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Endorsed by OrganizedJLabor 7 'i 7 1 r I i I" Ccii'iij Farr.iers' Union. VOL. II RALEIGH, N. C, 1 UAHY 1G, 1919. ... i . In Work or Play S stand the tesl. ! This store'is particularly dedicated to the man who wants serviceable working clothes six days to the week and when Sunday comes demands the best Choose f rem these Cloaiss witha Reputation i Alco and Collegian i Suits and Overcoats Carhart Overhalls Signal Shirts r Packara Shoes MctecflfilVatson i Clothes of Quality One Price i to AIL ' , . tess Wari Succesors to Gattis & Ward. in f. Wins Models Row on Dis play. : ; 1 .' ' We Can Fit All Feet at Lowest Cost. Come Around And Let's get acquainted Guess MaM 113. East Martin St. Raleigh, N. C. R. L. Green Wall Papering 202 S. Salisbury St. . : Phone 1680 DR. C. D. BASS DENTIST 203-204 MASONIC TEMPLE Phone 1487 Phone No. 1 ; -. i when you want anythingln the y Drug Line ts . . - I PROMP SERVICE. J i, " NEXT TO BLAND HOTEL. S. 17. WiLUAMS, Dn-iEist, Ufaitifli PRESCRIPTIONS OP COURSE Get the habit." Have your meetings V uoxeg r:si of tiie state favor A STROIIG LABOR DEPARTOEIIT. The following letter to members of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives was adopted by the legis lative representatives of organized vuici) utuica Jo . wCu xiAdi-u oci "coi' on. -wts, oar reyicssduta o cdiMtcny, wouia most -ecipeci-i.uii tvoii jruui' kti"u.ebk vuuSiuertuuu t m iii, luiroaucbd in me ouuace uodubtur uuuur ana in uie xiuugc u ixepreseautwye bauuaers, to ma&e tuecuvt) me poncy o tne bcate o iorcn caroiiuo., as oeciarea in va iiuus acua oi us .uenerai. Assem unes, wna reterence to cmld iaoor. rne nexiDie provisions o una Dill, waa.iug possiDie a umiorm and com-mou-Bense eniorcement, ' dj a com mission composed of the State Super mtenaent of : Public Instruction, tno secretary of the btate Board of iiealth,. and the Commissioner : ox Labor and Printing, the very nature of whose functions as State officers as at present defined and exercised make them the logical and proper persons to administer this proposed law, should strongly commend it to those to be most directly affected thereby. ' ' As an honored and' trusted repre sentative of a State whose fighting men were "firsf'at Bethel, farthest to the front at Gettysburg .and Ghickamauga, andJast at Appomat tox," whose ; proud ' boast Is that "North Carolina sits at the head of the table, you will be interested In the early passage . of this act by which one of the State's problems will be solfed by those whose duty it is to find solution, and that the State shall be spared the humiliation of Federal interposition by legisla tion, ahead of State action, in a mat ter which it is the Stag's high priv ilege and-primarily iti duty to regu late. .-"''.. Under the pending bill State in spection can be correlated with Fed eral inspection and the ; wvirk of the State inspectors answer the require ments' of the Federal Government. The State is now definitely pledged to a greater rural North Carolina; we 'have a strong agricultural de partment with the1 powers of a Bub- legislature, headed, by .a farmer with a large staff oi scienysts, jnarKeiiug division, agricultural colleges, etc.; and this probably is as it should De. The army of urban wage-earners are THE COJkOnSSIONER OF LABOR. A bill to abolish the office of La bor Commissioner, offered as retali ation - because Labor Commissioner Shipman asked for machinery to en force the child labor laws, found no favor with the - legislators, and an other bill was offered that would displace Shipman as a member of the commission charged with the en forcement ', of the statute, the Gov ernor being named in place of Ship man. Governor Bickett does not de sire that honor, and representatives of organized labor have made, a dig nified appeal; to the Legislature to pass the original bill. If any meas ure is passed, it should be either the original bill suggested by Shipman or. one similar. - The attempt to pun ishthe Labor Commissioner suggests not, only petty spite, but the idea that he must be set aside simply and solely because he asked that the child labor law be made a reality instead of the dead letter it now is. The Legislature can't afford to en gage in that sort of business.- Statesville Landmark. , UP. TO OLD TRICKS. New York, Feb.?. 8. The national liberal " immigration league " has is: sued a statement against the pro posed stoppage of Immigration for a period of .four years. L The league ig nores industrial conditions in this country, and declares that it "would be wiser to 'wait until we have : a problem before, we attempt to solve! it." , : : 1 This league opposed the passage of the present Burnett immigration restriction law in 119 15.: ( At that time ; President Gompers made pub lic a series of sensational documents which showed that the league , was financed by 1 large employers of la bor, and steamship companies. , V k The list" included ;' the Pittsburg Coal Company f Susquehanna Coal Company, - Carnegie " corporation, Lackawanna Steel Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Berwind Whlte Coal Mining Company, - Rogers-Brown Iron Company, and other large employers. 'Among the documents was a cable to the Hamburg steamship . - line, Hamburg,' Germany, hr ; which offi cers of the league state - that they .without outspoken champion in pub- the government through which - the State in fact or "in name gives official recognition . to the urban wage-earn er is the Department' of Labor; and we . most respectfully insist that its duties and powers shall be enlarged as occasion, like the present, may arise. , ' ' r Through the long ' and fearful travail of nations : that "the , world might be made) safe for democracy, "Hope has told a flattering tale to the men of, toilr they believe in the early, triumph of elemental justice, which is the limit of their demands. Those of them who by their bravery and sacrifice in the field, and their loyalty and self-denial at home con tributed their full share in achieving a measure of liberty for the oppress ed, of Europe may be pardoned for expecting a - reasonable - .degree v: of consideration as toilers and as citi zens of North Carolina. ' --; i We confidently assume that the members of this General Assembly I have sumcient State pride to. obviate the necessity of federal legislation on this subject, the mental honesty to concede the necessity for the pass age of the Connor-Saunders , Child Labor blU, the political sagacity to 'register off' ' after a protracted stay at Halfway House and pass this bill without emasculation. . - With great respect, ' ' Very truly yours, r " W. F. MOODY, . " V; LAWRENCE E. NICHOLS, Legislative Committee State i '; Federatiou of Labor. , ' . H. W. HARGIS, Legislative Chairman Order of J : j : Railway Conductors. : -. ' , c.'c: .page, f t ' " 5 , ; i ; Legislative Chairman Brother- hood Locomotive Engineers. 1 1 - j; E. BATJMBERGER, I Legislative Chairman- Brother-. -hood of Locomotive Firemen -I f. and Enginemen, - I . ' E. J. JONES,;, f Legislative Chairman, Brother Li hood of Railroad .Trainmen.- . -7. J. F. McMJAHON, . I Legislative Chairman y Railway '. ' ; Shop Crafts, i . ." " ' " W. S. BURRUS, 1 i Legislative Chairman" Brolher hooJTdfTtarrway Clerks.";-" Y E. R. pace; - : I ) Central Trades : Council of Bal- f : eigh. ' ' , . " " . owe $7,000 in salaries, rent, print ing, etc., and that "unless we pay Immediately we , wUI ' be sued - and put in bankruptcy, with disagreeable consequences for all concerned." v. i In urging large employers to con tribute regularly to the support of the league, officers state ' that., "we have to send appeals and communi cations to some 115,000 influential persons, most of them clergymen.". It was also stated that it., is nec essary to send to Washington a num ber of .v delegations . composed i of members of various nationalities. The league gives this " hint on how delegates were chosen ' " for these junkets: -s - I ;"But the delegates were not really chosen- by bodies of , their own na tionalities.". - - (Since President Gompers expose the ; league : has kept out : of - public print up to the present time, SOMETHING NEW. Lasater. says the blockad efs have discovered a new' process for making liquor, and can now mam ufacture it without a still and with out spending their time in the woods exposed to all kinds of weather and Mo the possibility of being captured by officers - and imprisoned. They prepare the meal . or other material from which the I liquor Is made, and after it has undergone fermentation they place it in a pot on the kitchen stove, and as It boils they catch the ste;anr in an, ordinary " bath towel. After it has been absorbed by the towel, they. . wring the towel and from the accumulation of steam is produced the. liquor. A simple pro cess, and yet It Is said that it is one that will produce results; The slops are thrown to the hogs in the yard, and were an officer to make a raid on the man's home he would find no evidence of blockading, unless he found a large quantity : of liquor. Sanford Express: - . r COOPERS UNITING. . ' Kansas ' City, Kans. Officers - of the Coopers' International Union re port that tight and slack barrel trim mers have organized in ! Cleveland, Ohio, and that charters have been Issued to Sioux City, Iowas and Van couver, B. C, coopers. at the IUng-Crowell Drufj Company Gtore. Pleasantanda "dandy " 1 - . store in Raleigh. Enjoy a drink while you wait. - LABOR AND American Del.; tcs Llzij Ynv.-lz- mental PriicIa Urci Wldch League ShouM He Formcl. 1he Americra delegates on the Commission ' on International Labor Legislation of 3 Peace Ccnference have submitted Vze following propo sals to, the com mission: "We declare that the following foundamental j rinciples should un derlie and be incorporated " in the peace treaty: : "A league of the free peoples Of the world in a'common covenant for genuine and practical cooperation to secure justice, land therefore peace, in the relations between nations. ' . "The. entrance of any free nation into the league to f free peoples of the world shall be inherent. -"No reprisals based upon purely vindictive purposes or deliberate de sire to injure, but to right manifest wrongs "Recognition of the rights of small nations and. of he principle 'No peo ple must be forced under a soverign ty under which it does not wish to live.' f "No territorial changes or ad just ments' of ? power except in -the fur therance" of ,the welfare of the peo ples affected and in the furtherance of world peace. - "That. In law-and in practice the principle shall t j recognized that the labor of a huian being fs not a commodity or fan article - of commerce."- - I - ' . "Involuntary; servitude shall not exist except' a- - a -punishment "for trime of which J the' party shall have been duly convicted.- -1 ----- . 1 1 "Trials by j try should be estab lished. . ; t "The right of' free association free assemblage, free speech and the press shall not be deuied or abridged. "-'That the seamen of the merchant marine shall beguaranteed the right of leaving their vessels when the same are in a safe harbor.. "No article ot commodity shall be shipped or delivered in international commerce in tht production of which children under j the age of 16 years have been employed or permitted to work. - , r" ' v : - ; ."No article or commoddity shall be shipped or delit ered in international commerce In the production of which conVlct labor h 3 been employed or permitted; ,"It shall be declared that the work day in Industry and commerce; shall not exceed eight hours a day except in case of extraordinary emergency, such as danger to life and property." 'The sale orl use for commercial pnrposea 'tr i,u'lrs,TaadoJor'iaang factured in private homes shall bo prohibited. . , ' . 4. . - "It shall be declared that an ade quate wage shall be. paid for labor performed-- wage) based upon and commensurate with the standards of pay conforming' to the civilization of the time. " "That equal wages shall be paid to women as Is paid to men for equal work : performed. . "The incorporation - of the pointa land down by President Wilson." CLASS LEGISLATION IN NORTH CAROLINA NOW. '. Hon. W. O. Saunders, editor ot the Independent at Elizabeth City, and also member of the House from Pasquotank, and patron of the Child Labor bill, has the following in a re cent issue, of .his paper; ',' : A POLITICAL" THOUGHT. I took a casual inventory of the personnel of the . General Assembly of North - Carolina the other day and observed that it was composed largely of merchants, manufacturers, lawyers and land-owners." And 1 thought how fortunate these - repre sentatives of the classes were to be able-to sit there in peace and privi lege and make laws to suit them selves and their class interests with out having the laboring masses of the State throwing bricks, cabbages, rotten eggs and -verbal denunciations at them: day. in and day out, r And it occurred to me that if that General Assembly were composed of day" laborers, carpenters, cotton mill workers; saw mill laborers, - mechan ics and farm hands, who would truly represent, a majority, of the people in the State, ;what a howl would go up Incessantly from the lawyers, the merchants, the manufacturers and the land barons! : The privileged classes in North Carolina 1 r are t blessed and ' don't know it. -And maybe the working classes are blessed also. If the working Classes asserted their ma jority strength ; and captured a ma jority of seats in -the General As sembly they -"would: ; immediately cease to be good citizens, in the eyes of - the classes, and would be branded Bolshevlki, The average working man in North Carolina would rather starve to death than be called a Bol shevist.: The chief enterprise of the class - interests should be - to make Bolshevism as hateful, odious ; aud ignoble as printer's ink, can make it. CroveD : Brog iiuci smr rr.oi its shown by . .UNIONISTS. . Seattle, Wash. The strike of ship builders against the " Macy award, which: includes several localities', is not. a rejection of arbitration or con ciliation methods, according to James A. .Taylor, president of the Metal Trades Council. He'uays tne ship building unions were given authority by Mr. Piez (Shipping Board) last month wto negotiate separate agree ments, with snipyards if they desired to do so. - .- - 1 Secretary Swain,-' of the : Metal Trades Council, has - made public these figures on the profits of ship builders: . ' 1 : j "In 1917 the Government paid" the Seattle yards $145 per ton for hips. At . this figure the builders were able to pay an increase of $175 per man per day. This amounted to $7.50 a ton, or $66,000 per ship of ,800 tons. , ! "In July, 1 9 18, the builders were paid $167,50 per ton and. admitted that the cost of construction, cover ing everything, was $1,000,000 per ship. "An 8,800-ton ship at $167,50 per ton brought the builder a price amounting to $1,474,000. " Taking: the admitted coat of - construction from this amount, there was left a net profit of $474,000.- If the .rates asked by. the Metal 'Trades Council, amounting to an increase of $66,000 per ship, had been , paid, the build ers' would have had a net profit of $408,000 on lsst summer's figures.; l "It is 'admitted that the builders at the present .time are getting $186 per ton, which for- an 8,8 QO-ton "ship means a price of $1,636,800. It is further admitted by the builders that the present' cost of construction of these ships Is $1,350,000. This allows a profit of $ 286,000. If the full demands of the men were, met, the. builders would4 still .have a net profit of $200,800 per ship at the present time. , - , ; "The Skinner & Eddy Corporation sold' two" ships to Japanese interests for the sum of $5,000,000. The ad: mitted cost of each ship was $1,000, 000, which. gave a firm a net profit on; that one deal of f 3,000,000.". WILL LOOK AFTER - -WORKERS'' WELFARE Munich, Jan. 10 (Correspondence of-' the Associated Press Thev new government department for- social affairs,- one of the first fruits of the revolutionrhas; announced a program which contains some novel features intended ter" promote rtha melfayeo I the workers. ----- ; ;- One of the most important of its plans .is to organize a new bureau of public health, to be charged with the task of ascertaining ' the - causes of " Illness - among employees r in all trades and the discovery - of means of preventing them. ' I 1 i All industries are to be inspected by representatives of labor organiza tions so that .workmen ' may be as sured of better protection-.:' . It is : Intended to prohibit after April .lvthe publication ot. advertise ments ; offering ; employment. The reason for this it not stated. Other plans announced by -the - new depart ment are: ' " Extensiop of the powers of the In dustrial physicians. - ' - Interesting of capital in the con struction of workmen's homes."- -- New arrangement of the working hours of house" servants ' including more free time". - " , Farmers, peasants and -country laborers are to be placed on an equal basis with Industrial and- trade workers. , , " - New arrangement of- the payment of war pensions for ..the families .of those injured in the l war. Alteration of the; existing home worker laws, with special .pi-en'ce to women who labor at home. . : ' ; THIS BOSS IS REAL MAD: v Mount Vernon, N. Y., . Feb. 81--Dresa workers a liated- with .In ternational Ladles' Garment Work ers'; Union are demanding a44-hour week but they won't get very far with the Matilda Waist Company ii the manager carries - out his threat. He has given notice that he will; take a hatchet and smash all the machines before he will deal with the union.-' Y The unionists don't seem - worried over - this" sabotage ..threat. - TUey laugh at the irate boss who is as sured that others nave made similar statements, but " failed tot "make good." v A representative of the union says the girls are paid 35 to 40 cents fo? a dress or suit that is sold for $30. CARPENTERS WANT MORE. Waco, Tex.-Organized carpenters have prepared a new wage scale to become effective March 1. . Journey men rates are advanced to 85 cents an hour; apprentices, first year,. 45 cents an hour;, second year; 50 cents; third year,; 55 cents, and fourth year 65 cents. ' ' " ' Company; WAS SlIllivE "ooLUHOA." New York,- heb. 8. -Mr. Hanv Gordon announces that the Dress and Waist Manufacturers' associa tion has a solution for the strike ot 35,000" workers being waged by tne International Ladies' Garment Work ers' Union. Mr.; Gordon said the . manufactur ers will employ workers who have nc union connection and of a ' type "different from our prccsnt class of workers." - - ' -; "There are .-enough workers, .unemr ployed, in this city, due to t'9 aban donment of ', government work, he said, to supplant rthe strikers, "wo men and men who do not submit to the bolshevistic doctrines which' .'the' Strikers drink in so readily." "The new class of help which the manufacturers intend to employ," continues' Mr. Gordon, "will te kept permanently. The- workers will be carefully selected ;from the army of unemployed which- is ; at present marching through the streets in this and other cities, and our permanent solution" of the great difficulty the class i of help will - have - been solved." . . .. r : Mr. Gordon, it might, be stated, is not a,, manufacturer . and ; knows nothing of the garment industry. He is a' .... hired" man-' " lawyer. ; "The ."bolsevistic doctrines' which he re fers to arei a- demand' for the 4 4 -hour work, week and a living wage.. These demands have been endorsed by A. F;- of .L.-. Secretary ' Frank Morrison in" a ' letter to 'President "Schlesinger of the International' Union, '"congrat ulating' the . trade unionists on their splendid fight for better conditions. BOOKBINDERS GAIN. Salt Lake City.' Utahj Organized bookbinders; have Increased . wages to $31.50 -:f or journeymen and $ 3 for foremen.- i - Blrmihgham Ala.-r- The ' Book binders' Union-lias established a new wage scale. v; Women workers in this industry , have recently organized, and they'are-intiluded in the-advance. -sj. ; - Elgin, ,Ili; The Eookblnders,l Union Is just c.e year old, and has proved' the.-value of" organization by raising-v ages 13 ; :r c.nt &n4 im proving. "working conditions..- ITQnjS. REDUCED; NOT WAGES.. iWashineton Acting V as umpire Iprjfie National rWabor6Ar3r In the ,'case'ot .thetiternaUonai:Pa?J per ' Company versus its employes, John"- Lind, ex-Governor of Minne sota, rules that a previous award means an eight-hour day' for - in side workers and nine, hours for . outside workers,-with no wage reductions. The umpire calls attention to the refusal of the National ; War Labor Board to recognize bonuses "or other forms, of gratuities" as constituting parVof the' minimum wage scale that has been adopted. - - ' ' " ': "Any. bonus or gratuity paid by the .International Paper Company, or by any other" mill shall be wholly disregarded in' the computation of the arrears of wages accruing to em ployes under; the award, rules th3 umpire. . , v DISCUSS CONVICT LABORi ' '. : New York. The- only way , to re form the county jailj is to abolish it and substitute the State farm on the employment . ' compensation system tor the benefit of the State, said Ed win M. Abbott, .general secretary of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the annual conference of . the National ; Commit tpe, on Prisons and Prison Labor. ""The articles made by prison labor shouldTBot be stamped prison-made," said Mr- Abbott, "but at r the same time, they should not be thrown upon open markets. -They, can all be. util ized In State institutions." CAN'T MINE ITS . COAL. ! ? Harrisburg.'Pa-A, State normal school "cannot, engage' in" the mining of coal on its own lands,- according to Ian --opinion rendered; by Deputy Attorney General Myers, f The official held that there is no act of the State Assembly that per--mits this action, although the State "can engage in any business, or do anything not expressly forbidden or prohibited by the constitution." y ft TO STUDY HEALTH IN STORES.. ? ' Boston. A scientific investigation of the health of mercantile employes throughout- the country will be un dertaken br the Boston Board, of Trade representing retail merchants, and the committee on Industrial ny giene at the Harvard University.' The plan includes every phase of hygiene in these stores. : The infor mation will be compiled and. used by the Harvard- medical school to train physicians and subordinates in the problems of health l administration in retail stores. , " . , . , , THE OLD yievr from the street. HAPPY .UL , JUDGE.- Los Angeles, Cal.lAccordin to a local newspaper, Federal Jud Bledsco made thia - . :- learned that Congress had ral ed the salaries of federal Judges. $1,500 a voar: - .. .-. - . ' . ; i uaven ianv trnnh 00 . . will, rot cure." ; . 60 uusu8 recently, issued an injunction against street car mtn .. wna were asking for a. living wage. hi i OF RARE. BEAUTY . It is - truly v,wonderful ' how beautiful, diamonds, rings ' can be made " The" " artist'- works out by hand in pjatlnum a de-: 'eigri 'of -great loveliness which emphasizes the brilliance of- a fine diamond.' 4 '" Jolly's are showing such' rings ' Each : an , unduplicated: design, ? ; i r-: Wf S'v 'Vi :? - ': wrought In solid platinum by. master craf tsmen-jsengagement ' ringa:- of surpassing charm.;'.. JOLLY & WYNNE JEWELRY CO. 3 GO TO THE iWalker ElectricStore Phoae 1155.' ' ' 108 W. MarUa St ; For Your Electrical Needs. S. W. EASON Attorney-at-Law: ' Office: 404.Tucker Building.. W. C. HARRIS Attorney - at-Law f Practice in all Civil Courte.1 ' ' ; . Commercial National Bank Buildinc - u RALEIGH, N. C SULLIVAN ."King of ShoemakersV 15 West Hargett St. Ralegh, Fay etteT2!e, Wibtca J Masonic Temple Barber Shop. ; l .-- .j,'"- -.-'-. " V'''.' j;'v r- -:f' -' .." " "V '"' . - . . -i . .. . .-It- . - v i - V . $J Service and Courtesy a Habit. ; Miss Price, Manicurist:.; - , Cor. 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