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o v" - i Endorsed, by Organized Labor and Wake County Farmers' Union, VOL. II. In Work er Play- stand ilie test. ; This store is particularly dedicated ; to the man who wants serviceable working clothes six days to the week and whenUrSuriday comes demands , the best " ; Choose from these Clotties witha Deputation Alco and Collegian :; Suits and Overcoats ; Carhart Overhalls Signal Shirts , Packard Shoes MckcM Watson Clotb.es of QualityOne Price to All. Hi Succesors to Gattis & Ward. " Union i - '. ".. .... i. - '""" S .. .. rIodeIsNow. on Dis play. ' We Can Fit All Feet at Lowest Cost. Come Aronnd And Let's get acquainted Guess&lfeM 113. East Martin St. Raleigh, N. C. R. L. Green Wall Paperinfl : 202 S. Salisbury St. - . . Phone 1 680 DR. CD. BASS , DENTIST ;3 203-204 MASONIC TEMPLE Phone 1487 , Phone No. 1 , when you want anything in the Drug Line ; PROMP, SERVICE. , ':; 1 1 . I v j , ;' ; NEXT TO BLAND HOTEL. , S.V:VilLLIA!.lS,;Dni2gist, Guess & Ward PRESCRIPTIONS OF COURSE Get the habit." - Have your meetings ' . 1 1 ----- - i , . - . . .. 1 FW -J A - . - k . i. - -rit i BOYCX)TT ON INTERNATIONAL 1 SCALE TO PREVENT FUTURE I WARS AND LAND GRABBING ' Washington.-The boycott, inter national in scope, will be used by the proposed League of Nations to stop war and check, aggression. Article 12 provides that where a dispute can not be settled by diplomacy war shall not be resorted to s until after the case is referred to arbitration or a recommendation 1 i made by the league's executive council. It is fur ther, agreed that, war shall not be waged, against, ia. member ; of the league that has complied with the ar bitration award or with the recom mendation. 1 ' I Provision for . the international boycott is contained in Article 1 6, which reads as follows: - i r. "Should "any of the high" contract Ing parties, break or disregard its covenants under Article 12, it shall thereby ,vjpso facto, be deemed to' have committed an act of war against all the other members of the league, which hereby undertake Immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations the pro hlbitlon of f all intercourse between their' nationals: and the! nationals of the covenant-breaking state, and the prevention f of all financial, j commer cial or personal intercourse" betweeri the nationals of the covenant-break ing; state and the nationals Jof any other state, whether a member of the league or'not.".'. .. . .' 1 SPECULATING ON HEADLINES. 4 Everybody knows that" the negrq has been a terrific fighter in this war i with an honorable record1 worthy of his race. But there have been mo4 m.ents of fear for him, just as there have been for the white man; for all soldiers say that before they are to go over, their greatest fear is of fear, itself. t; . . - i ' - "We Anglo-Saxons ahuah am some fightahs," said Mose to ' his friend after, the scrimmage was over. But before he went over the top he was not so certain about the heroics. "What do yo uall spec de. news-; papah" headlines am goln to ' be Mose?" asked his friend. .It was ten minutes to zero hour;t the negroes knew that 10,000 white men - were supporting them in the rear. ; i "What do ah think dem headlines am goin' tb be?' answered- Mosei " 'Ten t'ousand white men tromped to'deaff.' " : r. t - - i I KAIJORlW'FlOIIATEDr Boston. Edwin Mulready, State Commissioner of Labor and Indus-j tries," saya employers in this State are forcing- children ' Into work that Is forbidden by law. He says there are 250,000 children employed in Massachusetts J Industries ' and that many of them " are working on ' ma chines ..that are a menace to their safety. He' . explained that the chil dren are employed in the first place under the "certificate law," but after they work in the factories they are transferred to work other than that called for in their certificates. DIVIDENDS RENEWED. Albany, N. Y. For the first time since 1915 the New York; State; in surance fund,' administered by the State Industrial Commission, has de clared a dividend of 10 per cent. The increase in the number and frequency of industrial accidents resulting from war conditions made it advisable to suspend; dividend payments for the period of the war. ; r- y ? ' ' ' fs WINNING SHORTER -WEEK. . New York. Dress and waist work ers affiliated with' the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union have I narrowed their 'fight for a 44- liour week down ? to : the t Dress :: and Waist Manufacturers' - Association. About 16,000 workers in independent shops have returned to work, and theRA will aflRlst the RtrllrprR ' who I number approximately 15,000. President Schlesinger, of the inter national union, charges that i the as sociation's - strike guards instigate disorder..; . He -made a tour of the struck shops in company with a rep resentative for the district attorney's office, and found that the guards do not permit pickets to talk to the strike-breakers or ' to even inform them that a strike is on. Great Bend,'Tf Kans.---Stationary firemen employed i ;by the Walnut Creeks mills iwereS lorced ; to labor eleven hours a day until they organ ized and presented an eight-hour, de mand. The ' committee was ' dis charged and -a strike followed this victimization. .A local paper says the trouble was caused by a "brutal or ganizer who urged violence?' The unionists ghow that no organizer has been near"the plant nortevenjn this city. , , . RALEIGH, Var Victors Will - Proposed ''Washington.'The League of Na- each contributed $10 to the capital tions, . proposed ;by Ithe : Paris confer-L stock and received back a certain per ence, would rely, mainly on an interr cent after operating ; expenses had national boycott to enforce arbitra- beenpaid. Thej'idea proved so suc tion awards or decisions by the Tex-; cessful the- stores are multiplying ecutive council' of the league;' : s I rapidly, and the people propose to The league will be controlled "by erect a co-operative clothes factory, the five v war,"' Victors the United, Gentiles' are now: , organizing along States Great Britain; France, ' Italy,, the same line. Every member and and Japan whose representatives,! . beneficiary; of .the association must together -with representatives of fours be a workingman; no others are ad other countries to be , selected,1 . will, -mitted." , j- , f r form the 'executive' council. Should' ,, . . any" member of the ' league refuse to abide ' by arbitration decisions or srec-; ommendations by the executive coun-; cil; this shall be ' construed as an act, of war ft gainst the other members of- the league, and the international boy-; ; era in Westville, Granite City, Peoria cott shall be applied. : The rboycott and Champaign, this State. The shall 4 be extended ' to countries ' out- : Champaign ; union - compiles " Univer side the league which attempt, to do; sity of Illinois teachers. . . , ifi business with the offending nation. ;t , ' . ' - ' I . Any war or threat of war, whether ' VOTES FOR WOMEN GAIN. affecting members of the, league on; not, is declared to be a matter of .; Madison, . Wis.-r-The Senate has concern to the league, which reserves ; 5 approved the House bill giving worn the right; to take, "any action" thatlten the. right to j vote at Presidential it may deem necessary to safeguard L the peace of nations. .'- I ; Members. of the. league shall not resort war until after an arbitra tion award or recommendation by the executive council, and., even then It Is agreed that war will not be waged against any member of the league who complies with ' such arbitration award or with the recommendation; The award must be made "within a reasonable time" and the recommen dation within six months. . The ex ecutive council shall formulate plans for the establishment of a perma nent feourt of international justice; Headquarters of. the league will 1 be established ' in a country to be se lected,; and an international secre-r tary placed in charge. " " . The league will undertake to pre serve the territory and ''existing po litical independence" of affiliates and in case of danger the executive council shall advise "upon the means by which the obligation shall be ful filled." .j-.. t Any nation may join the League Of Nations by a... two-thirds vote of he .countries . now represented, proj viding'the applicant Is a self-govern ing country. ,The v control of the league through its executive council as the executive . council Is perma nently limited to representatives of nine countries',- five of whom are the United States, Great Britain, France, Italyrand Japan. v rT."-,."r.""' The maintenance of peace, it is de clared, will require, . the reduction of national, armaments and the execu tive council, shall formulate plans for effecting such reduction,- based ,on the necessities of the nations. The nations agree that "the manu facture by private enterprise of muni tions and. implements of war lends Itself to grave objections," and. the executive council Is directed to rec ommend how ;; these evils can be checked. , :. v. r- 1 Members of the league pledge themselves not to conceal from each other vthe condition of those indus tries In their countries that are capa ble of being adapted to warlike pur poses or the -scale of their armaments, Vand agree that there shall be full and " frank interchange of Informal tion as to their military and naval programs." A permanent commis sion shall be appointed to advise the l mi mi on the execution of this pledge. t . The league's agreement contains this reference to labor : "The high contracting parties will endeavor to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and: children, both in their own countries and in all coun tries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend,' and to tkat nd agree t0 establish as part of the organization of the league a per- Tanent bureau of labor." ; TbeT members of the. league agree not to "enter into any treaty that is inconsistent . with., any provision of the agreement adopted;7 ; No nation will be admitted to the league's mem bership If it is bouiid by a treaty in consistent; with the league's prin ciples. .The applicant nation must ; i; take .immediate steps ..to . procure . its , release- from such obligations."; .The agreement between, the nations cannot be amended unless it secures the approval of the states whose rep resentatives compose the executive council and' by three-fourths of the nations; comprising the league. CO-OPERATIVE ! STORE WORKS WELL.. J "I can across an interesting ex periment in applied; sociology,' f said J. L. Hender, of Charlotte. In New York a great many . Jewish people, mostly poor people, got together ?and ! organized a co-operative stored where i ':::t Shg-Groliuell Dmg at the King-Crowell Drug Company'Store;PleasantTlnd-adalld3r,'- , store in Raleigh. Enjoy a drink while you wait. N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 1' 1919: Control League of Nations -1 TEACHERS' ORGANIZING. Chlcago.-sThe America Federation of Teachers affiliated with the. AF. rOf L., has organized unions of teach- " i i " ' -" ' " ' - elections. ,'- - ' a '' ' LOOKS DARK, JOHNNIE; ; TEACHERS WON'T STRIKE Sacramento, lal.- Teachers - in other Californi cities are expected to follow the 1 set here and form affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, Thir- ty-six Buch locais,- having 10,000 members, nownwsist; In the - United States' - - i After considerable effort, a robust union has been organized here. One of its precepts ii that there shall be no strike. National Organizer L. V. Lampson announced that the union 'frowns on strikes or anything . else that would interrupt the education of children. ; "We will rely i upon publicity," or ganization and political action to ob tain what we consider a fair wage and proper working conditions," he said..-,. ' i V "' Sacramento's small boys registered emphatic protest over; this ; no-strike rule. 1 ' ; il-'-fe t ; '' .' " 1 Hx Kl : r l STRIKE At IILL"NO 3... : One Hundred nn4 Fifty People Strike T'F Hlghlamrpu-& mi "No." STBeT cause of Reduction in Wages. 4 Charlotte News. ' st 1 " 9 . k:. Protesting against the reduction of their weekly bonus of 60 cents on the dollar for working in Highland Park Mill No. 3, and alsoa reduction-in tho weekly laboring period from 60 to 44 hours per week, about.' 150 em ployes of the mill worked out. One hundred ' and one employes .of the weave room, it wa's'Teported, did not report for work after noon, and about 40 employes, of the card room did. not report the next morning. A number of employes of Highland Park Mill No. 1 v are also reported on ? "sym pathetic" strike with hose at Mill No. 3. t- .'' J " ' A committee of the striking em ployes of Mill No. 1. decided to em ploy an attorney, and retained Mar vin L. Ritch. - They also asked him to use his influence to get a state ment of their contention before the public. There were four men on the committee, all from Mill-No. 1. - - t "Last Thursday," said the spokes man for. the committee, "it was an nounced that the' 60-cent bonus would be cut out and the. time cu to .four working days. It had been; six days, .with Saturday afternoon . off. They told us it would "go into effect Monday morning, - ; That was all the notice we had. On Monday afternoon about 101 hands in the weave room did not go back to work, and the next morning about 3 5 or 4 0 in the card room did1 not go back to "Just to show you how the reduc tion-works," continued the speaker, "the. order cuts , my weekly income from about $27 per week to $12 per week. I am a man with family, and it is hard to make ends meet on $12 per week,' ad everybody knows, espe-" cially if you have a family.' ' h "I'll live on bread and water before 1 will work for that amount,'? put in another-; member of the 5 committee "We are" all - married . men, and we can't make out on $12 a week., , Some of them won't make $12 a week. Ten dollars 'a week will be, about the - av erge in the weave room if the present cut is made. ; We are not kickers, and are willing to work as" hard as any body, but we can't 1 live on ' the re duced wages. We don't think there Is' any call to - make the reduction now," because "when the peace treaty is signed there will be the biggest demand for textile goods there ever has been, and we know that, textile mills have made big profits since the war began," and we dorit think there is any call to cut" down bur ? wages now." : '-, " - - . BAD HOUSING IENACE Harrisburg, Pa. Bad -housing is' responsible, for, much,)f -the unrest among, labor,' said Joseph D., DeLandJ of the United States Housing Associa tion, at a conference In this city. ' I It is the man who Is always on the! move who causes the trouble, he said." When housing .- conditions are .bad "there is no inducement for the flit ter to settle down.",,'' ( '- . ! Fewer, people in proportion, to j the population, he said, own their own homesin1 this country than in, any, other civilized country ltM;he world.; The speaker favored ? the ; establish-! ment of a federal fund, augmented by ' State ' appropriations, to be ,used in meeting, labor's housing needsi . j WORKERS FACE DISTRESS. - Burke, Idaho. Organized mine mill , and- smelter workers ,have tap-J pealed to the Idaho' State Federation! of Labor. to. assist Jthem!, because of the refusal of 'employers :tQ , fulfill promises made during ,the Liberty; Loan campaigns., A h The unionists say they were aS! sured steady employment if5 they' bought bonds on installments, ' and that where the worker could not con tinue payment .the .employer - would, refund the mount .-paid -thereon and take the bond liimself. The' mines are now shut down and the employ ers reject their agreement. Many workers' -find themselves with a par tially paid' bond and no employment,' with .'the : alternate f of . borrowing money at excessive rates or losing the bond. - - . , The unionists say they know of in stances where a $50 bond was sold for $20 to enable the worker to seek; employment elsewhere.' - "3 , 1 f CO-OPS. PAY DIVIDENDS. Gillespie, 111. In Its quarterly re port the Co-Operative Society shows that $ 3.3 9 8.3 4 was - paid " members during the last three months,' based on the amount i of ; purchases; each made. This was a dividend of 8 per cent. During the same period the ,Worden Co-Operatlve Society , reports a dividend of 7 per cent; the society at Staunton 6 per cent, and the one at MarrisBa 5 per" cent. These towns are ell located in Illinois. .. I , , :: 1 rx-.a i CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL, f Washington. -As" a result of itho back-to-chool drive conducted by the Children's Bureau of the Department oLaTrof?i:t nag been- f oulidatrltractlngffi''' ute-:.o .tfeeMng-iDn' 895 Texas -children failed -,to enroll in any school last year. ' - TOO BIG TO HANDLE., Washington.- A fear that the five big .packers Armour, Swift, Cuda hy Wilson, and ? Morris -have ac quired so much power that even the Government might 'not ? be strong enough to I combat it was expressed by; Victor Murdock, member of the Federal Trade ; Commission, testify-? lag before the House. Interstate Com merce Committee. The witness urged Government,, control tand regulation of the meat industry. " 5 Legislation, h along these lines. known as the Sims bill, Is now pend4 ing in Congress. It issupported by iarmers organizations, and provides that, the packing .industry as such shall remain in the hands of private parties but that : refrigerator ;cars,! terminal and belt railroads. Icing plants and other equipment shall be controlled by the Government.'!". It Is believed that this policy, will! place independent packers v on "an equal footing with. the "Big Five", packers,' : MANY HATTERS ' IDLE Newark, N. J. When A.?F. of L. Secretary ; Morrison made public at Washington :the number of r out-of works in 'Newark,5 which"' had been forwarded him by local trade union ists. Mayor Gillen rushed into , print and announced that . there was a job for every,, man in this city,' Hatters Union, t ' No." "14, ; disagrees with hi honor, and states thajiVefal hun$ dred of its members are unemployed,' I RAISE WAGES $3 A .WEEK. ; San f,:Franclsco.l The;,! Warehouse and Cereal Workers' Union has raised wages $3 a week. The workers have been waiting" for over three -months for . this increase, and . when they finally threatened to strike the em-' ployers advanced r ate s to $4.50 a day.'"',. - ' J ' - UNNATURALIZED ALILNS. - Washington. There are" "nearly 10,500,000 ; unnaturalized aliens in this country,' according to -Raymond P.- Christ,- Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization. He says the' aliens total 1 17,500,000,., and that barely 6,000,000 have become citizens. The Church of Christ lives on the super-natural ' to accomplish the im possible. ' ' -, jGompaiiy ? TRUST PAYS $800 A YEAR. ,,New YorkT-The' princely wage paid employes , of . the United States Steel Corporation' is not, apparent in a lew lines or its -report of its sale of stock to employes.' ;" t. In 19175,253 employes whose an-' nual wage, was ''$800 or less'; bought stock,-and last year ,1,920 employes In this : class k bought stock. V These workers averaged one share.'. ' 'J ' - On - December 31;'-' i91T, more' than 31,250 employes bought: stock amounting to , about three ' and - one half shares per person. t This Includes' employes of all classes." - . ' The price of the stock is' the mar ket -price, or usually a" little- less.; Monthly payments: are made as i fol lows : .)rMlnimum $2 per share; max-' imtim, 25 per cent of earnings. i 1 To encourage employes to buy this stock they are paid a premium of $5 a year for five years on each share of stock purchased. , These premiums are not paid where the subscription Is cancelled, the stock is sold, or thej employe believes the ' trade 'union is a better investment, and becomes an "agitator" and is discharged.; In the1 latter case the premium sis divided, among raitnrul" employes who hold stock. ' .' " " ' " l ; CARPENTERS' STRIKE - tV INTERESTS UNCLE SAM Washington In an effort to end a general strike against the New York Building Employers' Association that involved Government' work, both par ties conferred with' the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy.. ; ' The strike was in support of car-1 penters who "are. asking" for higher wages, which have been agreed to by the independent .contractors, employ ing ,75 per cent of the carpenters in New York , City. At the conference with Cabinet officials the workers were represented by President Don lin, of the AF. of Lr building trades department ; i ; President Hutcheson, President, Bowen t and s. President Sneliings, of the international unions Of car penters, bricklayers", and sta tionary ' engineers, respectively and Vice President Cook, of the Interna tional Plasterers'-Union. . ; i i ; At, a meeting in New .York prior tq this 1 conference, and which was at tended by members of the Au F. of Li executive 'council, this - message was cabled to President Gompers :. - , f .''Hostile attitude of , New., York building '- contractors has caused " a continent-wide vf strike. - We under stand several large New - York ' con- ropean contracts, Tne , buuamg trades of ..America .request that, they be given no ' recognition 'until their destructive "designs upon 'organized labor are withdrawn, and that, you give this matter the fullest, publicity to our ; friends throughout. Europe. This request has the approval of the presidents of the building trades or ganizations and members of ' the ex ecutive council of the American Fed eration of Labor, present." ... VIGILANT EMPLOYERS.: , s : , . WANT FACTS IGNORED ; r Washington.-The vigilance of em ployers in protecting their interests through the control of "education is shown by a protest against pamphlets on ' social questions ' issued the United States 'Bureau of Education for use in the public schools. . . . . The protest : is made by the Na tional Industrial Conference Board; representing twenty associations of manufactuuers. - - - . ? The employers charge te Govern-? ment with conducting a propaganda in favor of. trade unionism, and say that a thread of prejudice against the employer runs. through many of the lessons. r-.;;-' sv ,y: ich One . of the . pamphlets . states that "In the United .States somebody, is in jured while at work eevry fifteen sec onds and' somebody is killed every fifteen minutes. : We cannot wonder at this when we realize how many dangers there are" in modern. Indus try.', .,;V . - "t i The employers accept this state ment at its face value and show that on the basis of a 54-hour week "this means.'a total of 1,250 deaths in industry per year." , : It is clearlv the ' nurnose of "the Bureau of Education to impress upon children the, horror 0f;killlng work ers in Industry. fThis is in line with a recent declaration by investigators of the Department1 of Labor that these accidents are avoidable if , the employer i, is- willing f to : spend. -..the money. v e -.The National Industrial Conference Board, however wants this situation smoothed" oveHby showing the: chil- dren that, the percentage ; of kiilingsy is really a minor matter wnen tne total number of 'wage "workers in this country are considered. - J To the enrplcryers the annual loss to, this country ..of eleven regiments of ; workers,, in the ; full strength: 'of their manhood, Is of small impor tance '' to ' America's school - children who will eventually find their way, into- industry or reiatea .acuvmes and assume their duties as citizens. f ,- , . ., i 'T : .THIS :(. iz i -si. 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