THE HARBINGER. The Harbinger. Official Organ Central Labor Union A Paper for the Toiling Mnses. PlBLISHtl) KVKRY SATIKOAV BV WICKKIi V MciOWAX. R. L. WICKER Editor. W. E. FAISON Associate Editor. E. J. WICKER. Correspondent, Richmond, Va. P. W. McGOWAN, . . . Business Manager. Office : "Christian Advocate" Builidng, 3d Floor. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Raleigh, X. C. POSTOFFICE BOX 167. SUBSCRIPTION 1 One year (in advance) $1.00 Six months 50 Three months, 25 Correspondence relating to the good of organ ized labor, economic subjects, and general oews from the labor world solicited. We will not oublish communications attacking the private character of any person, and parties writing tor puDiicanon niusi sign ineir true names, or furnish them as a guarantee of good faith. Fictitious names carry no weight, and if the author is ashamed of his article, it is bnt natural that we should agree with him. lUNIUINf LABEL I would as soon think of doing business with out clerks as without advertising. John Wanamaker. Nothing, except the mint, can make money without advertising. GLADSTONE. When you pay more for the rent of your business house than you do for advertising your business, you are pursuing a false policy. If you can do business, let it be known. THE HARBINGER. We have quite a number of letters from preachers, lawyers, doctors, states men, politicians, prominent educators, and labor leaders in city and State, praising The Harbinger and com mending its mession. We had a prom inent educator to tell us on the street one day this week that such a paper rrK TT . 1 1tJ i. aS lilK JlAKBliMiCK Wilt (JctlCinaiCU LU do more for the laboring element than any other paper in the State, and that he thought it the plain duty of every workingman in North Carolina to sub scribe to and encourage it. We do not claim that the paper is conducted with any marked ability, but we do claim that what little influence the paper may ever be able to exert, will be used for good, and the uplifting of our laboring brothers. We claim to know some of the needs of our peo ple, and we intend to do all we can to advance their interests ; and if they will stand by us, we can enlist the in terest of such men and women in North Carolina as are both able and willing to assist us in any worthy ob ject. There is much needed by our laboring friends, and if they do not organize, and learn the best methods of advancing their own interests, they need not look or hope for aid from the outside. It is a true saying, that if we wish anything done, and done well, we must do it ourselves. No one cares to pick up a man who does not try to stand ; but if he will only stand and be true to himself and his friends, he can always count upon assistance. Then let us cleave to each other, and encourage one another, and above all, be true to our friends. If a man is so low as not to stand by his friends, he has no principle or manhood left in him, and therefore has nothing to build upon, and is lost. The Harbinger is eight weeks old to-day, and ' we claim that . we can already stand alone, but with such aid i from our friends as we have a right to reasonably expect, it will be in our power to do more and better service for the cause of labor in the South. r;i Barmaids will not be employed m Calcutta saloons after April, 1. . - The Brotherhood of Carpenters and joiners has nearly 10,000 members.' stbaKcc rni iMni REMARKABLE RECORD. The Harbinger is notinthe '.'puff ing" busincs, but when one of our mechanics, laborers or artisans cau and does excel in his line, we are proud of him, and we wish to let the public know it. It is part of our mission to encourage proficiency in every line of of work. Mr. Fred J Terry, formerly of Charlotte, N. C, but who has been with Messrs. Edwards & Broughton, of this city, for the past year, has, dur ing his employ with the above-named firm, won for himself and for our city what is unquestionably the best Lino otype brevier record yet brought to light. While engaged in setting the laws enacted by our last General As sembly Mr. Terry set 10,000 ems above any known record in brevier, the high est known record being 55,000 ems in nine hours. Mr. Terry set 65,000 ems of solid brevier in nine hours, which places him far in the lead. Of course there are records in nonpariel which exceeds this, but all operators will readily understand the great advant age one would have in setting nonpa riel over that of brevier. The accu racy of proof-sheet is also a remarka ble feature of Mr. Terry's record The following is a letter received from the Mercanthaler Linotype Com pany, of New York : Fred. J. Terry, Raleigh, N. C Dkar Sir : Respecting your record of 65, 000 ems of brevier in nine hours, we would say, it is an admirable one, and shows you to be a master of the Linotype. Eleven thousand ems per .hour has been reached in nonpariel by one operator in a competitive test ; but of course nonpariel is a very much easier face to set and gives the operator a greater advantage over one setting brevier. Your record is certainly a re markable one, and I do not know of any which exceeds it. Yours truly, P. T. Dodge, President Mercanthaler Linotype Co Mr. Terry is not only an expert ope rator, but a sober, strictly reliable union man, who is not satisfied unless he can stand at the top, and this is what every union man should strive for. GROWLERS. We have never hated anybody, and hope we never shall, but there are many people we do not care to meet they chill us through for a whole day, or tintil some kind and jovial friend cheers us by a beaming smile and a pleasant, hopeful word. We start up street happy and hopeful. We meet a friend. " Good morning. Hope you are well." "No, sir; (and he rests partially against the fence and heaves a long drawn sigh) "to tell you the truth, I never was worse off in my lifeu.it is only the grace of God that sustains me. I have a terrible cold ; old lady is down with her back again; John run off from home yesterday ; the house-rent is due ; havn't done a lick of - work in three weeks, and this blasted weather has brought my rheu matism back again; baby had the croup again last night liked to have died reckon it would have been a good thing if it had, and gone on to heaven, where I'm trying to go my self. Ain't got no tobacco 'bout your old clothes, now, have you?", Yes, we have that tobacco, and we would give that fellow almost any thing in reason not , to meet us again for a year. Such people are dead sure nuisances, and no mistake; and while we know it it is nothing but habit, no Christian man or woman can be a 1 . growler. Philadelphia labor men will nomi nate a full ticket for the February elec tion. Hospitals are being erected in Penn sylvania coal mines as ordered by. the legislature. " ' : s : . ORGANIZE AT ONCE. Bro. W. H. Singleton, of. the Book binders' Union, has been duly ap pointed local organizer and is now ready to "put the thing" on all com ers. Then toilers, organize. Let us carry on the good work, and in a few more revolutions of the earth upon its axis we shall have a better world a better mankind. Waiting will not accomplish it; deferring till another time will not secure it. Now is the time for the workers of America to come to the standard of their unions and to organize as thoroughly, com pletely and compactly as is possible. Let each worker bear in mind the words of Longfellow : "In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! " Editorial Notes. We print again in this issue an arti cle from the pen of Mr. H. E. Burnett, of Richmond, Va. Mr. Burnett knows the needs of the laboring people, and is intensely earnest in all he says. While Mr. Bnrnett is yet quite a young man in years, he is foreman of one of the largest printing establishments in Rich mond, and can manage more men with less friction than any foreman we ever worked under. We are not looking for a job, Harry. The sentiment of organized labor, as voiced by Samuel Gompers, is against the new Department of Com merce and Labor. The objection is to combining the Labor Bureau with a department which is likely to over shadow it. Organized labor has long desired to be represented in the cabi net, but they fear that the Secretary of Commerce will represent commerce more than labor. Meantime the bu reau they already have will be swal lowed up and absorbed. There will be a joint meeting Monday night, March 3, at 7 : 30 p. m., of the different labor organiza tions of the city in Odd Fellows' Hall. A working card will admit any mem ber of the different labor orders. It is earnestly desired that there will be a large attendance. There will be short addresses by quite a number, and it is hoped and expected that much good to organized labor may result from this meeting. This occasion will be graced by the presence of the lady bookbinders in full force, and this, if nothing else, should induce every brother to be present. The appointment of Prof. J. Y. Joy ner, of the State Normal College, to the position of Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction for the State, appears to be giving universal satisfaction, and The Harbinger is glad that such a man as Prof. Joyner could be prevailed upon to make a personal sacrifice for the cause of education, for his former position in the State Normal was a much better position, looked at from a pecuniary point of view. But Prof. Joyner is one cf those few men who are willing to sacrifice personal aggran disement to the good of a loved and popular cause, and we feel that the State and the cause of education should not only feel grateful to Prof. Joyner, but proud that we have such men. Now that the Auditorium Com mittee has bought the Academy of Music (which will be remodeled into an Auditorium), let the Durham Her ald and other North Carolina village papers f 'chain tip ; their dogsr." Ral eigh intends to have an Auditorium capable of seating 2,500 people..; It will also be used ' for- theatrical pur poses and will be the .finest hall in the ' State for seating large assemblies. No doubt the inuendoes of- certain State papers flung at Raleigh anent the build ing of an auditorium did much toward the-consummation of the devoutly-to-1 be-wished-for action which the Audi-: toriuni Committee has taken. Now let all those who have subscribed for stock come up and pay for the amount , taken and thereby cause Raleigh to become the owner of the finest theatre auditorium in the State. Bro. W. O. Smith, the efficient1 Financial Secretary of Raleigh Typo J graphical Union, No. 54, says he is not , a betting man, but he will race his , celebrated nag, "Mayflower," against any well-regulated time-piece. He left his place of business, corner of Har gett and Salisbury streets, at 6 p m., sharp. "Mayflower" shied slightly at three passing street cars, but he landed Mr. Smith on the stoop of his country residence, "The Pines," 1 y2 miles just west of the city, at 6.02 Mr. Smith is very much like the late Robert Bon ner, of the New York Ledger. He dotes on fine horse-flesh, but cannot be induced to bet. This excellent ani mal, we are told, was formerly the prop erty of Mr. Daniel Webster Columbus Harris, of the more than celebrated Harris' Steam Dye Works, of this city. Mr. Harris regretted very much to part with the animal, but he is one of those gentlemen who never allows feeling or sentiment to take prece dence in a matter of business. Labor Notes. The Order of Railway Employes in Virginia has given notice that its sev eral thousand members will go into politics hereafter. The order' asked the Virginia Legislature to pass an Employers' Liability Bill, and that body failed to do so, after the leaders had made fair promises, and this has aroused the members of the order. You do not need to join a Union, eh ? Yet, the doctor, lawyer, the banker, the manufacturer, the business of high and low degree, all find it nec essary to get together for mutual ad vantage. Why, Rockefeller, the Van derbilts, the Goulds, and such like, find it beneficial to get together. Yet, there are workingmen to whom organ ization is most necessary who "do not need to join a Union !" One of the most welcome signs of the times is the growth of - the frater nal spirit among trade unionists. Deal ers in hats, clothing, shoes, and cigars in and around greater New York are making greater efforts than ever before to supply their patrons with goods that bear the union label, while the concern that deal exclusively in union-made goods were never so prosperous as they are to-day. The Indiana supreme court, in affirm ing a lower court judgment, held that an employer cannot, by any contract he may make with his workmen, re lieve himself from duties and liabilities which the law expressly imposes on him. The decision was rendered in a miner's suit for damages on account of injury. The Amalgamated Associa tion of Steel workers has ceased to pay benefits to the men thrown idle through the steel workers' strike. That which makes trade unions strong, is an ibedience to correct prin ciples, an abiding faith, in the justness of our cause and unlimited, confidence in the ability of our Union to finally solve the, problems of labor. - These qualities, coupled .-with a kindly and tolerant opinion of each, other, are the levers that uplift the masses, destroy ing the ' powers of greed, dispelling ignorance - and prejudice and rapidly leveling the barriers in labor's road to a better social and industrial state. Motormen and conductors of the Metropolitan Railroad, of Chicago, on and after March 1, will receive an ad vance of 2 i cents per hour. This will affect more than 200 men. The advance was agreed upon last week, the management having made it vol untarily. The Hercules Gas Engine Company, of San Francisco, agreed to give its employes the nine-hour day and an in crease of wages ranging from 7 l2 to 13 per cent. The corporation also agreed to pay the union price for overtime time and one-half for night work and double time for Sundays and holidays. Five thousand employes' of the Illi nois Central Railroad, including prac tically every conductor, brakeman, switchman and yardman, except those in the far south, will receive an in crease. This was decided on at a con ference in Chicago between the officers of the road and representatives of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. The McKenna Bros. Brass Company, of Pittsburg, has adopted a resolution whereby 10 per cent of the net profits of the concern will be divided among the employes remaining on the payroll at the end of the year. The division is to be made on the basis of the wages earned by each. If the plan proves successful it will be continued. The men affected are as a rule skilled workmen, and their salaries range from $18 to $25 per week. The Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen of the Big Four system has had acommit tee in conference upon a wage sched ule, which was presented to General Superintendent Van Winkle, in Indian apolis. The men want a restoration of the 10 per cent, cut of several years ago. They have been given half the increase, and now they ask the full res toration. The raise, if granted, will give the brakemen $2 a hundred miles and the conductors $3 a hundred miles. . His Children and Their Children . We confess in advance that this is "yellow journalism." In many mills in the South, in many of the North, tens of thousands of chil dren work away their lives for a pit tance which is supposed to keep their lives going. The parents ai-e often working in the mill where their children are being slowly worked to death or into a stunted condition of mind and body that is. worse than death. A man owns that mill, and the dol lars that go into his pocket come out of the bodies of those children. That man leaves his house late in the morn ing because he enjoys an hour with his children. He gets to business, and their children are at work at the mill and have been at work for a long time. The man who works the children to death goes home early because he likes to have an hour with his children be fore bedtime. And while his children go to meet him at the ' station, their children are still in the mill at work, breathing the bad air, mixed with dust and lint. His children are put in bed and he looks at them proudly ; their faces are plump and pink. From his mill at that hour there issues a string of children with faces as white as the sheet on his child's bed. To mention such things, as this is "yellow journalism." ' The description, besides being yellow, is true.'-; Only" public opinion can discourage this brutality. Heart's Chicago Amer ican. ;-.. .:v.-.r. .. ; , .