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' . fJ . H r ,- -- .1 , i ' . - ..' ' ' -' " "- j - ' ' i i 1 . - i i i r- it ""''(' ' ' .'Vl ". il il " ''ti i ' -', 'V in ' " . . ' i ' ' - '' - ' -: - - - V , 1H - ii. 1 - '.:f:'-?"-. s l::.i?-''iVi 8S STRIKEBREAKING PAYS K BETTER THAN U S STEEL ACCORDING T()lEyiDENCr,BEFORE l)NITED STATES SENATE INVESTIGATING , COMMITTEE, tim V v Street - Railway Company Contracted ; to Pay N Strikebreakers From $5 iq $35 r: Day jand Expensesljosi $1 63,41 3 the Flrtt'Month ; of Strlkevr-HlflhMt Wages ; Paid t Before the .v Strike .$&70 Washington, May 30. -Breaking street 2 car' strikes--or, rather, attempting to do so--pays fetter than stock in the United States steel corporation, according f to evidence before, a United States Senate committee that is investigating the .Washington Hallway and Electric Com pany strike, . ' The company contracted with a local ' detective bureau to pay strikebreakers from $5 to $35 a day ; defray all expenses to and from Washington, pay for all au tomobile hire,' allow $1.56 a day per man forr subsistence and take care .of I ' incidental" expanses.' ' These figures do not include' the Income of- strike breakers who found difficulty In locat ing cash ' registers on the street earn The company testified that it lost $163, 413 the first month of the strike. At one period oir the strike the company had in its employ i;200 men. At no ?? other time, in its history has the num v her exceeded 600. During the first days of the strike the company employed men discharged by it during the past five years for druukenness, dishonesty, recklessness and incompetency. - : William Blackman, conciliator of the Federal Department of Labor, testified that he asked ' President King of the company for an opportunity to .explain the situation to 'the board of directors, but King replied; '"Things are going along nicely. If vou talk with the board it might upset my plans. Let It alone." ' The company refused all attempts to settle the strike and United States Sen ator Hughes, a member of the labor group, introduced a resolution in the Senate creating the , Investigating com-: mittee. The highest wages paid before the strike was $2.70 a' day. ' The men attempted to raise wages and the, company- insisted on indijvidual contracts. UNION BFUEVTTIES. .Wonder why Jonesy doesnt j ine de' hnnnh And ' efftt pl iinifnrm 9 - , Remember '.that Unton JLabel.?enefit, Siipper-rth Jtourth -Thursday in JuneV 4 . " - f . V i The meetings of the. Isabel Products Committee w;ill be heldr.pn. the first and tbird Mondays Jn each month during the summer months. The Carpenters, ahd , J oiners" met $a-i 0f th 'Natlony regular session Thursday nightTheirii unlon Is now getting on .a solidfooting and everybody 's happy; t 'f r vJ;V. .' i Mr. K. I. Brqwn, a member of the JB. R. C, Of A.' a car repairer at the A. C. shops, has been " indisposed : for several days on account of av mashed finger. jJ Mr. Pl J. P. Mohter, financial secre tary of Wilmington Trades Council, and a member of the " local branch of the I. A. T. S. E:, is spending a week in Charleston, S. C, visiting friends. c ' i . Ride on the street ca.r that Is operated by. a; union, man. ook. for the button on the lapel of his ebat. Help the cause of thp man that helps your cause. Be a real union' man and work for justice and humanity. " The Label Products Committee had a yery Interesting meeting . on Wednes day night. A committee was appointed to act with a committee from the Allied Printing Trades Council in arranging ior a JUDei uenent supper auring me monmoijune. URGES NEW TRIAL i FOR THOMAS MOONEY, Newly Discovered Evidence in Relation to Per . jury Ccarges Against State7 Witness. , Washington, May 31. President Samuel Gorapers, of the A. F. of L.,.is working in behalf of a new trial for Thomas Mponey , at 3an Francisco and has forwarded this telegram to Secre tary O'Connell of the San Francisco Labor Council: . . " i . 44Have had most interesting confer ; ence with attorney general regarding . V ' the newly discovered evidence in Mpo .jf ' ney case : While . the Department of $A JustlCB cahnpt: take up the matter I am to have conference with other repre sentatives 9? ; the government and hope; ; that a. new , and fair trial may be ac- ; The newly atscoverea . eviaence re- ferred to ; relates to; the. charges of at leinpted subornation of perj ury brought gainst Oxman, the State's princiDal witness against Moonej. ' ialional Memorial Day was fittlhgly celebrated fcy the, colored people in this The B. R. - C. ot A. met in regular session Wednesday evening. They are noW adding new members to their roll iX every meeting and much Interest in the trade ' union mo vement is manifest among the members. r 1 - i - We were pleased ;tp receive a letter one day,, this, week from our friend, W. H. Lassell, whp was for several years employed on The Star, bujho is now performing in Dover, Pell, V on The Delawaran. He says hiels "much im proved, in 'health and that things look good In the East. ' '" : r f j Get yourself in atirig trim for that Union I abel Benefit 7. Supper, on the, fourth Thursday in June. 'There will bera good time for nnio'n mien and their frjends. ,Get the ladies interested andj they will help us make things merryi land at the same time aid us lii realizing; Still at the Old Stand 7 '! . I wonder if that Ashe vi He Labor A.di catc has forgotten .that , The Saturday Record Is still doing business at the; same old stanciior tne . same oia cause or has Jimmie Barrett gotten too aris- tocratio" to exebarige with an humble little ''union guardian" like The Satur- diiy RecprdT, ;wai;e ..UP, immie, anu re-enter your humble servant .of, tiu manity and justice on your mall list. We 'wiu 'meet you at the State conven- regard to a few libellous stories we fear baverpolbned yburrniind as to this pa per and its! editor afidttiedeMcati6ns and general scalltyiof one Mordan When you hear, the ; truth it will make y ou shudder I . , Ji;ignteen; tnousana . people, are em ployed ih the salmon canning industry '1 XXAN,; SAVSIGOMPERS; LABOITS LIBERTY LOAN DAY, WEDNESDAY, To Buy Uberll Bbn X CountrJ $u&$tt pubUc J$ Ferced to Ualntain"-lnve$(menl l In heality a tlortgage Upon the .Resources Li3ertyLoan Week" has 5 bcien desig nated' and June 6 of i;hat week has been set aside' as Labbr Liberty Loan Day The Congress of the United States has pledged-th e - resources pf the nation for the conduct of e war into which our repubfccr las entered in support of lib erty, demoomPy,' And human rights. The men'' and women of the United States are gi ven opportunity- Wparticl Jpate Iti the loan for this, purpose. : ' ': A 'To uy a liberty bond is to support our coiyitry and to subscribe to Ideals whict our republic is ibce4to main tain by military, force. Individ uals and organizations . have testified to their patriotic desire to serve , by sub scribing for Wese boads including la- ftDor raea auu laoor organizations. y xnednvesinienir-viewea irom annan- cial standpoint-is especially safe, being in reality a mortgage Upon the resources of the government and the nation. C Every worker and e'very labor organ ization will find It advantageous to sup port this liberty loan as extensively as lies within their financial ability. Money, from the sale of these bonds is indispensable to the successful conduct of the war. Bond subscriptions there fore become a highly patriotic and in telligeht way to 'render service to our republic and to the cause of democracy internationally; : .; jt;The executive council has authorized the in vestment of $10,000 of American Federation of. Labor funds in liberty bonds. All organised labor is urgpd to do its' part; if V.-.. . , . " Why Labdf ; Leaves the South rBirminghami Ala., May hi. -Employers in this section can testify to the Itruth of the old adage; "Chickens joome shorn e to roost." : For years they liave advertiseg the -.. .. ? .... ..... . .. .. .... . I ' tl-.t.e " T'j"-ili, L 1 ' - ' mm a fat sum with which to boost the union - U6 label. . cheapest labdr in the country.? Their purpose was to "build up the town.'. But northern employers have comP Into this xlistribt and are okerlng $2.50 for an eignt ahd ljdhour day, against $1.50 tor the 10 and 12hbur day of local employ ers? Result1: 'Pleas by employers to solve, the . riddle, . MWhy does labor ieavthSputhi? ,.'",t 2s ii'-ii- -i-- Returns Ftom Brother Ftsneril ..Mr Johu Stormfeltz secretary of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Bookbinders of America, who was called to i Wllliamston, .a. ; recently, on ac- J peunt of the deathj of b Sam uel Stormfeltz, has returned to the his death . His 'rem ains were taken by old home at Harrisbu Pai, whpre j the fnneral was heldf on uesdy, 1 16, and the remains Bwere-burted i In (the . . Haye'Eiai !fseelMifiili : The following list of, trade unioj$sts 4 ; who have volunteered m the Naval serve un it, who are now; quartered -the Marine Hospital, is only a portion - : . : : of the union men of this city who have; ; enlisted. , We believe more union men;. ', , have enlisted In this unit .'than dn :uny , or-tbejothe mington: -f t , ." , - , F. J. Ward, . . : y, W Carson. K- I T. W, : Watts, , ; ldodgf iilllll; ; I. B. Rackley , C. Gasklll, . ' ' f. A. T. Prince, . Ai J. McLeodi'rfii " Every union tifilliated with Wllmlng ton Trades Council , except twOvreHi sented in this unit. an,d in the vairy!Sffife: and infantry are many union meiirj'K.SWr" of which goes to khow that organized -labor is willing to do lts'jrt when i . ' stitutiops of vBberty,v democracy! : and ,; human rightsby military force. f;v:; It is"rumoredJi2Aiiay,c Heol : and rB6d!;i;id(tteMgtlQ : ahortof .it''f :haye hP alb loaned s,Bed!Lat dozen or sa pleas off ' -A .. his trojuser legs, lits he-: had a fe'wl;tdpl$llife snare . K-r t flT? err higbwater mark; t; Suppose Bed; pro- ' Nvas closed. oidhaVe .enjoyed SBein jp . them on dress .paradl before the Gasklll , pf the Pressmen " - 1- .7.; :, Carson and are' gettmg;pt: injBe)ipin yipe. How i 'strange -. it(;jfch U P Sam's beans work so well:on theslim -; ones -':ButCaisou" wilf5son surplus; jonbrouknpwV ne'V.'8ne!;:;is3f-;, hiker. ? Hiked tQ Carwards pnee, didn't ' . -; youoldboy? - , , . , t Freddie" t6e stunt downy to asctence :j4Bu , v what difference does It makp .tbtim. , v j r All prlntermen are trained in that par ticular art. 1 ' - . ; they took a slice off those trousers. ipse trousers. r:-::;;.:?,7v i , WAlWAGESiKS By Prohibiting Laborers Leaving the Stxta to - . U ; Richmond, Va.; May. 3Uhebpard s ;.lf.. ui atuoriueu oi mis ciiy nas Hieieatea a . ,-, .. . , : T. - - j proposed,1 ordinance, j avHBhse;Pf5,poq 1 workingmen ; for ; employ ment ' outside " ' V. 1 , ;&j8faitjBK ' f? Trade unionists opposed the measure l0M$Mftj ' . wPrkers'to'leavl&toe-StatelT full orliranfono nf tliA itoiAioW"4Avi-iHi''!-f4'U'F hijffi; twuuhi&w vttue OIMUIGUtUlwU9 UVi ,;fi 31 i.JV inerpe that ' 4the 'purpqs of ttfe brdi- i -7- . S::il:'il Mr. Samuel; Stormfeltz was. a locomo- Ittng laborers from leaving the State to . tlye engineer ju the employ of the JSTor-- secure employment .in other. States: ' ". ipSfM ennr "whre wagps ire rjSl!$&!. The recognized standard tbf ustmliAjse'ion Australia is .;"-:.-je-M . cl ty on Wedne sday
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