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' f RAPES Mi COUNCIL
DEATH OF A GOOD MAX.
The smlden death of Rev. Dr.
W. C. Norman, which took place
last Sunday morning in Wilming
ton, while in attendance on the
"Methodist Conferenc , wasa great
shock to this entire community,
where the decased had served as
pastor, in all, twelve years, and
where he practised and preached
the love of God and the brother
hood of man. No person in need
of food or money who applied to
him were turned away empty
handed if it were in his power to
supply their wants. He had the
love of citizens of . all denomina
tions and political beliefs.
The death of Dr. Norman was
announced from the various Ral
eigh pulpits last Sunday at the
morning service and cast a pall
over the entire city.
The remains, while en route to
Durham were visited by a large
number of our citizens, who paid
loving tribute to them by decora
tion with lovely flowers. The
funeral was held from Trinity
church, Durham, of which he was
the beloved pastor, amid an im
mense congregation, after which
the body was taken to Lexington,
N. C, for interment. The de
ceased left no children, but a sor
rowing wife, who has the sympa
thy of all our people.
ARBITRATION STILL ON.
The sessions of the Arbitration
Commission are being held daily,
and there is no indication of an
early adjournment. It seems that
the operators have not had enough
of the damaging evidence given
before the Commission by the
miners to satisfy their voracious
appetites. Before the evidence is
completed the public will know
enough of the rascality of the
coal operators to damn their per
nicious methods in the eyes of the
whole civilized world.
A 12-year-old boy witness stated
that he picked slate at four cents
an hour to pay a debt against his
father,contracted ighteen months
ago, the father having been killed
in the mine the debt, instead of
being decreased, was increased
each year, thereby entailing per
petual slavery if persisted in ! No
human slavery ever attained the
depth of such infamy since the
creation of man !
- Congress, at its present session,
should enact a law compelling
coal operators to pension the fam
lies of miners killed while on ac
tive duty in the coal mines, when
it was no fault of the miners that
' caused the accident which killed
them. Until such a law is pass
ed, we wilt continue to read in'
"'the press of miners being killed
through the want of better con-J
ditions prevailing in the mines.
If the operators don't agree to
an equitable settlement of the coal
strike in the near future, the
United States government will
take a hand in the matter and set
tle it for them.
Tllim VRDDOTfOl 7T.
In our editorial mention of the
iohour system by the Aurora
Cotton Mills, of Burlington, we
stated that it was the first mill to
adopt a 10-hour day. We were
in error, and hasten to credit the
Spencer Mountain Mills, of Low
ell, Gaston county, with working
on the 10-hour basis before it was
inaugurated by the Aurora Mills.
Let the good work go on.
TKN HOURS WILL DO.
Mr. Editor : Why is it that
Labor Commissioner Varner will,
in his report to the Legislature,
recommend an i i-hour day for
operatives, when two of the mills
of our State have volunteered to
grant a io-hour day ? Ten hours
a day is enough for anybody to
work. Let the commissioner re
vise his hours and make it ten.
AWFUL CONDITIONS.
The Charlotte Observer makes
the following observations on the
the coal strike inquiry :
"It would seem that the opera
tors would serve their own inter
ests by settling the coal strike
with the operatives, independent
ly of the commission, rather than
have such testimony to go to the
world as was given yesterday in
the hearing at Scranton, when
some of Markle's workmen were
on the stand. One man testified
that he had worked for the com
pany eighteen years without get
ting any cash in payment save
once wages being so low that he
could not keep out of debt, and
being compelled to trade at the
company store, where prices were
10 to 20 per cent, higher than in
other places. A 12-year-old break
er boy, who is paid four cents an
hour, told that he was working to
pay off a debt incurred by his
father who was killed eighteen
months ago. He was paid in due
bills, showing what his mother
owed the company, and her debt
alone was growing faster than he
could reduce it. This looks like
a case for the child slavery eman
cipators to attend to."
COMPLETE TO HATTIES
BURG. The line of the Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City road is
complete to Hattiesburg, Miss.
It is learned that plans have
been made for a survey of the
road across the Northern State
line of Mississippi, and it is in
ferred that Memphis is the prob
able destination, though no
authoritative announcement to
this effect has been made as yet.
It is officially declared that the
road is to be entirely independent
and will not be in any way con
trolled by the Frisco, Illinois
Central or any other system.
The new wage contract of the
broom-makers in Milwaukee,
Wis, has been signed by all of the
seven shops in which it was pre
sented.
The Southern Pacific Railway
will probably give its engineers
an increase in pay.
No man who has the food of
his union at heart' will refuse to
take the paper which speaks in
his behalf.-- '! t'"':
Editorial Notes.
Carpenters at Tuolumne, Cal.,
recently organized a union.
Railway clerks have organized
a union at New Haven, Conn.
Ten hours a day is enough for
any mill operative to work.
Read H. A. Kimball's new ad.
He runs a white barbershop.
See Mr. Turner's New Toy
Store announcement.
Rcac' M. M. Smith's new ad.
Second-hand books a specialty.
Read the local ad. of T. F.
Brockwell about umbrella repairs.
Rtad the Notice of Adminis
tration, J. Marcom, administrator,
d. b. n.
The evidence before the arbi
tration commission is damaging
to the coal operators.
The weather for the past few
days throughout the country has
been extremely cold.
Moulders at Cleveland, O., are
on strike. They demand an in
crease from 10 to 15 per cent.
The people of the West are
suffering for coal, the prairie
lands not furnishing any wood.
Don't fail the toy announce
ment of Mr. Turner, manager of
the 3 and 10 Cent Store. His
new place is next to Brestch's.
The J. D. Riggan Co.'s store
is a blaze of glory with variegat
ed colored electric lights and the
store looks like fairyland.
A movement is on foot to bring
the Brotherhoods of Engineers
Conductors, Firemen and Train
men into closer working relation
ship. The labor men elected two rep
resentatives to Congress from Cal
ifornia and one from Rhode Isl
and, besides helping to elect a
Democratic Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor, who were favor
able to labor, from the latter State.
.
Why don't organized labor in
Alabama run a full State ticket
and sweep out of office men who
hire out convicts to mine opera
tors to compete against honest
labor?
The country members-elect to
the Legislature which meets here
next month needs teaching in re
gard to the needs of organized
labor,so they can vote intelligently
on labor questions, and The Har
binger will undertake the job.
Now is the time for our mer
chants who are not represented in
The Harbinger to place an ad.
in its columns as the people are
looking for holiday goods. We
reach the masses and the classes.
.'
Owing to the demand for ad
vertising and in order to give our
subscribers more reading matter,
The Harbinger this week ap
pears in a six-column folio, in
stead of five, as heretofore.
Mr. Sherwood Higgs has a
beautiful Christmas arch in front
of his store, with, streamers en
twined with evergreen and inter
spersed vari colored electric, lights,
which presents a beautiful ap
pearance. . ;
MANY THOUSANDS BENE
FITED.
Following close upon the great
victory of the coal miners comes
the announcement of the advance
of 10 per cent, in the wages of
the employes of the Pennsylvania
railroad. This was immediately
followed by a like action on the
part of the New York Central
roav, and will be duplicated by
practically every one of the main
roads in the country. In round
figures the incomes of 630,000
men will be increased annually
by from $15,000,000 to 20,000,
000. Union Pacific has announced
au increase of the pay of its switch
men to the level of the schedule
recently fixed in Chicago. This
increase amounts practically to a
10 per cent, rise in wages that
will affect about 96 per cent, of
the employes.
The Southern Pacific road,
which is controlled by the Union
Pacific, has signed a new agree
ment by which all of the telegra
phers, train dispatchers and agents
on its entire system get a 10 per
cent, increase.
A majority of the employes on
all of the Gould roads will get a
wage increase approximating 10
per cent. More than 150,000 men
will be affected by this increase.
The Gould roads which will be
affected by the increase are the
Missouri Pacific, Texas Pacific,
Denver and Rio Grande, St. Louis
and Southwestern, Rio Grande
and Western, and Wabash.
The Philadelphia & Reading
road, which emjloys 18,000 men,
has announced that the wages of
their employes will be adjusted
so that their earnings will be
equal to those made on other
roads.
Samuel Spencer, president of
the Southern railway, said certain
classes of employes have already
been given an increase, and that
the wages of the others would be
advanced within a short time.
Ten per cent, increases are now
being considered by the officials
of the "Nickel Plate," Wheeling
& Lake Erie, Pittsburg & Lake
Erie and Lake Shore. The lat
ter announced a 10 per cent, in
crease to all switchmen employed
on its line.
MITCHELL ON VIOLENCE.
Mr. Mitchell rendered a distinct
service to the cause of labor when
he declared in answer to an in
quiry relative to the influence of
violence upon the success of a
strike : "I should say that its suc
cess would not be dependent upon
it at all. The very conditions al
leged would reduce the chances
of winning the strike. In my
judgment, violence never contrib
uted to the success of a strike, be
cause it loses for those on strike
the sentiment of the public.
Mr. Mitchell is entirely right.
Violence hurts the strikers infi
nitely more than it does the em
ployers. In fact, the employer so
well understands the influence
which a display of violence exerts
upon the public that they have
been accused of instigating the
violence themselves in order to
profit by the indignation aroused.
Mr. Mitchell has done much to
strengthen the cause of labor, but
nothing that tie has said has shown
a clearer discernment of a more
just appreciation, of ; the; forces
that move society.--Bryan1,s, Com
moner. ,
Boy an, Pearce & Company.
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to Build and Own a Home.
Our monthly Payment Investment Certificates of I400.00 requires the pay
ment of only TEN CENTS per day for one hundred months, M hen the owner will
receive. 4oocash. Our Full Paid Coupon Certificates 100 are sold for foo cash
and pay six per cent per annum free, of tax. All certificates are secured by real
estate mortgage.
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TUB LABOK VOTE.
The important part played by
the laboring vote in many sec
tions of the country in the elec
tion just over has not failed to
impress impress itself upon the
minds of students of politics here.
The labor vote in many places in
dicated strongly that organized
labor is beginning to use its vote
as a power.
In at least thfee sections of the
country did the labor vote, cast
almost as a body, cut a most im
portant figure. In many places
it yielded an indirect influence
that amounted to a great deal. In
California the union labor vote
overturned the Republican Con
gressmen and sent union labor
men in their places. Represent
atives Kahn and Loud are both
to be succeeded by union labor
men who received Democratic
nominations also. E. J. Liver
nash, a union labor candidate,
succeeds Representative Kahn,
' while W. J. Wynn comes to Con
gress in place of Representative
Loud. Mr. Livernash was. for
merly a newspaper reporter, and
at th last session of Congress was
here looking after Chinese exclu
sion legislation for the Pacific
coast. The union labor vote came
very near electing a Governor in
California also. , ; .
A strfpt rar strike in Provi-
Idence R. I., last summer and the
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results growing out of it caused
the election of a Democratic
member of Congress and a Dem
ocratic Governor and Lieutenant
Governor in Rhode Islond. The
Republicans were greatly sur
prised that there should be a
chonge in their representation in
Congress from Rhode Island. The
Democratic congressional commit
tee had made no pretense to claim
ing a district in Rhode Island,
and not even the most rosy Dem
ocratic prophets attempted to
claim the election of a Democratic
Governor in a rock-ribbed Repub
lican State like Rhode Island.
The change was brought abbtj
by the labor vote.
In the eleventh Pennsylvania
district the United Mine Workers
took a hand, that surprised the
leaders of both parties..' The
miners elected George Howell to
Congress from that district in
place of Representative Connell,
the millionaire coal operator, who
has represented the djstiict for
years. Mr. Connell is said to
have spent much money to secure
re-election and had not thought
that lie would be defeated. The
miners not only elected Mr. How
ell, but elected three members, of
the lower house of the State Leg
islature, defeating ''Republican
nnimitipps hv imexoeeted ' maiori-
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