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r 1 Arc These ! Complaints Justified, . And If Co, Whet Are ; The Ilcasons?, " - Numerous complaints have, been, received ' from employing printers r who claim the local unions; in their various Jurisdictions . unable, to burnish, them with suGclent men to properly do their work. . ( . ' Are these complaints justified? ' so, what are the reasons for such '.conditions?. ,vs ' " " c We are satisfied that in many 3 u tisdictions there is an .apparent f . winters. - This being rtrue -we seek for me causes ana aw- 'termine there are but two. v- .w. First At' the present time there is an exceptionally large amount Jot . isne - It'iscnot likely ,f-!v niHtion' will change, and ' : it i nrobable that .the vplume of ' tntln? that mUSt DO execuieu win .. ! - i.rra w a consider - continue vcw Tv...v, - The second and most - potent , rea son for the apparent ; shortage - of in the fact that print- jin office proprietors have : neglected or refused to recognize the changed cbndiUons of ; the labor niarKei as compared with those existing ; pre: vious'to .the war. ' For years before the recent war started the printing trade was looked ' upon as one of , the i most desirable and best-paid of any bf the craft in dustriesThis condition has now been reversed and the printing trade t Mnr!sdictions is at present . one of the . least desirable ,and Ua followers the poorest'paid of the arti sans in any craft. t - ; - It may be possible that the typo ' graphical union is in a measure re sponsible for this grea change be- . cause ot vue t" : ... Icy which it followed during the war. - Whether or not this be true, the fact remains that many organi- 1 ,.Hnn in other . industries have passed it in the t amount of compen . sation received by its members and also in the number of houra that con stitute a, week's work. Because of 5 this many members of the Interna tional, Typographical' JJnion ; have ; left the printing business, and entered upon other occupations in. which the "work is not so strenuous and the 'recompense greater. ' ' "While employers in other lines of Ttnsinnss ' have recognized the changed conditions that - have been established by , the, war, ..most of them have taken steps to protect their jVarious industries ; by meeting these" conditions, with Increased wages somewhere", near commensu- , 'rate with the increased cost of liv- f Ing,' at the sametime establishing shorter hours of lafior and in other ways making it desirable not 4 only for' their previous employes, to re main in the industry, but 'for others ter it: '; ' - ,'!- iu enter it. , TTntil emnloving printers, meet the situation , in the same way the ques- tion of securing sufilclent help to - take care of the - increasing volume ; or business as it snouia do is xoiur i r 1 - In order to prevent this question . r becoming really menacing to .the in ' dustry it , will be . necessary that wages at -once be Increased,', at least to the point , where they will pur chase an equal amount of the neces- - sities of life as could be. ; purchased - with the wages earned , previous to the. war. In fact, to secure assured stability, they should be 4 now'. In creased in "a much greater , degree - than that because of,, the fact that the people who have continued at the printing Industrv, during, thisi period have to date been much , the . ' losers as . compared with people who - have , left the industry and; taken ; other employment. . r, , , - v The slx-day-week situation has. re . cently been established In the morn-: ing newspaper - composing ' room. Nevertheless, because of the present conditions men are frequently com- - pelled to put in the' seven days perl . - week. jn many instances Jfche em ployers maintain' that this seyetith worked at the egur ' lar scale of wages. This position is , s we maintain uai w. these employers are responsible for ' the shortage of men which m'akes it 'necessary, that this seventh day be twib.cU uj uxauy WnO UaV ftlCfiflnV 1 labored six. days, and f 6r that, reason I woric- upon tnis seventh day should ;. be paid, for at the overtime scale in 1 all instances. .'- STRIItES ARE DECLARED 1 UNliAWFUl, IN PROPOSED . V RAILROAD SOLUTION. , -Washington; , Sept; 9. --Senator Cummings, chairman, of ,thd "senate interstate tommerce conimittee) has Introduced 1 a railroad-solution bill . "which , would' outlaw istrikes of rai'l- ! road employes, a' , railroad worker can quit his employment as an;indi vidual but:where "two or more per- sons enter iito "any combination .agreement with the intent substan- j 7 V' tidily to Linger, restrain cr prevent the mdvencnt oi commodities or.per tons in interstate cemme'ree,", they :hall.fc3 defined-guilty of a. conspir acy and. fined not exceeding $500 or jailed for not exceeding six months, or both. , ' ; -j - . .In presenting his bill Mr. Cummins stated; that- one of his reasons f was to have it ref erred to the "senate, in terstate commerce committee - as a whole th'at it might "furnish the bar sis of the further work of that -com mittee." '"- V ..v ; A ; v ; i c A ,- , . . . .The senator said the bill was the work , of a sub-committee : of, the , in: terstate commerce committee ,";,andc consisted of Senators Pomerene, Rob inson. Poindexter, Kehogg and him self; :,He said that this subcommit tee mffered on some . points; '..and no agreeu, luo.iauur yui.- ? of the' bill' was. "a somewhat deU ..iate1 subject, the members, of the. uD-committee . were Unanimous on th provision's relating to labor. ! ' ,v utner features oi. tnis bill, which s favored 5, by several members otJ wiuuuti.ee uii w yaa,uvou it. Return the roads to orivate nW,v, . v ties- Jntq noteless than. 20 - and' not more than . $ 5 "separate, -"distinct; competitive . systems.';, v N; , , - Permit the interstate, commerce commission Jto place a value on the railroads for' the purpose of deter-' tnining necessary dividends, , - Create , . a - Railway : , transportation board; . to 'arrange for the grouping . . . . " .... of the roads into competitive systems andxto have authority oyer the phy sical oneratoih of these v private-own- ed . properties. This means an : en largement of the present functions of the interstate comnerce commis sion, the latter body to be confined mainly to . rate making, valuation and accounting. V ' Create a committee of wages and working -conditions , to ,. adjust dis putes between railroads and their employes that can not be adjusted JGEiUNTLE 4.1 LiASONIC '1 - Druggist TEMPLE Union Trade Appreciated TDE EhUG STORE TQAT GIVES YOU SEflVICE REMEMBER ... We are First to1 Open " r-" -' Prescriptions. Carefully 1 - y . "41'. - TUCKER BUILDING PHARMACY '.. : . , . h.J f- -.v ;f ' ' . -i y . w ft. i,- " QThe goveriunent reports say is short and jadvises everybody to feut in their winter supply of fuel now 'as youlmaynot be able" to get1 it " when mlrf wpather comes. Ofv c nm rtrrc hnwi ' V, v NOilELKS BUILDING, RALEIGH; N.4C. 1 ; BeUPhone-.-2142 . J'S; Raleigh PhonelSOi I Your patronage r '' predated;, when 'V- "f V -t, , t :- ; - . .1 lie Bum r. 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This CDmmittco shall consist cf four representatives of the railrc.3 and f our representa tives of the vorlrers,.the latter to fee nominated by the organized railroad workers. ; The members Of this committee-, 'shall' each be paid $400Q a year, A 'majority shall .decide any question, before it, but where the committee Is evenly divided the rail way .transportation board shal make! finalVdecision. ..If a railroad ' official refuses1, to accept that , decision, he shall be fined or palled, or both; and Jf .employes strike, the' same penalty shall be applied.: ;C"' ;.( 'I A percentage., of Surplus ...earnings shallbe placed . na fund for. .the ben efit of employes,, and shall be-expena-edto prpmote , better . working "condi tions 'through invention and research! to Improve hospital relief, to .extend insurance and, pension systemsi ; to develop! . technical - education of , ' em-, plpyes and to ' establish, a system of profit sharing by employes, . This fund shall be administered, fey an employes'' advisory council con sisting of 'one .representative from each organized body of railroad em- .In , supporting, .the-.bill . Senator Robinson, a, member; .of the ; sub committee that wraf ted the proposal said: y ' I . s ' ' r, ' " -Y "The right,' to 'strike ha hereto f ore been recognized in pur laws, par tfcularly in certain sections , of the Clayton act Those' laws should be modified and , strikes or employes on railrjoadsl engaged in interstate icom- merce should be forbidden. It: ..y -J" SUGGESTION'. INr A i v r nSSOURI INCIDENT, i .Missouri farmers are catching grasshoppers with machines and' sell ing them for ?2 a bushel for chicken feed." 'Someday. we shall flnd-a use for potato bugs and mosquitoes and profiteers and bolsheviki and every thing. Cleveland Plain Dealer. , RALEIGH, N. C. v - ii and Last to Close , . - , Filled by Registered I . 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