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Steady Streant ;i of KlNfegrocs from
Crowding; tfcc lgrdfe Section.
to
Prormsrti
AsheviUe, C.; July 26. Stetpy
Ikl." E. Meadows of the Stete Pcderaiion
of Iafibr, has received a coy: of tji'jirt-.
ceedlngs of the Illlpbtstote Council f.
Defense ori:;f tbeyjH
Loais. Inasmuch'?' ftttfi' .panct4,a
: war council, the fiDdfngse re.itiii
1ie charge that Organ izdj))w4st
v 3ause of the iriqttheJltofes haij
an added weight becauserit co
from the Organized! IjalpSn6yeini4
A portion of the councU's report foi4
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At a meeting of the State, Council Of.
Defense of Illiaois,:eid Kticair
June 2, 1917, the chairmm reMlbref
the Council, telegrams from theiWaybr,
of East St. Louis andTroin thla president
and secretary of th e Central Trades and
labor ynion of that Tcity, itBdh . ni(s
sages requested an investigation of ie
race riots then tak;i4gKeeer
Council referred. th'ese':jsom'hpiioittt
to ite committees labor 3
tions to investigate;:- ;-VSM'-L
Pursuant thereto the committee met
in the city court room in East Stouis
on Thursday, Jane ,7, 1917, at 9 clock
a. m. There, were present Chairtti an
John H. Walker and JohiHv HaTtisorj.
Dr.:rPrank Billings.lthe tfrer 'memper
of th5 .committcWlUn.
on other business foe, the CkunHjtf-u
iiam J. MacDonald, of Ssttigfieie;m
ppeared osellc6ti l :gei(MvA .beem done hi
and was eredf tnBes aO
vouiu.ia any way agsuu .ut;vriaicst
there was man i festedn f undercurrent
desire to minimize the disturbance ita.
cause and its consequences. - The 'Tew
days between the time of the riots' anfl
the time .of investigation had brought
about reaction in feeling due, doubtless,
to the injury the city iu its entiretjy had
experienced because of the Jv lawless
demonstrations Indiscriminate assault?
upon negroes had resulted - in the de-r
. parture of the good citizens, of tbat.race
as well as of the undesirable oneai. "Busi
ness was sufreringinpropbftlc -Tli1
publicity of then'ews. dispatches of the
, trouble had; according . to , citizene,
worked ; serious .damage Jto. the good
name of the city as an industrial center.
However, no objections; were placed in
your c6mmittee'sway;,orji the contrary,
v the Mayor furnishell an officer to serve
summonses' and the Chamber of Com
merce officially sent notice to all ,of
its members requesting themto come
forward ; with any, inforniation that
mqht be of value. The Trades Union
- Movement, through the president and
- secretary of the Traded Council, ten
dered their services to the committee;
Sthographic notes were" taken nof the
evidence, alfof which; was taken unoteVj
oatiu and which is hereby gi ten in fnl !.
The inform ationobtalned es tablisbts
that-the riots were due to the excessi ve
;; and abnormal number of negroes then,
; V and fpr some months past, iji "East
StiLouis. The feeling against them
originated from two sources, social and
S: ' .:7;S,:;i their q uarjteriiwerer rsad ingu t i litb ,
- 'L , v . "( '.'.- ;i. --f: "j j3f" 'H " W i . ';.' ;-'' 'A.
e iV-' : ;'' fil traltr rra nraiinnt sTrr tha rirhitrf nonnlA
whom r had : been ;; in .jed ; there: anu.
X - is i f li-, atekn.eed''"WftHrt nTTAVAntirio'' desirftdv im-
r Vs:k. - ; - ; provements .being ". made .by t labor and
V threatening! the
c-r'w It: OHiAea fafitaoro eof fnvtYi lWhc
lCP;lSM;'iMOr
r?.M I -rp 7- h.e f city : . council; torejapublio
1 KfeS hearing to protest against this situation
At that
approximately 9p,000, has haa for a long
time, a permanent negro population of
ingiyaccustomed . to . the, presenee of
colored people in numbers, v It il there
fore manifest that the trouble was due
to the recent rapid influx of the colored
people.' The evidenc shoWs that these
came mostly from the Southern States.
Estimates vaiT from 6,000 to 15,000 as
the number that had come within the
,.ast yearorsog Ou
cordingly : took - the line of why; they
came; hce disweiy of ihat-would
doubtless siiggestiberemed
- For more than two , years there has
been a considerable migration North of
the Southern negro; There has been in
. reased demand for labor In the North
on account of the great numbers em
ployed in plants devoted to 'war mate
rials. This was'accentuated by the re
turn of some of the foreigners from the
North to their native lands to take their
places in the war, and the complete
s oppage of the Jbrmer supply of labor
from those countries.
The negroes from the South furnish
the most likely supply to meetthis de
mand, . because the South pays them
loweva!ges works them longer hours,
gives to em less consideration, and sur
rounds: them with poorer working con
ditions This movement, so far as it is
a rsult of .this; condition, is a readjust
ment ot the equilibrium of population
in accordance with present economic
law, and so'far as this is true, no issun
j;Bui this committes finds that the'sit
uation in East St. Louis differs so much
lnfegree,i from the situation in most
otfidf cities, t that, it could not beex
platqed as a 'resplt of ordinary oitera
tion's. That Eat St. Louis, accustomed
as it is, to the preseaoe of coloredpeople,
could stage a racial outbreak , argues
that a cause different than ordinary mi
gration of colored labor was operative.
Such; a; cause was definitely estab-
lisbetf by; evidente. It was shown that
AXt'ehf-ivAlAdvAHistner haA Iiaav Anna in
ftimrements, in Jjctst at. ieuis, . in tne
Way of abundant work, short hours, and
higher ji? ages, good conditions and treatr
mehtr . jAbor agents' were: also shown
to hive been Very active in the South.
They had; gone about soliciting the
movement ofcoioed mien to East St.
Louis. They had invited colored men
to assembie in groups of ten in order to
get cheaper railroad: rates.- Excursions
Jty train and by steamboat were offered
cheaper forthe round trip than the reg
'iilar one .iay f fare 'would amount to.
,That such things were being done was
was recited m the local press of jast St.
Louis contimialiy' for many weeks, and
-seemed never. to be delnled.
A peculiaruy of thia campaign for the
i mpo rtation of unsk (lied 1 abor to East
St. Lo uis was it auony mous character,
-a fact in itself suspicious. There apH
pear in all newipapere all over the cpun
try aim os' t daii ao!ertisemjBnts for la
bor in some other;, place, which ; are
signed by those who want,, the em
ployees. Such adyj0rtisements of cojirse
are JLigitimat. r B ut it seems J strange
that the extensive territory of the South
should be covered by such a propaganda
urging ibigration to East St LOulS arid
at the same time that , these adverttse
menis should not ?only be signed by 10
one; ; but that they should not:desJignate
any particular plant, of which there: are
many large, ones in. East. St:Louis that
required;, additional labor. 4 Likewise,'
labor agents fwere' equally mysterionsw
It was rVated? that these labor agehts
would assemble car bads of negroes and
start North ; accompanying ihevy At
convenfent jpolrits, these ; agents vould
. ' leave t h eattff th 1 e re m ar k th at they
had legSnurJtofsen
, lunch.v;They never came back, and the
'ftiiiiiuD:; Tbo'ne-;
groes ; were thus left tb Shift for thern-
selves up6n their East - t,
Louis) to : find wo
.':;hmig
:lThof report : cbntinueg in. a lengthy
'statement as.'t'to, the, remedy for such'
etbo:f
ahjhi.nopie pointed'
out that employers had .brought about
j an ihfluVof negroes in ordet tO have a
surplus of labor, and. defeat the conten-
tions Of tbeir: labor.
arose,
S. :" Ai: -v v;-, , V' aS-Kf-
1JTONE;
;l :-:";of Success--. : .; -;
j vve carry 4 '..tocwp,. vii uurt iunu page
-the ad:ma
gressive.business men who evinoe their
friendship to organized labor; by sup
porting its medium and guardian? with
thfeiradvertisin '7 and for
f all: of those whose ads we carryon this
'page"we bespeak ;share of thep
age of unionists aittd. : their friends, ex
ept that Of the Howard ,. and Wells
.'Am'usemAnt Company, who entered
into a contract with the National 'Labor
Press , Assoeiationi through its agent,.
Mr. B. E. Wright for advertising ipacei
in the; cooperativk page of this paper to
be printed once? a month, knowing:
when theyjdid so that this paper is the 1
meaium or. orgaoizea labor ana tne
guardian of the workingmans interest,
and which firm has since that timO been,
declared unfair to organized 'labor bit
account; of it fallWe - to keep ah oral
agreement made With the field commit
tee of the Central body that they would
unionize their shows' within a period of
sixty days; and?.; when the V business
agent of the Stage Employees union
presented them, with the union contract
to sign to, employ, members of the. un
ion for one year t$ey refused positively
to do so. On account of ibeiug uuder
contract with the National Laber Press
Association to print this ad. nine more
times we will doi so, as we desire to
show good faith; with that acsociation.
And, in conclusion, we wish to say
that the appearance of this firm's ad. in
the co-operative page does not indicate
that they are falrb organized labor.
They are contemptibly unfair to organ-
ized lb6r, having broken every oral
obligajtion ' mad& with Wilmington
Trades Council auring the past year,
I and every mah-dnion or othherwise
who favors Vhboesty and fair dealing
should leud hid) support to the Central
body in its efforts to secure justice for
the union stage Employees.
The Pressmen's Union meets Mon
day evening. S ' w
The Brotherhood of Bookbinders will
meet at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening.
The Bricklavflrs and Masons' Union
mMlfi w.inuv nihf in Tit, i
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, Remember the date of the State Fed-V
Oration oi Labor Convention August
13th. . " ;
The Carpenters and1 Joiners' - union
meets on Thursday night in Bonitz
Hall.
Brother Joe Curtis is now loosening
up preparatory to donning his Labor
Day narness. Old Jo is some demon
strator, too. i':
. VThe Label Products Committee will
meet on Monday, August 7tb. Be on
hand, brothers,' we have much work
ahead of us. '
The Typografrtiical union will meet
Thursday evening nt o;45 o'clock. Be
ou liiud, brothers, and uraive arraiige-
meiits to seud your delegates to the
8t itEcderatioa of L ibor (JonveutioH
August Idih. " '
I wonder if the secretary of Wilming
ton Trades Council - turret 10 uoiify ihv
delegates - of .thu eew meeiin utgut ?
Stnuebody is laying down on toe job.
Gel busy, brothers. Labor Day is last.
approoiiug. . . , . 1
xf VV ;$,T- . - 1 ,
J-'Tlie..inauy friends ot Mrs. Herring, of
Delgadov;.W:ho' ban been suffering f roiu a
. t 'f i 1 - ...
severe attack of rheumatism, has almost
' - X kx ::.
Complely; recovered alter a course of
c,,' - , t -
treatment by Dr.'A."C IS'ieiseii.
Sti jerintendeut of Health Nesbitt has
addressed a letter to Councilman Bunt
ing, in charge of streets r and wharves,
asking that the . 'garbage force be in
creased. ' ' "
than repress lt To so act is not to meet
labor halt way. Labor .has, declared a
truceto wiateyer'extent such. may be
;possibld,'an,d-the; employer, will be the
opposite ofttie! patriot it he doenot do;
the sainC "JlJbabbr ihas. set 'apatriotic
pace whicn should challenge a patriotic
.lirlvalry from, the' employer J , , . , ; . :
'.t'.The report is iigned by the labor com
i$teejdf the Siate Council Defence,;
John 1 H, Wallieri chairman, and John.
Iniortlaponasurl Harrison andwas; sent qutjfrpm
jmote, strife rather VChicago
WARIISSOPRECIE
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When Administration Is Criticised In
, : Senate There Are Many Merf Quick
to Come to' the Defense of the Exec
utlve Democrats Have Made Mosl
Objections. ; V
I , By ARTHUR W. DUNN. ,;
Washington. July 20.--tSpeciaLH
Why question- the constitutionality oi
acts of congress dealing: with the -war 1
If both houses of congress, pass': bills
and the president signs them and' they
are put into Ofwasrtien haa90dt wiB I
it uo to raise me point: auout
constitution .Hlity 7 ( - . rv . I
In all probability the, Supreme court'
1 would not gtstiarbund, to making a de
cision until after It has been shown
whether or not. the laws were feasible
and necessary for .the conduct of the .
War. If .they were necessary itr is
doubtful whether any court would" de
clare them void on a constitutional
point. ' ,.; . - v : ' - , . " ' .'
.War Power Supreme.' '
' It is the opinion of many good laSev
yers that the war power is supreme
Senator E;riox of Pennsylvania arid
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, - both
regarded . as eminently qualified to
speak on the subject of law and the
constitution, have said that thowai
power Is supreme and that technicali
ties cannot stand in the way . of prose- ;
cuting a . war to a successful concln-'
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In hls connections Senator Smoot oi
Utah, who is not a lawyer, ,but!(know
a lot about legislation; asserts -that the
war power makes JbdsiiLEfdentittc
e fWxsdnstftutiohiX
The President s Dominant.
"Germany must he crushed before
we see the day of peace,' deelaredrSen
ator Stone of Missouri in ; the senate
'I am. stating, the exact attitude as it
. is now. It may be that something may
later; occur to change the presidenrs
attitude, aud lf the president change
. U4tia V ihi. -.'-J;.'iiTI
change their attitude, not otherwise.
Senator; Stone was stating what is
generally conceded in Washington. 1 Id ,
ait matters- penauixxig to tue war tut
president is dominant. War Would not
have been declared he had not urged
it. The many war measures could not
have passed.; without his insistence:
Whenever he declares for peace con
gress will be witJim. '. , 'x
No Lack of Defenders. "
President Wilson and his admmistra&l
tion do not lafek defenders in either the .
house or the senate. This is particu
larly true in the senate, where the ad
ministration has been subjected to the
most, severe ' criticism. ; It "has ' so hap
pened that in the senate the adminis
tration measures have been more, se
verely criticised ou the Democratic sid
than by Republicans. It is notably, a
k fact that Senators - Reed of Missouri.
Gore of Oklahoma, MeKeUar of Ten
nessee, Vardaman of Mississippi, Hard-
Wick of Georgia and some others . have
been' rather vigorous in their criticisms 1
" some of them pointing directly to the
president. . - ; .
But no sooner is a speech delivered
which f criticises the' president or some !
of his cabinet ofiicers or appointees , i
than ' there is at once a number of mer : ;
ready for the defense. Senators Chain-
berlain of Oregon, Pomerene (of Ohio
Shafrothof Colorado, Myers 'of Mon-.
tana and Williams of Mississippi urge al
ways on hand ready, to defend the leg-,
islatlon or administration .even if the j '
do not indorse all that the president
.has-' been. doing,;" ' ? " v;-?. -
Of course special" mention should be
made of. James Hamilton' Lewis Of 1111
w .-. l - .4-' . . -
nois, ior -ne is oneor tne, stancn sup- -i
porters of the "taimmistration. and " ev
erythingvthat it' has done.'--Intact; the?
- Illinois senator has' sometimes been re-v
ferreyto as the 'defender of the1 ad .
M ado I n Conference.'' "V ;;
It is probable j that 1 the most, impor
tant legislation of this session will beii
the brand 'made in conference." ' I vre
f er particularly to the f ood control billi
whicivin many'Vaysis far 'more-inipor
tant than any act of , ccarec3 .in thf
last thirty or4 forty years, and alzo dc
.'revenue bill, -which 'is expected to. raire
from: $1,500,000,000 to C2,CC0,000,CCO by
; 1 ; , s
It's Folly to Qu3Stion Gonstl
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CELEBRATE SILVER
rANNIVERSAJiy,
Hanovsr Lodje No. 145, laitpzndtzi Order cf
. - , h ". i v Odd - Fellows. 1 f '-
, ,The Silver Anniversary of ?" Hanover ,S
liodge No. 14&,4 Independent Order, of
Odd Fellows, was celebrated in an ap
propriate way yesterday evening 7hen
ceremonies were held-in Odd. Fellows
Hall, Third andPrincess streets" , r -
. Grand Master . Calvin iWoodard , was .
L j' . . r v ..
uvxDauu. tiuui(fu;mu tuts uertjuiuuita .
incident io the celebration. '
An elaborate- and . most entertaining r
and instructive programme was .carried .
out, to the enjoyment, of those' par ttci-? ,
pating." .:; 'J ',y.Y f,imZ I-v .
. OUR ADVTERTlSEEtSi i 4- '
Please mention this paper when patronizing' -
advertisers. t'j ? Z-ZMV
See.thead. of the Motte Busihess Gol- . " -lege
on, . page five. ' This institution " '
wilt remove to ihe' thirdJIodr, of the - ? -Ho.txie;Banli
Building, corner Front ancl ; "j.
CbeVtnntitreets, which; will be :. the '
nanusomest ousiness ? coiiege iu tne
Southr
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Read the Saturday Specials" of , the f
;Uon Marcne" op the sixtn pageto-aay
in the ,'Special Today and JMon day '?;;, vl.
featured They offer attractive bargains. - .
in bleaching, black hose, canopies and - '
neckties, - "The Store with Gcbd Mer- ' - v; "V '
chandise at Little Prices. V ' t - ' J , V ,
. Mr. Edward gandlin. manufacturer of -.l;. v . ,
thejrrt exterminator; "Bead'Shot' f -
has incorporated under the style. jof the J J
S'indlin Dead Shot Co., Inc., and his " -. , - :
his business 2ide and shipping head-rl- ;
quarters t "5opp & ; Woody Piano Co., ' - " - - .
209 Princess street:; The, authorized K :"" 4
capital stock Is $20,000 "Tklany business .
tnew -have taken stock in the enterprise, r ; , f .
See ad.,, in Speci al ,Today and Mohrl ; " . 4
day,' 6th .page. ' -
AJ D. Cahwell, gunsmith and lock- , '
smith, No. 25 S. Front street. has an - V '
aorounceirnent In the 'Speeial Toda' ,j t V, v.
r andJonoyeanweff SixthrpaW'i '?rVr -
Cashwell is an expert - in fitting -'all
kinds of keys. Kead his ad.
v-Pead the'; Saturday ' specials of -the. - ' - ','
Roya; Bakery on the sixth' page. Order r 4l
one of their Pullman pound, Snow Bali , ; -v5 J
or. Chocolate .-V Layer cakes Tibr unday'.. - V" - A-
'Come and see" for specials on Satur-
dayV says EfcEfR,uss in ,his ad. on the
sixth page of to-day s paper - f .' f ' . 1 . c
i Take' advantage of , the Vpecial bar". ; ; . ,
gains offered by J, FucbV De-v' - '
part men t starVoii the, sixth page, of ,'lo-'t
days paper.VHe'gives'a total of 7 per x' '''t
cent diseuut ou all purchases ! ' t. ' c
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. ll 1fftT nrnl I .: Vo q s. Kail ' nannaisronf1 f.1,l t?
' The new series of Brooklyn Building '". .' yl j
l 1 Loan Association opens Aug. - 4 - t :
lUit. ' See their ad. on the sixth pace. ;r"' Jr'''
. ,4We Want You a a stockholder ad-; (' v "
vertise The 'People's ' Building , and ' ! ' r"
Loan Association. They pen a1 new"j ; 'j sv : ' '.
series on Saturday," August 4th Office
112 Princess street. fck?e -their attrac-f v s 1
tive ad. oh the sixth page. ' . -: 1
BeiWiliia'ns. Company is now" fiav- v.'
;ing their econd Annual Jfuiy Clear.
,4 C3 1 .A m. ' ' ' , 1
aiivA oaio. j. ut? v waut everyoue w eome-.; :
to this sale and "spend a little andsave. - ; ' - ,
a lot;V Belk-Williams back; up. itheir, ,
ads. with' the rgoods.' This salens too-' Sifol'
big to specialize on any particular ite ni - J
It covers every department in the store? fr' - ?
so call and see for yoiirself . v f ' S
: Xhev amendments made " to both 01 , ,
these measures in the senate are suct . ; ' i ,
conference: and; the conferees will.whljf1 ' iJ
it into ftfinnf and nr?fnr. if tn'thpir're. " '- J
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spective houses for ratification.' 'Entire .; '
sections and chapters ot these bills wil " ,
,be redrafted before the conference com JJ:
mitte j$an agree' upon their report.4 y Pi?.: -1
" ' Jf Not "Somewhere I n France.", , , ( : ' ':
1 . a) man 'wnose'Vson ' graduated Cf ronj : y 7, " ,
Westn Point last month w -asked abom x'f'- ' ,
.bis whrreaDouts::?,4v- ,trt;-r- i
"He has. landed, if. '(mceS yas tLryj': .
reply;."r, have had- t; o 'letters 1 &dtoi : t'
him-Vike' says the, nien rom hisT shif . f ,r v;
werethe first? tp land; also that;tiiey-.
had some; interesting' experiences"
crocsing , which 'he rwill tell' at ;
vrhen he comeV home.'
"I ' suppose iiis letters' arc cZ
somewhere in France. V l
"but, they wei
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