THE HARBINGER.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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