THE HARBINGER. The Harbinger. Official Organ Central Labor Union A Paper for the Toiling 3Iae. jrtUSHED EVZiY SATUREAY BY THE HARBINGER PUBLISHING CO. W. E. P. V. FAISON. . McGOWAN. . . . . Editor. Business Manager. tOflice : "Mutual Publishing Company's Building," No. 106 West Martin street ( 2d floor. ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Raleigh, N. C. POSTOFFICE BOX 167. SUBSCRIPTION s One year (in advance) f 1.00 Six months 5 Three months 25 TRADES fejjjj) COUNCIL All persons to whom The Harbinger is sent, who are not subscribers, need have no hes itation in taking the paper from the postoffice. This announcement is made in order that those to whom the paper is sent through the courtesy of some friend of theirs may understand that no obligation is incurred by them in taking the paper from the postoffice. THE AMERICAN FEDERA TION OF LABOR. We have received the proceedings up-to-date of the twenty-second session of the American Federation of Labor, which is now in session at New Or leans, President Gompers presiding. There is a large amount of business before this great body, which is being dispatched as fast as a careful consider ation of the same will admit. The name of John Mitchell has been mentioned as a possible candidate for president of the Federation, but that gentleman, while recognizing the ex alted honor which such an election would add to his already honorable name, has emphatically declined to let his name go before the convention, as Mr. Mitchell truly states that he thinks he can do the cause of labor more good in his present capacity than he could in any other position ; there fore he declines the honor. The workinginen of the country are not tired of Sam Gompers as president of the grandest labor union in the world, but he is contemplating engag ing in some other business, and hence the mention of Mr. Mitchell's name in connection with the presidency of the American Federation of Xabor. The Labor Press Association of the United States met four days preceding the session of the Federation in the Crescent City, and has transacted some very important business in regard to the interests of the labor press. Editorial Notes. DEATH OF TWO PROMINENT CITIZENS. Last Sunday afternoon Oak wood Read the new ad. of the Southern cemetery was filled with citizens who Book Exchange. ivitnfQv1 tl fnnfrals nf tirrt nf Pal.! .. r 1 a v ' Read the new ad., "Money to Lend,' Shaffer and Mr. S. A. Campbell. The by R R MontW former, who has been sick for several Bro. Geo. Holder is cut on the street months, and was removed to a sani- shaking hands with his friends. f-iiii of TIhicimHa M r in rrAtT In ' prolong his life, died there last Friday, 14th inst. The Douglass Shoe Co. is using the union label on all their shoes. It pays Col. Shaffer was at one time post-. t0 do so as te whole country is be master of this city and ably filled the coming unionized omce. ne was a man or variea at- Dont faiJ tQ read the new ad of E tainmenis ana naa a nost 01 menas ( w Hightower this week .He has some who extend their sympathies to his New Ideal and New Home Sewing Dereaved lanniy. Machines at a bargain o. ."V. vauipucii, wuu uicu lasi Saturday, was a good citizen and op erated two of the largest furniture stores of this city and made many friends, who with his grief-stricken family, mourn their loss. Now that Mollineux is a free man, what will be the next sensation ? Per has the North Pole will be found in the "sweet by-and-bye." The weather the past few weeks has AGAINST CONVICT LABOR. been very favorable to the poor people A bill to be presented to the next of the countTy where the coal suPP!y 1; t . a. ... .1 1 Illinois legislature doino- awav entirely lb limueu' " ls "tempering me winas with the letting of convict labor to to the shorn Iam,b" . i contractors was one ot the most lm- A merchant stated to a reporter of portant measures acted upon by the this paper that his ad. in The Har Illinois State Federation of Labor at binger was bringing him new cus- lts recent session in East St. Louis, tomers. It is one of many of the com A text of the proposal law, cutting off pliments which we receive almost every competition of prison inmates with ( week. It shows that the paper is read tree labor, was submitted to the dele- by all classes of people. gates by President Menche. It forbids ! the farming- out of convict labor in Wilmington has just had her street any form and provides that prisoners carnival. Uther cities which have tried shall manufacture only articles for use thein wil1 tr' them no more, as it is in State institutions. ' : said they are demoralizing to a com- : munity and the city is poorer finan- THE COAL BARONS. j cially after they are over than it was Some new pictures of Divine Right. before they came. Baer are being published which make Union men : One of the principles COMPULSOR Y ED'UCA TION. Superintendent Clements, in an ad dress recently delivered before the school superintendents, adopted the policy of this paper, in declaring for compulsory education as the only means by which the children can be made to attend the public schools as they should. He states that "the chil dren of rural communities attend their schools more punctually than do the children of the city schools," and "that the great influx of farmers to the cities is not for the purpose of giving their children better school facilities, but they move to town to put their children in the factories and hosiery mills," and his speech was applauded to the echo. It is the exception, and not the rule, when people from the country move to the cities's to educate their children. The former's cry "What's the use to work so hard, When I've got children in the factory yard ? 11111 iuok u just as mucu asever-ues 011 which trades linions flrp fn Moines Register and Leader. I cta a k fWo , i , e, . mwov vviiu siauu uy us. OIIUW The unpleasant things said about this in yourself by patronizing the Mr. Baer are even worse than the re- merchants who are friendly to you marks passed about the man who takes those who advertise in this paper. a naircui auring me Saturday evening Savannah Labor Herald. The above rush in Herald. a barber shop. Baltimore is The number of union men who don't read The Harbinger are getting scarcer all the time. Every person should subscribe to it. On the exhibit at the white house conference John Mitchell, president of of the United Miners, is more of a gentleman than any of the coal and railway magnates who were tempor arily his fellow guests. Colli mbtis(0.) Dispatch. Well this is a great country any way you take it. Just imagine, if you can, anybody talking to the German kaiser, Czar Nicholas, or even little King Alphonse as Baer and those other fellows talked to President Roosevelt on Friday. Richmond (Va.) Times. Thomas of the Erie road told the Washington correspondents, as he walked down the white house steps, that they might as well talk to a stone as to him. That seems to have been the mental attitude of the barons in side as well as outside of the executive mansion. Boston Globe. Abnormal prices for fuel are sure to affect the export trade of the United States. Coal is an important factor in the cost of producing many Ameri can staples largely sold abroad. The higher the cost of fuel the' more diffi cult it will be to compete with othei nations in the markets of the world. Cleveland Leader. President Baer seems to be oblivi ous to the fact that the strikers, the poor despised strikers, stand in this contest distinctly as the force which insists upon the enforcement of law and order and thatthe millionaire operators themselves by insisting upon their own construction of their rights and their interpretation of their rights applies to the unionists who take The Harbinger. Mr. John S. Hampton, who has been holding a situation in Nashville, Tenn., and who is a Raleigh boy, has return ed to the city and accepted a position as linotype operator on the Morning Post. John can "keep up with the elevator." John Mitchell is the star witness for the miners before the Arbitration Com mittee, and is holding his own in his cross-examination before the "divine right" coal-baron lawyers the most brilliant of the American bar. But John is a regular Gibraltar against the onslaughts of the Neros, because he has right on his side. W. R. Hearst, owner of the New York American, the Chicago Ameri can and the San Francisco Examiner which papers have always contained editorials in favor of labor, has been elected to Congress from one of the New York city districts on the Demo cratic ticket. He is a true champion of the rights of labor and of the poor, althongh he is a multi-millionaire phi lanthropist. . The Harbinger has received a let ter from Prof. Holmes of the Geologi cal Survey, stating that he copied the article which appeared in the Progress ive Farmer, anent the opposition of union labor to working the public roads with convict labor from the New Yoik Tribune, and says that he is glad to see in The Harbinger that organ ized labor is in favor of building good roads with convict labor. We are pleased to know that Prof. Holmes cid not promulgate such an , absurd idea. of their opponents in this fight, are . The Tribune wnuM better inform. really the only anarchists in the situa tion. Atlanta Tournal. ed as to the policy of organized labor if it read this paper. Bo j Ian, Pearce & Company. e 9 99 9 0 YOUR WJNTER PURCHASES is what we are after, and offer more inducements for trade than any house in the State. A visit from you and comparison of prices and quality will con vince you. ....... DRESS GOODS, CARPETS, CLOAKS, MILLINERY, BLA.NKETS, COMFORTS, TRIMMINGS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, DRAPERY, CURTAINS, FURS. Boylan, Pearce & Co., 206 and 208 Fayetteville Street. Walter Woollcott, 114 EAST MARTIN STREET. NEW FALL GOODS, SUCH AS DRESS GOODS, WRAPS, BOYS' CLOTHING, HATS, SILKS and SKIRTS HAVE ARRIVED. The Stock is Now Complete. .... AND .... Priees are the Cowest. This Stock is the Largest we have ever Shown. WALTER WOOLCOTT. Mechanics' and Investors' Union Has completed eight prosperous years, and will begin to mature and redeem certificates August 25, 1902, and every month thereafter by the payment per share of One Hundred Dol lars Cash. . We Can Aid Yon to Siive and Invest Monev We Can Aid You to Build and Own a Home. Our monthly Payment Investment Certificates of $400.00 requires the payment of only TEN CENTS per day for one hundred months, when the owner will receive $400 cash. Our Full Paid Coupon Certificates $ 100 are sold for I90 cash and pay six per cent, per annum free of tax. All certificates are secured by real estate mortgage. GEORGE ALLEN, S Puixen Building. 9 9 I 1 1 oal ByDDetDim t 2 (SUCCESSORS TO J. LEWIS HARDWARE CO.) -v-- h Anthracite coal is scarce and high in price. ',3., llagey -King Heating Stoves We f call your attention to our Patent Hagey King Heating Stove, made of the best American Rus- A sia iron and best wrought sheet steel, and lined q with charcoal iron. Ornamental and suitable A for bed-room or parlor. We do not hesitate to ! say it the best, the cheapest and safest quick ? heater ever offered. f H art-Ward H ardware Co. ? h Linelian Co Hew tucker Building. . 234 and 236 Fayetteville St. lotl)icr$ men's Turnfsbers and Outfitters V Cross & Li nehan Co., RALBIGH, N. C. Altering, Gleaning and Pressing Done at Short Notice. ; --.v--SATI6F ACTION GUARANTEED. -.y-,- -. Cor. Fayetteville and Davie Sts , Fraps Building. 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