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J? I- ' Deendero Human RiohU i Endorsed by Worth Oaro-t ' i . lino Sfafe Federation , :M Lctoor, Raleigh Central, ? and Allied Local t7ntow '' IS vCe fte -American VWVaiion 0 Labor . - Devoted to the Upbuilding 'of-the Trade Union Movement 1 , fx RALlEIGH, N: C. THURSDAY APRIL 14, 1921 t Subscription Price:: $150 YkxXf&x V - , : hi ' ' VOL..x:jNo.-2:-; EMPLOYING PRINTERS CANNOT M-HOUR AGREEMENT; BEGQMESIEPFECTIVE MAY 1ST DEFEAT Development Around - : State Capitol ; Square Corporation Commission cHeai Southern Water Power Co. Case Agairt . X .H BEWARE T BLUE-SKY ST0C1 Businessmen, Dislike : Openshoppers .Tactics f . .. ........ . . , - r Juarge Employerev Report Says, Might Better Devote Efforts ,to Unemployment Problem -; Oil JrUUKIS I ,'; ;:I55-. MAJNl Ji;Sl ExecuCcmiicilpf iTypotKietea Issues State- melit in Denial That j Contract is Binding But the Facts and Records Show Otherwise; True wKetatioiif:: of Subject;' Some North Insurance fCom'r, Uses Company; ; Beasley Is With Ta Again 1 1 - Quick Salesmen There is considerable comment j and! Carolina Rat Shops May Resist, But No S StSj union lYien yyiii worK- m inem. According to' press dispatches (which are not always"" to be ;. relied' oh, espe cially those of the Associated Press when dealing with' matters concerning organized labor ) i from ; Chicago,- . a meeting of the "executive council" Of the United Typothetea - was held there a few days ago and Issued a statement alleging that the Typothetea would not be bound by the 44-hour f week agree ment and contracts 'i made '..with r: th labor unions by Ithe "closed shop divi sion of the United . Typothetea of tAmer ica," and declared as false "the state ment that the United Typothetea" is a Darty to any agreement made between representatives of the printing "trades unions and any employing printers acting in their individual capacity or asmembers of a.division." The True Situation Tn March. 1919. . there was formed SOME . STATISTICS ON - 44-HOUR WEEK . Up to and Including March in the city of Cincinnati ' an organiza tion to be known as the International Joint Conference .Council of -the com mprrial and Deriodical branches of the printing industry aits -purpose, was to I Tmnortant Farm-Labor magna TfT tnA 1 TTl-1 . 162 unions' have signed up for the forty-four hour, weekto become effective either on or before May 1; 1921, representing a c membership of approximately 20,000. n " '. ' 82 unions have contracts extend ing, beyond May 1, 1921;. which do not provide for the forty-four hour week. . , 201 Unions have expired con tracts (expiration dates to Febru ary 1, 1921), the renewal of which has not been reported to headquar ters. v - . - ' ' v 32 : unions have contracts of in definite expiration. 39 'unions have no contracts whatever. v ; .. sioner Wade concerning . the alleged ,tbluei sky'V stock operations vpf the. In-: ternational Petroleum Comnanv. of San Antonio, Texas, and involving the busi- ness character or noiand5 vBeasiey until recently State Commissioner; of Public Welfare ,and whose reputation amone - the people here who have knowh has-been unquestioned. Com missioner Wade stated that the concern hks no State license and that its efforts to sell blue sky oil stock to citizens of North Carolina is illegal; that the com- pany's advertisements presume .too much oh the arguments that oneof 'its officers, Mr. Beasley, 'till recently was a State officer and now represents the oil corporation, after having thor oughly examined into the affiaixs of the company and - becoming satisfied that it' isydoing'a perfectly legitimate business, etc. - , Mr. i Beasley has sent Texas that his company has not single solicitor for business acting per sonally as such in North , Carolina that all its advertising in this State word from a consider ways and means for .the im nrovement of the printing industry; in the United States, r Its membership is composed of, both representatives' of employers and employes composing the following organizations: . - , Employes InteVnational Typograph irai Union. International : Printing has been done through the . . United Meeting Held Today states mans and that tje p;f , , .v - r - i, " was not straight the United States au- ' . . w . . iij thorities would have barred it, from Session At Washington Attended the,use o the mail long ago. He adds By Prominent' North Carp-, that the reasqn the company , has not linn TMewites " : ; yet taken out license m North : Caro- " . o ; I.. - iL. t.w 1. aVIVUIA Una 18 ueaube me . 10 yivutuiut? Pressmen and Assistants Union, Inter- It is announced that farm and labor As it has no agents working personally .. . .. v -. in V& Ooto a not nocoooarv fnr tnp national Brotherhood of Bookbinders, officials of North Carolina will take an TZZlTL -nlLS: International Stereotypers and Elertrc- active ;part a his company , are dp- Empioyers-rvipseupvv i -KrtX-w United Typothetea of America, Print- x-. xx x-?, ers ijeague oi , Amenca, iuiw uauuuoi i svuuowuvwvu tp,w.0w. ; Association of Employing Electrotyp- Marsh, secretary , of the league, said VICIOUS WAGE CUTTING NOT THE IP ROAD TO ir ROVE BUSINESS fiDUK FINDS v--.1V ':S" - V K ewjprijDrierwianis,?, ilnf Beportrof klsr; I ci: ;j V-- - -- v ValfliiiiitlPe '"""'I " OUT FOR Burdenof mg is 3l: I eVopeubppirca conducted by larger employing interests s petering out. its manliest nypocrisy s i causing some' of - the : prganizations upon .which it depended for support to revolt in protest against botm its meth ods and the end sought to be gained; TThe aboard of directors of the New Gf ofA Silirlrln V ' Shnol York Merchants'.Association, one of the I v i-..-VVrf.-- T- Z:- -y. argest organizations of its kind in the ' ASSOCiailOn. iYieeung couhtry, tecehtlIapp . ' - , , . ts-committee ; on industrial relations TmnoHant -Gathering V 6f S. j S. that condemns the movement and calls ' xiru t c,oSr ' T . Wo. : uponijmiployerj ciliatory attitude towards ' workers in C lelgn ; liast .1 nree uays th interest of. peace ih industry";. ; ; t This report was prepared by Gerhard t WaipiK: AnrH 13.The annual meet MtDahU0icresin dent of - the . American . Telephone ;4and day. School !? Association s has been in Telegraph Company ; Loula B. Schram, session in Raleigh the last three days. president of the India Wharf Brewing and there is a large attendance; includ Company.; Walter C. Treagle, president ing some tbrty expert Sunddy School workers representing; aUHhe evange- Jersey, and Owen p.. Young,. vice pres L - dent and general counsel of- the,? Gen m cuurcwBuuiwiv i-; owvwuowu, efal Electric Company. ' of Winston-Salem is; president, ; and Prussian Tactics Condemned P. W sims, ; of Raie,igh secretary of t Th yporteciares-1 opportune for employers to. take a f or : Ato'cmg- the prominent men engaged ward step, in the matter of industrial jn: the ; work Is Lieutenant-Governor relationsbut Jelieyes: itould w. BicQoper;' member of the executive be;most unfortunate; if they, used their merely to penalize labor or. tdfortify day SJ"1 themselves another test of strength. Grace M.; E, .Church Sunday chool. Employers should utilize their present' Wilmingto position to lay the foundations of per sided atithe session of the adultMivis- manent industriat stability.ait KThemattertpe report eohtinuesVI should ?brfuliy considered. -:It 'has -tended ' in some Richmond PrOf, .H. H. Harris Emory At. University.. Ga.: Mrs, . Maud . Junkin e Cut On Elmployes rialliSwiw ,V-: .:. -ts:" commissidner against ers. that R. ,W. h. Stone, of Greensboro, One of the important questions to be r . fH rMi,,.'. nil was the introduction of the 44-hour ei union, ui. work week - in. the printing industry, Cary, vlce-presiaent ana w. ia. iag and in April; 1919," the following .reso- 0f Raleigh, secretary-treasurer; lution was adopted upon that ques- wm tepresent their organization at the tion: Resolution on Forty-Four Hours. "Resolved, That both parties are to submit to their respective -bodies: that, beginning May 1, 1921, the : 44-hour week will prevail nationally in x the represented at the conference include printing industry and that each side tne ' Farmers' National pouncil, the recommend-the adoption of this resolu- American Federation of Labor,-the In tion to their constituent bodies and ternational Association of - Machinists, reDort to the next meeting of the In- the -United Farmers of America, the ternational Joint Conference Council. , Railway Brotherhoods, and a numoer The question was acted upon by tne 0f state farmers bodies and eaerations various bodies represented in tne coun- 0f labor, cil, as the following from tne minutes - pian legislative Campaign ."Be -chat as the insurance all blue sky stocks, the purchase of some of which the last few years has played the dickens with many North Carolina investors, especially among Templeton, of in9 larmers, is.umeiy auu euuuiu b yc as a caution ln iuiure iranBacui ui .he sort, no matter whose hames are connected with the oil and other "get-iigh-quick" concerns offering stock for sale. i ."',;' ''. They Hope To Get the Money Governor Morrison and Treasurer dent cMWren-slyisIoni International U:i.M0feftfi iyyAn Sundae School Associationr?piv Joseph .rTATP.i' omAi i Mr T Ar-Rrnwn. fJhadbourn. - .' y t ;. There Is no.rfcad to business sajva tion through the vicious circle of wage cutting: What grpun is there; ip. fact,' . for " regarding the present dowtward ' trend of prices ihd wages as, inevitable 'i0j- and irresistable ? i Let. us notv beguile - : ourselves with ' specious generalties : : f . s; such? as tbe J aftermM In( -; : definite points,; indeed, the war ; and the peace that f ollowed exerted. a bale-' ful. influence ) upon our economic life; We have been deprived; of'markts for $c part ; of four agricultural production,' : with .the natural : ; consequejace of a f7: t r. slump inprices . of productions. - There was nothing abso- lutely irremedfable about this, condi-' ; . tion;';i'i We 'knew in advance, or should have ' r-" , known;, that unless we found a way of XV-. Opening the Central, European markets e, to -our wheat, meat and .cotton vw6 : should encounter just: this condition. ;,'1 Our ; leaders' of finance and" industry f;;. knewor should : have i known, -that a N . great decline in theburchasingl power . , of itiie agricuiturali- community owould entail serious consequences rfor trade vc :; and industry. But Is there-.the slight-. est evidence of any organized 'effort on their part Jto wafd' off the evil? Not ;; - f; mach mor than a year, ago our indus-: ; f t; trial leaders were, presenting vigorous exposures of the r fallacy of . wage : n-? creases.; ; As wages . rose, prices rosoi-; also. ; The laborer might force his em-j; ployer! to give" him more, dojlars,, pv&$ wnati, am tnat avaujiim ; wjieu ;t5av;u yf dollar bought for him less; of the neces saries -'and 5; comforts - of f JifeT - Those 1 191?, conference. . . . 7 The State Federation of . Labor is ex- petieu.w BBuu t . i,av-ip in New York i In miest . Jl 1. 3..y.4.n.- ItYaMll ftf har '-" ". " " -Y T Accorumg iu 0Cucw.0u invegtorB who would buy State farm and labor , organizations to De i . , hamm aa hv the Governor on the eve of his depar ture seems to be borne out by develop ments. The understanding is that the money will be available as needed for both road building, construction work provided for at the State institutions, and other purposes. The special ses sion of the Legislature, which some of the critics of the administration have of the meeting of September 18 shows: K ... .' - I .. . .i- 'mtmi nf loo-. Lcnma np.reaaarv in the opinion of Gov- Trii,,fPTi4a TARnliition was ior tne eoauimeuv uj. vame" -w D t -j--. The conference is to plan a campaign been predicting will probably not be- m.. .Cosed ta!o!ab.ee: Shop Branch of the United Typothetae of AmeTira on September 15 : "Whereas. The National Sfolnt Con fprpnrp Pminpii. composed on the one hand of dulv accredited representa Hvce r,f tv,o TTnitd Tvoothetea of ninaftd Shon Branch, the labor ernor Morrison, Chairman uougnton, I .. M . J Tconoa tn hn nf the House finance uommiuee, anu of the Presbyterian : Sunday ;. School, and member of. executive committee ; Dr. William A: Brown, ' Chicago, , 111., a member Of the staff of the Interna tional f Sunday : School Association. The organization stands for those interested common to all Sunday School workers. ; , It is a systematic ef fort of workers from the various de nominations to create public sentiment , in favor of more and better denomina tional Sunday Schools. It strives, to !?r' discussed at the conference include otners, auring tne lasi iew ua wu the railway crisis, the need for short State business, and who re much bet w rrpdit for farmers., packer con- ter qualified to pass judgment on the lpHslation and annual taxation subject than the critics. i, , v. v-o-'-- r policy. ' : Senator shop 8hould not in any way affect the employees' iright to join or not to join a labor union or any other organiza tion seeking by lawful means to pro mote the interest of industrial work ers."' ;,iy ' . -. The .committee deplores the disposi tion "on the part of some employers who are using the term 'open shop' to work toward a condition of the closed shop against union men." To Wipe Out .Unemployment Attention, is called' to the growing help by way of suggestion not by au- evil of unemployment and the burden thority; therefore, it helps, many, it it imposes upon workers. Some rem- hinders none. ' . ! Vv edy for it must be found, and , it can . It seaks helpful co-operation, not only be found by full cooperation with union.. Its conventions and institutes labor, the report .sets out, "It is one discuss methods of work, not cnurcn of the most perplexing, difficult and at doctrine. These conventions and insti the same time far reaching and im- tutes are really free schools of methods portant problems confronting the na- on Sunday. School work, open to all tion todav" the committee says. "It who Viir. attend. Leaders' in thought cannot be disposed of out of hand, nor in the various' denominations help in can its solution ba reached through a this work. discussion of ambiguities, trite and im- In its work the North Carolina Sun- TTntiQi onAnftTrii, thporia: nr. throneh dav School Association is interdenom- MIVVA VUA - VA V w, 9 tf V the eneral annlication oi welfare mno- inationai, ior an ius vaii.uu uueu' tions and institutes leaaers irom vari ous denominations; take part.; But in results it is denominational,: for it, a worker puts into use the methods he hears discussed . in these meetings, he increases the efficiency of his own de- mfehtnde'proat' tor a littleVhile r just as tnose wno were biow iu uioviug for higher wages suffered a" loss not ''?-a fully, to be made tip by subsequent in creases. But setting suchHnlnor losses of the one group against the J minor y , , . gains of the other, are we not justified : in asserting that the working class as ' K a whole, for all: the collective pressure ;;v;;l,:--; brought by organized labor; and for alt V; the individual shopping "around of the -Zhwy unorganized, remained about y where it V' ; was? ' -. -.-' ::-Uif The Downward Movement ' , ; 'Fallacy.' :-: ; : ' -''':::.ib-.. Rising wages and' rising prices; that ; ?s nothine but a vicious circle. So. said :; . , , the captains of industry. But now the times have changed. From every quar ter comes reports of wage cutting; 20 per cent, 40 per cent, or evn more, .af fecting hundreds of thousands of work 7 men. ir tne general movemeni upwaru involved a fallacy, must not' a similar Borah, Senator Ladd and national Association 01 JCL-mpio j Electrotypers, and on the other hand of the presidents of the International Typographical - Union, the" Internation al Printing Pressmen and -Assistants' Union, the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers Union and the In TiAnlrhinders' Union, at .a meeting held in; Chicago )y April. 23, 1919, mutually agreed to recommend to their various bodies the adoption-of the 44-hour week on May-1, 1921 : - - "Resolved by the Closed Shop Branch of the United Typothetea. of America, in annual convention Assembled in New York, on September 15919, in accord . ance with tha intent expressed by the National Joint ; Conference Council, That we hereby agree to the introduce tion of the 44-hour week in the Closed Shop Branch on May i; i921; t ; t "This Mr. Chairman, 'r was ; unani mously adopted by that body." ) ' By the fall . of 1920 the "open shop" element had launched ,-' a campaign against the national agreement, and an effort was made to get the United Typothetea, Closed Shop Branch,- to abrogate its agreement.. : This ; effort failed, and that body at its convention in St. Louis, Septemberl5,1920;, re affirmed its agreement to the 44-hour week. Ah attempt was made to get the International . Joint ; Conference Council to reconsider thef : agreement, and "employers ' of the; Southeastern stat pr enrrpprfpd " fn getting- a meeting of the ronnr.il at Atlanta. Ga.,- Decern bp.r 14 in -The council, afterrthor ough discussion reaffirmed its stand and adopted the following resolution: ; (Continued on page 3.) the conference. No Cause For Timidity; Workers Weather Storm Power Company Rates To Hills . ' Up Again 5 ' The State -Corporation ! Commission this week is again considering and hearing argument in the cases brought by a number of cotton mills of the State against the Southern Power Com pany, the bigxeorporation which sup nil p.h plectrically transmitted power to a lrge number of industrial I plants of the State -the object being to hold the big octopus to old contracts f which vation t or other devices. Now is the time for employers to make it clear that , the- interests of management and labor can best be .realized through peaceful cooperation." ; v The committee recommends that un employment be studied with a yiew to finding means for its prevention,; and ah investigation .made looking to; the adoption of desired changes in the plan tor the adjustment of industrial dis putes h which 'Was recommended by President Wilson's second conference. , nominational Sunday School. y Air Brake Prospers; Vlt looks stormy in the west ! " Thousands-: of workers throughout the country have been saying that and would compel it t to furnish , power for meaning it, too. 1 - s some years yet to tne nttie octopuses They have been looking witn rear f0r less than the power company can and apprehension at the future. - transmit, the latter claims. , v' ; . Conditions have seemed to tnem un Publication of a story inaicating favorable and full of menace of storm failure of the Southern Power Com to come. ' - - v- , . pany to furnish the Corporation Ccftn- They - have feared the curtailment mission rwtn evmence. 01 its tax yaiu of employment the shutting down, of ation on ; property - in South -Carolina, ihdustria lplants, a perioa ut uuauv" jarewirom meinuera yi tue; uuiuiuibsiuu depression, possible illness and a score the l' statement that no ?. such inf oirma of other possible ! misfortunes.. - . tionhad been demanded of; the peti- The - outlook has semea oar ami tionmy power company or its utioruey. fippn standing in their own light. ' U . Members . of the commission," mad J B-innmv rWhy? Because they - have plain the distinction between tax values Failure to save ieau a v01 1 Wl anu . reyi uuuciwu vaiuca uj. me wm 't,Q thpv earned when- there was not pany's property, pointing out that the a cloud in; the : industrial -uw .u.u.v uwt vaiucs are uabu ujt, owicb 1.0.- v' i the light of security ana prepareu- ation autnorities ana not Dy tne com- ; f , . pany's. The values of the Southern -Tr",roW rin America, the lana, ot vivo- rower company in oouiiL.uarouna -r oerity and opportunity, every cycle 01, contrasted; in tne puDiication, tms years brings its periods of hard times morning, with the figures : submitted by arf dpnression -as -reguianj - a lUB tUUuu19BiVu. - . t - j . . . t- r onrth hri ucs alter- " Attorneys for the cotton mills re- 24-nour cjtio t." - , ..t.t - ......... . i.-.1 a nnrt nieht. 1 " ' sisting the rate-increase have received ; No one need look with apprehension the tax figures from: the South' Caro But the sky1 always clears; . -J -: Una ; authorities. On the" question? of v,rt imiia whA has put aside are- demands for ,them,v the commission frt to tide over the. period of pointed out today that Vice-President stress '-' s- " '-'''.' Lee told attorneys for. the.-.mills that Saving and safe investment are sure his company ; had no, objection to these protection against the storm. - msuBJBuui6 irwiu. Lieut Colonel 5o 1 9.7 350 of canital stock. In 1919 Washington, April , 13.I. A. Fiem- the company earnea iu.au a suare; w a . 11. - TT . J ing, financial writer in' tne venmg Star, "tells tales out -of school'- When he calls on? directors ; of corporations to "discredit" the affairs of these in stitutions.- The ; theory -that these di rectors i are supermen is ' shattered ;by the writer who 'makes this significant statement : 2 1 i ;:l ; ; - 5' 0--. o';: ' - ' "Directors ; should direct, v They should be compelled to retain a cer- , Tells Tales Out of SchooL NewvYork, Apri; 13. These are pros perous days for stockholders of , the industrial Westinghouse Air Brake company, ac cording to the annual report. Net profits last year totaled , 5,330,403, which -is equal to 9.15a share on the i fallacy lurk in the ; movement down- -( ward? But that side of the question )s:; ;Tl - . not given any consideration by the cap- . tains of industry Their idea of-meet-..; d r;; ing the situation and .which ,;they pursuing is the attempt to adjust mat-s :. ters by reducing wages. - - ;'. . ' The Nation' publishes quite an in- teresting article under the . above cap- - -n tion. It deals ' with the report of the committee of twenty-five of the Central juabor Union of Philadelphia, which. 0 was appointed to undertake the defeats of the Open shop drive. : In one way;, this was a 1 great s thing - for organized k labor, as it . forced It to find out for ,: itself some very useful facts and. what v labor found in Philadelphia it will find but elsewhere; The committeecharged; with the duty of maintaining the ranks 1 (Continued on page 3.) ;:;:; Roosevelt on Ope n- Shop 99 Movement Characterizing Vi the v, movement 01 tain amount of stock to hold their po- bblshevism now. abroad in the land as sitions. u A 'C'&?$;W an ?'app'aUing manifestation of -mis- "Any one who thinks that the 'insidT rule," in addressing the Pittsburgn,, ers in a, great corporation whose busi- J Press Club upOn a recent occasion, ness has slumped, whose inventory nas Lieutenant-Colonel - Kooseveit uxeneu, been awoi len 4 in. an attempt to main- its menace; with another anarchistic tain work in anticipation of an imme- j parallel when he further stated diate resumption of business, necessi- r"There is another : which is finding tating big bank loans, are so consci- many supporters and which is ; about entious that they will not; take advan- as pad. It has for its aim the smash- tiee of their first knowledge of these Hne -of Jabor unions. ; Those wno ,aa- o o tifioiT-'ii fti d in sra.v. is eiv-1 xrnZn t a th p. d pstrnction of labor unions . . ; .'. V .-Sl 1 ' . " lilt ' 1-! -1. -An-m, ine .weak human nature too mucii advocate a xonamon ;wmui;eusuuci,B "Stockholders in :& corporation ., are I but anarchy itself. unquestionably;';entitled Uo something Ji'The unions are essentially a; right more in the way of protection for their and necessary part, of pur scheme of ihvestmehts ' than that furnished by relationship. .-The;.' working;? people the annual meetine. always sparsely need unions .to protect and-; express attoTtoi on,? thPnnnal renorts of thel themselves.--They , have done a great riirartimi'iifHi offlr.iais who have been I eood inithe country. : Those ; who ad oiv9n th thnir nnsitions as insid- vocate their destruction are "doing an short-slKhted and mis- em - V AM V . Lite UA VAJ v.w ..- .... , t- chievous work. Opponents of . the un ions urge that wrong actions;;. nave - ;t been permitted by them, and they haye-v v at times been represented by crooked ', men. I admit it. Have not, however, business interests at times done wrong? ; - ; . And have they not" also beett .at times " represented Iy ; crooked men? They ; ; ' v most-certainly;have.::i;:':i'uc ColbneC Roosevelt . said;; that while - great progress had ben made for the v hpttprmpnt' of "workine men . and wor men in this country, further steps must be taken.' . : -;-'cy;--j; - - :;. -k" v ;-" C Colonel : Roosevelt r has character- y ? ; .. ized . the;" recent .development ot op- , r position to f iabortin itstrueligt;and:. ? in . the . vision shown' reveals "the 'one great opportunity to suppress the ,dis- --. ; ; : . ruption that has appeared as a natural ; consequence and in answer to the seiv-;, fish and fiendish attack ;not . being . -waged. upon the -very" life, of labor - anions. : V - :V'.i" ' -i; ;. S-Vi"'
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