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s? ( nn CJ2 : HE BINGER ORGANIZATION. EDUCATION, ELEVATION. Vol. III. Raleigh, North Carolina, October 15. 1904. No. 41 HAR i i THE AMERICAN GIRL Oh, Time, Rreatest artist, your can vas unfurled. And paint for us, pray, the Ameri J can Girl! No flaxen-haired fraulein we clam or for now Nor Spain's senorita, with dark, stormy brow; But a lithe, lissome creature, all curves and all grace, With the sunshine of heaven light- ing up her sweet face. vEyes deeply and darkly mysteri ously blue Some beautiful eyes, of the violet's own hue; Now tenderly soft, with woman hood's fears, , Now dancing with laughter, now fitindnwAd hv tears. A firm, rounded chin, an aristocrat's nose, A mouth made for kisses and cheeks i 1 "1 At.- t UKe uie ruse. , And, framing this face with a splen dor untold, An auerole of chestnut just glinting with goldl Ah, in the garden of Life, what rose can compare With our American Beauty, stately aim auii itemember, U Artist, mis portrait must stand t or all that is nooiest ana Desi in s , . n e 'a ; ior a neart iuii 01 puruy, geuue i ness, love, vFor a sympathy wide as the heavens above; V. , an na nirni- lictpnincr in TTnmnn- A yri au cim v, - ity's call And a hand to uplift those who stumble and fall. For a hope never swerving and a faith that's sublime In the ultimate good of all things . for all time. All hail to our girl the American Girll Shu's the queen of the earth, she's our pride and our pearl! God bless and keep her and grant she may be A model of womanhood from sea to sea, Flnrpttn A Williams. ON ACCOUNT OF THE N- C STATE FAIR, The Raleigh & Cape Fear R. R. Co. will sell round trip tickets to Raleigh, N. C, from the differ ent stations at the following rates, tickets being on sale from the i8th to the 22nd, good to return on any train up to and including last train of Monday, October 24: Lillington Station, $1.00 ; Cape Fear, $1.00 ; Smith Mill, 95c. ; Bradley, 90c; Chalybeate Springs, 80c. ; Rawles, 75c. ; Buckhorn, 65c. ; Fuquay Springs, 65c, ; Car denas, 65c; Willow Springs, 55c; Austin, 45c ; Banks, 40c. ; Mc Cullers, 35c; Hobby, 30c; Barnes, 25c. ; Sylvaola, 20c. ; Caraleigh Mills, 15c. Trains due to leave Lillington Station at 7:45 a. m. and 2:45 p. m , and reach Raleigh at 9:45 a. m. and 5:35 p. m. Trains due to leave Raleigh at '7:20 a. m. anu 4.1 p. m.f wmi the exception of Wednesday and ... ' .. j . :tu Thursday, on which days the afternoon train will wait at Ral 1 eigh until 5:15 for the accommo I dation of visitors to the Fair. 1 TVoIn nrA Vfair tir-lrptc mill hp n sale at stations where we have agents ; and passengers will please purchase same from agents before getting on train. i John A. Mills, '! Pres. and Gen. Manager. iRaleigh, N. Cv Oct. 8, 1904. :v . Pittsburg" (Pa.) District Coun cil of the Carpenters' Union has t een enjoined from making war r i what they style an "unfair" ployer, and awarded damages t t he amount of 1,770 for boy f ing, etc. Labor Notes. Thirty per cent of all the French trades unionists are to be found in Paris. The Trades and Labor Con gress of Canada has declared in favor of the union label. Workers in sugar factories in Southern California will shortly be organized in labor unions. There are 63,000 carriage and I wagon workers in the United States and Canada ; 30,000 of them are organized. The Ama'gamated Society of '. Farmers is conducting a campaign to organize the hourseshoers of the North of Scotland. There are 602 locals affiliated with the International Typo graphical Union, while the aver age paying membership is 46,165; increase of 3,720. Pittsburg, Pa., claims to have secured almost enough votes to bring the 1905 convention of the American Federation of Labor to that city. One thousand miners in a large colliery in the Durham (England) district have struck as a protest against the employment of non union men. The quarterly balance sheet of the General Federation of Trade Unions, of Great Britain, shows that it is possessed of funds amounting to 104,716 pounds. Signalmen employed on the Caledonian, North British and G'ascow and Southwestern rail ways have asked for shorter hours and an increase in pay. Members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners at their convention appointed a commit tee to investigate the proposition to establish a home in Denver. There is small prospect of an early settlement of the strike in the building trades at Cork, Ire land. The men struck several months ago for an increase in Pay- Uniform laws for the guidance of labor unions will be suggested to the coming convention :n San Francisco, Cal., of the American Federation of Labor. Tom Mann, the once well-known English labor leader, has started an agitation on the Australian gold-fields for a six-hour day, in stead of eight, as at present. A petition will be presented to the Ontario Government by Can adian labor unions asking them to label all prison-made goods as follows : "This was made by pris on labor." Windsor (Ontario) Trades and Labor Assembly has requested the Canadian Government to survey for anthracite, fearing a combine to put up the price of coal this winter. There are at present a dozen bona fide workingmen members of the British House of Commons. Among them is Richard Bell, president of the Trade Union Congress. THE HOPE OF THE HOME. "Paw," said the hope of the home(to his parent, who had come home from the factory earlier than usual. "Billy Jones says his father said to him as how the un ion men were going to refuse to work with you because you were a non-unionist. Is that true ?" "Yes," meekly assented Paw. "Billy Jones says !s Paw says that the union men won't work with you after tonight." Paw nodded. "Say, Paw," pleaded the hope, "why don't you go into the union ?" "My boy," answered Paw, "this is a free and independent nation, and all of its citizens are free and independent men and women. I don't wish to join the union, and, being a free born man, I will not be forced into it against my will." "Can a man do what he likes in this free country ?" questioned the hope. "Yes, indeed," They can't force you to vote if you don't want to ?" "Not at all," replied the father. "Nor pay your rent if you don't want to ; nor your grocery bills, nor your tailor, nor your " "No, no, no," hurriedly ex claimed the father. "These are obligations voluntarily assumed and agreed to, hence have to be met and liquidated." "Paw," solemnly asked the hope, "there is nothing compul sory about assuming these obliga tions, is there ?" "I have just said the obliga tions are voluntary," answered Paw. "But, Paw," queried the per sistent innocent, "if you can as sume voluntary obligations to your grocer, your tailor, your landlord and others, why can't you assume voluntary obligations to the union?" "Because, my boy, I refuse to be forced," doggedly retorted Paw. "But you are not forced to pay rent, Paw," insisted the hope. "Well, in a sense, yes," admit ted the father. "You are not mad at the land lord for demanding it, are you, Paw ?" "Oh, no." "Paw," said the hope, starting out on a new track, "the union has raised wages in the trade, has it not?" "Well, I suppose it has," ad mitted the father. "And made the working con ditions of the men better ?" "Of some of them, but I am a good mechanic and get as good wages as any union man," an swered Paw proudly. "When the union gets good me chanics an increase in wages, you get the increase, too. Is that right, Paw ?" "Sir ! '' cried the indignant father. "If the union did not raise the wages of the others, yours would not be increased," asserted the hope. "This question is too deep for you, my boy," advised Paw. "You had better go to bed." "But, Paw," pleaded the boy, "listen : Billie Jones and Willie Green and Johnny Robertson say that their Paws pay dues to the union, and if it were not for the dues they and others paid the union would be helpless to do any good." "Well, what about it ?" grunted the sire. "You say that all obligations are voluntary, and you of your own free will assume them to others. Then why not to the union, which has done so much more for you than the landlord, the tailor or the grocer ?" "See here, my lad," threatened Paw, "I will assume of my own free will an attitude toward you that may prevent you from using a chair for some time to come if you are not careful in your choice of language." "But, Paw," persisted the una bashed hopeful, "if the men re fuse to work with you in any of the shops because you are a non union man. will your freedom and independence feed you and Maw and me, and clothe us? Will not the landlord be free to turn us out in the cold ? Would not Wil lie Green, Billy Jones and Johnny Robertson's Paws be free to look upon you with contempt ? Are they not alTeady doing so ? Isn't it true that you come home early tonight because they fired you rather than have you cause trou ble in the factory by refusing to join the union? Isn't it ?" At this stage of the hope of the home's oratory Maw appeared upon the scene, and seeing the veins on Paw's excited face stand ing out like whip cords, and fear ing that he might do bodily in jury to the hopeful, she ordered him to his bedroom and his pray eis, with the injunction that he ask the Lord to clear his mind of the wicked thoughts and make him obedient, meek and submis sive, so that his days might be long upon the land. UNIONISM DEFINED- Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La bor, was asked to explain union ism. In a sentence he replied : "The labor movement has for its purpose the securing of the best possible economic and social con ditions for the masses, the attain ment of these with the least pos sible friction, the meeting of prob lems as they confront us ; the making of the day after this a better day than the one preced ing." Bricklayers at New Orleans La., have decided to call off their strike in sympathy with the car penters, and in the future will make their fight for union recog nition alone. Forty delegates have been sent in as many different places throughout the New England States to solicit aid for the 26, 000 striking cotton mill opera tives of Fall River, Mass. Why are not yellow hammers game ? They are only fit to eat. TO THE VOTERS OE WAKE COUNTT I hewbv announce mvsflf an in dependent candidate for the House of Representatives from Wake county. In soliciting VOlir votpn T rlrs!rp to say that, if elected. I will favor it 1 . . au legislation looking to the best interests of the ta nnvera nf the r t county, and I will support such measures as will serve to lessen the burdens that now bear upon them. I am opposed to class legislation of any kind, and will favor amend ment to or repeal of all laws now upon the statute books which dis criminate against any class of our citizens. A wage-earner myself, I am in a position to understand and sympa thize with the wants and needs of those who earn their bread "by the sweat of their face," and my best efforts will be given to aid in enact ing such legislation as will better their condition. At the same time I recognize that capital has its rights, and no man is more willing to protect those rights than myself. The working people of North Carolina, who toil to produce the wealth of the State, make up the great majority of our citizenship. Notwithstanding this fact, they have had but little voice in making th laws by which they are' governed. It is the same old story today. I do not believe there is a laboring man on any ticket so far put out in this campaign. Hence my announce ment. V. C. TERRY. September 22. 1904. TO ADVERTISERS. "Printers' Ink," the recognized au thority on advertising all over the civilized world, after a thorough in vestigation on the subject, says : "A Labor Paper is a far better ad vertising medium than an ordinary Newspaper in comparison with circu lation. A labor paper, for example, having 1,000 subscribers, is more valu able to the business man who adver tises in it than an ordinary paper with 6,000 subscribers. NAIL UP THE CARD- Mark Morton, of Cnlcago, son of J. Sterling Morton and brother of Secretary of the Navy Morton, came to Nebraska City, Neb., two weeks ago to settle the strike in his packing house, but he failed While there he entered a local livery barn, and, seeing a union card on the wall, tore it down Half an hour later he was waited on by 100 union workmen, who demanded that he restore the card to its place. Returning to the barn, Mr. Morton nailed the card on the wall in the presence of a large crowd of cheering union workmen. Terrible "Headon" Collision. It is safely estimated that no less than 250 persons in a "Headon" Collision, at a splitting rate, met with almost instant relief by coming in contact with Betts' Headache and Neuralgia Cure, The Great Remedy! in Raleigh the past few days; 5c. at Fountains. In bottles 10c, 25c., Jfi 00. Nearly all say Betts' is the best. Is no dope. Does not wreck the system. Leaves no bad effects. Soothing, refresh ing, invigorating. S J. BETTS, Proprietor, Raleigh, N. C. The Austrian Federation of Labor represents all the unions in the empire. They added 30, 000 members last year and" have now 220,000. This seems small, but is really a good showing in view of the government restric tions. The federation has twenty organizers in the field. Doves are, only wild pigeons. VALUABLE STATISTICS. Table Showing Aqa Limit for the Employment of Children In Fac tories. The following is furnished, on request, by the United States Bureau of Labor, Department of Commerce and Labor and is up to date : Alabama. Twelve. Ten if de pendent or having dependent parents. Arkansas Twelve. Ten if de pendent or having dependent parents ; fourteen if illiterate. California Twelve. Colorado Fourteen. Connecticut Fourteen. Illinois Fourteen. Indiana Fourteen. Kentucky Fourteen. Louisiana Boys, twelve ; girls, fourteen. Maine Twelve. Maryland Fourteen, unless de pendent or having dependent parents. Massachusetts Fourteen. Michigan Fourteen. Minnesota Fourteen. Missouri Fourteen. Nebraska Fourteen ; ten dur ing vacation. New Hampshire Fourteen ; twelve during vacation. New Jersey Fourteen. New York Fourteen. North Carolina Twelve. North Dakota-Fourteen; twelve during vacation. Ohio Fourteen. Oregon Fourteen. Pennsylvania Thirteen. Rhode Island-Thirteen; twelve during vacation. South Carolina Eleven, unless dependent or having dependent parents ; twelve after May 1, 1905. South Dakota Fourteen, ex cept during vacation. Tennessee Fourteen. Texas Twelve. Vermont Ten. Virginia -Twelve. Washington - Fourteen; twelve if dependent or having dependent parents. West Virgina Twelve. Wisconsin Fourteen. Foreign Countries. Austria Twelve. Belgium Twelve. France Thirteen. Denmark Ten. Germany Thirteen. Great Britain Eleven. Italy Twelve. Manitoba Sixteen. Netherlands Twelve. New Sonth Wales Fourteen ; thirteen, by permission of the minister. New Zealand Fourteen. Norway Twelve. . Ontario Fourteen. Quebec Boys, twelve ; girls, fourteen. Queensland Fourteen. Russia Twelve. South Australia Thirteen. Spain Ten. Sweden Twelve. Switzerland Fourteen. Victoria Thirteen. In Oklahoma it is a misdemean or to employ children under four teen in a factory more than ten hours a day, and in Porto Rico it., . is punishable to work children under sixteen in a factory more than six hours in twenty-four. The same court in Iowa that sentenced a banker to eighteen months in the. pen for robbing his depositors of $54,000 gave a common, ordinary, everyday theft six years for swiping a 25 cent chicken. Cotton is coming in to beat the band.
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