr organisation.
In tha name of tha children in tha |
home* of theae workmen I am appeal -
to you to help thaaa boy* Main
... thalr organisation.
Before you condemn the foreigner*
of thia organist t.on, I want you to
com* with mc to Europe, where I waa )
sent by tha A. T. of L. to study enndi
tionn there. I saw splendid bill-board
pictures of beautiful homes tha Amer- !
ican workmen lived in, which were |
pouted by the Manufacturers' Asaoci- >
tttlon. They were advertising, and J
trying to Induce laborers to come to |
this country, and theae foreigners are
here, and because the union took them
in, and helped them to keep from low- j
ciing the sUndard of living in Amer
ica; then we are criticised because of
the foreigners. We have a movement
that will take you and raiae you up, I
instead of pulling down, an the Manu- j
facturera' Association want to do.
I want you to think on theae things, i
fituay mom oat, ana i leave mm tor ,
■ parting thought: it is not for the;
men who are locked out here now, not
Jim Belton and the older men who
arc almost ready to paaa on; Home
whose hand* art- already chilled and
paralyzed by the drill, who have Been
the middle (tone of life; I have • vary
kick mother at home, and a little busi
neaa I am engaged in; i do not get one
penny from anybody on God's green
earth for coming here to apeak to you;
1 love theae men and would land tnem
money if 1 had it; would nut be her*
to work for then if I didn't; but I
wanted to show you what the granite
worker*' union is; I want you to
think of what the labor union mean*
to this little child I am holding up
before you, whose future we want to
guarantee, and give theae children a
better opportunity of advancement
and enable them to maintain a higher
standard of living than we have at*
— <
RT Joyce, a former resident of
tkia city, waa a visitor bars Monday
returning to West/laid, where he is
putting in an electric mill and power
plant, iflsr ifriillsg °T-js|r Trith [t|
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