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According to ', "Solicitor Building Trades of Atlanta jo Organized Labor Goes A fter Crooked Wilmington politicians Brtick, EdUin :a Hetiv. , Secure Forty-four Hour Week Its ML m ' - .V We want to askNthe solicitor, who is ex-secretary , of "the State Demo cratic Executive Committee, in whose district Badin is, situated-;-. ' - : 1 If he is not expecting ' certain! influence to land the Badin "vote .for him in tne nex election? , ' ' " 2. If the owners of Badin pays' its police force?, : i ,1 - -, (" . 3. If he knows that Badin, a town of about 5,000 Inhabitants, is not incorporate'd and that -the owners, through their -managers, are taw unto themselves? " '; , 4. If he said that "the only way to get work out of a North Carolina nig ger was with a club"?J , :- 1 ; ; 5. If he told the , white man, who was clubbed with a pick handle and under duress agreed to accept -$100 from the company ; if he would not sue, and paid $50 of it, that if the accepted, the other $5r0 Z he v would prosecute him for compounding a felony? ' ' ' . 6. If he has, or is he going to pros ecute the man that was ? ther other party to the compromise and paid the $50, for being aiparty In compound ing this felony? . " t.--'y. V, 7. If he knows that prostitutes are kept and furnished by ;the company for use of the negro laborers? - f : This is only a beginning, MrVSolic itor, and tromtime 'to time-we lire going to ask many more. ; THE END IS FAR FROM BEING IN-SICfHT, Read this gratuitous statement of the solicitor. It is great evidence: . "I learned during my investiga--tion of the matter, NOT. AT THE ; HEARING, WHERE, THE VEVI- V ; Demand increased Pay " -. x s ' ''"T " 1 . Strike JVhicfi Took Place-Last Monday Not Yet Set tied Sirikers Look to Government for Relief ; y Norfolk, July 23.-That the strike of 500 operators" and electrical wprkr ers of the v Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone . Company . in Norfolk, which was begun Monday morning, is virtually a race,. with; time,; in: which the strikers are endeavoring to obtain the intercession ,ofV.the Postoffice Department bef ore : the, re turn of telephones' to private owner ship Augusi 1st, was announced last night by L.NC. Major, business man ager .for. local unions. Nos, .621 and 81-A, of which the strikers are menv bers. Mr; Major told a representative of the Virginian-Pilot last .night; that. Inspector Webb, of the Postoffice De partment, was in r the city Monday and Tuesday investigating ther strike and its cause and merits, and has returned to Washington tp report on the situation to the Federal authori ties. The strikers, he. said; hope the investigation will result in a. recom mendation for the inprease in wages demanded by the workers'. -f" ; ; " According to Mr. Major1, Inspector Webb came to Norfolk at the in stance of Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Koons- Mr.. Major's disclosure brings out the fact ;that', the. strike has established a triangle, in-which Mr. Major declares considerable. "passing' of the buck" between , the company and Washington is resorted to. He pointed out that the triangle consists' of the strikers, the company, and the Federal authorities, but that one corner of the : triangle will be losj when the Federal authorities-release control " on August 1st. The question of wages then will be a mat ter altogether .between the strikers and the company, rv " "' The second day of the strike passed quietly, with a demonstration similar to the one staged Monday, afternoon repeated yesterday afternoon in front of the company's Plume Street office; Major's , Statement." "Quite a number - of . 'the' " men shipped in here; Mr. ; Major ; stated, after being interviewed, by hQ strik ers have pledged' themselves to re"r turn to the -places they came; from. "In a great', many cities,"' said Mr. Major, "where the , . increased rates have been fixed, the' companies have allowed: the employes' a small advance in pay. - However, - this has not been one in: this district. The increases -wherever -given - seem- to have been awarded toL avfertf a na- tion-wide ' strike on June 16 which as postponed by Mr. Burleson, who agreed to recognize the privilege of collective bargaining. ;: He took-issue with a statement Aniieis labors . DENCE WAS TAKEN, BUT FROM V OTHER SOURCES, that Mr. Goble,! during his efforts to' organize the union at Badin, and "while -solicit- zing members, told certain of the1 employees" wiio did not; .care to Join ;' -that theyl 'had better, join; because if they, didn't they. would be driven- , out of the employment as soon as; three-fourths of the. emplpyees at Badin should become . members of , the , union.' I DO . NOT v KNOW 1 HOW TRUE THIS IS, BUT- IT IS ' ONLY ONE OF THE VARIOUS PARTICLES , OF : INFORMATION GIVEN ME." , . DID THE ( BOSSEJ? THIS? 1 rl' . ' ' TELL , YOU ; Here is . another- 'bird of fine plumage'':' , , -f " ."OF, COURSE,; IT MAT BE 'TRUE THAT SOME OFi THOSE who .Joined his union-were DIS-; .CHARGED;" but If they, were, this xis no violation of the law in North T Carolina, for it ' is; a well settled rute in this jurisdiction . that an . ' employer has a right to employ; , ' whomsoever he pleases for,- such- time as he sees fit," and : for suchV . wages as may be agreed upon be-. ' tween .the - parties, and he; . has- a perfect right at any- time ' ta;dis-J ! miss the; employee for1 such 'cause, as be may see fit." . . . , , Read t' the '.solicitor's . own state ments;'., and if .you reach the, conclu sion that there has been a fair inves tigition, you t should , at ,,-once make, a iiberai donation to .the School for Feebleminded. ; made by Mr. Bonney Monday that operators are : receiving a maximum wage-of $15.50. a week. " - , "They are only., getting $13.50, declared Mr. Major. .- Companys Statement. v? The first ' official . statement of ' the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company was . given out : in Baltl morex'.to. a representatiye of "the Virginian-Pilot ; by JM. H. Buehler, vice-president and general manager. Mr. B-uehler's statement is as f ol- VLast .fall our Norfolk: Employees made a request for a' flat 20 per .cent increase In : "compensation. After several conferences an increase of approximately' -10 per' , cent was granted' - v This Increase was made, effective the latter part of Decem ber, ' 1 9 1 8 r and is still in effect, "About a month ago the demands of .last fall were renewed with a re quest for a conference on the sub ject. This conference-; was (held in Norfolk on July ,7, -at which- time 1 Dersonally met with a. committee of twelve of our Norfolk; employees, six being'young women and six men. J - "It was pointed out that' during the past two or three years the ex pensesof the company had increased sq rapidly that the increased reve-, nue from the new rates would , nbV earn its interest charges by $150,' 000 -:per annum, and- in s addition would earp nothing toward a divi dend on Its capital stock. : " , MOONEY SHOULD BTAVE TRIAL.. '','y. NEW Densmore - Sayv Former Trial - Was - Nothing More Than Makeshift. " 'Washington, July 2 3 Thomas J. Mooney did not i receive "full; justice in his trial at San Francisco for 'al leged connection with the prepared ness day bomb explosion,, according to - a, report of, John B.- Densmore, former special, agent of the Depart ment of Justice, who investigated the case for the government. The report dated November 1; 19 J 8, was submitted ' to the, 'House' today t in re sponse to a resolution.- .-,,- '.'The - plain ' truth , is," the : report said; ; "that there is nothing about the-case, to, produce a feelins of con fidence that the dignity and majesty of the . law , have been upheld. ' "There , is nowhere anything re sembling iustic,r the effort; being a patch-work: nr.I:c:.:- and often! of desperate ' expc liency. T-, ' y - " I ' 4 ' Seven Thousand Building Trades Mechanics Are Benefitted by Agreement: With Employing Con- 1 tractors. : f- Atlanta, . ' Ga. Mr. A, McElroy, president , of , the. Building Trades Council; of this city, has announced ihat' an agreement has .been entered into by the most prominent building contractors . and - the - unions ; compris ing,the Building Trades Council of tlanta by ' .which tbe workmen, about seven thousand, (will hereafter work ,only, forty-four hours per week, also'securing a substantial increase in wages. The agreement will be in effect until May 1, 1920, ,v . ; k '.'We want to see the 'building cam.i paign. which is sweeping Atlanta con tinue," said Mr. McElroy, "and feel that a definite ;agreement between contractors and union ; workmen will be of, mutual .service." A . v f Mr. McElroy stated that it was ex pected: in.; the: near future: other contractors;- and subcontractors would also : come 1 into the agreement,;- and that the . building ' ' work . would con tinue under the most harmonious re lations. U I V - ; - " : "We .want : the, public to , know,v coritniued Mr.' McElry, ."that hese 7,00 0 union:. workmen arewilling to meet . their 'employers . mof e: than half GOVERNMENT CAN CURB THE BIG PROFITEERS C 1 , y WHEN IT WANTS TO , On May; 20th, President f Wilson said to the" Senate: :'A" ' t ; "The Question Which stan!ds tcr the front of all others in every! ; country, is, ; ;y . HoW.. are the.; men and women who do "the 'daily( labor ot the world to obtain . ; pro.j gressive ' improvement - in the con--. r ditions j of their labor, to be made-; happier and -io - bef served better5 : bythe communities and' the-indus-r tries which their industry sustains. ' and advances??-' " ' " . y' " That. is still the-foremost questio. ' .. But the one ' thing above -others that 4 gives -it- acute-emphasis- Jiow-is "the growing cost of living, which out paces the raises 4n pay. . ": . ; ;-What good does a raise in pay pro duce if raises in prices' take it all away? f, ' . , The workers In most ; communities are becoming wearied of , this circular trail: which: leaves, them at t each month's end worse off and more trou bled than when that month began. - - No sane man wants' to; live like a jackass on a trea'dmiss, always run ning, -hut. never getting ahead, " ; " Closest students of economics will tell you that a thousand factors cause this high' cost of the necessities of life andYwill dizzy you with a list of them ' if '-yu have .the patience to listenr"'- , 'But the average worker is most Impressed with the ONE, OBVIOUS CAUSEflagrant profiteering. :L He sees a privileged tew) growing rich fast and he asks wny govern ment does not stop iti, t ' . !. If 1 you tell him that' government can't, tie 'will not bejieve-yoii. - And e is "rihgt" in not believing you, for much of this criminal profit eering ; CAN be stopped whenever governments sets its mind to stop it.( The King of Italy has decreed, that convicted Italian1 food iprofiteers shall lose their goods by confiscation, be fined-$2,000 and spends three months to. three .years !n jail. ...' ; a , y t Because conditions in ; Italy are so disturbed that this decree of the King has behirid it the threat of utter revo lution, profiteering in Italy HAS been checked and prices HAVE , ccme down. , -f, " : ' " ' ; ' . The drop in Italian food prices in many, places, has .exceeded ; 50 per, ceQt. , - ; In Prance, where 'it takes i 1 7 to buy" now what $5 woud b.ave' bought early; in: xui4, action as drastic as that of the King of Italy: is expected soon. It is necessary; to forestall mob violence. , . , " . , These, to be sure, are extreme sit uations, so z desperate that govern ment, has1 to move swiftly and radi cally: or be overthrown. ' ' ' : ' v But an example nearer home shows what i can be done 1 under. American institutions when officials : holding public, ; power, use-It for the' people rather than' for the interests., ' ' ' In3oston; on July 9th, F. Monroe Dyer) of New York, president;. Ernest A,- James, treasurer, John ..Burns, Jr., manager, and Joshua Paine and Joseph A: Rich, directors of the Bay State Fishing 'Company; were' sen: lenced to pay fines of $1,000. acti and serve a year in j ail, while twelve dther men connected with "subsidiary or associated '.firms of ? fish dealers wre given sentences of six months each, with $500, fines. - ;. VV U These ,men organizeda:: trust in the marketing of fish, filled its capitaliza tion almost as full of water - as . the. sea, forced low - the .: priced at .which they- bought fish of. the bumble men who catch them, and high the prices at'-.whichrtheUblieihad-rtobuy,-''.'1 T - i way, 'and we feel that' our action will be; accepted by them as a token of our willingness ' to ; do ' everything in our, power to .help imeet the serious Jtmilding. situation which ;is f acing Atlanta- ;, T : '; - J - 'The following scale -ot wages' was made public by Mr. McElroy as hav ing been agreed upon to -contiune un--til May-1, 1920L: V,: i : -s "S" Bricklayers., until ""(September, - !70 cents iperhour; .to May 1, 1920," 90 cents pejr hour .-f' s' l ' '1 V Carpenters, until .August, 60 sents per4h,our; to' May'l; 1920; 75 cents Per hour.' 1 V t V Electricians, 7 5A cents per hourly '' i V Elef ator constructors, ' 8 0- cents per; tour.' y.;7' '- W -"' Lathers, 75 cents per hour, or 60 cents' per yard.' ' y' xr ' ' . Sheet- metal workers' 6 0"'; cents ' to 80 cents" per hour. . ! .,! y iPainters, 6 0 cents to 7 5' cents per hour. ,t, rPlasterers; until October, 60 cents per ihour,; 9t hours ier day; to May 1", 19 2 0t 70 cents per hour. , y x Stemfitters, 75 cents' per hour, ' .Stonecutters) 75 cents per hoiir.f They were , enabled- to perfect this monopoly because " the State of Mas-? sachusets had ; built at great cost and leased to them 'at r low rental , a ; pier whicb centered1 the wholesalelng . of fish in their hands, t : There ; was no other .place Twhere' fishing ; schooners could clear.; - V ; . y Nowj if ttiis'had been a milk trusty or a beef trust, the one in collusion with - farmers,, ttie other helped by high finance,'; it might v have made great profits and; escaped all penal ties 'save an occasional tongue-lash- ing around election -time. , V It happened, .however1, to be a trust with no backing at' all save; its own greed and with no social standing.' Massachusetts . also 'happened r to have' an i Attorney General who, was willing 'to flghfits . lawlessnuss? & ' First, a legislative committee", prodded by the Hearst newspapers in Boston, probed it confirming the published reports of its rapacity, v ;: ..Then ' this - determined " Attorney General brought its organizers; direc tors and associate thieves before a jury. ' Public opinion . did the rest. . : , The Massachusetts , way can - be nxide,: the national ;way withwscores of big profiteers whenever enough voters join in a real movement to, put In office men like those 'Boston legis lators who forced the fish probe .'and that "Attorney i General who carried the .evidence Into .court. " r ',-' : Our Government will move as! rad ically as' the Government of Italy' Is moving when the people who want action vote for it and KEEP THEIR EYES ' ON '. THEIR OFFICIAL GENTS. - . ' ; '1 ;- Perhaps that is why the Brother hoods of Firemen and Engineers, . at their annual convention in Denver have . jjist - yoted 'to corbperate with the three other:railwa'y brotherhoods in the' creation of a National Labor Party: , i. T.t " T - - t-'-.- . ' The. workers . of America have the power ' by political action' to ; make profiteering unfashionable, s Profiteer ing will become; unfashionable,? the moment rat few big "profiteers : are landed in jaU. ,r , - ; When the .workers of America de cide tov use their power as the work ers of England" are -.using similar power, e may expect to see1 interest ing results. New York Times. , NEW VOCATIONAL SUPERVISOR IN COME EOONOmCS SECTREd!; Miss Edna. F, Coith. at nTeseni head of the Department' of : House hold Science at .Winthrop College, South Carolina, has "been . elected as State Supervisor of Vocational Homo Economies' by; the. State' Board for Vocational jEducatiOn.1' ? , ( f : Miss Ooitfa is a graduate of the Illinois 1 State . Normal School,; the Kansas State' College at Manhattan, and has had considerable experience In , bigh ; schooll - teaching, as well as housekeeping on the farm. For 'three years she wag. assistant In the Home Economics Department at thel Illi- charge of - practice' teaching ' and the lunch r6om worktof that institution; She has fbeen at ; Winthrop . College since 1917 ; ' . , ' - t " According to Mr. TXE, Browne, DI-: rector of ; Vocational Education for the State Board; Miss, Coith-Is one of the most. , efficient woman that could be secured -for the important place she will fill, and he feels that she will overcome the serious handi cap under which, the board has been put previous tothis time in not hav ings a trained woman to closely su pervise the teaching of domestic sci ence and art' 'in the secondary schools. - i y V K '! t Petition for Recall of City 350 More Jhan the V ' (Special to The Union Herald,) , ' T Wilmington, N. C5.,' July 23. The petitions which have been in circula-; tion for the past two weeks, in the hands of. a committee composed of five representatives . . of , - Wilmington Trades Council and five representa tive citizens were presented to the city clerk and treasurer. at Monday night's session of City Council. The petition is signed by 1,055 of, the best 'citizens, who ; represent every element, and, the ' committee having checked the names ; f'of the " signers with" the registration books qf the recent election; rthere "is. very,, little chance for : the erasure of names of petitioners. ' ; . 4 ;. , K COLONEL ANSELIj TO RESIGN. ; "(Army and Navy Journal.) Lieut. CoL, Samuel T. Ansell, J. A. G. Dept, TJj S.'- A. former Acting Judge Advocate General of, the Army made the statement on July 14th that he had determined to resign his com-? mission in the army, and, fight for the reform ' of the courts-martial system as-,d civilian. . While he would not state what caused his determination to leave the service at this time, it is known that he , considered .that the disapproval by Secretary Baker of his recommendation that r the case ; of every prisoner serving .' sentence im posed ' by Gj C: M. ,.' be sent to the Clemency Board, of which he is presi dent, was an indication that his work 'for ' reform as an!- oflfficer of the United : States ; Army i.. was' at an end His resignation; he - ptated, would, be filed some time this sweek. Ini April; 1918, during the absence of Major Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, Judge Advo cate General Colonel (then Brigadier General) c Ansell f, became the : center of an - interdepartmental storm through his refusal to approve death sentences imposed on four privates in the; American Expeditionary Forc. Two of the "privates; were convifeted of sleeping on post. 'and two of hav ing. disobeyed lawful orders of their superiors. uoioneiv iuiseii insisted that the trials of these men were in complete and. incompetent,. that, the Government ' had : failed to prove a casein each instance, that simijar offenses . .were a numerous, but had therefore : resulted in sentences of three months imprisonment. He Riot Troubles at committee of Colored Citizens Gives Assurance of r l Maintenance of Order " -ly: (Norfolk Virgtnian-Pilot. '. rNo untoward.' iilcident'occurred during the past two days to mat the ''welcomes home .celebration ' now j i si. r ' - . i uuuiog its course , iu ; me coiorea section . of ?;the t cltr. .The regular number of policemen .: and - 25 ' 'ma rines patrolled the- streets from Bute to Queen Streets and ; at other adjacent:' points, but nothing .hap pened: that was outof the ordinaryi H The I negroes -whorwere rinjured by flying bullets during the x rioutous scenes of Monday night are still con fined " to the hospital, 'and the, indica tions are that all wU .recofier, event ually; . although two - of ' them were very badly wounded. . t- y t , 'i City , Manager As6burner held va conference with the? members .of the colored welcome 1 borne v committee Tuesday afternootf.i .The situation as 1 it r affected: , , th-1 turbulence : " of Monday evening was. gone over; Th.e colored committee informed the. city manager that: it" felt certain that peace and order could be . main tained for the remainder of the , celebration- and disclaimed ; responsibil ity fqr' what had occurred. - The: city manager held the Committee ' to be entirely blameless -X In the matter.' The committedi pointed : but that the trouble started not -in any well-laid plan to create disorder, but. as the result of the arrest' of one man and the ' latter's appeals to .the disorderly element In the crowds: ; -.j:. ; Soldiers Held Ready. . - Three companies j of. soldiers, are iheld in:' readiness to -respond to a call from city; officials,, at any time. The : soldiers ; were not brought into the city, but are .nn'der orders , to move at amoments , notice. It has' developed that army base officials , hadf - some.' little -difficulty Monday ? with a : small number .r of colored soldiers : who; had ;! recently reached; here from France and who were being . held here pending, or ders to remove them v to their ' point of demobilization. ' The ' men ; ; in question ; had made assertions of an incendiary nature In ' ah attempt to harangue their i companipns as they Commissioners Signed 6y Required Number. tThe'v petitions carry V about . names, more than the necessary; numbers "to assure the recali. v; - 8 demagogues who are respon sible ' for t Vl q nn1U(nTia tliot -marfa the recall necessary are 'now fighting; i; the air 'and all sorts of reasons' are' 1 being advancari hv thplr . missaries ' that, nlight stm the , recall . move-r mpnt..' s " . . ' ... V " V . . '....:.. It- is expected that ,theT petitions will be checked up .and ready, to " be 1 acted , On at Monday - night's, session .r:..;,,,,,,.-. , . vv' . fr i' " ;-,",;." 'V .As your corresspondent ."seeat things, ; there , is - no . possible chance . for, thq demagogues who betrayed( Organized Labor to escape recall. finally, declared; his belief that the American private could not hope to obtain justice t under existing court martial procedure. - The controversy, which Colonel Ansell has "maintained with increasing vigor and has carried by address and the printed word to a large and sympathetic following,? is not yet ended. . It has resulted lu the Chamberlain bill; written by Colonel Ansell, 5 which Senator Chamberlain introduced in the Senate. . It was re ferred Tto the Committee on Military Affairs,' ! which has submitted it to Secretary Baker, Mn Baker '.asked that , he be allowed to delay giving bis ,Tiew of the measure. ' Largely due to .Colonel Ansell's crusade, Mt. Baker, requested a committee of. the American Bar Association to examine into, military judicial procedure : and the volumes of testimony from army officers and others taken at the hear ings in Washington and Chicago have just come to hand at the War Depart ment. :',y Colonel , Ansell,i while ; main taining the same attitude : today as when called before the committee; in effect that the conimttee could, not fairly reach conclusions which would haW weight in the matter of Reform, believes that his crusade is hopeless if he continues in the"army, ;and that to do' more effective fichtinjf he is compeUed: to resign- hia-commissibn. He will-become. a member of a New York ,law firm which has an office in Washins'tnn - ' i ' f ' "The union label j tends to niake: strikes unnecessary by making com pliance jwitih unionconditions' an ad vantage, to business. V- -!. T ' - '- ft r :, Norfolk Have Subsided (passed through comnanv s'treetsi . company There were about 2.500 colored sol uiers biuuuucu at $ ine ' oase , at . the time., " The colored ' troops paid no attention to the speech-maker; ? who jwere placed in custody f ort violation of ' army regulations All the col ored troops ' atv; the army, base were entrained Tuesday for; Mississippi, where' they ' will be .discharged, anoVr the incident ended with 'their de parture. , . - -'It must not' be, understood ' said' an army ' official, "that there was really anything, serious in the iici-' dent.1 The ; bulk of : the'; colored troops are orderly ' Vnen -k and ' well-; trained soldiers.; Tose, who 1 at tempted to deliver fiery, speeches that they had -absorbed in , France, and : that v the . speakers - themselves understood only. Ih; a vague ' and misty sort of way; That is all there was to it." : v, IATTHEW WOLL IS ELECTED American alliance directors , '.;) : . -x . ; Special to The Union Herald.) ;; New ; York July y2. Matthew Woll, president of the International Photo Engravers'. Union." and vice- president -of ..the . American Federa tion7 of Labor, has been , elected, by the executive; council, to be. director 5 of the American Alliance for Labor : : and Democracy, to. succeed Robert Maisei. Mr.'Maisel'was compelled to resign because of broken. health; the result of overwork during the past two years. Chester M. Wright was chosen assistant director. . '. . i The Executive Council has filled by appointment three vacancies in the Executive , Council, " and" appointed 1 eight'; new - members, f Jn compliance ,? with the laws of the organization.. ; Politics . is ; just like a hen "when she cackles, you cannot tell whether she "has been laying- or lying, , : .; The " union label- commands the respect and protection ? of the courts and the state.
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